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It's interesting to see how upset people are on Goodreads about that book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/145624737-not-the-end-of...
The top reviews are mostly people angry with Ritchie for not being a catastrophist.
Do they have other names in different countries?
It appears to be the world's second busiest checkpoint now though if you count the Macau to China checkpoint.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_checkpoint#Busiest_chec...
Charles Tyrwhitt have this guide where they tell you what to measure for shirts :
https://www.charlestyrwhitt.com/au/size-guides/szg-formal-sh...
and for trousers :
https://www.charlestyrwhitt.com/au/szg-trousers-4-2021.html
Presumably some online shops for women have something similar?
Under construction :
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Hungary, Japan, South Korea and more.
Poland is going to start building soon too.
It's provided many a chuckle.
Thanks!
https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/12mo/monthly
It literally has been done.
Singapore has done extremely well economically.
But it's not cool. That's something else.
Tokyo, for example, is cool, fashion, music, films and computer games come out of Tokyo.
But that's very hard to say of Singapore.
Perhaps it's like Luxembourg and Lisbon.
Admittedly the link at the top is from Marginal Revolution where 'cool' may mean economically successful and interesting for policy makers.
It's mentioned here by the CTBTO
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S
The top quintile of income earners in the US pay 34% of all taxes. The next quintile 26% .
https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/who-pays-taxe...
US Federal spending was 7 Trn in 2025. This is surely enough to fund things.
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
That is more than the total GDP of any country except China and the US itself.
The US, Australia and probably most developed countries have declining productivity in construction.
(1985) https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w1555/w1555...
(2025) https://www.nber.org/digest/202502/stagnation-us-constructio...
That shouldn't be tied to China. Indeed arguably China might help with cheaper materials potentially.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_citation_advantage
Full Text On the Net = FUTON.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis
In 1998, when Chávez was first elected, the number of Venezuelans granted asylum in the United States increased between 1998 and 1999.[30] Chávez's promise to allocate more funds to the impoverished caused concern among wealthy and middle-class Venezuelans, triggering the first wave of emigrants fleeing the Bolivarian government.[31]
Additional waves of emigration occurred following the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt[32] and after Chávez's re-election in 2006.[32][33] In 2009, it was estimated that more than one million Venezuelans had emigrated in the ten years since Hugo Chávez became president.[2] According to the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), an estimated 1.5 million Venezuelans (four to six percent of the country's total population) emigrated between 1999 and 2014.[15]
The Venezuelan refugee crisis has a lot to do with Chavismo.
The Apache foundation or someone ought to target that as a proper Open Source setup.
Libraries + Frameworks doesn't mean that unless you're bonkers.
LLMs + Libraries + Frameworks means you might pay to build the application, but running it is only going to be the cost of where it's running.
You're exactly right.
I follow things that post maybe once or twice a week or once a month. For things with new information every day, like Hacker News, I check the website.
A few of the things that I follow that may be a bit different for people are :
Arnold Kling - a PhD economist who worked in technology and is genuinely different.
https://arnoldkling.substack.com/
Noah Smith - a PhD economist who writes about economics and the world
Roger Pielke Jnr - a guy with a PhD who writes about climate and energy and was excommunicated by the climate priesthood.
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/
Andrew Sullivan - a conservative, gay, HIV positive, Catholic writer who campaigned for gay marriage.
Despite Australia's high solar and battery penetration Australia's electricity generation is fairly high emissions.
https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/5y/monthly
France and Sweden have considerably lower emission electricity generation than Australia does.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country#Global_...
It's been a pretty successful program to reduce the amount of support retirees need.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superannuation_in_Australia
From :
https://www.aman-alliance.org/Home/ContentDetail/97783#
"At the other end of the scale are Australia, Chile, Iceland, Ireland and South Korea, with spending on pensions below 4% of GDP, albeit for different reasons."
"In 2020, Chromebooks outsold Apple Macs for the first time by taking market share from laptops running Microsoft Windows. This rise is attributed to the platform's success in the education market.[79][80][81]"
Hmm.
This is interesting. Searches give you different numbers.
But it looks like the number of Chromebooks sold each year is comparable, but probably lower than the number of Macs.
https://www.health.gov.au/topics/private-health-insurance/re...
On top of that many things that are 'not urgent' you have to pay for yourself.
I have recently paid over 20K for back surgery. Prior to the back surgery I could barely walk. This was deemed 'not urgent' and had I would have had to have waited at least 18 months for surgery via Medicare.
I also have private health cover.
So, it's important for non-Australians to understand, our health system is far from a panacea where taxes pay for everything.
Currently 778 K Australians are waiting for 'elective surgery' .
The AI chatbots could, with user approval, arguably create a new database of asked questions that they could research and add to.
Even though the point is valid.
Stackoverflow may be up or down.
Please return later when you are able to determine exactly where your problem is and have read all the documentation on Unix, C and the internet.
From :
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01660...
US cars get 1 cent per passenger mile.
US Transit gets $2.39 per passenger mile.
https://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=22027
Also look up the Farebox Recovery Ratio.
There are values for many US cities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio#United_...
I use it for feedback on things I've written.
It's not as good as a good editor who understands what you're writing about.
But it is so fast and it really does help.
In this case surely there will be an AI correction before Thiel runs out of money.