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by joshe 8y ago
The right way to do this is to make sure that a small amount of money will be sufficient. You want to redevelop a one story Sunset place into three stories? Meet the building codes and you are good to go. This would open up development to
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There's now a bunch of new building to put schools and restaurants in. Much of SF is 1 story buildings. You can absolutely convert those to 3-4 story buildings and get 100% more people in SF. The first floor can be restaurants, schools
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But states can just decide. They usually leave it to the cities, but all they have to do is pass legislation and it will override all the city rules.
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What people are thinking is to do it at the state level (California, Oregon). There are no restrictions on what states can do relative to cities. (In other words, if a city can do it a state can too, cities are entirely creatures of the sta
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Actually it solves lots of those problems too, more affordable housing would make it possible for teachers, waiters, bus drivers, waiters, grocery cashiers to live affordably in the city. Uber/Lyft and now scooters have already 10x imp
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by joshe 8y ago
"Technically, Lisa Su’s grandfather is Jen-Hsun Huang’s uncle. They are not exactly niece and uncle, but close relatives." So they are "1st cousins once removed".
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I haven't used heroku for a year, my impression then was that Salesforce wasn't putting much energy into it. Or is it more spritely now? Also is there a new no-configuration server option now? Specifically where you can have a pos
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Apple's web mapping free tier is huge: Apple 250K map views / *day* Mapbox 50K map views / month Google ($200 credit buys you) 28k dynamic map views / month Once it comes out of beta, I'm guessing
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by joshe 8y ago
In the spirit of "could this be awesome" rather than is it likely... So pretend we stand on the side of the moon facing toward Jupiter so that Jupiter is straight overhead. And pretend the other moon will pass just inside our orbi
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Cool question/objection. The two moons are going in opposite directions, so the speed guess is really 28 km/s. For a full second it would be 2km across and 14km or less away (.5 seconds before and .5 seconds after it's overhe
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It should not be, "Cockpit crew had a low all-cause, all-cancer, and cardiovascular disease mortality but elevated aircraft accident mortality." [1] In plainer, much less careful English: even with that exposure, they live longer
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It is pretty dark. There's even a cute beagle picture in a graph. Apparently beagles are the preferred model animal for radiation studies going back to the 1950's.
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Here's a very straightforward study, "Evidence That Lifelong Low Dose Rates of Ionizing Radiation Increase Lifespan in Long- and Short-Lived Dogs" [1]. Two studies on beagles: "One exposed the dogs to whole-body cobalt-6
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That would be amazing, it looks like Europa travels at 14 km/s or 31,000 mph. With no atmosphere there would be no sound or pressure wave. And the bodies are probably small enough to not shatter because of the gravity interaction. Esca
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Just want to point out that low level radiation is probably good for you. It's cool that they found it, but this is not any kind of health danger. Low level radiation probably acts as a beneficial stressor, like exercise or fasting [1]
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The eighth moon sounds exciting... "it travels in the same region of space as the retrograde moons, but in the opposite direction... That means it could easily smash into the retrograde moons, pulverising itself into oblivion." Se
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Even at $100 these would be very worth it to me. Can't read in cars, and can't ride in ocean boats in any kind of swell. Twisty mountain roads as a passenger are bad. I even get a little nauseous on city busses. Barfing doesn&#x27
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I don't really know about the midwest vs. California divide, although I would say that 140 is base before options, and that the expected value of those options is greater. There does seem to be a bit space that's opened up between
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Apple's web javascript mapping free tier is huge (just announced at WWDC). Apple 250K map views / *day* Mapbox 50K map views / month Google ($200 credit buys you) 28k map views dynamic on web / month 2
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Switzerland does this too, the bags have a little stamp or sticker that costs $5. There are also 10 different bins to presort waste. It works quite well. They put a lot of effort into the design and ease of use at the collection stations (w
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Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity by Scott Aaronson [pdf](scottaaronson.com)
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Polya's little "How to solve it" booklet has great advice. It's great because it's addressed to math classes but based on the practices of a research mathematician. So it's not just solving the problems in the
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Value of Entrepreneurial Migration for Startups(papers.ssrn.com)
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China Vows to Retaliate as U.S. Imposes Tariffs in Trade War(nytimes.com)
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I agree there isn't a great one, but there are some small ones. You could get to scale quickly and become the default to check. So just habit. Regulation, as cities clamp down on scooters they will probably entrench the first entrants.
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Oh yes. Jawbone $2.7 billion valuation -> 0 Beepi $560 million -> 0 Better Place $2.5 billion -> 0 Quixey $600 million -> 0 YikYak $400 million -> $3 million Fab.com $1.5 billion -> $15 million Rdio $500 million -> $75
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This is such a great area to work on. The equity side is pretty rough. Founders are very sensitive about disclosing important information about company performance. They are sensitive about disclosing the cap table. Some will share info wit
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by joshe 8y ago
The domain name space is huge. Say there are 30,000 common words in english (there are about 171,000 in present use). For a 2 word combo that's 900 million combinations. This is super useful: http://www.bustaname.com/ .
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Some answers to questions I had Uses WebGL with fall back to server side rendering with tiles, they call it "adaptive rendering modes". What for? "Unify on a single map provider with familiar, flexible APIs" (from WWDC s
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Just saw an Apple Maps camera car in SF a week ago. First one I've seen. So they are at least doing a tiny bit of their own data gathering. They also opened a 4,500 job facility in Hyderabad in 2016. [1] Presumably to do human editing

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