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morepork commented on Why New Zealand is seeing an exodus of over-30s   cnn.com/2026/03/06/world/... · Posted by u/Tomte
morepork · 9 days ago
This is not new, the article spins it as a big increase using a low during COVID as a baseline.

Alternative article with stats back to 2001: https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/137340/current-exod...

Note also that the population has grown around 30% since 2001, so the rate is probably lower than in the 2000s.

NZ is a small country, cities are small, it can be expensive, and the job market is relatively limited. For some it's made up for by the abundance of nature, the laid back attitudes, etc. but that's never going to be everyone's cup of tea.

morepork commented on Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores   engadget.com/apps/google-... · Posted by u/_____k
0cf8612b2e1e · 11 days ago
Is the Google billing system that good or easy? 5% sounds outrageous, but I guess if they make it 1-click easy, will scoop up everyone who is not big enough to work with a real payment processor.

I guess the question, what does an Amazon, Spotify, Uber, etc pay on the platform vs the 99% of businesses which are not a household name.

morepork · 11 days ago
For card payments sure, but if you buy with play store gift cards bought from a third party retailer, I don't think Google is making much if anything out of that.
morepork commented on Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid   arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/rbanffy
paxys · 18 days ago
Not 100 sq miles but 100 mile x 100 mile, which is 10,000 sq miles. And that assumes peak efficiency. Factoring in degredation you'd have to multiply this by 2.

Not "just" by any stretch of the imagination. This is larger than Rhode Island and Lake Erie combined. Aka a pipe dream. Might as well "just" build a dyson sphere while we are at it.

morepork · 18 days ago
Or alternatively, a hundred 10 mile by 10 mile installations. Or on average 2 such installations per state. Hardly seems anywhere near comparable to a Dyson sphere
morepork commented on Florida to end all school vaccine requirements   arstechnica.com/health/20... · Posted by u/duxup
morepork · 6 months ago
Honest question: do you get charged more for health insurance in the US if you and/or your family aren't vaccinated?
morepork commented on Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'   wired.com/story/sam-altma... · Posted by u/spenvo
morepork · 8 months ago
This looks similar to what Meta (then Facebook) did a decade ago and basically broke the agreements between Apple, Google, etc. to not poach each others employees
morepork commented on ICE test train reaches speeds of up to 405.0 km/h   deutschebahn.com/de/press... · Posted by u/doener
masklinn · 9 months ago
It is a pretty limited achievement as-is: ignoring maglevs, a tgv test train reached 575 kph back in 2007, and China had test trains reaching 487 in 2011.

China’s next-gen is being deployed with goals of a 400kph service speed.

morepork · 9 months ago
Also a German ICE test train was clocked at over 400 km/h back in 1988
morepork commented on Studio Ghibli marks 40 years, but future looks uncertain   japantimes.co.jp/culture/... · Posted by u/gslin
coldtea · 9 months ago
Studio Ghibli is Miyazaki.

It goes with him. Maybe not as a business name, but as an ethos and artisty, yes.

morepork · 9 months ago
There are notable Studio Ghibli films that were not made by Miyazaki such as Grave of the Fireflies, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and When Marnie was There.

All of those were in my opinion excellent films and similar in style to ones made by Miyazaki, and I think fans of Miyazaki's work will also enjoy them.

morepork commented on World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/mmarian
ReptileMan · 9 months ago
It is impossible to fit more than 2 car seats in a normal car. So having more than two kids complicates the logistics quite a bit.
morepork · 9 months ago
Difficult, but not impossible. We fit 3 across the back seat of our Mitubishi Lancer for a few years. You do need to be selective in which car seats you get, and I wish it was easier.
morepork commented on Why walking is the most underrated form of exercise (2017)   nbcnews.com/better/health... · Posted by u/Tomte
defrost · 10 months ago
For interest:

William Goodge smashes record after running across Australia in 35 days

  British athlete four days quicker than previous record holder who completed 3,800km feat in 39 days

  Spurred on by his mother’s battle with cancer, and with his father by his side, William Goodge crossed the finish line in Sydney just after 4pm on Monday.

  It brought an end to 35 days of pounding the pavement, striding the equivalent of two-and-a-half marathons a day.
May 19th, 2025: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/may/19/william-goodge...

morepork · 10 months ago
Or

> Shannon-Leigh Litt has run 500 ultra marathons in 500 Days

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360690060/northlander-runs-her...

Out of reach for most of us though.

morepork commented on The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority   twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack... · Posted by u/turrini
arp242 · 10 months ago
> I don't remember the exact number of CPU cores amounted to a single SWE but IIRC it was in the thousands.

I think this probably holds true for outfits like Google because 1) on their scale "a core" is much cheaper than average, and 2) their salaries are much higher than average. But for your average business, even large businesses? A lot less so.

I think this is a classic "Facebook/Google/Netflix/etc. are in a class of their own and almost none of their practices will work for you"-type thing.

morepork · 10 months ago
Maybe not to the same extent, but an AWS EC2 m5.large VM with 2 cores and 8 GB RAM costs ~$500/year (1 year reserved). Even if your engineers are being paid $50k/year, that's the same as 100 VMs or 200 cores + 800 GB RAM.

u/morepork

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