othello

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by othello 1mo ago
This is completely incorrect. Aviation contributes 2.5% of global emissions (but is terrible on a per capita basis, as only around 10% of the world's population travels on any given year). Global shipping accounts for 2.3% of global hu
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by othello 2mo ago
To be fair, that's more the Third Republic's verdict than what recent historians have concluded. For sure, Sedan was a catastrophe and the Mexican adventure was worse, but the two decades in between gave France the railway build-o
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Could a human enter a black hole to study it?(theconversation.com)
14 points by othello 1y ago|3 comments
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by othello 2y ago
Would you have specific recommendations of such vendors?
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by othello 2y ago
Just a decade and a half as it turns out! (though things definitely felt dizzyingly fast back then - think Google was launched just 5 years after HTML) - HTML first released in 1993 - AJAX in 1999 - Websocket first proposed in 2008 https:&
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by othello 2y ago
Barcelona has a 16,000 people per square km density - that’s already one of the highest in Europe. https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/barcelona-pop... .
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by othello 2y ago
We are already the densest OECD city by quite a margin! (22,000 per sqkm in the inner 20 district, twice that of Manhanttan and 3 times that of Tokyo - and still 8,600 in the Petite Couronne, which includes 8 million people)
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Deposit of natural hydrogen gas detected deep in Albanian mine(newscientist.com)
2 points by othello 3y ago|0 comments
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by othello 3y ago
That's incorrect, the Top 5 in econ are (in no particular order): - Econometrica - American Economic Review - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Journal of Political Economy - Review of Economic Studies
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by othello 3y ago
https://archive.ph/8kuGI
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Earliest evidence of buildings made from wood is 476,000 years old(newscientist.com)
2 points by othello 3y ago|1 comments
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This AI Boom Will Bust - The Slope of Enlightenment is Coming(danafblankenhorn.substack.com)
3 points by othello 3y ago|0 comments
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by othello 3y ago
Here’s a clickable link: https://aureliensaussay.github.io/nightmares/climate_nightma...
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Show HN: Do androids dream of climate change? A visual experiment
3 points by othello 3y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Do androids dream of climate change? A visual experiment(aureliensaussay.github.io)
3 points by othello 3y ago|1 comments
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by othello 4y ago
It did not - the population inhabiting the current French territory had represented 20% of Europe's population quite consistently since medieval times. E.g. France numbered 19.7 million inhabitants as early as 1457 [1] The population e
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by othello 4y ago
Absolutely! Also “town” seems rather uncharitable as Marseille has been a city without interruption for the past 2600 years since it’s founding as Massalia by Greek colonists - making it almost as old as Rome. It’s home to 1.8 million today
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Rising sea levels: House worth 381k collapsing in the ocean in Rodanthe, NC(twitter.com)
2 points by othello 4y ago|4 comments
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Eat the rich Why millennials and gen Z have turned their backs on capitalism(theguardian.com)
3 points by othello 5y ago|0 comments
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Say Goodbye to Your Manager(theatlantic.com)
10 points by othello 5y ago|4 comments
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by othello 5y ago
To enjoy modern standards of living, medium to high density urban arrangements are much less resource intensive than suburban sprawl, which the relevant comparison point. The figure you quote, aggregated at the global level, entirely result
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Elon Musk Is Maybe, Strangely, Going to Do This Mars Thing(theatlantic.com)
4 points by othello 5y ago|0 comments
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The Nuclear Lightbulb (2020)(beyondnerva.com)
89 points by othello 5y ago|50 comments
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by othello 6y ago
The impact of a tax is measured as a share of your income - if a tax represents a growing share of your income as you grow richer, it’s called progressive, otherwise it’s regressive (ie falls harder on the poor). This is the case for consum
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Coronavirus quarantine could provide lessons for future space travel(theconversation.com)
1 points by othello 6y ago|0 comments
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New restrictions in Hong Kong show that a single lockdown won’t be enough(theatlantic.com)
73 points by othello 6y ago|99 comments
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by othello 7y ago
This is actually due to the inclusion of suburbs and exurbs in the “urban” category for US, Canada & Australia. Half of the US population lives in the suburbs (see above posters). What we would recognize as a real urban environment only
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by othello 9y ago
One really underappreciated aspect of R is that it's a lisp at heart. This enables the user (and enterprising package writer) to build really clean abstractions for the task at hand. The tidyverse suite of Hadley Wickham is a great exa
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by othello 9y ago
In terms of loss of civilians and military personnel though, it does not compare: the Soviet Union accounted for more than 40% of all WW2 deaths (both civilian and military) worldwide - including deaths on the Pacific front. The Soviet Unio
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by othello 9y ago
I agree, but that measure compares Russia in 1917, before the Soviet Union, with Russia in 1991, which was 25% smaller. The Soviet Union was indeed considerably larger than Russia had been since the 17th century.

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