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811.
by ralph84 8y ago
Sure, cities shouldn't be involved in transferring wealth to billionaire sports team owners either. But I bet if you gave voters a choice of a major league sports team or incrementally faster internet, they'd choose the sports tea
812.
by ralph84 8y ago
Regulating cities so they don't do something stupid is reasonable. Remember muni wi-fi? That ended up being a massive wealth transfer from taxpayers to consultants and vendors of gear that didn't work. After the networks were buil
813.
by ralph84 8y ago
The flying public will buy the cheapest ticket, same as always. This isn't even the first time a design flaw leading to loss of control has crashed multiple 737s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_iss
814.
by ralph84 8y ago
Pharmaceutical research tends to focus on patentable molecules, not unpatentable plants.
815.
by ralph84 8y ago
Trust us, this totally isn't another Dual_EC_DRBG
816.
by ralph84 8y ago
Just auction off N green cards every month. That would be much more transparent and fair than the current system.
817.
by ralph84 8y ago
This doesn't happen as often as you'd think. Most good salespeople jump to companies that are in adjacent but not directly competitive markets. That way they can leverage their client base without coming off as disingenuous by pit
818.
by ralph84 8y ago
You're 100% certain you've complied with all 70,000 pages of federal tax law and regulations? You've paid sales or use tax on all of your online purchases?
819.
by ralph84 8y ago
If you spend two years investigating _anyone_, chances are you can find a law they violated sometime in their life.
820.
by ralph84 8y ago
This puts the nail in the coffin of a quick software fix getting the max back in the air anytime soon. To have any credibility the FAA is going to have to recertify the entire flight control system with all failure modes considered. And no
821.
by ralph84 8y ago
The current immigration system in the US dates to 1965. There has been a massive demographic shift in the US since then. The politicians at the time said there wouldn't be. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
822.
by ralph84 8y ago
In fact the current immigration system in the US was explicitly sold to Americans at the time as one that would not cause a demographic shift.
823.
by ralph84 8y ago
My point is that "much more regulated" retail banks don't behave any better than the other players in the financial system. That's not a morality tale it's a fact. If the financial crisis didn't convince you ce
824.
by ralph84 8y ago
I wasn't disputing the possibility of that, I was disputing the possibility of coming out $60K/year ahead by renting a $1M house instead of buying it.
825.
by ralph84 8y ago
I'm not following your math. PITI for a $1M house with 20% down is around $5,000/month. You're saying you can rent a $1M house for $0/month?
826.
by ralph84 8y ago
I'd count it even more, because it's the university proactively making a statement that this person embodies their values.
827.
by ralph84 8y ago
Interesting you cite Facebook given their CEO and COO both have degrees from the highest ranked humanities university in the US.
828.
by ralph84 8y ago
In China the infant gets shipped to the grandparents while the parents continue working.
829.
by ralph84 8y ago
At some point Atlassian will probably throw in the towel and sell off Bitbucket like they sold off HipChat.
830.
by ralph84 8y ago
Some elementary schools also have a non-trivial number of mainland children who cross the border every day for school. Birth tourism for mainlanders was big in HK (they've cracked down on it now) because Chinese born in HK automaticall
831.
by ralph84 8y ago
> Why does China get to be protective but the the west does not? The short answer is the west was seduced by access to the Chinese market and was willing to do one-sided trade deals to get that access.
832.
by ralph84 8y ago
5% of pretax income on transportation isn't unreasonable if it could truly replace car ownership. Most car owners in the US are likely spending more than 5% of their income on depreciation, interest, insurance, maintenance, taxes, and
833.
by ralph84 8y ago
Retail banks were on the front lines making the liar loans that got everything started. Investment banks wouldn't have had any bogus mortgages to bet on without retail banks originating them. The decision to use GS is highly dilutive t
834.
by ralph84 8y ago
This, along with non-competes being unenforceable, is why California will always have the most tech startups.
835.
by ralph84 8y ago
If you think the service isn't worth the cost that's fine, but it's nowhere near 25% of lifetime earnings. I'm 40 and have purchased three properties and sold one of them. The total commissions on all four of those trans
836.
by ralph84 8y ago
Math isn't correct because most of that 30 years of work is interest on the mortgage, which the realtor doesn't get a cut of.
837.
by ralph84 8y ago
Atlassian more or less gives bitbucket away, so it checks the box for management who care more about license cost than developer happiness/productivity.
838.
by ralph84 8y ago
It's even more far removed than that. A team of interns at Rally Software created Waffle.io in 2013. Then CA acquired Rally in 2015. Then Broadcom acquired CA in 2018. Waffle.io was not a material reason for either acquisition.
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by ralph84 8y ago
To say Lion Air in particular has been flying 737s just fine simply doesn't agree with the facts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Air#Incidents_and_acciden...
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by ralph84 8y ago
The pilot flying (PF) controls the aircraft while the pilot monitoring (PM) calls out the checklist items. It's very manageable with an experienced crew. But apparently the first officer in the Ethiopian crash only had 200 hours of exp

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