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by samcheng 10y ago
This was a table of electricity generated in the United States; unemployment is at its lowest since 2008, with GDP growth at 2.2% - not shrinking. It's more likely that the drop in electricity generation was weather related, but I don&
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by samcheng 10y ago
A few interesting tidbits from the table in the article: 1) Coal is seeing a dramatic decline! The decrease in electricity generated by coal in 2015 was four times the increase in renewable (wind+solar) electricity generated. In fact, it
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RINSE | San Francisco, CA | Full Time Rinse is a technology-enabled dry cleaning and laundry delivery service. We've grown at double-digit month-over-month rates for three years now, our business fundamentals are solid, and our custome
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Does that bring performance or cost savings? What is the motivation and calculus for making that transition?
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For those that have done this, I'd be interested in the performance gain (say, IOPS at an equivalent hosting + hardware cost). I'd also be interested in RDS vs. Heroku Postgres. Do people do this for security / policy purpos
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by samcheng 10y ago
I'm happy to see Boosted continuing to develop their product. Yesterday morning, I came off the Caltrain (walking my bike), and there was a guy with a classic short board with flat gray tape. As I heard that telltale clack-and-roll and
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by samcheng 10y ago
The RAs (upperclassmen) and Fellows (resident faculty) in an all-freshmen dorm at Stanford.
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by samcheng 10y ago
This was an important lesson freshman year of college: It's OK to drink, even if you're underage, but you MUST provide Equally-Attractive Non-Alcoholic Beverages (EANABs) at your parties. And you must ensure that people from outs
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by samcheng 10y ago
Subway is complementary to high speed rail (or hyperloop). The trains travel (on average) about 1/10th the speed, and the distances covered are much smaller. The Hong Kong MTR (the worst commuter crush I've personally experienced)
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by samcheng 10y ago
The world's busiest high-speed rail is the Japanese Shinkansen between Tokyo and Osaka. It was doing 23,000 passengers per hour way back in 1992. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen The newest trains have ca
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by samcheng 10y ago
What do you think happens to the methane in the atmosphere? It doesn't vanish. Most of it reacts in the statosphere and troposphere and oxidizes into ... you guessed it: Carbon Dioxide. 10% gets eaten by organisms in the soil, but a
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Right; I'd guess that at least half of the 'nazi' mentions are actually lame puns.
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RINSE | San Francisco, CA and Santa Monica, CA | Full Time Rinse is a technology-enabled dry cleaning and laundry delivery service. We've grown at double-digit month-over-month rates for three years now, our business fundamentals are s
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by samcheng 11y ago
Someone who clearly doesn't know about half-lives and exponential decay!
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by samcheng 11y ago
The geometry- and mechanically- related tasks seem like they would be ripe for automation. For example, the trailer reversing problem is related to the inverted pendulum problem, which is easily solvable by automated systems. The judgement
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It didn't work very well! Reddit is strongly pro-Bernie.
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I think of Yankee as 'puritanical English' whereas Wisconsin and Minnesota are mostly 'German and Northern European protestants.' Growing up in Milwaukee, I didn't know anyone who drank tea, outside of occasional yu
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by samcheng 11y ago
This is a rehash of the (excellent!) Urban Archipelago manifesto from the Seattle weekly newspaper The Stranger in 2004: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-urban-archipelago/Con...
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by samcheng 11y ago
The founder stepped aside and brought in an outside CEO in November. Not sure how that affected their fundraising chances. You'd need some awesome growth projections to raise a Series B on what looks like less than half a million in l
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Shuddle ‘Uber for kids’ service to shut down(sfchronicle.com)
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Or reading "CLOUDY" with an emphasis on the "OW" - for every day in the forecast (when living in Seattle...) I guess his name is "Tom" http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/info/newvoice.html
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There's a reason their weather forecasts were in ALL CAPS. After all, they've been transmitting weather forecasts and data electronically since before the (US) Civil War! They predate ASCII by over 100 years... http:/&#x2F
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Methane is, however, much more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2, and global livestock contribute a non-negligible fraction of greenhouse gas pollution. This estimate says that livestock contribute 14.5% of all anthropogenic greenhouse ga
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by samcheng 11y ago
ETL-as-a-Service is a great idea, particularly one that is visualization/analytics-tool-agnostic! However, there are so many data sources, and they all require different integrations with their different APIs or export mechanisms. A se
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by samcheng 11y ago
We're using them, to mixed reviews. They installed a jailbroken ipad (in a holder with a cutout for the front camera) in our break room. Seems like a potential hazard for industrial espionage... The office does seem to stay clean. Th
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RINSE | San Francisco, CA and Santa Monica, CA | Full Time Rinse is a technology-enabled dry cleaning and laundry delivery service. We've grown at double-digit month-over-month rates for almost three years now, our business fundamental
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by samcheng 11y ago
I don't know your particular situation, but if your master tenant signed their lease a few years ago, 20% under market rate could still represent a good outcome for both parties. After all, commercial rates have roughly doubled since
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by samcheng 11y ago
Right. In fact, last year at least, many companies were able to profit on their subleases, as the long-term (4+ year) lease was at a lower rate than the going price. Another common situation is landlords happy to terminate a couple-year-ol
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by samcheng 11y ago
Django generally relies on the WSGI standard to separate the 'server' from the (Django) 'application' - this allows Django to run on a number of different server implementations. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by samcheng 11y ago
Mercedes also has active lane-keeping assist functionality.

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