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Good points. Recent high end laptops suffer from terrible heat throttling. Recently I've resorted to buying a cheap old server to do most my work on. The old machine is significant…

I agree that having a mix is good. Many times this occurs without intervention by having a mix of old and new (or renovated) buildings. An old city like Stockholm I imagine could h…

According to the World Health Organization these are the cancer mortality statistics comparing US to Australia. US Number of deaths: 612,390 Crude rate: 185.0 ASR (World) per 100,0…

"Only about 30kg of raw material will be lost over the lifecycle of a lithium ion battery used in electric cars once recycling is taken into account, compared with 17,000 litres of…

"It also helps, as Hardy suggests, to be slightly overconfident." You do not need to cultivate this personality trait in our culture. Far more people go too far with this than not …

Tokyo was not spared. On March 9-10th 1945 it endured the most destructive and deadly air attack in human history, killing somewhere between 90-100,000 people ( https://en.wikipedi…

"Researchers at the University of Richmond in the US taught a group of 17 rats how to drive little plastic cars, in exchange for bits of cereal." 17 I don't remember everything fro…