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by ckinnan 9y ago
Nope. The Stripe advantage over PayPal is that Stripe operates more like a merchant account, where the buyer sees the seller's name on the credit card statement. PayPal injects itself into the checkout process, Stripe is basically a
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by ckinnan 9y ago
Actually the federal government underwrites these stadium deals through the tax code. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2016/09/09/top-...
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by ckinnan 10y ago
Fun fact -- the Reagan Library in California bought and sort of rebuilt the Irish tavern that the president visited in the 1980s. You can even buy a beer there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyJ5qJcHUNA
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by ckinnan 10y ago
The government, in bringing a charge, has the duty to make the case....the right to not self-incriminate flows from the presumption of innocence and protection against being coerced into a false confession or into perjury.
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by ckinnan 10y ago
> “a blade architecture, a whole bunch of CPUs and GPUs that we can swap out under there,” though he wouldn’t speak to who’s supplying those components specifically. Does anyone have more info or speculation on the tech stack sitting in
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by ckinnan 10y ago
The top US marginal tax rate is 40% and the burden quickly exceeds 50% depending on the state you live in and factoring payroll taxes.
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by ckinnan 10y ago
I agree with this entirely. There's nothing here for power users and laptop-as-desktop-replacement users. We need more power not a lighter form-factor. There's nothing else in Apple's lineup. The desktop Mac Pro line is s
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by ckinnan 10y ago
A huge part of the urban footprint today is set aside for parking. With self-driving cars, people will use rideshare services and banish parking lots to remote areas outside the city, freeing up more space for parks or density. This techn
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by ckinnan 10y ago
Actually the state funds do hold real assets but the federal system does not, there's no $3 trillion dollars to invest, the Social Security Trust Fund is just a non-marketable claim on the U.S. Treasury. It is an accounting placeholde
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by ckinnan 10y ago
In fact you are wrong. The SS Trust Fund holds no real assets. It holds non-marketable IOUs from the Treasury. They do not invest in Treasurys, although the SS surplus is spent by the federal government. There are no actual assets and t
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by ckinnan 10y ago
Real per capita GDP was 26,200 euros in 2007 and is 26,300 today. After 10 years of EU policymaking and an extraordinary borrowing spree, nothing to show for it. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table
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by ckinnan 10y ago
Princeton has 7,946 total undergrad and grad students. Dartmouth has just 6,298.
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by ckinnan 10y ago
Correct. Princeton also has a small student body, it probably outperforms on a graduate per capita basis.
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by ckinnan 10y ago
Last I heard, Uber's self-driving research base is in Pittsburgh. http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/02/uber-opening-robotics-resea...
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by ckinnan 10y ago
You might use ELB + one EC2 to serve an SSL certificate. That takes the encryption load off of EC2 and is durable. AWS has a new SSL service though, but this was a recommended way until recently.
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by ckinnan 10y ago
>>Although the disease is not known to be transmissible to humans This is not quite correct, the disease is believed to be transmittable to humans, but we're not in the practice of eating deer brains, so there are no confirmed ca
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by ckinnan 11y ago
Correct-- the real problem with air travel isn't the flight time but the terrible and inefficient process on the ground with security, customs, baggage claim. I'd much prefer a longer flight in a slower, less aerodynamic plane th
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by ckinnan 11y ago
Interestingly, humans breathe in a second way not mentioned in the article. The eye's cornea actually receives its oxygen directly, through the process of diffusion. https://www.quora.com/Do-our-eyes-breathe
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by ckinnan 11y ago
You are making a very common mistake, the idea that investment is not spent in the broader economy. Savings/investment does push resources into the economy. An investment in Tesla, to use your example, is immediately put to work buyi
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by ckinnan 11y ago
Incorrect. Reagan's 1986 tax reform actually eliminated the tax deductibility of credit card debt. While U.S. household debt did increase in the 1980s, it grew much more rapidly during the 1990s and first half of 2000s.
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by ckinnan 12y ago
We had the same issue and had a pro service call, in our situation the Nest was calling for emergency heat.
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by ckinnan 12y ago
We had the same issue last year (professional install), and spent a lot of time working with Nest troubleshooting two different units. Nest either had a mystery incompatibility with a brand new Goodman HVAC or a dirty electrical current wa
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by ckinnan 12y ago
Of course the studios could draw inspiration from this, and in a couple Christmases release their own 3 or 4 hour single cut!
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by ckinnan 12y ago
Real per capita income was roughly 1/9 of today's...so it is more like losing something worth $5,400.
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by ckinnan 12y ago
Yes, the commuter railroads are already at capacity in the DC metro area. Simply increasing the old fashioned rail capacity by adding more tracks to the MARC trunk lines would provide far, far greater bang for the buck. See: http:/&
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by ckinnan 12y ago
No the ticks get Lyme from the deer mouse, which is the reservoir species for the bacteria. After they feed on mice, they can give humans Lyme as nymphs or later as adults. http://www.tickencounter.org/tick_identification&
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by ckinnan 12y ago
Specifically, when going into tick areas, no open toed shoes, no shorts, and wear long sleeves. Tuck your pants legs into your socks. Most ticks climb up from your feet. Another tip is to treat your outdoor shoes with permethrin on the f
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by ckinnan 12y ago
Unlike most vaccines, there's no herd immunity benefit for humans because the transmission vector are ticks. So to make any headway we have to go after the ticks, and their hosts, the deer and the deer mouse.
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by ckinnan 12y ago
Talking to a lot of hunters, many don't recognize the Lyme threat, since it is a relatively new phenomenon, especially outside of New England. I also suspect that many outdoor people have been exposed to Lyme and don't know it, j
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by ckinnan 12y ago
Nope. "Even though adult ticks can feed on other mammals such as dogs, cats and raccoons, the female adult tick requires a blood meal from the deer before she can lay her 2,000 to 6,000 eggs." http://www.deeralliance.

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