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by davidf18 6y ago
I have no idea where you are getting your data. Zoning density restrictions and overuse of historic landmark status create artificial scarcity of land resulting in higher housing costs. These both create market failures in housing. In Jap
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by davidf18 6y ago
Prior to the oil embargo of 1973, the cost of a barrel of oil in today's dollars was about $23. In 1973, OPEC created an artificial scarcity, "economic rents", in oil transferring and over the past five decades "robbed c
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by davidf18 6y ago
James Bennet, the Op-Ed Editor who had hired both Weiss and Stephens is Jewish. His brother is Colorado Senator Bennet. Their mother was in the Warsaw Ghetto and was sent out as a child by her parents just before the Nazis shipped the ent
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by davidf18 6y ago
Ebert newspaper articles from 1962 are in the medium article. Discusses helping high school students using PLATO in 1962!
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by davidf18 7y ago
I live and work in Manhattan and there is a great deal of traffic congestion that could be fixed by removing parking spaces on streets that have 1. dedicated bus lanes. 2. bike lanes. 14th St has removed all parking and auto traffic and
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by davidf18 7y ago
I'm on a yearly upgrade plan and now have the 11 Pro Max. The extra battery life is very helpful. But, if you are taking lots of pictures or about 15 mins of video, the battery seems to drain quickly, by about 45% as I was doing today.
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by davidf18 7y ago
Patents are very important for wealth creation. Investors need returns on their investment, otherwise they will not make investments in the research and development necessary to develop the product. Without the limited time monopoly create
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by davidf18 7y ago
"When the plane pancaked onto the runway, more than 10,000 pounds of kerosene came out all at once from the ruptured right wing and turned to mist." I wonder why they didn't "dump the fuel" just before the crash to
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by davidf18 7y ago
My undergraduate degree is in both EE with a CS minor from Illinois/Urbana and EE is significantly more difficult than the CS. This afternoon I met someone in lunch line that had just graduated in CS who said they tried to do EE but co
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by davidf18 7y ago
Two years ago, in 2017, Microsoft distributed the security update to fix this problem. The issue has nothing to do with the NSA and everything to do with the City of Baltimore failing to keep their capital equipment, in this case computers
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by davidf18 7y ago
The 737-MAX with the larger engines turned the statically stable airframe into one that must use computers (eg MCAS) to make it dynamically stable which is a technique used on modern fighter jets but to my knowledge has never been applied t
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by davidf18 7y ago
> "Evidence is that the vast majority of immigrant labor, both skilled and unskilled, are net positives economically." Since this is a forum with a lot of engineers I would expect people to do their research instead of simply m
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by davidf18 8y ago
Please ask your office mate to put everything from images to code to data on-line in the spirit of open and reproducible science. That way others can check the conclusions and the statistical methods, etc.
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by davidf18 8y ago
The H1-B Visa was abused, intended only for cases where there are absolutely no Americans with the qualifications that can fill that job. A number of politicians are effectively "bribed" by large firms to attempt to increase the H
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by davidf18 8y ago
Millennials, compared to older generations, have to pay more of their income towards housing, have higher student loan debt to manage, are getting married later and are starting families later as they feel they don't have the financial
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by davidf18 8y ago
The current system is a check that prevents individual states from dominating legislation in Congress. Why would anyone want that except for the very populous states? The top 6 states (California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois & P
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Judge Blocks New York City Law Aimed at Curbing Airbnb Rentals(nytimes.com)
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by davidf18 8y ago
Two things helped to destroy the empire. First, it was the attempt of the Soviets to keep up with Reagan's Star Wars. They lacked the resources. But also, Congressional Representative Charlie Wilson, single-handedly helped to get app
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by davidf18 8y ago
Walking 30 minutes per day 5 days per week and losing 15 lbs (for an adult male) lessens the likelihood of a pre-diabetic person becoming diabetic by 60%. In NYC where I live which has subways with stations that mostly do not have escalator
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by davidf18 8y ago
I live in Manhattan and the cost of rents and housing has been increasing primarily through rent-seeking behavior which limits housing density creating an artificial scarcity in land leading to a high cost of living. Simply fixing the zoni
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by davidf18 8y ago
The history is that France gave the Israelis the Dimona Reactor originally as payback for helping the French and British with the Suez Canal nationalized by Egypt. The next French PM said he was giving Israel the technology to prevent anoth
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by davidf18 8y ago
The article has a Mad Men -like quality to it. Ivy-elites white males running the business, women related to research roles. Amazon has a series which reflect the news business, based on Newsweek, from the 1960s. Good Girls Revolt https:
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by davidf18 8y ago
I wonder how many of those Googler's who objected to the development of weapon systems have served in combat positions fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan? I'm guessing not many which is a reason why it is important for firms such as
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by davidf18 9y ago
I live in NYC. For a couple of years I'd be reading NYTimes articles about the system is having problems from overcrowding, yet you'd see articles that more people took subways in the 1950's - 1960's. Within the past fe
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by davidf18 9y ago
Unable to edit my comment so adding this: http://www.machinedesign.com/news/politics-engineers "Engineers tend to view themselves as much less liberal and slightly more conservative than the general public, accord
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by davidf18 9y ago
SV is very liberal, yet typically engineers (eg. EE, Mechanical, Civil, Aero, Industrial, Chemical, ...) are conservative. I wonder how many people with real engineering degrees (disclosure my BS is EE with CS minor from top school) are SV
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by davidf18 9y ago
The reason why there are homeless in SF and other US cities is because of rent-seeking: a market failure which creates artificial scarcity in housing through zoning density restrictions, overuse of historic landmark status, and overregulati
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by davidf18 9y ago
Vasectomy is generally reversible. And even if not, the man can have children using IVF. Author states 1 in 5 women under 30 regret their decision. This is evidence enough not to perform an irreversible sterilization procedure. Instead usin
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by davidf18 9y ago
Curiously, they left out the 8088, the processor chosen by IBM to be used in the IBM PC. It was designed in Israel having the 16-bit instruction architecture of the 8086, but with an 8-bit data bus, thus being able to use the cheaper, esta
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by davidf18 9y ago
e-cigs are not the answer: See FDA [1]. An intervention that has proved effective for saving lives from tobacco use is MPOWER from the World Health Organization. Raise the cost of tobacco through taxes, ban smoking in public places, hard-

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