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by ryanhuff 10y ago
As part of the Los Angeles 2024 bid, they are supposedly taking a different approach, in that they plan to utilize the existing student housing at UCLA for their athlete village.
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by ryanhuff 10y ago
If you were immortal, you could pay off a loan over hundreds of years. Imagine a mortgage of $500K being paid off over 3 years. Suddenly, paying $1M-$2M isn't such a barrier.
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by ryanhuff 10y ago
Wouldn't #1 result in a race to the bottom? Why wouldn't a foreign country use tax policy to lower their corp rates towards zero in order to attract foreign tax revenue? After all, some tax is better than no tax.
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by ryanhuff 10y ago
Apple and others would be smart to diversify their manufacturing capabilities to other countries.
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by ryanhuff 10y ago
If you haven't yet, listen to one of the recent episodes of Star Talk Radio (Season 7, Episodes 4). They have Any Weir, author of "The Martian", and Dr. Jim Green, Director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division. Dr. Green desc
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
He is a US Citizen.
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
You references the cost of maintenance for a Model S, but then compared to to ~35K cars. You should probably compare it to what BMW charges for a 5 or 7 Series. Also, according to Edmunds.com, a 3 Series BMW will cost you about $2,000 in an
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
If you believe the intended positioning, the Bolt and the Model 3 are cars with EV power plants, but intended for different segments. The Model 3 is intended to be positioned as a premium vehicle (BMW 3 series, etc), while the Bolt seems to
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
The $7,500 is in effect for the first 200,000 sold by the manufacturer. I don't think many of the people who preordered will have their car in time to take advantage of the tax credit.
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
Power rates vary widely in the US. In Southern California, I am above $0.30/kWh. I haven't done the math recently, but I don't think it's very cost competitive with today's gasoline prices for an ICE.
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
The employees are there to make calls. I don't see having to deal with a robot as wasting their time, since they are hopefully being paid regardless. Now, if they are being paid on commission, then they are part of the problem, and rem
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
Does being US company afford these companies benefits that justify a tax premium?
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
Perhaps, but that's not helpful if the probability of the infrastructure to support the preservation (family who cares, businesses, or even civilization) surviving to reach that point approaches 0.
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
I didn't know the teachers were the ones earning the grades. See the posts above that cite what happens to re-gentrified areas, where the social-economic make-up of a school changes but the teacher make-up does not.
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
The biggest ripple for me will be avoiding their brand all over MLB games come Spring. The product placement was annoying last year.
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
Yes, and it's compounded by the limited time in a school day. Having an extra 30-60 minutes a day to focus on the unique needs of your class would help, but as it is, the teachers are put in a position to churn through the material to
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
My 11 year old son is an avid Mincraft player. His favorite aspect is playing team games on multiplayer servers. When I told him that Microsoft bought Mincraft, he was quite upset, and was confident that Microsoft would ruin it. Change was
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
Your example seems fine to me. My kids use Google Docs for school, and use it both for collaborating with other students at home, and to submit homework to the teacher. That seems to fall in your example. The risks that you describe also so
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
I don't think it's asking much for Google to put a wall around the profiles and associated usage data for these school related accounts.
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
Syncing data between chrome environments is different than mining usage data across google's properties. It sounds like that's the beef here. Children are required to use the Chrome systems, and parents have no say in the matter,
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
While the 12c has been sold for years, they did release an upgrade version a few years ago which is much faster. I believe one of the gripes of this was the keys had the symbols painted on. Not sure if this article is referencing this
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
You don't think devices such as the Amazon Echo could do such a thing?
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
http://thewhineseller.com/2012/03/usps-adds-needed-features-... I remember seeing this on the USPS website a while back, but I haven't tried it myself yet.
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
I was referring to Google collecting non-user data as a practice and strategy. What would it mean to them if they were blocked (legislatively) from doing so?
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
Adsense "users" (website visitors), Google Analytics "users" (website visitors), etc, etc. Its a deep rabbit hole. Imagine a world where Google can't store all of this data.
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
A Facebook user is a bit easier to define than a Google user.
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
Intuit owns Mint. Not sure how the banks are going to know the difference between Mint users and Express Web Connect users. Maybe they shut them all down?
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
My wife is a primary school teacher, and she barely has time to get through the mandated material. There is no time for "parenting" tasks, beyond basic safety and welfare. And even if she did, the child's family's value
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
A large part of the value to primary school is socialization with a peer group.
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by ryanhuff 11y ago
I prefer that we keep "DST" all year long. Its more pleasant leaving work while its still daylight. And I suspect that many US citizens think the same.

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