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San Francisco May Let Bicyclists Yield at Stop Signs(nytimes.com)
84 points by ojbyrne 11y ago|154 comments
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CITE: A $1B city that nobody calls home(cnn.com)
49 points by ojbyrne 11y ago|30 comments
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CITE: A $1B city that nobody calls home(cnn.com)
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
Which is actually an excerpt from a book by the same author: http://smile.amazon.com/Hatching-Twitter-Story-Friendship-Be...
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
It was 25 years ago. They didn't have either of those problems then.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
It's obvious from his past history that he sees himself as Jobs 2.0. So I'm sure he's working the PR machine hard to see himself cast that way.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I don't think I did. As far as I can tell, amongst the complaints about rent and sexism, this is the point: "This debate is an attempt to assuage the guilt we already have and know we have because we’re here doing THIS instead of
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
My understanding is that some of that (specific to employees) is because people tip on the basis of the discounted price, and I've gotten groupons where they explicitly say something about "please tip based on the non-discounted p
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
Tufte's article about the space shuttle: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0... is the canonical example of how design could have changed the world.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I get your point on number two - but you know, people who work in offices sometimes have to run errands and help with child care.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
This is very similar to what my father did around the same age, though in a different field (construction). The company he was VP at went into Chapter 11, he took a few of the people who worked for him, started a small company, and took ove
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I think the purpose of both the Millbrae and Burbank stops is to connect to airports.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
People who drive cars. There's a long standing history in the US where once you put somebody behind the wheel of a car, there's an increased disdain for people not in cars, and risks are commonly taken that threaten pedestrians an
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
My understanding is that both books influenced software design patterns (and the wikipedia article is unclear on that). This book is really a continuation of the ideas in A Pattern Language .
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
When I took a Human Resources course, there were 3 theories: Theory X (The oldest): People won't work unless you force them to, and without constant supervision, they'll slack off. Theory Y: People are looking for self-actualizati
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
JetBlue has a similar satellite-based service in the US.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
That graph has become significantly less panic-inducing.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
The wikipedia page, under "Permission" says "If you use this picture somewhere outside the wiki-world, I'd be happy to get a short eMail from you." I believe that's the attribution. As it says in the license se
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
These can also be found in BOS and CLT, probably others.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
Because a giga-coaster is specifically defined as smaller than that one: "Enthusiasts use the term to apply to a roller coaster with a drop of 300 to 399 feet, meaning that its riders fall the length of a football field. (Anything beyo
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
My wife just got the new macbook and freaking loves it. I have not heard a single complaint about the single port. She uses an adapter for the rare case where she needs to plug anything additional in. Her biggest complaint is she sometimes
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I don't think your argument is correct. That is the whole point of portfolio theory: 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_portfolio_theory
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I think you're right, and it must be because this is from the Library of Congress, which is a repository of books published in the US. A slightly less contentious example would be de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America"
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
So I see a link at the bottom: "Andrew Ng's Coursera course provides a good introduction to deep learning" which links to his "Machine Learning" class. This leads me to believe that "deep learning" is a sy
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
Perhaps uncharitable, but her argument seems like grasping at straws. She's well educated, and had good representation, there's little likelihood she didn't know the risks going in.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
http://hooli.xyz is a company on the HBO show "Silicon Valley" - modeled after, and parodying Google.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
20% corporate tax rate. What's the problem?
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
There's 3 or 4 trailer parks in Mountain View, one of which is basically next door to Google.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
That particular statistic is useless without further context, and thus is a favorite of Fox News and other right wing ideologues. If 80% of earners earn one dollar a year then obviously it's low. If 80% of earners earn 1% less than the
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I can see a case for capital gains and estate taxes but the top marginal income tax rates in NY and California (where I'd guess most CEOs reside) are over 50%. Not sure how that would be called "absurdly low."

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