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by WildUtah 12y ago
Base salaries are often only $100k but then generous vacation compensation, incentives, 2x and 3x overtime, and such bring it close to $200k. Gold plated health and other benefits often bring current compensation for CA cops (CHP, BART, SF
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by WildUtah 12y ago
That's not true at all. California cops can make $200k a year cash just with overtime and incentives. Including pension schemes and other benefits, it's common for mid-career CA cops to make upwards of $500k. Consider that 25 year
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"attempted to kill my so by chasing her around a parked car with a screwdriver trying to stab her while a bunch of sf asshole pedestrians crossed the street to avoid" If any of them had tried to help, the police that didn't c
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Amazon doesn't need Google to run a competitive app experience. The Android APIs are mostly open source and Amazon can copy them. The problem is that Amazon is hard on developers, doesn't let them set prices, won't automatica
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"You have to actively prevent money getting from those with it to the politicians they want to bribe. Simply having other funding sources won't stop the cartels from installing their own puppets." Exactly wrong. The solution
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by WildUtah 12y ago
What's wrong with that? Lots of people love working seasonally. Teachers, fishermen, hospitality workers, and forest rangers can work seasonally. Why should programmers be denied the privilege by law?
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Houston's minimum parking laws, setback and construction envelope laws, and other suburban style mandates make it impossible to build in the traditional city style of Europe or Japan (or the USA). There's somewhat more flexibility
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by WildUtah 12y ago
In the US context, boundaries matter because there is a steep density gradient from center to suburb. There is a technique called weighted perceived density to fix the difference and make cities comparable. [0,1] Tokyo, Osaka, Mexico City,
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by WildUtah 12y ago
I found it liberating, like a weight I didn't even know I'd been carrying had been lifted. I can't even ride transit regularly due to a disability but I felt lighter being able to walk and bike and able use transit on my (fai
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by WildUtah 12y ago
It's worth nothing that bigger cities in most first world countries generally have more expensive housing, rent or buy. Wages rise in bigger cities, too, but not as fast as housing prices. Sometimes we're told that it's a nat
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"I downvoted you because mentioning how you've been downvoted is quite possibly one of the most dull things you can say on HN." I downvoted you to agree with this sentiment.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Hybridized modern marijuana and Adderall are already the new drugs you propose. We can't manage to get either of them legalized for over the counter sale yet. Prohibition is still the root of the problem.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
The 6 is half the screen area for three to mes the price compared to the 7.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
So is it confirmed that there's no new Nexus 7? What is the best new alternative with some kind of clean Android mini tablet?
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by WildUtah 12y ago
You could jailbreak an iPhone 5S for a year now.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Agreed on Mexico City. It's wonderful. Cortés arrived in Mexico with a few hundred men and allied with locals to overturn the Aztec empire, but natives were always the majority of his alliance. And natives have always been the majority
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by WildUtah 12y ago
This would be a good second programming interview test after FizzBuzz. A decent programmer should be able to handle it in 50-100 lines of any modern language, it's easy and quick enough to explain, it doesn't require any deep math
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"cultural bias minefield" Most of the techniques discussed in the article's assessments are aimed at reducing the number of Asian-Americans and nerdy introverts. The promoters always have a load of code words, but the college
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by WildUtah 12y ago
And five years of retirement in Moab is worth thirty in Ft. Lauderdale or Tempe.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
In the USA, the only thing developers can get permission to build is awful sprawl. Single-use zoning with very large parking requirements in front of every building and large setback requirements to keep all uses father apart than walking d
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Suppose the population has been growing at a rapid clip, like in Liberia. Then you will have a situation where the grandparent generation will have less population than the parents and the parents will be fewer than the children, e.g.: 2 80
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by WildUtah 12y ago
No rainforest in going to be preserved in a nation that continues on a path of exponential growth of population like Liberia. The nature of exponential growth is that it always looks sustainable until the catastrophe hits and everything col
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Good comment, jacques. The Wiki link is to the key Nobel Memorial Prize-winning paper on exactly the mystery the gp and ggp and gggp were trying to express. Coase clarifies and organizes the question of organizational inefficiency in firms
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Little circles in an apparently random pattern? Obviously, it's an anti-counterfeiting measure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
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by WildUtah 12y ago
The Apple store price for the iPhone 5c 16GB for the period in question was US$650. But Amazon sellers were asking and frequently getting, according to the chart, US$670 and seldom less than US$650. But you could just get on from Apple at t
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by WildUtah 12y ago
There isn't any shortage now; plenty of known cheap reserves exist. New fuels in upcoming fission reactors like thorium are also very abundant. Also, breeder reactions can extend the current supply of nuclear fuel effectively indefinit
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by WildUtah 12y ago
The chart in the article puts fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal) on one side and renewables (solar, wind) and low emission sources (hydro) on the other. Then it puts nuclear with the fossil fuels. Nuclear belongs on the renewable and no emission
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Venture Capital is a Terrible investment(vox.com)
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Surely the Israeli and Saudi ruling elites would never be working together. [0] [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Peace_Initiative
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." [0] Exposing the secret police agencies for dereliction of duty, corruption, violat

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