ocschwar

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by ocschwar 8y ago
A growing population in CHicago proper is not a problem. It's the solution. The problem is the growing population in the Chicago suburbs, getting more and more land paved, and thus worsening the stormwater problem.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Bollards. Trees. High curbs. Feel free to drive like an idiot and send an auto shop worker's child to college.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Not with Boston's Quincy Market. The stores face two pedestrian streets. The back sides are for cars, and they're just utilitarian alleys.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Much as Californians love to hate on PG&E, and much as PG&E has worked might hard to earn the hate, it's not appropriate to speak of a singular cause of the Camp Fire.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
It may not be unionization per se, but it's well past time for our organizations (IEEE/ACM/Usenix) to start defending our interests by establishing standards for employment contracts that don't include this kind of crap.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
The French protesters are not risking a stay in the Palmyra prison. (Warning: even text descriptions of what went on there are NSFL)
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Right now the right wing media in the US is gleefully attributing the protests primarily to the carbon tax.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Not quite a techbro, but I am a techie old enough to have kids. We have a house, with a backyard the size of a tablecloth, and one car. My wife drives it. Lots of apartment buildings nearby, some of which do not come with any parking.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Lots of sectors of the economy are for profit, but they follow the S&P instead of leading it. Healthcare used to be a follower too. Now it's a leader.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Because wealthy aging boomers spend more on speculative anti-aging fads in a bull market.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
They're not mutually exclusive, but they are negatively correlated. The more enjoyable a job is, the lower the salary the boss can offer before people balk at taking it. It isn't something you can suss out in individual cases, but
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by ocschwar 8y ago
It's time the Federal government passed a law treating these inducements as taxable income. If communities had to throw money at Washington, DC every time they threw money at Amazon/Foxconn/Apple et cetera, they'd be mor
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by ocschwar 8y ago
There is no official way to do anything in Venezuela without these new ID cards. That's what makes it important to enable Venezuelans to hustle with each other unofficially, sub rosa. DOn't get me wrong: I loathe bitcoin and its b
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by ocschwar 8y ago
A pile of USD can get you robbed and tossed in jail in Venezuela these days.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
They have to go in front of a judge. Do that the day after graduation, and the judge will not be inclined to approve the bankruptcy.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
And a motel room in Fresno is about $20 a night, more if you want to know that the next room isn't a meth lab. That adds up quickly.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
The problem isn't NIMBYs refusing to sell. It's NIMBYs writing the zoning rules so their neighbors can't sell to infill developers either. Comapre to Massachusetts. We have a law against snob zoning. So while there is a homel
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by ocschwar 8y ago
I have to admit around the time they went to 1TB free, I stopped taking serious pictures and just used Flickr to be the default backup for my phone camera. Now whe I go to Flickr I see a lot more photo plagiarism by throwaway accounts, to s
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by ocschwar 8y ago
The reason it isn't is that this study is based in Puerto Rico, where the bugs don't have the option of migrating north. In the US mainland, yes, this is happening, and it's harming insects, but the main result is migration,
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Yup. Statistics does continue to be under-appreciated, nowhere more than among dudebros who read up about ML for no reason except that's where the money seems to be. MIT alum here. I expect this new department to be a gross embarassmen
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Everyone wants to be the next Stanford.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
How is it a fiasco? He wanted to gut the place and get the real estate. He gutted the place and got the real estate. It's a heist, not a fiasco
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by ocschwar 8y ago
No. IT doesn't. It has to do with the GOP's platform being at odds with the domain knowledge of engineers.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
I should light a candle for St. Stanislav PEtrov.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
> Lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, and other chemicals do not have a political leaning. They dont selectively impact the democratic left more so than the right. Yes they do, unfortunately. If you look at state-level regulation of industr
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by ocschwar 8y ago
In the 1920s, Americans used that salute in the Pledge of Allegiance. It was called the Bellamy salute. It's mind warping to realize, but every symbol and word that we associate with the Nazis and Fascists had innocuous connotations un
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by ocschwar 8y ago
When I was in college, my tech-heavy school was about 50% Republican. No more. The GOP's descent into anti-intellectualism started with a war on science and has since escalated to a war on engineering. Unfortunately the GOP seems bound
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by ocschwar 8y ago
I can point to one that succeeded quite nicely. Quincy Market in Boston.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Amazon Web Services is the one branch of AMZN that is actually profitable. And the make or break for AWS is the assurance that when you're runnign stuff on one Amazon pizza box, your data are safe even from other users on that same box
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by ocschwar 8y ago
No. THere's plenty of case law establishing that you cannot be compelled to outright lie.

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