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Comment #49067673
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 …
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Comment #42891254
Would you have specific recommendations of such vendors?
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Comment #42850147
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 199…
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Comment #40752920
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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Comment #39771595
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 Petit…
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Comment #39335850
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…
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Comment #37585234
https://archive.ph/8kuGI
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Comment #35435870
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
Hi HN! I'm an environmental economist specializing on climate change and I've run a little visualization experiment using Midjourney (v5) this weekend on the latest IPCC report: ht…
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Comment #34946289
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 mi…
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Comment #32365217
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 - mak…
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Comment #27942250
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 figur…
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Comment #23995607
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 regressiv…
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