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Amtrak’s Empire Builder: The Train That Deserves Better(streets.mn)
178 points by gok 6y ago|218 comments
452.
Europe’s Digital Emergency(project-syndicate.org)
3 points by gok 6y ago|0 comments
453.
by gok 6y ago
SYD->ORD is around 8100 nm, a bit outside the range of any 787. You'd need a 777-200LR or A350 for that, or a 777-8 if they ever get made.
454.
by gok 6y ago
> My compensation is primarily in ownership and stock This would be impossible for Mozilla's structure
455.
Swift on Windows(swift.org)
325 points by gok 6y ago|203 comments
456.
by gok 6y ago
And their revenue is about 10% of Taiwan's GDP
457.
by gok 6y ago
The government didn't build this asset and transfer it. Great Western Power Company built it, which PG&E bought from a New York holding company in 1930.
458.
by gok 6y ago
Java? Polished?
459.
by gok 6y ago
> It works well enough on the web without tons of scams What web have you been using?
460.
by gok 6y ago
> Sweeney founded Epic Games in his parents' basement in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the early 1990s and grew the business into a $17 billion gaming empire. Well that's one way to look at it. What made him really rich w
461.
by gok 6y ago
Good news got buried from the original story: "All three US carriers showed significantly higher download speeds and better broadband reliability than they did in our 2019 tests."
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Compare historical maps of Mars to the real thing(sealiesoftware.com)
2 points by gok 6y ago|0 comments
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Rocket Lab Launches First In-House Designed and Built Photon Satellite(rocketlabusa.com)
2 points by gok 6y ago|0 comments
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by gok 6y ago
FWIW, the CEO somewhat infamously snapped at an activist investor: > When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don’t consider the bloody ROI.
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JITSploitation I: A JIT Bug(googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
92 points by gok 6y ago|10 comments
466.
by gok 6y ago
Paper medical records were great for doctors. They made it really hard to switch providers. They were a great excuse for medical errors, or for "accidentally" ordering expensive redundant tests from their buddies. EMR had to be le
467.
by gok 6y ago
That's a front end?
468.
The Swift Runtime: Heap Objects(belkadan.com)
1 points by gok 6y ago|0 comments
469.
by gok 6y ago
Hmm I don't see that in the article? Other sources have the CEO saying it will be “well north of $100,000" [1] [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lucid-motors-evs/lucid-sa...
470.
by gok 6y ago
Lucid is explicitly targeting the very high end of cars; the Air will probably be around $150,000. I'm not sure they care too much about cell price.
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Engineering Geology of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) System, 1964-75(mly.users.sonic.net)
2 points by gok 6y ago|0 comments
472.
by gok 6y ago
One big issue is we Americans are very picky about what rules they choose to obey. Highway speed limits are for entertainment value but parking availability is written in blood.
473.
Arm and DARPA Sign Partnership Agreement(arm.com)
4 points by gok 6y ago|0 comments
474.
by gok 6y ago
And even if they didn't...why would an LA paper be writing about SFBA much anyway?
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California bullet train contractors botched bridge project(latimes.com)
87 points by gok 6y ago|120 comments
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by gok 6y ago
True, though in the case of Switzerland there is no capital gains tax
477.
by gok 6y ago
Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and Iceland all have more billionaires per capita than the US.
478.
by gok 6y ago
The real problem with wealth taxes is that they really can't raise very much revenue. In the US, even an extremely aggressive wealth tax, like, say, Elizabeth Warren's proposal of 2% over $50M and 3% over $1B, would only increase
479.
by gok 6y ago
There's also the 512-bit matrix units which would be more like 3840 FLOP/cycle (single precision) for workloads that can be expressed that way
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WeWork gets new $1.1B commitment from SoftBank(reuters.com)
3 points by gok 6y ago|0 comments

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