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by tyu100 8y ago
Yep, we are in a sustained global economic and technological boom that's been going on for decades. If it bleeds it leads is true of almost all news media, it's up to you to find good sources of information. The business news is a
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by tyu100 8y ago
Puerto Rico, a territory that has nationalized every major aspect of its economy and was running massive deficits as part of vote-buying schemes, as an exemplar for 'disaster capitalism' is the most ridiculous thing I have ever se
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by tyu100 8y ago
Spot on. We all know this from a mile away but I still went to check out their website.
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by tyu100 8y ago
The International Energy Association does forecasts of global demand, which are as good as anything. They see oil demand peaking at around 100 MMb/day at 2030 last I checked (we are at around 90 now).
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by tyu100 8y ago
We are in a historical paradise for consumers of selection and low prices, I think we are doing alright. If Amazon doesn't deliver (pun intended) we will go somewhere else. There is no shortage of competition in the retail space.
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by tyu100 8y ago
This isn't true in the slightest.
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by tyu100 8y ago
McDonalds (brewed) coffee always wins the blind taste tests that Canadian newspapers put on between the big chains.
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by tyu100 8y ago
Yes, this was a ridiculous article. In addition, the FDA actually has fast-track approval for drugs in areas with no good treatment and any drug showing exceptional efficacy will make it through the approval process very quickly.
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by tyu100 8y ago
Not at commercial scale, but it helps. You can try it yourself in your lawn or garden by planting clover.
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by tyu100 8y ago
Yeah, I would skip this and read Cryptonomicon again.
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by tyu100 8y ago
The OG of true crime hacking books.
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by tyu100 8y ago
North American agriculture universities are the unsung heroes of the modern age. Endless quiet innovations in crop yields that have fed the exploding world population in the post world-war era.
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by tyu100 8y ago
Same in Ontario, Canada. They heavily subsidized green energy sources and then laid the debt on the publicly owned power utility which passed on the cost to ratepayers, leading to the highest power rates in North America and a utility that
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by tyu100 8y ago
It's common belief that Huawei's network technology was bootstrapped with stolen technology from Nortel in Canada.
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by tyu100 8y ago
Yes, another article from the Times complaining that they don't get to make up neighbourhood names anymore ("newspapers used to disseminate new names") but Google does.
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by tyu100 8y ago
Rincon was almost certainly a real estate marketing name a hundred years ago.
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by tyu100 8y ago
This is less of a moral cliff than it was a few years ago, given how many restrictions the EU is placing on Google right now, between right-to-be-forgotten and hate speech laws.
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by tyu100 8y ago
Consumer Reports, Sweethome, Wirecutter. Usually ignore customer reviews and go with Amazon Prime picks for the rest.
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by tyu100 8y ago
There is tons of cobalt in the world (pun intended). In Canada alone there are at least a dozen junior miners with prospects looking for capital (there's even a town called Cobalt in Ontario from a previous mining era). It's just
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by tyu100 8y ago
This is a really great article outlining the current state of research in the field. It'd be nice to pin canonical articles like this every time a disease is discussed.
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by tyu100 8y ago
This is covered in the article: these rare chidhood neurologial diseases are considered multi-factorial and antibiotics may or may not work in some cases, at some stage of disease onset. I would be extremely wary of self-reported miracle cu
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by tyu100 8y ago
Amazon is a small miracle. They stock everything, it comes right to your door, the prices are competitive in general and with Subscribe and Save you are doing even better. E-books are also incredible and with Prime you get Instant Video thr
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by tyu100 8y ago
Bought my tv from Best Buy (in Canada) last year. Better selection than Amazon for electronics plus free delivery and wall mount and a store in my city in case of service issues. For small electronics I can also just drive there instead of
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by tyu100 8y ago
Yes, the nicest neighbourhoods in the world, in my opinion, are medium density, with a mix of mid-rise density that allows sunlight in while still getting a critical mass of people for services and transit, with some SFH that is nice for fa
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by tyu100 8y ago
Vancouver has done nothing but massively build new housing, one of the most prolific metros in North America. There were just lots of greenfield and brownfield areas to build on first, rather than up-zoning existing residential areas. (Olym
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by tyu100 8y ago
Stephen Pinker often talks about life in present day Papau New Guinea where tribal societies exist that are likely very similar to those that existed in all hunter-gatherer societies. Life mostly sucks and if you meet someone in a different
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by tyu100 8y ago
Very little. As described in the research (and this is not novel), cheap natural gas from fracking has hugely displaced coal as a domestic power source.
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by tyu100 8y ago
A great novel with furniture fraud at its core is The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
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by tyu100 8y ago
No. The beta amyloid protein is the primary 'cause' of Alzheimer's. It builds up in the brain and kills neurons and synapses. Tens of billions of dollars have been spent developing drugs to reduce the amount of amyloid in the
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Great links, thank you.

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