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by bkjelden 9y ago
This is something I've been wondering about too. In 20 years, will we treat abandoned shopping malls the way we today treat abandoned industrial warehouses?
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by bkjelden 10y ago
It's crazy to think how different the world looks today than it did 117 years ago. It's even crazier to speculate what it will look like in 117 more.
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by bkjelden 10y ago
The article says she was the last known living person from the 1800's.
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by bkjelden 10y ago
Raising cattle requires a lot of land (both for the cattle themselves and to grow the feed they eat). Land is a finite resource.
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by bkjelden 10y ago
The bay area is unlike any other place I've ever visited or lived in America. Every aspect of life is more crowded.
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by bkjelden 10y ago
I used to play RollerCoaster Tycoon for hours on end as a child, I loved that game. As I get older and life has more responsibilities, at times I miss being able to completely immerse myself in a game like this for hours on end.
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by bkjelden 10y ago
A proper electric tea kettle will heat water way faster than placing a regular tea kettle on an electric stovetop. Electric tea kettles are a single-task device, but they do that one task so exceedingly well a lot of people own one.
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by bkjelden 10y ago
EPS is only really relevant if given in the same breath as share price. P/E ratio is the more meaningful (and shares-outstanding-invariant) metric.
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by bkjelden 10y ago
Sad to see Microsoft seeming to fall into this pattern of a recurring trickle of layoffs, especially when they are still so profitable. These kinds of layoffs can be incredibly corrosive to morale. The 'update skills in various units&#
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by bkjelden 10y ago
I don't notice my friends leaving and I feel like it's dying too. The content just feels so manufactured and empty. About 80% of my news feed is: 1) Friend X liked a photo of someone I've never met and likely never will meet
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by bkjelden 10y ago
Minimizing (going from 3-4 cans of diet soda a day to 1-2 a week, on average) my artificial sweetener consumption has made it considerably easier for me to control my appetite. I've finally been able to lose weight after years of being
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by bkjelden 10y ago
Am I being optimistic in thinking that at some point the American public may flip on climate change and denying it exists will become very unpopular? Where I live we've set multiple temperature records in the last few weeks and may bre
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by bkjelden 10y ago
/r/homeimprovement on reddit can have some bright spots too. As a general note, house construction varies a lot throughout the US due to the climate variances. E.g. someone moving to the bay area from the midwest is going to fin
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by bkjelden 10y ago
Any valid critiques the author may have are completely lost in the contempt and pretentiousness of her writing style. Additionally, I am incredibly skeptical of her ability to judge the quality of a house's construction based on a sing
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by bkjelden 10y ago
Will the phones sold by Verizon be a different SKU? There are some phones, the LG G4 being one I believe, which are available in unlocked SKUs that technically work on Verizon's network, but don't have access to as many cellular b
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by bkjelden 10y ago
Unfortunately there are some media companies that only implement casting in their mobile apps, not on the web. So you either cast from the mobile app or tab cast.
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by bkjelden 10y ago
This is what the announcers speculated was happening during Ledecky's 800 freestyle heat, as they noticed she was swimming faster splits in one direction than the other.
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by bkjelden 10y ago
I think another thing worth mentioning is that ties don't really seem to have a negative perception in swimming. None of the swimmers involved in the ties mentioned seemed to feel that their medals were delegitimized or somehow worth l
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by bkjelden 10y ago
This would only matter for national and world records - swimmers competing in finals are swimming against each other at the same time, under identical pool conditions (ignoring any psychological differences between lanes - e.g. breathing to
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by bkjelden 10y ago
Do you know what happened to the facilities? I'd imagine Kodak's 2nd largest manufacturing facility had quite a footprint.
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by bkjelden 10y ago
PowerPoint, for all platforms (not just OS X and iOS) is developed at that office too. PowerPoint has actually been in the bay area since it was acquired. The Web TV stuff was sold to Ericcson a few years ago, and they moved to an office in
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by bkjelden 10y ago
They have 4 office buildings and one cafeteria/commons building on that campus - space for around 1500 employees. It's worth noting that Microsoft's bay area presence is already pretty fragmented, though. They have some more
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by bkjelden 10y ago
Keep Trying. Informal stats I've seen say that the big players still reject 80% of their onsite candidates - you're not a loser, it happens to a lot of people. I failed 3 in a row in one week once - not fun. I know how you feel. I
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by bkjelden 10y ago
I don't have kids and I pretty much agree with you. On a weekday, I get up, I go to the gym or for a run or swim, and I go to work. After work, I come home, and I make dinner. If I lived in a vibrant city area, I'm honestly not su
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by bkjelden 10y ago
As an aside: I had a really positive experience buying with Redfin in the Denver metro. Their agents were as helpful as any I've ever worked with, they have good online tools, and we got roughly $5k back from the buyer's 3% commis
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by bkjelden 10y ago
Bulu Box[0] is a subscription box startup that did exactly that (headquartered in Lincoln, NE). [0]: http://www.bulubox.com/
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by bkjelden 10y ago
> It's actually better for her to say nothing, and hope that Trump auto-ignites and explodes based on his speech... I saw something (jokingly) suggesting the other day that the best thing Clinton could do with her campaign's ca
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by bkjelden 10y ago
Related article that I found quite surprising: The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles From Mom: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-fa...
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by bkjelden 10y ago
It would be interesting to see returns broken down by quartile instead of just the average.
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by bkjelden 10y ago
20% annualized turnover does not seem alarming for a company in the valley that hires mostly fresh college grads. That implies an average length of tenure of 5 years. Very few college grads that I know stay at their first job for 5 years.

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