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by jekdoce 4y ago
As I understand it redshifting is due to the doppler effect, whose formula only depends on the relative speed between the observer and the sender. However, it also seems like due to galaxies further away having a larger expansion speed, typ
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by jekdoce 6y ago
Here is a pie chart (globally) from epa.gov: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-05/global_em...
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by jekdoce 6y ago
Thank you for seeing the question for what it is. Genuinely was wondering if there are good alternatives to controlled burns. If not then of course controlled burns are significantly better than wild fires. One thought that crossed my mind
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by jekdoce 6y ago
Since burning releases CO2 into the atmosphere, are there alternatives to burning? Maybe it's difficult to do something with the vast amount of dry wood/plants, even if one manages to collect them?
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by jekdoce 7y ago
Reading that the virus is stable in the air for 3h, you would think that the R0 would be closer to measles, i.e. ~18 instead of ~2. Any ideas why this is not the case?
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by jekdoce 8y ago
I wonder if they use Palantir software for the analysis?
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by jekdoce 8y ago
They regularly give Fentanyl to pregnant women during labor. We know some of it crosses the placenta and enters the baby. Does anyone know why this is OK?
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by jekdoce 8y ago
If you decide to retire early (say 50), before medicare kicks in (at 65), then you are on the hook to buy insurance yourself. That's maybe the difference between US and Europe that the above commenter refers to.
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by jekdoce 8y ago
Is there a list of Bay Area local politicians voting record/views on housing? Seems like a good first step in terms of organizing to vote for people that are pro building.
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by jekdoce 9y ago
The thought provoking contrast presented in the article is camera derived sparse maps with lane lines, road edges, signs etc. vs lidar derived dense detailed models of the whole environment. Any thoughts around why the former is not enough?
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by jekdoce 9y ago
Is there a link to the talk?
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by jekdoce 10y ago
I have called a couple of times and at bare minimum they asked me the zip code I am calling from. Cold logic would dictate that if you are calling from a zip code outside their voting district, they will ignore you. However, imagine you are
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by jekdoce 10y ago
Advice from a high-level staffer for a Senator: There are two things that everyone concerned should be doing all the time right now, and they're by far the most important things. You should NOT be bothering with online petitions or ema
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by jekdoce 10y ago
Why not release an older tax return that is not under audit? How many years returns are under audit?
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by jekdoce 10y ago
Grandma can get a reverse mortgage on her $3M house and pay the property taxes.
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by jekdoce 10y ago
For C/C++ RTags ( https://github.com/Andersbakken/rtags ) together with company-mode and fly-check can do jump-to-definition, auto-completion and on-the-fly-syntax-checking. Super easy to use if using cmake as build
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by jekdoce 11y ago
That was definitely interesting to listen to. Recommend it to others reading this thread. I have personally never met anyone being that passionately dismissive of people working at technology companies. Absurd.
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by jekdoce 11y ago
No, it's not. This is their website: http://faradayfuture.com/
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First hotel completely staffed by robots in Japan(h-n-h.jp)
2 points by jekdoce 11y ago|0 comments
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by jekdoce 12y ago
Both of these laws are designed to benefit people who moved here long time ago and make it economically harder for new people to move here. Whether they are landlords, renters or home buyers. Prop 13 makes new property buyers pay more for p
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by jekdoce 12y ago
It seems like green card holders, who in some cities can vote in local elections, can not vote in SF.
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Ask HN: Layoffs in the Bay Area?
8 points by jekdoce 12y ago|2 comments
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by jekdoce 12y ago
I remember a few years ago I saw a 7000 acre piece of land in eastern CA for sale. The price tag was $7M. How hard do you guys think it would be to convince a good group of people with diverse skills to go out there and start a small city?
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by jekdoce 12y ago
Inspired by this comment I actually spent 30min looking on Redfin. Most of the coastal land I found is listed for around $1-2M (for ~1 acre), from SF area down to LA. Check it out! I was actually pretty surprised by this.
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by jekdoce 12y ago
I can't agree with this more. Anyone know when houses started to function as an investment? How far back does this go? How tied is this to the business model of banks?
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by jekdoce 12y ago
Why is interest on savings accounts taxed at income rates? Why is short-term capital gains taxed at income rates? While long-term capital gains are taxed at much lower rate. Seems like risk has something to do with it, no?
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by jekdoce 12y ago
And the blocked company should be rival Facebook, since they own Oculus.
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by jekdoce 12y ago
Will you have people working in the Bay Area?
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California governor declares drought emergency(usatoday.com)
1 points by jekdoce 13y ago|0 comments
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by jekdoce 13y ago
It's because there is a lot of vacation tourism to Thailand (much more than other countries in that region), specially from Europe. People use streetview to, for example, check the street a hotel is on before booking etc.

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