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Because it has much nicer ergonomics. Why would anyone create a modern language with nil.

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 conf…

We still have tort law. No need to impose the equivalent of years of average income on buyers, to entertain people’s neuroticism

So an actual recipe for increasing GDP? If only.

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 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…

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 ce…

Airlines that want to let people watch Netflix.

By the end of his life, he was far less pessimistic about the consequences of climate change than this obituary makes out.

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 nee…

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 …

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 …