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by jlmorton 9y ago
That's a >10 year old source. I was referencing this Wikipedia article, which is sourced from a 2015 FTA Study: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio
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by jlmorton 9y ago
> So what say what you will about the current administration, they managed to get something done that even some of the most tax-hungry politicians in the nation previously failed to do. This is not terribly unique. We had a very similar
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by jlmorton 9y ago
BART has the highest farebox recovery ratio of any public transit system in the United States (excepting the very small, tourist-oriented Vegas monorail). It has among the best farebox recovery of any system in the world, with only a handf
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by jlmorton 9y ago
I don't dispute that, but that does not explain the observations that a fully-charged, reduced-capacity battery performs poorly on a standard benchmark test versus a new battery. It's not just smoothing out a peak demand. It&#x27
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by jlmorton 9y ago
That doesn't pass the sniff test. The available voltage from a lithium ion battery will decrease as it is discharged. When your phone turns off, that does not mean there is no more energy in the battery. It means there is no longer
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by jlmorton 9y ago
Alternative perspective from the same article: > The language that specified how the agency would calculate car-tab fees was included in every version of the transportation revenue bill lawmakers considered in 2015, dating to at least fo
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by jlmorton 9y ago
Really quite a stretch to call it fraudulent, given that the formula is derived from the State Legislature. In any event, I have very little sympathy, since the current car tab is at least an order of magnitude too small. The car tax rate i
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by jlmorton 9y ago
If you're a business making a language choice based on the technical merits of the language itself, you are very much doing it wrong.
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by jlmorton 9y ago
I don't want to take away from the good things that Seattle has done with transit, but it's worth pointing out that Seattle is far and away the fastest growing city in the US, with an astonishing 3.1% (21,000 people) between 2015-
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by jlmorton 9y ago
And as is often the case with science, here's another more recent study (2015, vs 2010 cited in the NY Times piece) which largely confirms the prior results noting Aspen regrowth. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi&#x2F
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by jlmorton 9y ago
This practice is allowed by industry security standards, like PCI-DSS. If it's determined that the third-party acts as a PCI Service Provider, then the compliant party has a duty to determine that the third-party is also compliant. Th
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by jlmorton 9y ago
I wonder, what would happen in the United States if California decided it wanted to secede, the Congress passed a resolution opposing it, the President said it was illegal, and the Supreme Court concurred and ruled the vote itself illegal.
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by jlmorton 9y ago
> “The development of materials that can float for ages, and the rising levels of seas due to climate change, make the possibility of these events larger and larger.” I'm very curious how the total observed sea level rise of 19cm ov
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by jlmorton 9y ago
How could this possibly be true given the fact that there have been >1,000 nuclear tests performed, including devices with orders of magnitude higher yield than in Hiroshima?
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by jlmorton 9y ago
> So as it turns out, even in a system that was built to never lose your data, backup is still a critical feature for many of our customers." Wow, what a surprising insight! /s
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by jlmorton 10y ago
True. There are also much larger capital expenditures, and dividend payments. I think Microsoft is doing tremendously well under Satya Nadella. I was making no other point except that the parent poster's comment about income were inc
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by jlmorton 10y ago
That is a very sensationalist way to view debt loads. First of all, there are today 20 million more Americans than there were in 2008. Second, there has been real income growth. When considering the sustainability of debt levels, it makes
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by jlmorton 10y ago
They made $16.7 billion in their last fiscal year, and 2015 and 2016 represented their lowest profits over the past 10 years.
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by jlmorton 10y ago
It's not an entirely relative measure. My understanding is that it: a) Includes income transfers, like SNAP, housing assistance, EITC, etc. b) Is based on the affordability of a bundle of food, clothing, shelter, and utilities consume
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by jlmorton 10y ago
Well, let's put it another way. At 50 GWh, I believe the Gigafactory will be producing at least 2.5 billion individual batteries annually. If you divide that by 6,500 employees supporting the manufacturing, it comes to about 385,000 b
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by jlmorton 10y ago
> There are many other places out there that will happily accept the money, jobs, innovation, and safety advancements that these technologies will create. Ironic comment given that the cars are designed in Pennsylvania and California, an
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by jlmorton 10y ago
Isn't the simple answer that the embassy of Ecuador in London cut off his access to the Internet? The embassy announced they had restricted his access to the Internet beginning October 17th. https://www.theguardian.com&#x2F
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by jlmorton 10y ago
The phase is important because tidal forces are the sum of forces from both the Sun and the Moon. When the Moon is full, that is because the Moon is directly opposite the Sun. When the Moon is new, that is because it is directly in front
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by jlmorton 10y ago
Sure. Facebook is not a history book. It's a social network with kids on it. Napalm girl is a powerful photo. So are photos of Aushwitz. So too are photos of trench warfare. Saddam Hussein's hanging is historically important,
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by jlmorton 10y ago
I hate to be negative, but what really is the point of this? That a simple webpage without any content can be fast? Of course it can. Is it desirable to inline your CSS, "like a boss?" Maybe if you have one single web page. Wh
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by jlmorton 10y ago
Just to be clear: you believe SpaceX has "a blatant disregard for even basic elements of safety in their design and operation," and you base this on two anecdotes from friends (which you won't share), and an element of the Fa
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by jlmorton 10y ago
I should clarify, I didn't mean it was trivial to Aetna. I meant it was trivial compared to the cost of the existing subsidies and risk corridors in the ACA, and that this is not an existential problem for ACA. Over the past few month
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by jlmorton 10y ago
This is not proof at all that "Obamacare is a Rube Goldberg machine." This is a major insurer pulling out the markets, but over trivial amounts of losses. I don't know what you mean about Kentucky. There are plenty of healt
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by jlmorton 10y ago
It will be nice to confirm this over the next several years, but as of now, and despite the misleading graph, it still looks to be a pretty amazing achievement.
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by jlmorton 10y ago
1. The CO2 issue is not that the cow eats carbon and its manure turns back into CO2. The issue is the land use changes and fossil fuel-derived energy used in the production and transportation of feed. Because the feed to usable meat ratio

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