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by blang 7y ago
I'm guessing affiliate links.
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Pres. candidate's climate plan calls for banning sales of new ICE cars by 2030(seattletimes.com)
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by blang 7y ago
> Researchers warn that their study could not prove causation. Some unknown third factor might have been responsible for the increase, they said. Still, citing the strong correlation, they cautioned against exposing children and adolesce
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by blang 7y ago
I've heard the opposite can happen, if you respond and stay on for a while, you are marked as a real and active number and will get more calls.
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by blang 7y ago
> That position in the linked article is a bit extreme. This is written by Ralph Nader, taking the extreme position has been his MO since 1965. As far as I can tell he takes a very hard position, in order to try and move the needle of p
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by blang 7y ago
Virus mutation can allow viruses to just species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Hypotheses_about_t...
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by blang 7y ago
The opposite was true with the initial success of the Prius, the ugliness was a feature.
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by blang 7y ago
I wonder if this could be solved (or at least made drastically better) with insurance incentives + technology. Idea would be reward drivers willing to ditch their phones while driving entirely, by having drastically reduced car insurance ra
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by blang 8y ago
Those seem like really low figures for bribes considering the average salary of a facebook employee.
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by blang 8y ago
The tax that gets passed along in rent is property tax, which in California is generally pretty low[1] compared to other states because of prop 13[2]. [1] https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-the-highest-and-lowest...
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by blang 8y ago
They do this in Maryland[1], I wish it were standard across the US [1] https://healthcarequality.mhcc.maryland.gov/Article/View/f84...
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by blang 8y ago
People do often complain about the property taxes in Washington, which always makes me chuckle, because I grew up in New Jersey: https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-the-highest-and-lowest...
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by blang 8y ago
switched on pop has a great episode on this: https://www.switchedonpop.com/how-streaming-changed-the-soun...
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by blang 8y ago
Dominos has been huge on technology for years: https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciakelso/2018/04/30/delivery...
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by blang 8y ago
we have built them recently in Seattle, but they are called "micro-apartments", and they seem pretty popular, although we are making them harder to build. I used to live next door to one seemed like a pretty decent place to live a
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by blang 8y ago
5% would be an extremely high click through rate
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by blang 8y ago
This video does a pretty good job of explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwjwePe-HmA
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by blang 8y ago
3.5
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by blang 8y ago
What if he had the digital copy, stored on floppy disk?
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by blang 8y ago
HN was down for a minute.
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by blang 8y ago
According to the documents https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5766243-College-Admi... (page 78), giving huge donations are "institutional advancement", it costs 10 times as much, is not a guarantee, and
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by blang 8y ago
I wonder how much litigation is costing them.
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by blang 8y ago
That did seem like a really weird framing. It seems like the corollary article would be. "Family ties eroding, grandparents no longer spending time with grandkids"
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by blang 8y ago
In Brookline there are 3, they range from 9.5 to 38 million dollars: https://www.redfin.com/city/29676/MA/Brookline/filter/proper...
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by blang 8y ago
The diversity of Seattle has increased with the number of Amazon employees: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-is-le...
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by blang 8y ago
Gimlet media was started by Alex Blumberg, who worked previously for "This American Life" and "Planet Money" (he may have started that one). These are both NPR shows as well as very popular podcasts One of it's show
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by blang 8y ago
I'm actually worried that podcasts are going the way of the web. What, for a while, was a weird world of enthusiasts talking about things that interests them seems to be morphing into a world of a few big corporate entities calling th
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by blang 8y ago
With the head tax, it was hard to say there was not incompetence or at least gross miscalculation. The city council passed the tax, the mayor signed it, and then less than a month later it was repealed. https://www.seattletimes.
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by blang 8y ago
Frank Abagnale has talked recently about how it would be much easier to do his crimes today: http://money.com/money/4953472/frank-abagnale-catch-me-if-yo...
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by blang 8y ago
Not as good as SNCF which is state run.

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