joelwilliamson

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by joelwilliamson 9y ago
If you write the required resources as absolute numbers, of course it looks like a huge investment. If it was rephrased as percentages of global production over 15 years, the numbers look much more manageable. 2% of global steel production
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by joelwilliamson 9y ago
The number of gas stations declined 25% from 1994 to 2013. I'd hardly call that doing fine. http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_juice/2016/06/why...
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by joelwilliamson 9y ago
It's still happening today. When AMD64 was introduced, it ignored the upper 16 bits in the address. JIT compilers take advantage of that fact and use that space to store information. Now that we're bumping up against the 48-bit li
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by joelwilliamson 10y ago
At 50% per year, it will take 25 years to grow by a factor of 20,000.
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by joelwilliamson 10y ago
> We're talking thousands of apartments, literally. To add some more concrete numbers, in 2015 there were 14,357 units completed in New York. Permits were issued for 56,528 units. (Only 20,000 permits were issued in 2014. They were
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by joelwilliamson 10y ago
I just checked the Eurostar prices. A ticket for London-Paris tomorrow and Paris-London on Wednesday can be had for $247. If you book a month ahead of time, it's below $50 one-way.
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by joelwilliamson 10y ago
The case against Standard Oil was pretty explicitly because of anticompetitive behaviour, not price inefficiency.
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by joelwilliamson 10y ago
100Gb ethernet has been around since 2010.
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by joelwilliamson 10y ago
There is no drought in Southern Ontario. They are drawing well water, not residential water. A farmer could draw that much water and pay absolutely nothing.
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by joelwilliamson 10y ago
Kaiser Motors is still producing Jeeps as a division of Chrysler.
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by joelwilliamson 10y ago
No. 10dB is the volume of calm breathing, 0dB is the threshold for auditory perception of a sound at 1kHz. With regards to a CD, the decibel measures the gain rather than the volume. 0dB in this context simply means "full volume",
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by joelwilliamson 10y ago
$120K per parking spot is ridiculous. Some construction firm must have very good ties with your city government.
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by joelwilliamson 10y ago
> It was really horrible; the lecturer had never heard of agile and forced us into a waterfall process in which 60% of the time was spent documenting requirements and drawing bogus diagrams. It sounds like the lecturer did an effective j
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by joelwilliamson 10y ago
That's ordering by native speakers. If you count non-natives, English has far more speakers than Spanish (but far less than Mandarin).
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by joelwilliamson 10y ago
According to your link, there are about 10,000 new units under construction. That's about 10-20 buildings worth. Not exactly a huge boom.
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by joelwilliamson 10y ago
There will probably never be desalination cheap enough for irrigation, and non-agricultural uses don't add up to enough to make desalination nescessary.
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by joelwilliamson 10y ago
After the Sino-Soviet split, China was a third world country
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by joelwilliamson 10y ago
The exclusion zone is 20km, so the area will be around 600 km^2. Compare that to Lake Mead, which is 640 km^2 and runs a power station with half the installed capacity of Fukushima Daiichi.
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by joelwilliamson 10y ago
People would quickly come to depend on their data not being lost when they leave a page, and then be very unhappy when sometimes it is lost.
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by joelwilliamson 11y ago
The Kingdom of Jordan also doesn't cover the entirety of the river Jordan.
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by joelwilliamson 11y ago
The argument isn't that the government needs Uber to be able to track their citizens, but that Uber being a major player allows the American government to track Chinese citizens.
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by joelwilliamson 11y ago
He never said it was easy. It's simple, but not easy.
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by joelwilliamson 11y ago
The middle bar looks red to me.
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by joelwilliamson 11y ago
My Firefox renders it as an apple with a bite taken out of it. Probably depends on your font.
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by joelwilliamson 11y ago
The author didn't justify that statement at all. If we have gone from an error once per minute (cruise control) to once per 30 minutes, and think that level of improvement can be repeated twice more, we will be at one error every 450 h
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by joelwilliamson 11y ago
Are there no development fees in the US? In Canada, municipalities will levy fees on developers to pay for all the new infrastructure. In some cities, this also helps keep taxes low for other residents by paying for operating costs as well.
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by joelwilliamson 11y ago
The obvious counter-argument is that home prices would have risen even faster without the construction boom.
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by joelwilliamson 11y ago
The stack doesn't have to be limited. On a 64-bit system, you can give each thread a couple of terabytes of stack space with no problem.
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by joelwilliamson 11y ago
IE has spoofed Mozilla browsers since at least IE2. When was the last time you saw a browser that didn't claim to be Mozilla/5.0?
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by joelwilliamson 11y ago
The joke is also told in Canada about Newfoundland changing.

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