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by DataGata 7y ago
You'd guess that there is a trade off between "maintenance" and "insurance" and that a lot of people/corporations go with insurance.
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by DataGata 7y ago
I honestly thought the entire Metal Band B-Plot was just to get that pun into the name.
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by DataGata 7y ago
Eventually you will get so far away from something that you cannot resolve it even at the plank distance.
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by DataGata 7y ago
Doctors shouldn't ever get sued. The idea of an "individual doctor" is such a 19th century concept. They're gears in a machine- the hospitals. An ideal hospital would never get sued because it performs very well. Instead
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by DataGata 7y ago
If you run a small business and have a SB card, spending just $100k can get you more than $1k in rewards a year. $1k is still probably not worth the IRS tracking down, but getting on the IRS being too busy to tackle your tax fraud is still
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by DataGata 7y ago
Down the drain? I might buy the water sucking down air, but down the drain?
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by DataGata 7y ago
But was it a jpeg? A gif? What type of image file?
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by DataGata 7y ago
The great thing is that it works in Kerbal Space Program, so you can plan out missions that use it in the game.
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by DataGata 7y ago
Chicago has 13 cameras per person. According to this data, that puts it second highest in the US (after Atlanta).
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by DataGata 7y ago
Of the two recessions you lived through, both were expected. Many people decried the tech boom. Many people thought there were warning signs pre-2008. The problem was that nobody knew the depth of the 2008 recession. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by DataGata 7y ago
Why will public chargers be slow? We should assume that those who provide public charging services (the gas stations of the future) will be trying to optimize throughput + convenience store sales. DC fast chargers currently get you 40 miles
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by DataGata 7y ago
Is that a political problem? Surely, a person who lives in rural NZ might think, "Oh, my tax dollars are being used to help those in Auckland; I'm being shafted", but if NZ is anything like the United States, urban centers ar
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by DataGata 7y ago
One of the surprising facts in the article is this: >Global fire activity was lowest on record. The author explain why this is true a few sentences later- the change is being >driven primarily by the conversion of frequently burning s
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by DataGata 7y ago
The Strong Towns line is a pretty simple one, and this article simply reiterates on it: Nobody does ROI calculations on infrastructure costs and it will catch up with you sooner or later. It might be compared to technical debt for the HN cr
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by DataGata 7y ago
For context, the original article [1] was in September of 2009, a year after the financial crisis hit its climax. The period was also a period where "salt water economics" and "fresh water economics" had their peak confl
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by DataGata 7y ago
The hukou system is fascinating- I literally turned to a Chinese coworker to ask about it. He is dealing with visa issues in the US, and explained if he wanted to go live in the Chinese city of his family, he'd have essentially a new s
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by DataGata 7y ago
If John von Neumann only lived another ten years, I'm curious what else would've been accomplished!
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by DataGata 7y ago
The idea of NASA becoming smart enough that it reroutes its plans around administrations is a nice idea. It's pretty hopeful. It also seems wrong: if it were true, NASA would've gotten us somewhere by now.
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by DataGata 7y ago
What do you mean by "7 times the return"? In productivity increases via. technology? In just the fiscal multiplier effect? In keeping decrepit, middle-of-nowhere NASA departments up and running?
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by DataGata 7y ago
We could ban semis passing at all, that'd be fine with me.