Your competition might literally be a well-intentioned bit of precocious data munging by a 9-year-old, as the plastic straw case showedhttps://www.wfaa.com/article/news/nation-now/that-anti-straw-movement-its-all-based-on-one-9-year-olds-suspect-statistic/465-a4d331ba-a9ea-4ea1-ac98-c6c176bb1e14 …
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My contribution to the genre. Afaik this graph I made 11 years ago is still the best graph tracking % of free agents in US historically. I put in like 20 minutes of effort based on 2 sources I just happened to know about. 15 minutes of fame
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A few interesting numbers/graphs that I think would take less than a day to estimate at 3x better than what’s out there (keeping in mind that many cases there are *no* estimates out there) 1. Energy use by banking industry (for use in bitcoin conversations)
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2. Percent of consumer goods that go straight to landfill after purchase without being used, for various lifestyles (“basic material efficiency of lifestyles”) for use in sustainability conversations
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A little less ambitious: Resource playlists for niche learning arenas per a
@literalbanana tweet.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Straw kid changed the world
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Straw kid is the new strawman
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This is the equivalent to mining a block on the blockchain.
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