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by sien 2y ago
The other way to look at subsidies for transport is per passenger mile : This has data for the US. https://www.newgeography.com/content/006415-transport-costs-...
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by sien 2y ago
In Australia road users pay more than twice as much in petrol tax as is spent on roads. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-21/fuel-excise-not-being... So the recovery ratio is more than 200%.
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by sien 2y ago
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/12/16/america... The numbers in 2021 of preference : 19% Urban, 46% Suburban, 35% rural.
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The claim that suburbs are fiscally unsustainable is dubious. When asked for evidence it appears a video seems to be the source for the claim. With appropriate land taxes suburbs can be happily fiscally sustainable. Oddly, the claim is usua
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by sien 3y ago
Car companies in 1910 would have been real bastions of free enterprise. By 1950 they had massive lobbyists and all the rest. All large industries wind up working with government. The tech companies didn't have them initially because th
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by sien 3y ago
You might be interested in the book 'Bad Therapy' by Abigail Shrier. It's well worth a read. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/198332459 Also 'Free Range Parenting' https:/
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by sien 3y ago
I went on exchange to Germany. Somehow there should be a ranking of the foreign language abilities of countries. There Germany would do incredibly well. It's strange that people obsess over math school rankings, but how many people do
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According to the stats parents now spend more time with their kids : From : https://www.prb.org/resources/do-parents-spend-enough-time-w... "Time diaries indicate that married fathers spent an average 6.5 hours a
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by sien 3y ago
Yep. If you look at : https://app.electricitymaps.com/map and look for 1 year as the time period then the places with low emissions from electricity either have lots of hydro, import power or are nuclear powered. As yet the
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by sien 3y ago
The open source geospatial community is pretty amazing : https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Main_Page Esri in the cloud is terrible. Geoserver is much better. Cloud Native Geospatial might break Esri's hold : https:&#x2
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by sien 3y ago
When people got or get a mobile phone the retention is 95% plus or something crazy like that. John Carmack gave a really interesting talk a few years back when he talked about how the biggest opportunity for Quests was to get all the ones i
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by sien 3y ago
Check out this on AWS's Q from Corey Quinn . https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-degenerative-ai-blund... Generative AI is awesome but also crazily overhyped. Remember when Siri / Alexa / Cortana &#x2
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by sien 3y ago
This is really nifty. It also shows how disparately people read. No doubt because every year there are thousands of new titles. The top non-fiction book has 8 readers from 1200. If you asked 1200 people what TV shows they had been watching
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by sien 3y ago
It's also got a nuclear reactor which rules out Oregon doesn't it ?
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From Austan Goolsbee President & CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago : This combines 2 things that tick me off: not checking data & not knowing The Simpsons 2023: Nuclear technician salary in IL: $93,210 4 bedroom house in Springfi
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by sien 3y ago
Sort that by percent of renewables and then check the hydro. If you have lots of hydro you can have 90% plus renewables.
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Maybe Google Is Popular Because It's Good?(reason.com)
14 points by sien 3y ago|18 comments
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Is there an open source Low-Code system that works? Where I work we currently have 2 low code tools for automating internal business processes. Now a new executive has appeared and his answer to two of these systems is to get a third. This
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Microsoft hiring for “small modular reactor” strategy to power data centers(datacenterdynamics.com)
37 points by sien 3y ago|27 comments
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Here is the job : https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1627555/Pri...
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by sien 3y ago
It's worth reading about the relationship between Wagner's Ring Cycle and Tolkien. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/12/22/the-ring-and-t...
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Cherish your Uber drivers. Soon they will be robots(economist.com)
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Generations by Gene Twenge sticks in mind. It has loads of interesting stats on how generations have changed. It still amazes me to find out that in the 1950s in the US half of brides were teenagers. The average age of having a child was si
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by sien 3y ago
As an Australian I'd like to say thank you to NZ Universities. It's really true. We see a lot of New Zealanders applying for jobs in Australia and they are often good candidates.
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Most countries social security systems rely on workers today paying in. The dependency ratio of workers to people on pensions may get to the point where it breaks. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPPOPDPNDOLUSA
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by sien 3y ago
There are also plenty of sizable places around the world that generate very little C02 when generating electricity. See France, Ontario, Quebec, Sweden and other places on the map below and look at their C02 emissions per year per kilowatt.
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The impact of extreme weather events has been declining as a share of global GDP since 1990, people are good at adapting. Source : https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/dont-believe-the-hype One of the high scenarios fo
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by sien 3y ago
There was a company in Sweden that built a system that used VRML and extended like that where you could define what the nodes were and reference and re-use them. The system also enable Python to script behaviour. It also used the PHANToM fo
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Here is a proud "I haven't read the book review" from a highly ranked reviewer on Goodreads : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2325928726 He's #6 in Australia. If hundreds of people like a
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Wikipedia puts it at $US 68Bn The initial emergency response, together with later decontamination of the environment, involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated 18 billion roubles—roughly US $68 billion in 2019, adjusted for

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