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by rory096 7y ago
Don't forget Poland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_willing#Usage...
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... did you edit that second line in after the fact, or am I losing it?
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>the humans have decided that an empty value will be typed, by hand, into their terminals as the characters "NULL" Almost certainly because of software constraints, like the form not allowing the plate number field to be blank.
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In the United States, projects applying for Low Income Housing Tax Credits actually get a 30% boost in their subsidy if they're in qualified low-income Census tracts.
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>The only reason the selected families moved to the better neighborhood is because a team of experts were paid to intervene on their behalf. >Unless such families make the effort to change their circumstance and save enough to move to
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by rory096 7y ago
Out of curiosity, what mechanism is used to bar residents of new buildings from on-street parking? Pressure on the on-street parking supply is the most common reason given to support off-street parking requirements.
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>There is no evidence that this is the case though. The vast majority of new construction has always been targeted towards the top of the market, which in the case of Los Angeles means a need for parking spaces. Changes will more likely
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Prius has had that for a decade: https://blog.toyota.co.uk/solar-powered-ventilation-prius
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>This is an odd claim to make. Regulation has historically required that it be provided in most (American) markets, hence the ample supply. I'm not sure how we could possibly know what the market would do on its own over the long te
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>does removing parking minimums actually lower rents by the 17% of rent that's estimated to go toward parking? No, because removing parking minimums is not the same as removing parking. >parking podiums eat up the most pedestrian
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Cloudflare provides services to a number of Islamist terror organizations: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cloudflare-cybersecurity-terr...
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Since OP has no actual information, some excerpts from the NYT story: >Tulsi Now Inc., the campaign committee for Ms. Gabbard, said Google suspended the campaign’s advertising account for six hours on June 27 and June 28, obstructing its
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>Tesla also lowered the starting price of its mass-market Model 3 to $38,990. Note that the price cut is offset by the 50% reduction in federal tax credits from $3,750 to $1,875.
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Here in central Virginia our city traffic department has been running a number of bike/ped experiments with plastic bollards. The NIMBY backlash has been severe and at least one has been rolled back. 'Experiments' only work i
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Each module is owned by its respective country.
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Though it should be noted that the effect originates with author Michael Crichton and has little to do with Gell-Mann himself: > I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name
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by rory096 7y ago
Don't miss the $45.5 million awarded to 11 companies last week for prototype work under the NextSTEP program: https://spacenews.com/nasa-selects-11-companies-for-lunar-la...
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I don't see how a civic data trust is mutually exclusive with a surveillance state — it just provides common ownership and open access to the surveillance data. It seems Cavoukian's dispute centered on the lack of a requirement fo
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This article has poor fact-checking. For example, the quote by the Queen's University professor is not accurate (or, charitably, outdated as of the time of publishing). >The proposal amounts to “permanent surveillance” and “massive
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TESS was launched last year and saw first light on August 7. Most existing data comes from Kepler and terrestrial observations.
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You're conflating experimental aircraft with commercial passenger aircraft. The latter are highly regulated. The former can be tested with an experimental airworthiness certificate, which is significantly less regulated but also signif
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This critique doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Why wouldn't you count a processor that costs twice as much as twice the economic output? It's vaguely reminiscent of the claim that inflation data is understated because com
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>evaluate what up to a 20% increase in housing supply would bring to any one given area and they never say it would fall by anything more than 2% Hold on. That study is about an increase in the housing stock of a single neighborhood in
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>What these type of pieces never discuss is how much they think rents will be brought down by upzoning. Sure they do. In an unconstrained market, prices will decline to the marginal cost of building one more unit. See Glaeser & Gyour
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What makes China's convergence different from those of postwar Europe, Japan, Korea, etc?
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When are you arguing globalization happened?
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>Who's left to do that? The article says that they gutted the solar sales team. It's not clear to me that they need a sales team for a product so highly differentiated. If they can deliver a solar roof product as promised, th
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> The "hollowing out" of American manufacturing was a result of globalization spurred by free trade. Putting aside the question of whether domestic manufacturing is more desirable than domestic production in other industries, t
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Gigafactory is a joint venture between Panasonic and Tesla. But either way, in a world where demand for batteries far outstrips supply, the contractual ability to buy a greater quantity — knowing they can be sold profitably in any form fa
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Was it? I work in an adjacent space now (though didn't back then) and everything I've heard is that Powerwall 1 was vaporware. Even now, Powerwall 2s are hard to come by, though not to nearly the same extent — Tesla uses that prod

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