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by davidf18 9y ago
Have you ever used Uber pool? Two different customers sharing the same vehicle, lowering greenhouse gas.
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The regulations by and large were simply there to protect incumbents that wanted to keep out competition which offered higher customer value (by offering lower cost, more responsive, less greenhouse gas) service. Unlike AirBnB which does br
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by davidf18 9y ago
> Err, the cheaper rates were due to uber subsidising rides with VC money, which was unsustainable. Uber also did start a leasing program for drivers. The cheaper rates in NYC which are extremely high compared with the rest of the USA we
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by davidf18 9y ago
Much of the resistance to Uber (such as laws that were broken, protests) were from entrenched interests. At least where I live in NYC, Uber was dramatically improving customer value while providing innovations that reduced greenhouse gas.
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In NYC, the Yellow cabs have a huge, huge overhead because of Taxi Medallions that used to cost $1.2 million each which effectively added $125 or so for a 12 hour shift. The value of the medallions are now < $700K, but I don't know
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by davidf18 9y ago
I saw Ed Catmull (Pixar) give a post-Jobs death talk on youtube about how Jobs had completely changed during his 10 year hiatus and was far more empathic.
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by davidf18 9y ago
Thank you for the release! There is an submitted issue because the Intel MKL support does not work with Mac OS X, only Linux. There should be some way of doing this manually. Any ideas?
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Interesting, my undergrad is actual engineer, Electrical, worked in VLSI design (GPUs) for 4 years after college, and nobody I ever heard doing EE every got paid overtime.
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by davidf18 9y ago
Frieden and Bloomberg are very, very data driven. He provided data to back up his statements. He showed the cost/benefit analysis. Also, the Frieden, Bloomberg article I cited has additional information from a Lancet peer-reviewed ar
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by davidf18 9y ago
This article co-authored by NYC's then Health Commissioner and Mayor Bloomberg (which I believe is a free download) provides the evidence of the various interventions along with footnotes. http://www.thelancet.com/artic
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Well, there are many levels and types of mental illness and in some cases, people aren't even aware that they have it. What I know is that there is more that we can be doing today to help those who have mental illness, both in terms o
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by davidf18 9y ago
As of roughly 5 or more years ago, half of tobacco consumed in the US is by people who are mentally ill and/or substance abusers. For example, people with Schizophrenia are heavy smokers and 90% smoke. Those with clinical depression
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by davidf18 9y ago
Most of the healthcare costs come from lifestyle choices of smoking, overeating and lack of exercise, alcohol and drug abuse, guns. Other costs are from air pollution (asthma) and depression. Interestingly, people complain when CDC tries t
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by davidf18 9y ago
Cities are states are free to work the the Federal Government to set up healthcare for their citizens. For example, where I live in NYC (at least prior to Obamacare) 450,000 New Yorkers without health insurance could go to one of many Commu
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by davidf18 9y ago
Competition is good. For research, The Cold War with Russia and the resulting "Space Race" was good. In Israel, they spend a much larger share of their national income on R&D, largely to develop technologies to defend themse
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by davidf18 9y ago
"The General Motors (GM) research and development center in Herzliya yesterday unveiled the company's first prototype of an autonomous vehicle. The car's systems were developed in Israel."
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GM Israel unveils autonomous car prototype(globes.co.il)
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Kim Mast developed an email system in 1974 on a computer system called PLATO at the University of Illinois with thousands of users using 512x512 graphics computer terminals which were located throughout the country and had output speeds of
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by davidf18 9y ago
> "...like stress and mental imbalances." About half of tobacco consumed in the US is by people who are mentally ill and/or alcohol abusers because they are self-medicating for their illness. They are very heavy smokers.
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This is great, but in general when it comes to cancer, we need to focus more on putting in fire extinguishers and sprinkler systems primarily, and then building better fire fighting equipment secondarily. Much of cancer is caused by smoking
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by davidf18 9y ago
The 8088 was designed in Israel so interestingly the IBM PC CPU even back then was "Israeli." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8088
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by davidf18 9y ago
State Universities are getting underfunded these days. I would like to see a major challenge grant for state universities with major science/engineering schools. For example, donate $140 million if the State increases its expenditure
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Apollo's NUMEC Allegedly Supplied Nuclear Batteries to Israel in Six Day War(triblive.com)
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"C.E.O. of Career International, told me two of his hottest job openings in China are in “software and new energy” — everyone is looking for engineers for electric cars, solar and wind. Walter Fang, a top executive at iSoftStone, which
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Trump Lies. China Thrives(nytimes.com)
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In celebration of D-Day. “By September 1943, 12,964 of the American Navy’s 14,072 vessels had been designed by Higgins Industries..." “You’re the only man I’ve ever met,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt told him, “who has done all the
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D-Day’s hero: Andrew Higgins..cursed a lot and built the boats that won WWII(washingtonpost.com)
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Cardoza and at least one case of Columbia. I'd guess there are others.
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Strictly speaking, The Old Testament or Jewish Bible (Tenach) is made up of three parts 1) the 5 books of Moses [Genesis, ...], 2) 5 scrolls [Ruth, Ester, ...], and 3) the 12 prophets [Isiah, ...]. A Torah Scroll is the 5 books of Moses. I
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by davidf18 9y ago
Well, I'm glad you find me amusing. Using your logic, studying Physics makes me a Physicist. Studying Mathematics makes me a Mathematician. Also, I think that the Koreans who study Talmud might not think that they are religious. Hone

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