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That 'some' is actually very little compared to rich countries' GDP per capita. You could argue that a lot is wasted acquiring useless stuff.

Curious, what do you mean with prosperity in this context?

Yeah maybe for more academic questions. Not really for just posting interesting, insightful links. Also, unfortunately, a dying website...

Which ones do you recommend following? In my experience the quality of reddit is so much worse than HN.

Hm. No I mean more with the grassroots hacker nature that Hacker News has. A collection of links/news that are generally interesting, educating, newsworthy etc. Plus the discussion…

And that in a communist country...

VT and chill

Good read. Wondering are there any good websites with collections/link lista of credible, inspiring and thrilling stories like this?

Curious: What would you accept as "substance"?

Harming China, blaming the Democrats!?

US is just entirely broken. Why don't you fix the underlying issues (guns) and not trying to ducktape the symptoms.

Curious, where do the 1B go? What is this money used for and who benefits from this fine?

Divine prophecy?

Caveat: if you read the full text/supplementary materials, it becomes clear it's actually about ethnolinguistic groups, not languages. I doubt that all the languages were unintelli…

Supplementary materials https://www.science.org/doi/suppl/10.1126/science.adx4343/su...

Full text: https://www.science.org/eprint/QDZNYBWGCVEJ2RCTX5JI/full?act...

BS. We don't even have training data for the more than 6000 languages in the tail of the distribution.

Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by…

I don't understand how these decisions are made in the Chinese companies. Is that from a (secret) party directive or just convergent decision making? It's not clear to me whether t…

Wondering how much the operations in China are orchestrated by the central government vs. free competition. Anyone with more insights on this?

That was a good and funny read

From first principles, does anyone know what the minimum costs are to put a rocket into space? There must be a minimum cost given that the rocket engines have to thrust until reach…

> Sleep is a predictor of poverty Curious. Any sources for this. How does this work? Feel like many high paying, stressful jobs are actually bad for your sleep.

This. Try with smaller doses starting from 0.1 mg (liquids are best for this) and work your way upwards to reach the optimal dosage. Tablets are often overdosed which leaves you dr…