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andrewducker) wrote2022-11-24 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 24-11-2022
- 1. All You Need To Know About Scotland's Legal Bid For An Independence Referendum
- (tags:scotland law independence )
- 2. COVID-19 vaccination associated with 15% reduction in stillbirths
- (tags:pandemic vaccination death pregnancy )
- 3. The influence of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies on cinematic portrayals of ancient Greece and Rome
- (tags:rome greece lotr movies )
- 4. Turns out that dreaded pit beasts are a lot like cats
- (tags:funny fantasy comic cats )
- 5. How much does it cost Facebook to look after your cat pictures?
- (tags:cats facebook storage )
- 6. Lugo, the only town with fully intact Roman walls
- (tags:history rome Spain architecture viaDanielDWilliam )
- 7. Where are all the heat pumps?
- (tags:electricity heating UK viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. If you're wondering how SpaceX coped with Musk, this will fill you in
- (tags:ElonMusk Spacex management )
- 9. Fossil fuel power plants kill 35x as many birds as wind turbines do per GWh (and nuclear power is twice as deadly as wind power)
- (tags:birds death nuclearpower coal gas environment windpower )
- 10. European Parliament declares Russia a terrorism sponsor, then its site goes down
- (tags:web russia europe terrorism )
- 11. How much trouble are GPs in Scotland in?
- (tags:healthcare scotland )
- 12. Sponsian: Ancient Roman gold coins thought to be 'fakes' reveal long-lost local emperor
- (tags:rome Romania archeology )
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There's an error in the Facebook data storage piece (ironically published on Livejournal): 3 billion people a month use FB, and it spends $30Bn a year on infrastructure ... but there are only 0.33Bn people in the US: realistically, the USA accounts for about 200M users, around 5% of FB's usage. So if it was run as a public service the cost to the US government would be closer to something on the order of $1.5Bn a year, which in US government terms is peanuts -- less than the production cost of a single SLS rocket or B-2 bomber.
(The point about it being private and very dangerous still stands, but it's annoying to see such an obvious error in an otherwise solid argument.)
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