gpawl

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by gpawl 9y ago
Why? Surface buses can run quickly at night when there is light traffic, and the air quality is far better at surface level than in the subway.
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by gpawl 9y ago
Parent poster was rejecting the month-first version.
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by gpawl 9y ago
In what situation is it useful to know 355/113? It's approximation so it won't be used in any closed-form solution, so it's going to be converted to decimal or some other unit, which will either be a laborious manual cal
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by gpawl 9y ago
Are you referring to the legal compliance practices, like requiring logins to see some listing details?
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by gpawl 9y ago
0.6MB to launch the app, which downloads 100MB more resources as soon as it starts up.
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by gpawl 9y ago
Coders like to code. Product builders want to build products with a minimum of fuss.
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by gpawl 9y ago
> Over the next two decades, 87 new pilots need to be trained and ready to fly a commercial airliner every day in order to meet our insatiable demand to travel by air. > That's one every 15 minutes. uh....
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by gpawl 9y ago
Did you know that even today, old people are less healthy than young people?
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by gpawl 9y ago
https://www.reddit.com/user/martinshkreli/
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by gpawl 9y ago
Please tell me which of these bodies is superior to the others: http://mymodernmet.com/howard-schatz-beverly-ornstein-athlet...
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by gpawl 9y ago
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/17/537645901/legal-challenges-exp... Seattle is very progressive, and highly in favor of income tax.
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by gpawl 9y ago
Less than 2 centuries. You think it's good to have bigger threats than starvation?
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by gpawl 9y ago
You confuse "corporation" with "company"
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by gpawl 9y ago
It what sense does Bezos lack control? Being public means that the company is transparent , not that it is out of control.
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by gpawl 9y ago
Whence this myth that Musk doesn't love money, just because he makes his money making cool tech? http://variety.com/gallery/elon-musk-buys-fifth-bel-air-home... http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-
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by gpawl 9y ago
and continuing to skyrocket: http://www.king5.com/news/local/seattle-public-utilities-pit...
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by gpawl 9y ago
Why would you wash your car or water your lawn in Seattle?
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by gpawl 9y ago
Hint in username.
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by gpawl 9y ago
> ambitions vs > had offices
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by gpawl 9y ago
Other cities on the list have ~half the research spending, plus ALSO large tech industries.
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by gpawl 9y ago
If you have a website as a desktop daemon (like a calendar app), it's handy. But mainly it's a way to put more ads in your line of sight. https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3220216 chrome:/&#x
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by gpawl 9y ago
Only on a technicality, because Gates's Net Worth doesn't include money in the foundation that Gates controls.
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by gpawl 9y ago
His non-foundation donations don't add up to close to foundation donations. That would defeat the purpose of creating a foundation.
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by gpawl 9y ago
Most Amazon employees are non-shareholding warehouse workers (even if technically they go through a contractor)
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by gpawl 9y ago
Bezos invests in his favorite stock, AMZN, which grows > 8% /yr
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by gpawl 9y ago
This is why foundations exist; to hold accumulated wealth. https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ http://tsffoundation.org/ http://www.bezosfamilyfoundation.org/ <- Jeff's parents, not Je
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by gpawl 9y ago
If someone can't pass FizzBuzz, they need a year or two of education to be useful as a programmer, and might never make it. Sure, you can hire someone to do helpdesk and help them try to grow into a programmer, but you can't hire
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by gpawl 9y ago
I'd like to see that graph expanded to distributions, and weighted by population. I'd also like to see China and India and Russia on that list. USA is big enough to be an above average nation and a below average nation combined. I
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by gpawl 9y ago
We're not talking about elites, we're talking about average. There will never be enough 'elite' students to go around.
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by gpawl 9y ago
There's a huge middle ground between "Being #2 is failure" and "no need to ever try to do anything"

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