Interesting reads
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@pakman said in Interesting reads:
Tough to read a video. And since I'm not bilingual and can't understand Espanol, doubly-tough.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in Interesting reads:
@pakman said in Interesting reads:
Tough to read a video. And since I'm not bilingual and can't understand Espanol, doubly-tough.
I'll give you the video point, but if you had the patience to watch for 15 seconds you'd find it is in Anglais!!!
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Newsweek cover story feature this weeK, filed under TECH & SCIENCE
MALE INFERTILITY CRISIS IN U.S. HAS EXPERTS BAFFLED
http://www.newsweek.com/2017/09/22/male-infertility-crisis-experts-663074.html
It's not just the United States. It's the western world.
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LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS:
"Everything you want to know about America can be learned in a McDonald’s.”
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mcdonalds-as-america-a-conversation-with-chris-arnade/
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@Salacious-Crumb said in Interesting reads:
Newsweek cover story feature this weeK, filed under TECH & SCIENCE
MALE INFERTILITY CRISIS IN U.S. HAS EXPERTS BAFFLED
http://www.newsweek.com/2017/09/22/male-infertility-crisis-experts-663074.html
It's not just the United States. It's the western world.
Too much bike riding?
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Remembering William S Burroughs
http://www.gadflyonline.com/home/archive/August99/archive-burroughs.html
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As part of the bankruptcy filing, Rathburn provided a list of assets. The inventory included 14 chairs, 10 file cabinets, 91 heads, 18 spines, six hips and a copy of the Hippocratic Oath. He put the total market value of the body parts at $160,900.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-bodies-rathburn/
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A monumentally good data driven rant about the state of Australia's economy. And it's not a good picture.
Australia's Economy is a House of Cards
The largest four companies by market capitalisation globally as of the end of Q2 2017 globally were Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon. Facebook is eight. Together, these five companies generate over half a trillion dollars in revenue per annum. That's equivalent to about half of Australia's entire GDP. And many of these companies are still growing revenue at rates of 30% or more per annum.
These are exactly the sorts of companies that we need to be building.
With our population of 24 million and labour force of 12 million, there’s no other industry that can deliver long term productivity and wealth multipliers like technology. Today Australia's economy is in the stone age. Literally.
By comparison, Australia's top 10 companies are a bank, a bank, a bank, a mine, a bank, a biotechnology company (yay!), a conglomerate of mines and supermarkets, a monopoly telephone company, a supermarket and a bank.
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The Outlaw
The extraordinary life of William S. Burroughs. -
@antipodean said in Interesting reads:
A monumentally good data driven rant about the state of Australia's economy. And it's not a good picture.
Australia's Economy is a House of Cards
The largest four companies by market capitalisation globally as of the end of Q2 2017 globally were Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon. Facebook is eight. Together, these five companies generate over half a trillion dollars in revenue per annum. That's equivalent to about half of Australia's entire GDP. And many of these companies are still growing revenue at rates of 30% or more per annum.
These are exactly the sorts of companies that we need to be building.
With our population of 24 million and labour force of 12 million, there’s no other industry that can deliver long term productivity and wealth multipliers like technology. Today Australia's economy is in the stone age. Literally.
By comparison, Australia's top 10 companies are a bank, a bank, a bank, a mine, a bank, a biotechnology company (yay!), a conglomerate of mines and supermarkets, a monopoly telephone company, a supermarket and a bank.
This was a fantastic read, have shared it amongst a few Aussie/kiwi mates. Thanks a lot.
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Fantastic rant! Just got better and better.
Had always thought the Aus economy is a house of cards, over-dependence on mining, very inefficient federal/state/local government levels, massively over-taxed, the NSW state government payroll tax I just couldn't believe when I found out we were paying that, just a naked tax grab over and above PAYE, unbelievable.
Hope the Federal government might have the balls to try some of these things to promote growth but seems unlikely currently.
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Yeah, I go round and round with my French friend's wife, who relies on it whenever we are traveling around over there. I don't know anyone, who I actually trust, who actually posts on that site, so I've got no idea why I should follow their recommendations.
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Epic. Call Spielberg this would make a great mini series