erispoe

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Because you have no interest in micro-mechanics or manufacturing machines? ETH and EPFL are one of the best universities in the world for CS. No one else than yourself is responsible for your own biases.
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Switzerland managed to build a highly specialized economy in several high-value sectors: pharma, banking, computer science, micro-mechanics, manufacturing machines...
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The median income in Switzerland is PPP$35,083 and PPP$24,233 in France. The main difference is in healthcare, which in Switzerland is entirely private, post-payroll, and can easily amount to $500/month, whereas in France it's par
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LiftOff[1] hosts had an interesting hypothesis on Elon Musk's mission to Mars business strategy. If SpaceX can land on Mars early enough to convince Congress that they can do it quicker and cheaper than NASA, they can eat NASA's l
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Yes, I wonder if it detects something living is in the car? A baby, a dog... Does the car have the sensors to tell?
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I'm not sure parental instincts include bathing techniques.
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Kill the competition now, reap the customer surplus later.
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If you publish, you effectively void the novelty condition of an invention and prevent patentability.
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40k+ riders per month? I've been trying to get ridership data for Chariot and couldn't get anything. So it's around 2,000 riders per business day? For 30 lines? It's really low ridership by any standard. Not even a dent
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Chariot does not provide "modern, efficient transit" by any metric. They are commuter shuttles, operating only during commute hours. They're miles away from a transit system you can rely on for most of your activities. Commut
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The bus is only "underutilized much of the day" in low density areas where automated on-demand cars would make sense. In cities like San Francisco or New York, or even Los Angeles, buses are relatively full even in the middle of t
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With bigger vehicles, it becomes very impractical to not run them on a fixed route. Pairing people together works well enough, given enough demand, on UberPool and Lyft Line, it's inefficient for the bus sized vehicles you need to use
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Given enough density, transit will never be "obsoleted by automated cars". It might be true in the suburbs where transit is highly inefficient and road space abundant relative to the population. But automated or not, cars are stil
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What are the alternative forms of public transit?
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People elect the European Parliament, who vote a motion of confidence to the European Commission. It's standard parliamentary democracy, no different than the Commons voting the confidence. The current head of the Commission, Jean-Clau
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Have you been to Geneva? Most of the time I go from the train station to the gate in 20 minutes, including security.
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You are implying that the current ad model, with a small number of high-value crafted announcements, doesn't work. I suspect it does. Gimlet has been pretty open about how their revenue exceeds their expectations and put them under pre
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No one implies that. Planning to prevent things to get worse if the city is hit by a recession is not the same thing as pretending everything is fine.
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That is spot on. Advertising works great on podcasts, and is expensive as a result, because listeners develop a great amount of trust for the podcasts they listen. Anything that undermines that trust is likely to just create a regression to
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In California, tax measures like the bond measures supporting transit investment have to be passed with a 2/3rd majority. Yet Los Angeles County voters have steadily supported them. A ballot measure is likely coming in November, raisin
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Nebraska has only chamber, but it's still called the Nebraska Legislature.
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You seem to be talking about religious weddings. Religious weddings are exactly that: words, and intentions. What matters is the judge that declares you married and the contract you sign. If you started to make religious vows enforceable in
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> ensure stability and continual propagation of the species I'm not sure roman legislators had a good concept of human species to begin with. Reproduction commonly happened both inside and outside wedlock. Marriage was first and for
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IANAL, but it depends on the situation. A prenup is a way to protect your spouse's and your respective assets by having a wall in between them. You design the wall. So, let's say, if you do something risky and creditors can come a
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Real demand for housing is here in Portland and in San Francisco. It's not created by real estate speculation. Real people, by the thousands, come to these metro areas, faster than the housing stock grows to accommodate them. Before as
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The fundamentals that create an opportunity for speculative investment is a lack of supply and an excess of demand. It's very rare that investment itself, in a vacuum of demand, will result in a price surge. Sure, it can happen, but th
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People can vote by absentee ballot. They have plenty of time to do it. It's a consistent pattern that in places with frequent elections, turnout is low. There is a form of voter fatigue. Switzerland votes every six months, and has very
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Tax errors can, and are, routinely corrected. There's an error tolerance for taxes that is way, way higher than for voting. What if you realize three months after the fact that your taxes are off? Might be a big problem, but not as big
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To answer your question though, maritime law largely applies in space.
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It's about astronomers, not astronauts.

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