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by mateo411 9y ago
Correct. If you have to do research and experimentation before you can make good estimates, then you need to allocate time to do that. I use the term discovery phase to describe this. You give the discovery phase a certain amount of time to
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> If we have tax brackets, then yeah sure there could be an unlucky minority of people who just barely land in a higher bracket than someone just under the line, so they pay a higher percentage than someone else. This statement makes me
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by mateo411 9y ago
Sell stocks. Buy shotgun shells and canned goods.
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by mateo411 9y ago
This is actually happening. BART is going to San Jose. It will go to San Jose Diridon thus completing the loop. It will take longer than everybody likes and probably cost more money than was originally budgeted, but it's going to happe
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by mateo411 9y ago
San Francisco also has the Front Yard Ambassador Program. This encourages homeowners to replace concrete in their front yard with plants. The City helps defray the costs. The goal of this program is to reduce runoff. http://sfbos
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by mateo411 9y ago
What is a strong lambda?
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by mateo411 9y ago
The population of San Francisco is between 800,000 and 850,000. If you doubled the density in SF then you would have enough housing for 800,000 to 850,000 additional people.
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Are you suggesting that we should have 1.6 million people live in the Mission district in the next few years? Currently, there are about 50,000 people living in the Mission district. I think they should build new apartment complexes in the
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by mateo411 9y ago
That's what the MIT blackjack team did in the 90s.
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That city was so much nicer before the Gold Rush.
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Here is a crazy thought experiment. What if the government rationed drugs and gave them out for free? The price for black market drugs would go down, which would change the economics of smuggling drugs and selling drugs in the US. The gover
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It's not available to salary workers.
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by mateo411 9y ago
Generally, nepotism refers to giving jobs or special treatment to people in your family. This is a good tactic but it requires having somebody else in your family working at a company that you are interested. This might not be possible. You
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by mateo411 9y ago
This is very neat, but I don't think it works for straights. For example how do these two hands compare? A 2 3 4 5 2 3 4 5 6 Maybe there is a way we can extend this to work for straights.
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Interesting. The situation I described happened over a year ago, so I imagine they were using location data then.
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There is some process that is running a spatial join. You were both logged into facebook at the same time, and were in close proximity. I had a similar situtation where Facebook recommended that I friend a coworker that sat next to me.
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by mateo411 9y ago
The Gambler's fallacy doesn't take independence from different trials into account. However, since it's the same driver for each of the "trials" then the Gambler's fallacy doesn't really apply.
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People who have miles or points buy airline tickets directly from the airline.
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Correct, all checked exceptions are declared in the method signature.
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In a healthy organization the engineer can suggest improvements to Product and help them prioritize the improvements.
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by mateo411 10y ago
How about a compromise. Travel for one month. Instead of unplugging for one year, you go on a nice long vacation. After the month is up, you come back home. If you are ready to work again, then you go find another job. If you want to keep t
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by mateo411 10y ago
There is a really great story on Fresh Air about how Mike Judge's neighbors fixed his fence for him. It provided inspiration for the Hank Hill character. http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?
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Can you write off the $40,000 loss?
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I also hope that they fix the existing dams. We don't really build dams anymore in the US. They alter the surrounding environment too much and wreak havoc on fish species. It's hard for fish to swim up a river when there a dam the
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In today's economy it's usually easier to find a new job in a high CoL area.
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Northern CA sends a lot of its water to Southern CA. The Owens Valley is where the LA gets most of its water. There are water deals between different states. San Diego gets the majority of its water from the Colorado River. Seven states hav
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That won't work because of water rights.
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by mateo411 10y ago
Are infrastructure projects a lot cheaper in Japan, South Korea and Singapore? I honestly don't know. I know they have better rail infrastructure, but those societies also pay higher taxes and make rail infrastructure a higher priority
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Got it. Can you send me an email? I would like to work with you on this. My email is in my profile.
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Is it possible for me to get the data? I can trade you 11 years of NFL point spreads.

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