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What other use cases do you see for remote sensing data, aside from agriculture and climate change tracking? Asking because our research team (social sciences, but interdisciplinary) is developing middleware and tooling for working with pub
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> The US made an agreement under George HW Bush that they would not extend the boundaries of the NATO area beyond West(!) Germany. Is this what you're talking about? https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/05/my
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> If the last decade is any indication, skilled labor - especially those not afraid to own their own business, are set to make a killing. It's almost always been this way. I remember a reading a quote from a prolific 19th century au
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> The display it's bad You can retrofit a 1080p lcd with a controller board and a little effort. > M1 Macbooks are probably the best cost-benefit laptop out there for a lot of people (battery, display, cpu power), and I kinda wan
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It's worth pointing out that there were several different OEMs for those older Thinkpads, and unfortunately the typing experience depends a lot on which one you have. The NMB manufactured keyboards are excellent. The others can be hit
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Keyboard + reliability (they almost never break) + price (200 USD vs 1.8K EUR). I've since switched to an M1 Macbook, but until last year, I spend a good four-five years working from an x220t and x220. As long as the battery is in dece
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Yergin & Stanislaw's The Commanding Heights is still, imo, the best contemporary book on this.
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> Maybe twitter can't make money. They had 3.7B in revenue last year. They're doing ok.
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On what they do? Absolutely. If you combine all of the different 'social media' platforms together into a single category? No.
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> I would be astonished if even one in ten stayed. Yep. They don't even need to go to subscription model to be profitable. Keep on doing what they're doing, maybe trim the employee headcount to something more reasonable, and co
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This reminds me of when everyone found out during the dot com bubble that Booking.com[1], at the time a unicorn startup, was run out of a single office with something like a dozen or so employees. It didn't lead to the stock market cra
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> so local labor rates which ppp approximates This is a short run comparison. See the article I mentioned earlier. There is little evidence that PPP comparisons, over a short period of time, are meaningful. PPP is calculated by a basket
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Poor Pakistan and North Korea. Good point though, and I stand corrected. It's easy to forget just how large China is.
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> GDP adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP) is the proper way to compare economies. Except that it really isn't. PPP is a way to forecast long term exchange rate convergence and not make "short run" comparisons. See T
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> De-globalizing certainly helps in all round development of all countries How? Globalization allows companies to exploit comparative advantages, such as cheap labor. The increased demand for labor, over time, leads to higher wages, whic
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I'll be honest, if they're using an automatic coffee maker (one where the puck is ground and processed internally), this very well could be the case. Also keep in mind that flavor profiles are generally targeted for espresso (eith
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See the exchange above. I meant to say 7-9 bar (~100-130 psi). It was early and I hadn't had my morning espresso(s) yet : )
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> I think there's a small typo there, 9 bar would be more regular for espresso. Yep, my mistake : )
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Then something isn't right. You're probably buying lighter roasts, which are in vogue but are more difficult to brew.
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> Espresso machines, then and now, are gigantic, expensive, difficult to use, and incredibly inefficient from an energy perspective. They do not really make sense for the home. The author talks about the La Pavoni Ideale, but I don'
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It depends on whether you're ok with something that resembles espresso, or if you actually want espresso. Espresso is nothing more than hot water pushed through coffee grounds at 7-9+ PSI or pressure. There are several travel brewers,
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> I'm not saying these things aren't going on outside of academic institutions, but there is an endless supply of creative energy and intellectual curiosity on college campuses, and that is an important resource for society. I&
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> On the flip side, if people are invariably reporting that it changed their life and shaped their perspective of the world, who are you to say that the money was wasted or the experience was overpriced? What exactly is the fair market r
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> your bank can block your assets as well as your government It wasn't until recently that governments (arguably) became good at using technology to physically regulate banking activity, and it's only because the financial syst
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A lot of companies are donating computing power for COVID-19 research, so it's possible they have a deal of some kind worked out with Amazon. > That is my biggest hurdle working at a university right now. We took the opposite approa
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They stopped making the Giulietta last December. It's being replaced by a small SUV.
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It depends on what you want. Cars in a lot of countries are required to have some digital features, such as a backup camera. Since you're in the states, you could consider something basic, like a Mazda 2 series or an MX-5. I also imagi
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I think the OP is saying that you can have a situation where the short term demand for dollars outstrips the supply available at that given time (think in terms of hours or days). This could lead to a sharp but short increase in the value o
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This is one of the factors for current inflation, but it's not sustainable over the long run. Consumers will happily over-leverage themselves to pre-pandemic debt levels, and we'll be left in the same long term situation as before
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> What this doesn’t really address is the why? Consumers base purchasing decisions on their monthly outlays. When interest rates go down, they can afford more in payments, so they increase their consumption until their expenses match wha

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