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by NoPiece 13y ago
Directed government action in China led to 20-40 million people starving to death. Relaxing government control of the economy led China to an amazing economic boom.
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by NoPiece 13y ago
Here is some anecdotal evidence that there is is still plenty of pressure in steam sales.. "We sold more copies in the first 24 hours of the sale than we had on Steam in the first three months since release," Fish said, adding th
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by NoPiece 13y ago
Yes, and it isn't doing anyone a favor to not talking about the reality of the future.
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by NoPiece 13y ago
It seems more valid than asking someone to code on a whiteboard. It least here they get to evaluate the candidate on something relevant.
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by NoPiece 13y ago
The Model S designer, Franz von Holzhausen, worked for Mazda between 2005 and 2008! He also did the Pontiac Solstice. The Model S reminds me more of a Maserati than a Mazda though. I think it looks amazing.
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by NoPiece 13y ago
Isn't the question what rights to privacy do you have after you've been arrested? I assume a cop could look through your wallet and pockets, so I can see why there is an argument they can look through your phone.
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by NoPiece 13y ago
What about betting against for profit universities which, on the shadier side, seem to be using unqualified students to grab federal loan money? Seems like they could get hit hard if the loan money starts to dry up.
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by NoPiece 13y ago
your iPhone uses about 361 kW-h if you stack up wireless connections, data usage, and battery charging. This site says 3.51kWh a year to charge an iPhone. So the original claim seems off by 100 times. http://blog.opower.com&#x2
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by NoPiece 13y ago
You don't have to include them because they are separate cities with separate governments and separate growth plans. And they don't have similar development policies. Palo Alto is different from Mountain View which is different fr
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by NoPiece 13y ago
There is a private bus service the runs between LA and SF for $40, which is probably less than the cab fare to the airport, or what a high speed rail ticket will end up costing. http://www.lowfarebus.com/
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by NoPiece 13y ago
California's unemployment rate is 8.6%, 1 full point higher than the national rate, in spite of the booming tech sector. A lot of people in California are doing terribly. For example, Imperial county's unemployment rate is 23%. Ar
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by NoPiece 13y ago
Come on, San jose is not dense. It has 5,256.2 people per square mile. Compared to LA, the ultimate sprawl city which has 8,225/sq mile, or New York which has 27,550/sq mi. As I said earlier, ABAG is complicated. It isn't jus
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by NoPiece 13y ago
You've changed the argument from "I don't understand why libertarians might be opposed to ABAG requirements" to "I support ABAG requirements because I don't like sprawl." Whether people "ultimately&qu
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by NoPiece 13y ago
It is more complicated than that. There are state mandated housing requirements that are imposed through ABAG. They are going to tell you how much housing your town MUST build regardless of what the citizens or city council of the town want
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by NoPiece 13y ago
That's not true - the largest "megacorp" in Palo Alto is HP and they only have around 2000 employees. The only employer with more than 10k is Stanford, and the only employer with more than 5,000 is the Stanford hospital. htt
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by NoPiece 13y ago
I don't get the obsession with density. Palo Alto is a small suburban town. People move there to get away from urban life and density. There is plenty of infill to be done in San Jose and San Francisco before you need to worry about Pa
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by NoPiece 13y ago
What makes you think they don't? The city is generous in homeless services, which in turn draws more to the city. Especially as neighboring cities have already banned car camping. http://www.communityworkinggroup.org/op
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by NoPiece 13y ago
What's perplexing about a libertarian group not wanting some regional agency imposing a housing plan on a city that doesn't want it?
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by NoPiece 13y ago
For people interested in other tools, there is a command line gender verification tool and database: http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/20260-gender-verificat... and a Ruby gam that is built on the above data:
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by NoPiece 13y ago
You are right! I read, "Why were so many (over a hundred) of the 12500 tickets," incorrectly. Looks like there were actually 1509 records in the author's JSON object. Nonetheless, it is an infraction type that will disproport
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by NoPiece 13y ago
The author is cherry picking his data. He has a pool of 12,500 tickets, and is looking at a very narrow type of infraction that affected 182 drivers of 12,500. In that small pool, why do hispanic names show up disproportionately? Maybe they
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by NoPiece 13y ago
Maybe a small stretch.. But if you expect your company is going to be rapidly growing going into year four, you are going to go from zero software cost to very high software costs. After three years of commitment and investment are you goin
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by NoPiece 13y ago
That reminds me of the reasoning during the housing bubble when people took adjustable rate mortgages with a low teaser rate, then got nailed when the higher rates kicked in. BizSpark payment shock after year 3.
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by NoPiece 13y ago
Also, things like selecting office location are so deeply political that decisions about them invariably creep to the top.
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by NoPiece 13y ago
From Car and Driver: Luxury Car: A car that offers a full array of luxury features and an outstanding level of refinement, starting at a base price over $40,000. Examples include the Bentley Brooklands, BMW 5-series, Mercedes-Benz CL-class
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by NoPiece 13y ago
or Milton Friedman.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GEiRroLaHc
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by NoPiece 13y ago
An M-66 is a perfectly legal firecracker sold in all states where firecrackers are legal That is as irrelevant as saying, "An M-66 is an illegal firecracker, banned in all states where firecrackers are illegal." Are they legal i
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by NoPiece 13y ago
2,300 codes over 18 months is probably far above the norm, and should have raised a red flag with Ford.
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by NoPiece 13y ago
Interesting though that the author wrote that at his restaurant that took tips, the average was 22%, so even if some people stiff waiters, it is more than made up for.
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by NoPiece 13y ago
Very nice. I liked the screen rotation in the death world.

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