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961.
by gwright 8y ago
What does his or your age have to do with anything? Just sounds like a penny wise pound foolish story to me.
962.
by gwright 8y ago
It wouldn't surprise me to learn that these findings could be repeated across all/most industries. I doubt that it is just female scientists that make this choice.
963.
by gwright 8y ago
For projects with federal funding, look at the Davis Bacon Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis–Bacon_Act_of_1931
964.
by gwright 8y ago
It seem completely reasonable to believe that there is value in a curated ecosystem and also believe that there should be a mechanism for informed opt-out of that curated eco-system.
965.
by gwright 8y ago
"Google Docs" (docs.google.com) not "Google documentation"
966.
by gwright 8y ago
I didn't read that as evidence, simply a link to define the term "Plateau of Productivity".
967.
by gwright 8y ago
Retrofit is another example: https://square.github.io/retrofit/
968.
by gwright 8y ago
In general this what java annotation processors are all about. As a specific example, Dagger, a compile time, type safe dependency injection framework. https://google.github.io/dagger/
969.
by gwright 8y ago
I think it is well established that the price range for iPhones has always been skewed towards the high end of the market. But iPhones at the low end of that range have always still been considered premium phones relative to the entire mark
970.
by gwright 8y ago
Apple has never tried to compete on price and as such continues to capture most of the profit in the industry. Seems like a good business plan to me. https://gadgetmatch.com/apple-samsung-huawei-global-smartpho...
971.
by gwright 8y ago
Sure, but that is a different explanation than the demand for the new models is down, which is what one of the major narrative's seems to be over the last 24 hours.
972.
by gwright 8y ago
> Apple is messing around with us on the CPU thing Are you referring to modulating the power usage to avoid random shutdowns? If so, I don't understand why people have viewed that as a nefarious scheme. Seems completely reasonable
973.
by gwright 8y ago
This doesn't sound right to me. At the time the X phones were introduced the chatter was all about them being positioned as more exclusive/higher-end phones and priced accordingly. The higher prices allowed new tech to be introd
974.
by gwright 8y ago
Why is the comparison always done to the newest, high end Apple phones? The iPhone 7 is still sold for $550 unlocked and $23/month on installment in the US. I assume it is also more reasonably priced in China as compared to the high e
975.
by gwright 8y ago
My not so wild guess is that the politicians and government employees (and their unions) are too cozy with the construction unions. Public infrastructure projects in general seem to have above market costs and NYC is sort of notorious for p
976.
by gwright 8y ago
> There needs to be some central or regional oversight body to ensure standards are being met You mean something like your local, county, or state governments and their agencies?
977.
by gwright 8y ago
I was with you up to "dire straits". That seems too alarmist to me.
978.
by gwright 8y ago
You say that as if it is a bad thing. Decentralizing key infrastructure and emergency response systems seems like a good idea.
979.
by gwright 8y ago
You can read about a similar situation in the Citigroup building in NYC from the late 70's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup_Center
980.
by gwright 8y ago
This is a good illustration of why the top-level DNS naming structure should have been aligned with legal jurisdictions (basically the two-letter country codes) and not some quasi-global-legally-ambiguous-originally-american global namespac
981.
by gwright 8y ago
The problems you point out support the rationale for the decentralized nature of US police authority. In the US, federal, state, and local police authorities are for the most part independent from each other. I believe this is quite unusual
982.
by gwright 8y ago
This is too simplistic. The item might have variations (such as crude oil) which leads to different choices on import vs. export. The geographic source and destination might be important (well might be close to foreign refinery and vice ve
983.
by gwright 8y ago
I was in Iceland this past June and the mismatch between the number of tourists and the infrastructure at the national parks and scenic overlooks/stops was enormous. I have no idea what the right number of tourists for Iceland is but a
984.
by gwright 8y ago
Sounds like you are talking about the OAuth authentication flow which is designed to use a separate window/iframe for entering credentials. This allows the application to authenticate the user without ever having access to the cleartex
985.
by gwright 8y ago
I should have been more clear that I was responding to the statement that the idea itself was "ridiculous" and not to Rick Perry's inability to speak coherently about the idea.
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by gwright 8y ago
If you mean "limited" as in at any point of time there is a fixed amount of wealth, then sure. But wealth is being created constantly. Recessions can put a short term dent in this progress but overall the progress over time is p
987.
by gwright 8y ago
The Department of Energy was only created in 1977. Eliminating the department isn't the same thing as discarding its functions en masse. The more interesting discussion would be about the particular motivations for the creation and pro
988.
by gwright 8y ago
You don't say so explicitly but your argument seems to assume that the "system" is a zero-sum game, which is not true.
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by gwright 8y ago
What happened to equality under the law? I hate these corporate ad-hoc tax deals. Create a rationale tax policy and apply it to everyone.
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by gwright 8y ago
It is still a city. Is it that hard to accept that not everyone wants to live in a city, never mind a metropolis like NYC?

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