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by samcheng 11y ago
Some people need to scrape together cash to buy enough gas to get to work. Poor people spend a disproportionate amount of their income on necessities like fuel for an aging inefficient vehicle, electricity or natural gas to heat a cheaply-
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by samcheng 11y ago
After accounting for emissions during manufacturing, even if you powered an electric car with coal power only, carbon emissions of an electric car are roughly a 25-30 MPG car equivalent. However, those numbers get much better as the electri
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Fossil fuel producers and power plant operators. A few states, and therefore a motivated group of Senators, would be hit disproportionately hard. Places like Wyoming and West Virginia drive a considerable part of their economy from coal, a
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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 two years now, and our customers love us! We hav
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by samcheng 11y ago
Right. In another time, we had racks of 1U servers, a NAS cluster with fast backplane, redundant switching fabric, a tape library, and fiber to the meetup room. This time around, if we were worrying about anything like that, it would be a
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by samcheng 11y ago
That's exactly the roadmap I had in mind. Glad to hear someone had success with this route!
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Definitely agree that the other services are marked-up too! The issue is one of leveraging developer time at a dynamic startup. At some scale, it becomes cost-effective to manage your own application cluster. At some (usually larger?) sc
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What about people who don't want Heroku (or Heroku-style) dynos as application servers and workers, because you pay excessively for RAM and CPU and wrestle with configuration constraints, but want to keep the rest of the PaaS ecosystem
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by samcheng 11y ago
Yeah, actually, the bike route network for Mountain View is really terrible in comparison to Palo Alto! But that's a different discussion... I see bicyclists on El Camino in Palo Alto at night without lights all the time!
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I hate seeing cyclists on the very same road in question (El Camino Real in Mountain View). There is a substantial bike 'boulevard' network of side streets made safer for bicyclists, so it's mostly ignorance that brings peop
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The article states that they are intentionally the same size and kerning so that the two type faces are interchangeable during page layout.
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RINSE | San Francisco, CA and Santa Monica, CA | Full Time ONSITE Rinse is a technology-enabled dry cleaning and laundry delivery service. We've grown at double-digit month-over-month rates for two years now, and our customers love us!
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by samcheng 11y ago
I've been out of the loop for a while datacenter-wise, and so fail to see the immediate value here. Are these servers running virtualized instances? Are they much cheaper as far as $/request or watt/request (or other efficien
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Even if it is a hair slower, UUIDs (or similar schemes) are advantageous for reasons beyond being able to merge tables. Another big advantage is being able to use the UUID as a key, without worrying about exploits from guessing serial numbe
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by samcheng 11y ago
Esri / ArcGIS is great for analysis, but people should know by now that it is a terrible web-scale presentation tool. I'd guess that the majority of visitors to this site bounced before the markers showed up! This is classic gove
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by samcheng 11y ago
iOS allows apps to be pretty user-hostile, too. A bunch of apps require location tracking 'always' or 'never' but without an option for 'while using.' Why would I want the Yelp app to know my location when I
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by samcheng 11y ago
Indeed. Lighter, nimbler, quieter, and less-smoggy trains are planned, which will run from electricity instead of diesel. The project is estimated to cost $1.5 Billion and finish in about 5 years.
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Yes, although there is an electrification effort planned: http://www.caltrain.com/projectsplans/CaltrainModernization/... Current completion date is estimated at 2020, but it keeps slipping...
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One key insight that they're missing is that the 'trendy' office location has shifted from Silicon Valley to San Francisco over the past few years. The result is that people who may have settled in the valley now find themsel
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by samcheng 11y ago
10 MW (constantly running) is closer to 20 wind turbines, given that the average capacity factor in NY is ~24% https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/u-s-wind-capacity-facto... (The average wind turbine capacity factor i
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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 two years now, and our customers love us! We hav
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The Art of Launching in a New City(arenavc.com)
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Friday Afternoon Codeathon?
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We seem to have killed it (at least, my search terms resulted in an interminable loading screen). Please, people, lay off it while they can figure out some scaling!
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Some parts of Palo Alto don't even give permits for TWO story houses (to preserve the privacy and character of the surrounding one-story houses, particularly those Eichlers with the entire rear wall of the house being made of glass). E
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Thanks for the link! That worked perfectly.
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Apple isn't immune to this either! Every once in a while, U2 starts playing on my phone inadvertently. I didn't ask for that music, thanks. How is this behavior acceptable? Didn't Tim Cook tell us that Apple was the one te
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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 two years now, and our customers love us! We hav
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by samcheng 11y ago
Actually, gun violence has been on a downward trend since the early nineties across the entire population. You'd expect police firearm fatalities to trend downward accordingly, regardless of the use of body armor. Police wearing body
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Reading further, it's actually 50 officers who were killed by firearm in 2014, and it's not clear whether that number includes suicides. This number is trending downwards since in the mid-seventies. http://www.nbcnews.c

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