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by kourt 6y ago
The long-term neurological effects are scary too. https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-and-the-brain-diagno...
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by kourt 12y ago
The current US population is 7 billion, US population is 300 million. How many of the 6.5 billion non-Americans do you think could be rapidly absorbed, both terms of infrastructure (roads, water, sewers) as well as housing, culture, and go
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by kourt 12y ago
The actual ratio of rent to income really does matter. If we were comparing two cities where the ratio was 18% and 22%, then people would "want to spend less" or "pay a little more and enjoy better entertainment, culture, we
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by kourt 12y ago
As much as I love Boston, SF is not the only other city in the world, and both cities are extremely atypical. The graduates are likely leaving for a place where they can get a $49,500 salary and a $700 apartment. EDIT: and your percentages
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by kourt 12y ago
dollar-store version of Trader Joe's The family resemblance is to be expected since the two brands are the result of feuding brothers splitting their family business: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013
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by kourt 12y ago
Several companies on this list are household names; Avis was run as a typical corporation, W. L. Gore has no managers, and Springfield ReManufacturing is discussed in Jack Stack's book _The Great Game of Business_ https://en
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by kourt 12y ago
Common cinder blocks / gray blocks measure 16" x 8" x 8" and cost about $1.30. I stack two in order to get 16" of lift and place a stack under each corner of a traditional flat desk. I actually have two desks, on
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by kourt 12y ago
It's very typical to more strictly regulate commercial use of the sky than non-commercial. For human aviators, the progression in licenses is Private Pilot (cannot even charge passengers more than their pro-rata share of expenses), Co
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by kourt 12y ago
Or even how it scales to individuals over 6 feet tall.
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by kourt 12y ago
Automattic, the creator of WordPress, the blog and website tool. Still, every hire, without exception, goes through a two- to six-week contract period, and is paid the standard rate of $25 an hour. $25/hour: seriously?
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by kourt 12y ago
The worst part is that we're failing even on simple things that could reduce light pollution, such as using outdoor fixtures that direct the light only downward. The International Dark Sky Association exists, but I don't know how
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by kourt 12y ago
I see your point. But I love that it's one feature at a time , rather than being placed between two columns of links to other stories, other photos, automatically-playing videos, and ads.
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by kourt 12y ago
Please tell us about your stack. Which implementation of Common Lisp do you use?
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by kourt 12y ago
"personal loan" does not mean "peer-to-peer loan"
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by kourt 12y ago
One source of conflict is that many "business type" tasks/projects can be fairly easily time-scoped: "a report about opportunities for our product in Poland" can be a 5 minute comparison of populations, or a multi-y
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by kourt 12y ago
bad code forever because your technical team get annoyed and leave And the effects of technical debt and bad code will eventually result in slow iteration and poor product quality which will eventually become visible to customers.
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by kourt 12y ago
pass object references by value (is their a better name for this?) Barbara Liskov used "call by sharing", aka "call by object-sharing" or "call by object". http://stackoverflow.com/questions&#
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by kourt 12y ago
Thanks. How do current Lisps (CL, Racket) compare to *Lisp on parallelism?
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by kourt 12y ago
who had drugs shipped to him...(he was uninvolved) "had drugs shipped" is a little ambiguous: someone shipped drugs using the mayor's house as the destination; Mayor Calvo had no knowledge or involvement in this. Despite h
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by kourt 12y ago
I found their finances interesting. They seem to have made a very good living (including covering expensive medical conditions such as a pacemaker and travel from California to Mayo for treatment) by remodeling and reselling houses on a ve
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by kourt 12y ago
An important corollary is that "the happiness of current residents" may negatively correlated to "the happiness of new migrants" (who won't have the deep family roots). Therefore, using this research to plan a reloc
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by kourt 12y ago
trend toward more CISC-like hardware, because designers have figured that operations that would've been done in software can be done faster with dedicated hardware. And since clock speeds stagnated a decade and a half ago, but Moore&
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by kourt 12y ago
Aside from cancer, one needs to be concerned about aging: just look at the difference between the sides of truck driver William McElligott's face: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/06/06/bill-mcelligott-s
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by kourt 12y ago
How do you guarantee that this DNA will not get released into the wild, and what is your responsibility for the consequences if it does?
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by kourt 12y ago
I have used ozforex.com.au for business; they have a consumer-oriented branch http://www.tranzfers.com/
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by kourt 12y ago
This is nice to see a relatively brief introduction to the essential features. Steve Yegge wrote: "Go look over Paul Nordstrom's shoulder while he works sometime, if you don't believe me. It's a real eye-opener for someo
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by kourt 12y ago
immigration, which is completely under our control. And yet media reports consistently imply that restricting immigration is both impossible and unethical.
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by kourt 12y ago
Overloading a fundamental term within our industry is questionable. You can make something up, or use something from outside the industry, but please don't redefine a common and essential industry term. For instance, you could call yo
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by kourt 12y ago
One of my biggest disappointments with Gnumeric is the file extension: tab completion only works sometimes, and I'd really like to change find ~ -name \ .gnumeric to find ~ -name \ .gnm or find ~ -name \*.gsc Also it takes up more spac
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by kourt 12y ago
One reason is that the the USS Cole bombing occurred less than a year prior.

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