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by mtviewdave 10y ago
Even if it was official policy, it would have been official policy of the British government. The United States did not exist at the time of the weaponization of smallpox at Fort Pitt. Jeffrey Amherst, the Commander-in-Chief in North Amer
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There are currently plans to build over 10,000 units in North Bayshore (the area around Google's campus): http://www.mv-voice.com/news/2016/03/03/council-oks-plans-fo...
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>the individual rights of citizens are better protected when power is decentralized to the states I'm guessing you're not black.
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Unless Caesar spoke English, he didn't threaten "to decimate" anybody. Because "to decimate" is an English verb. Rather, I'm sure Caesar used the appropriate conjugation of the Latin verb "decimō". Tw
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A Prescription for Better Care(medium.com)
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"To reduce by 10%" is, in English, the novel usage. It was apparently invented by essayist Richard Grant White in 1870. The original meaning of the word, "to destroy", is attested to 1663: https://arnoldzwicky
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by mtviewdave 10y ago
>Focus on historic preservation. Big real estate development projects are not what's bringing the twenty-somethings here. They're the opposite of the new restaurants and cafes; they subtract personality from the city. >Th
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>...George Soros, who's donated far more money and influenced far more country's politics... Prior to 2012, that was probably true: http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/09/opensecrets-battle-k...
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I would recommend going to HR, but not recording the conversation. The laws in your jurisdiction may make such recording illegal.
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>Mountain view's NIMBYism is especially objectionable since it actually green lighted the corporate construction that brings many new workers to the area, while almost with the same stroke of the pen banned new housing around those
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by mtviewdave 11y ago
For those of you starting companies now, probably the last thing you should be optimizing for is the amount of corporate tax your company will be paying after it becomes a unicorn.
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Views of the Sea Floor Near the Entrance to San Francisco Bay(pubs.usgs.gov)
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In California, the state constitution forbids (in general) state and local government from using eminent domain to acquire an owner-occupied residence for the purposes of conveying it to a private entity. This restriction was added to the s
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After 1906 or so, people in San Francisco discovered that they cared very much.
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Top Tech Companies’ Secrets to Hiring the Best People(medium.com)
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Having been a member the Dojo until recently, and a fan since they opened, I disagree with a lot of your characterization, and am going to give Ghufran the benefit of the doubt. However, this is important: >Lesson: Bake your culture into
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The Dojo is still at 599 Fairchild (it's second location, where it's been since 2012). The lease will run out end of May. The Dojo has a potential new space in Santa Clara, though they have not signed a lease yet. Marie Knox has b
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by mtviewdave 11y ago
>It was so far ahead, how could it possibly fail? C= marketing. True. But also, the hardware barely advanced for a long time. Commodore didn't even start to architect a next generation graphics chipset until 1988, and didn't re
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Project West Ford(en.wikipedia.org)
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Study finds women in tech still earn far less than men(latimes.com)
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3,000-Year-Old Chinese Oracle Bones Go 3D(cam.ac.uk)
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BART's Righteous Tweetstorm Reminds Us Its Problems Are Our Fault(wired.com)
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>Vinod Khosla - Founder of Sun Microsystems and well known VC was on H1B visa initially The H-1B visa was created in 1990. Khosla started working in the U.S. in 1980 after graduating from Stanford, and founded Sun in 1982. It seems doubt
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>We've seen this in 2008. Banks behaved insanely. It's not 2008 anymore. Things have changed substantially. Banks became much more risk-adverse in the wake of the burst of the housing bubble and subsequent economic crisis. The
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>Every bank is sound until land prices go into reverse. Generalize that to building prices, and if true, that's going to make it very difficult to use construction to lower housing prices. Banks aren't going to lend for constru
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When Your Boss Controls Your Bladder(theweek.com)
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Lunar Shadow Transit from the Deep Space Climate Observatory(apod.nasa.gov)
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Every day direct BART service between SFO and Millbrae was the original intent, and they provided that level of service when the station opened. But ridership fell well below expectations, and BART eventually limited that service to nights
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You don't need to replace Caltrain to achieve that. A easier solution would be to convert Caltrain to a gated fare system (like BART is now), and then put a combined BART and Caltrain station behind one set of turnstiles at Millbrae.
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It's not as if Caltrain is required to run at grade. It's just a historical artifact of how the system evolved. If we had the money and political will to replace Caltrain with BART, we'd have the money and will to create a gr

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