h12nz

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by h12nz 2y ago
Because it has much nicer ergonomics. Why would anyone create a modern language with nil.
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by h12nz 2y ago
I’m the same age, and also seem to have heightened hearing at this range. I went to an audiologist for a tinnitus flare up, and did an ultra high frequency hearing test, which confirmed I had abnormally good hearing at 8-16k. He told me tha
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by h12nz 2y ago
We still have tort law. No need to impose the equivalent of years of average income on buyers, to entertain people’s neuroticism
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by h12nz 2y ago
So an actual recipe for increasing GDP? If only.
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by h12nz 2y ago
It’s a shortage of floor space that is the issue. The problem is the Anglo countries have mostly made it illegal to supply it, in both dimensions. Auckland clearly showed this when it upzoned. https://workresearch.aut.ac.nz/
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by h12nz 2y ago
It is primarily restrictive zoning. When Auckland up-zoned there was a clear relative decrease in prices. You can also see it in the massive price discontinuity on the city’s rural-urban boundary. It’s a pretty simple problem: existing owne
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by h12nz 2y ago
Nuclear drops down to within the same order of magnitude of the best solar, when you take exclusion zones into account(according to Vaclav Smil in Power Density). But solar (and certainly) wind couldn’t be called more space efficient overal
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by h12nz 4y ago
Airlines that want to let people watch Netflix.
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by h12nz 4y ago
By the end of his life, he was far less pessimistic about the consequences of climate change than this obituary makes out.
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by h12nz 4y ago
My understanding is that naval reactors mostly (if not all?) require near-weapons grade uranium. Though I assume this is to allow a compact design. How highly enriched would it need to be in this case? Any more than current land-based civil
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by h12nz 5y ago
NZ had two very strong lockdowns (starting March 2020 and August 2021), with an intervening period of zero covid. Whether one would consider them “Draconian”, I’m not sure, but it certainly wasn’t life as normal
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by h12nz 5y ago
New Zealand only offers a high quality of life if you bring money with you. Our productivity and wages are low, and we have some of the least affordable housing in the world - our median house price is around 600usd (and the quality of that