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by WildUtah 12y ago
http://shoup.bol.ucla.edu/ Minimum parking laws are the most important of many command-and-control policies and mandates that created the car-oriented American city. More than minimum setbacks, minimum lot sizes, FAR limits
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Not just Citizens United but 44 Liquormart is on point as well. There are five Supremes that don't hold much with commercial and political intentions as a backdoor to the First Amendment. What the other four are thinking is beyond my k
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http://www.go-hero.net/jam/08/name/Reid
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The GRE math is actually a dumbed down version of the SAT math so it's not surprising there's no signal left among engineering students. Probably most engineering students have gotten better at math since high school. The GRE verb
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Nobody uses C. Most use C++. There are a few Java people. I made it to on-site semifinals in Clojure once. Reid Barton, who is at least 1000x smarter than me, made it to world finals in Haskell. Modern C++ is about as easy to use as Python
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"temporary work. They need to be renewed every 3 years, even for the same employer, and offer no path towards permanent residence." But TNs are renewable infinitely. You did need to call yourself a systems analyst. Systems analyst
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"For those of us who aren't US citizens, remember it _is_ a privilege to be permitted to visit, a privilege the possibly minimum-wage customs/immigration/border people on the ground have the authority to revoke" Thi
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"Europe is currently asleep" Wrote a comment recently which incidentally and obliquely implied in passing that people are in control of their own body weight, a proposition which I believe within some limited contexts. It went up
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I'm a little too busy to entertain you with vignettes right now; I need to supervise this pot closely until it boils.
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"You can't outrun your fork." I can. People who can't outrun their forks aren't running hard enough. Hunting down a lot of calories and eating them is part of being a mammal. I bicycled across North America one fall
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by WildUtah 12y ago
How do they do the attractiveness rating? Is it an internal eval or some kind of crowdsourced bayesian inferential hotornot?
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"A poor-middle class guy gets a ticket, and it can affect their ability to pay rent." Working class people in NYC can't afford cars whether they violate the law and pay fines or not. I don't know how it works in places t
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by WildUtah 12y ago
>> Why do bars have parking lots? >Because it's apparently not banned, and even if it was, someone would stand to make money by providing said lot next to a bar. Not only isn't it banned, it's required. American citi
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Um, lady, if you're so smart about cars, why are you paying extra for synthetic oil for a Subaru? I don't know your husband but they always used to scam me with all that junk, too, and I'm a dude.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
This case is great for startups, incidentally. Apple has been distinctly reluctant to support patent reform that would threaten their own mountain of garbage software patents. A few billion dollars in bogus jury verdicts -- especially if th
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"Smartflash is represented by Bradley W. Caldwell, Jason D. Cassady, John Austin Curry, Daniel R. Pearson and Hamad M. Hamad of Caldwell Cassady Curry P.C. in Dallas; and T. John Ward and T. John Ward Jr. of Ward & Smith Law Firm i
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"virtually no lesser-of-two-evils narrative in '08 or '12 from the American left" Maybe not at rallies, but if you read lefty commentary or conversation sites it was nothing but lesser-of-two-evils in '08 and '
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This isn't about free trade, though. It's about raising trade barriers together to protect incumbent industries at the cost of consumers and competition. They want to lengthen copyright, invade privacy, regulate internet services
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I lived in parts of Mexico where solar wouldn't be a great idea because peak demand was after sundown and air conditioning was rarely wanted or used. Quite a lot of the population lives over 2000m (6200ft) elevation where the weather i
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MX does not use . as thousands separator or , as decimal separator. It uses the symbols rationally and correctly just as the other North American nations do.
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I don't see any PTAB decisions on the record and the case was filed before modern IPR review of bad patents was instituted in 2010.
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Anyone who invents something and then patents and licenses it without owning the factory is a patent troll the way you're defining it. The problem is that the patents modern trolls abuse are garbage patents that don't promote inno
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10.6 did things Apple II wasn't capable of.
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"assume the property would be in the Condesa or Roma area." I hope so. Polanco is too snooty. The Historic Center has gotten viable for living with residential redevelopment and revolutionary traffic calming but still has a touris
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"Mexico City. Why on earth would you want to go to Mexico City?" Because the most beautiful and exciting city on Earth is full of artists, programmers, scholars, great street food, great fancy restaurants, museums, history, good
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"the VirnetX lawsuit" Garbage patents stabbing the software industry in the back yet again.
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"5.x doesn't even run on Snow Leopard." Which is a shame because OSX 10.6.8 was the most stable, zippiest performance OSX ever and still had the nice virtual desktop. Sadly I lament the old virtual desktop. I'd still be
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if-let is great. I don't know where it started (apparently upthread they say Rust and swift have been swapping the idea) but Clojure has had it since 2008.[0] (if-let [name name-whose-value-is-possibly-null] (something-to-d
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The Iron Law of Oligarchy [0], Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy [1], and the Iron Law of Institutions [2] are all closely related. They are essential to understanding how the modern world works and doesn't work and why. The Iro
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If Le Pen can make it to the second round in France, it will be in Hollande's place. Sarko will be Le Pen's opponent and will win 70+% of the vote, most of Sarko's support coming from socialist voters. And remember NSDAP coul

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