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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
Most of the top areas actually have really good transit, with the exception of Midland (on the list from west Texas oil money) and maybe Des Moines (I’m unfamiliar with it so I’m making an assumption). San Jose and Sunnyvale have the cal tr
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
A cleric in 1200 might have said that the masses could never read, and that illiteracy will always be a feature of our society and that it is natural. Yet, here we are today, all reading. Maybe Einstein’s talents can really elude nearly eve
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
With electricity going towards renewables, it seems clear that the best strategy will be to get the other major uses of energy on electricity as well. Vehicles have a clear (if long) path to electrification. But what about heating buildings
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
These new mind enhancing drugs need not go down the path of adderall or other ADHD drugs. From my understanding those are based on amphetamine salts, with a host of well known societal issues like you mentioned. Maybe they would follow the
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
On the other hand, consider how rare the Enron case seems to be. Since it's implosion, how many other companies were based on total fraud? Theranos is all that comes to mind and it wasn't even public. It seems like the system most
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
In college about 5 years ago, I heard a presentation from some recording industry people who worked at a studio. They saw Spotify as the reason their industry would still exist in five years. I think at the time total recording revenues wer
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
A swipe against excessive civil forfeitures succeeds. These aggressive actions require citizens to forfeit property far in excess of any harm committed. In the court case, a man had his car seized when caught selling a few hundred dollars o
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
You mischaracterize the article. It mentions the FDA, and perhaps more importantly other disincentives. Hospitals desire more expensive solutions because they get paid more for them. That is a second, enormous barrier. The incentives are cl
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
Having worked on desktop software, I much prefer the services model. There were endless conversations about a support matrix and patching older versions for customers who refused to upgrade. We were hamstrung by old design decisions and bac
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
My general impression is that worker safety was pretty much disregarded compared to modern standards. A quick search turned up this piece[1] on 16 deaths around 1904 during construction of a NYC subway line. There are famous pictures such a
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In a Hot Labor Market, Some Employees Are 'Ghosting' Bad Bosses(npr.org)
135 points by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago|160 comments
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
This is wrong. Is there nothing to know or learn about nutrition? Yes, it’s hard and there is a lot of bad stuff out there, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
I wonder if any company in a similar position has just done a total liquidation and turned over all cash as a one time super dividend. That seems like the honest and fair way of doing it. Though it's probably less lucrative than a debt
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
Apparently they will add sensors to continuously monitor the concrete for failures.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
Apparently they originally only looked at techniques that had been used before in the US. Agreed that the big contractors and old bureaucracies such as the MTA could probably use a round of inspiration.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
But there will be way less work to do with the new plan. The old plan was to totally gut the tunnel, the new one is to hang replacement cables and patch the concrete only where needed.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
The press conference had lots of details. Last I checked no recording has been posted. The old plan called for replacing all of the bench walls along the length of both tunnels. Bench walls are the short concrete casements which house the c
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
That’s not really an issue. They can just buy a copy at Walmart, no permissions needed.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
Try audiobooks or podcasts! Listen with a soundtrack. You won’t regret it.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
I'm a former last pass user as well. I made the switch about a year ago, and haven't really looked back. That being said, there are a few things that annoy me about bitwarden. For some sites or apps in iOS, you can launch a passwo
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
Is it right for the staffer to physically remove the mic from his hands though? Is that normal behavior?
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
Well, it’s not like what they were doing was legal and there’s nothing that can be done about it. In fact, America’s aggressive anti-bribery laws seem to be semi-working here with some folks slated to go to jail. I saw semi-working because
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
The regulation exists to keep people safe. Poorly handled foods kill people. Now, if there are high capital requirements for starting a restaurant, it sounds like there is a market opportunity for someone to make a low-capital way to try ou
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
You should care because society will be worse off without a media to hound those in power. There will be thousands of small abuses of power that go unnoticed without a watchdog.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
From the video linked in the article, it looks like they are using the music, and characters from the show. The content of the screens also appear to be copies from the show. I am not a lawyer, but those do look like infringing elements. S
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
The parent's comment still applies. If the progressive brackets were just swapped for a flat tax, the tax man still needs to know how much each employee had as deductibles, e.g. number of dependents, donations to charity, mortgage inte
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
But aren’t most subsequent rounds, Series A, B etc putting money into the company, and not transacting with existing shareholders for an exit?
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 8y ago
One con of the pay per article is that it siphons money into the money making kinds of stories. The sports and celebrity pages can do a lot of funding for the slow grind investigations that are important for holding those in power accountab
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 9y ago
The doomsday clock is a human institution of scientists, though hardly scientific. They see it as their duty to raise alarms. But ask yourself- are we really closer to civilization ending Doomsday than at the height of the Cold War?
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 9y ago
There’s a balance to strike between the fear monger if news cycle and the Steven Pinker-esque wave of progress. As Pinker notes, progress is not monotonicly increasing. While it is true that things have gotten better on average across the w

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