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by tuatoru 3y ago
Lots of downvotes on answers, without the downvoters bothering to explain their reasoning. Time was, HNers were interested in rational exchanges of views.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yes, the essay even has a quote explaining why someone voted for Wilders: "I want my own home". And the essayist more-or-less ignores it. The culture thing is going to build over the next decade across Europe. IMHO it's defen
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> In our experience, Google isn’t the place for reliable cloud compute, and it’s sure as heck not the place for reliable customer support.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
$25.8 million? Over a decade? Across the whole US? That's not a shower. That's not even mist.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
It all goes on liability insurance. And other insurances.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
I could double my pay by increasing my hours by half, but 50 hours a week is enough. I value my sanity. Statements about populations are not refuted by quibbling about exceptions.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
... and no-one does that, to a first approximation.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Sportsball needs to die.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
De gustibus , and all that. I really liked "Halting State" (especially) and "Rule 34", but most of the others you mention I would not put in any top 100 list. Egan has very outré ideas but isn't much of a writer.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
If you don't like any of these, you don't like science fiction. As Fred Pohl said, "the task of the science fiction writer is not to imagine the automobile but the traffic jam". Perhaps you prefer "cowboys in space&
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Stand On Zanzibar is only number 19? No Report On Probability A ? Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. Good to see many old favourites though.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
What about breathing, staying warm but not hot, drinking, and eating? I thought those were the essentials of life.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Very pithy! And almost certainly spot-on accurate. Thanks! You could have a side hustle in capsule movie reviews. I'm plo[w|ough]ing my way through Adam Zamoyski's "Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vie
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Distributing hydrogen via pipelines is not advisable. Nor is storing hydrogen containers inside buildings. There's a thing called the gas explosion concentration range (or other similar names). Natural gas can only explode within quite
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Economists commonly talk this way. They talk about "the optimal allocation policy of a Social Planner", and use other such language. In reality the planner is the market, possibly with a few hints from government policies. This is
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by tuatoru 3y ago
They do indeed have a common cause. It is the exploitation of non-organic energy, that is, fossil fuels. Without them the English industrial revolution would have come to a stop around 1850, or earlier. Why do kids mean more economic growt
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by tuatoru 3y ago
The concern is obsolete. 183 out of 195 countries have below replacement fertility, and the others are expected to get there within a generation.[1] Over-rapid depopulation is a real concern. Especially in East Asia and Europe. If you want
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Tabarrok is not a common family name. I wonder if Maxwell is related to Alex, also an economist.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> Is there some type of underlying assumption that goes like this: "more people ==> more people participating in the market ==> more consumers for your product"? No, the theory (promoted by Oded Galor, now becoming mainst
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by tuatoru 3y ago
There can only be one "first", though. First re-usable booster. First landable booster. And first reliable-enough booster.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
There are around a hundred million highly educated people who can't get work because their families make them stay at home. This surely represents an opportunity for some entrepreneur.
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Why 75 Percent of Indian Women Are Unemployed [video](youtube.com)
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by tuatoru 3y ago
In a few decades' time we are going to realise how remarkable the Falcon 9 (block V) really was.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
It's a dialect issue. Learned people in different regions disagree. Me, I voice my 'h's, so "a historic" is correct in my locale.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Looks like the third draft of something that could eventually be readable, and perhaps even useful.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Absolutely. I summarise it as "abstraction is the curse of the age". My wife works in governance, and when a proposed new policy is being discussed, she is always the one to say "so, how would the policy work in this situatio
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yeah. I wish I had saved the quote, but someone said something along the lines of "the rich get new technologies when they are expensive and sucky; the rest of us get them when the kinks have been ironed out." If you're worri
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Oh, there's a market for lightweight backpacking gear, all right! Check out Backpacking Light for in-depth reviews. Garage Grown Gear has some of the trendy light and ultralight stuff. 1. https://backpackinglight.com/
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by tuatoru 3y ago
In what ways?
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by tuatoru 3y ago
The Economist thinks things are better[1]. In that costs are not rising faster than average inflation any more. So not lower than before, but lower than was expected for 2023 a few years ago. For those blocked by the paywall, the article li

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