NoPiece

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by NoPiece 14y ago
They didn't drop dramatically, they flattened, or reverted to the mean after a decade of excessive growth based on the real estate bubble. This graph is from budget summary: http://i.imgur.com/Zvjbw.jpg If there was one iota of spending r
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Just as spending rises predictably, so does revenue along with GDP. Taxe rates haven't gone down, so all you need to do is grow spending at a reasonable rate. California didn't grow spending reasonably or responsibly. As tax revenue spiked
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by NoPiece 14y ago
It isn't the debt by itself that is the problem, it is the debt plus the unfunded liabilities. The pension liability alone is estimated at an additional $500 billion. Plus there is the debt and financial problems of the various cities and c
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by NoPiece 14y ago
You can't create a crisis simply by refusing to raise taxes (which were already near the highest in the nation). There was obviously massive spending going on without the revenue to pay for it. How about blaming the spenders?
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by NoPiece 14y ago
You should take a look at the history of regulation of taxi's in New York. It had less to do with safety or clarity than protecting exiting cabbies and from competition during the depression. http://www.nyc.gov/html/media/totweb/taxioftomo
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Good post, as someone who occasionally uses promoted posts, it made me realize it is a little weird to target friends of fans, which I believe is the FB default.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
If everyone had your attitude, then employers would be justified in paying as little as possible. Thankfully my experience has been that most co-workers don't try to provide as little value as possible, and most employers actively try to re
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I don't think most people want to limit their interactions to their close social circle. The Dallas Mavericks have 2+ million likes - I'd guess a majority of those fans would want every single update they make in their feed, and would value
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by NoPiece 14y ago
He really should have been backing up his own data anyway. And if you really have important data on your computer, why would you send it off to strangers to back up anyway? I'd format the drive and zero it out before returning it.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
It definitely would be a nightmare! But they have a big enough pool of hardware and users that it might be possible. As it is, there are inefficiencies because of the lack of choice. For example, I had some large instances because I wanted
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by NoPiece 14y ago
It would be interesting if they could get rid of "types" concept, and just let people pull together memory, ecus, and storage on demand.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I like that the new instance types have a more balanced ratio of memory to ecu, but wish they had included some smaller sizes. I'd like an m3.medium with 4gb and 4 ecu (or an m3.large with 8gm and 8 ecu).
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Flying in and out of SFO is rough. According to flightstats.com, Virgis is on time 71% of the time, United and Southwest 63%, and American 58%. In comparison, flying from LAX to San Jose: American Eagle 93%, Horizon 89%, Southwest 82%, and
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by NoPiece 14y ago
What do you think Rupert Murdoch's agenda is with Glee? I don't know if you've worked at a huge company like News Corp, but the Fox News unit runs separately from Fox Broadcasting with its own separate agenda and personality, which is yet a
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I disagree that using memorized formulas to solve math problems isn't meaningful learning. But granting you that, I'd argue that a student who has memorized the formulas and can apply them to that test and get correct answers is a success s
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Take a look at the recently released questions from the 2012 california math standardized tests. Looks like math, not memorization to me. Here is grade 7: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sr/documents/cstrtqmath7.pdf Here is algebra: http://w
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by NoPiece 14y ago
If you pay full fare on southwest ("anytime" fare) - they are refundable for any reason. If you have a discount fare, they are 100% creditable. Southwest is really great in the regard.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I don't think you have characterized the problem accurately (or at least completely). The coupon allowed you to add dozens of games to your cart, then applied the $20 off to each individual item instead of just one, or against the total. It
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I agree, I was about to grab this for my kid, but getting the dozen or so friends and relatives to create accounts isn't worth it. Very nice looking, but should have the option of just using an email whitelist to send. Then include a one ti
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I feel like the article is missing a basic analysis of whether there would be more deaths by an increased number of fires caused by removing the fire retardant, or by cancer cancer caused by fire retardant. Just give me some numbers, and le
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by NoPiece 14y ago
The IPO price was $38. When it opened the price rose to $42 in early public trading before the price started to fall. http://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-what-traders-saw-when...
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by NoPiece 14y ago
According to their Kickstarter page, MSRP for the Pixate engine is $299. It is included as part of the $69 Kickstarter tier. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixate/beautiful-native-...
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by NoPiece 14y ago
IANAL, but I think the FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) only covers bribes to foreign government officials.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
If there were only investment bankers and drummers, it would almost make sense to force the bankers to support the drummers (in effect what you are proposing). But the reality is there are mostly people like me, working very hard to support
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Another Times article has some more info on the Q (it is being made somewhere in San Jose), but the exact location is being kept secret. Would it be surprising if they outsourced the 7 to the same manufacturer? "Google uses a contract manuf
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by NoPiece 14y ago
People who are religious can still value education, even though certain religious beliefs are in conflict.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Schappert was also mentioned in the EA lawsuit. He was COO of EA before he left for Zynga, and according to the filing, "Mr. Shappert was then the most senior executive responsible for EA's online social gaming business. The online social g
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Their second launch was a Malaysian satellite, and they are scheduled to launch satellites for Intelsat and AsiaSat, so they have private customers providing income, and foreign governments as well.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
In the OED entry for the verb "speak," there is a sub entry for "to speak for." About half of that is devoted to "speak for yourself," which is what I quoted. It is followed by the typical list of examples. There was a Simpsons reincarnatio
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by NoPiece 14y ago
From the OED: "speak for yourself: expressing a desire to dissociate oneself from what another has just said or the assumptions behind it."

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