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by specialp 8y ago
Exactly. The 25k number was just to make a splash and notice they aren't doing that again. Because there aren't really any other areas that could give them 25k skilled employees. They will scale up in Nashville which is expected s
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Suppose you had a car dealership. Cars were flying off the lot. No discounts or rebates needed. Google comes in and buys 10, Facebook takes another 10. Amazon then comes in and asks for 25 and wants a $5000 rebate for each car. You give it
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by specialp 8y ago
Yes it probably will end up net benefit for NYC but in any deal you have to ask did we overpay? Google bought 111 8th avenue, one of the biggest buildings in area in NYC, and also the premier datacenter location for 1.8 billion and added a
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by specialp 8y ago
Well he is referring mostly to moving companies to the upstate region which actually really needs it. But I guarantee it is not convincing a company to bring 100 jobs to NYC. If Amazon wanted to build HQ2 in Utica NY or Buffalo I'd say
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by specialp 8y ago
Exactly. The whole HQ2 Willy Wonka show was never going to move to some area that really really needed it. NYC is currently a boom town, and I as a NYer am disappointed that we gave them such a huge amount of tax breaks. I support NY perhap
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by specialp 8y ago
Unfortunately this is the circle of life in high cost living areas. The NYC area has been expensive for a long period of time. SF now has become even more expensive and this phenomenon is newer to the area than NYC. The people I grew up wit
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The main perpetrator whom gave up his friends Tyler Rai Barriss actually did cause the death of someone in Kansas by "Swatting" them. He then was completely unapologetic. These new indictments are after he accepted a plea deal for
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This has been contemplated for many years and the price has gone almost nowhere but up. In the early to mid 2000's it was thought that most work would go to much cheaper India, and put highly compensated on shore workers out of jobs. I
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by specialp 8y ago
Facilitating peer review does have a cost. You would be surprised how much it takes to find referees that are both qualified to assess the paper and do not have too close of a relationship with the authors. Then there is the whole thing of
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by specialp 8y ago
I am in support of legalized gambling but the way it is done in states like Illinois and New York (my state) just preys on problem gamblers and is indeed a money grab by the state. The arguments for making gambling illegal or restricted in
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by specialp 8y ago
Last year they published a grand total of 8 articles with the editorial staff doing the copy-editing, and web work for free. It is nice they are doing this but it isn't indicative of the cost of hosting/peer review/copy-editi
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by specialp 8y ago
The cresting over a hill issue is mitigated/solved by this: https://auto.howstuffworks.com/adaptive-headlight1.htm As I said in the parent post it is already required on all new cars in Europe as of now.
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by specialp 8y ago
You are thinking about the Ebay Chinese LED light bars that people put on their "off-road" vehicles. The problem isn't with the brightness it is with how they are aimed. If you turn on stock HID headlights and point them at a
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by specialp 8y ago
Google is not only worried about the competition, they are more likely more concerned with potential legislation. There is now bipartisan support for legislation to stop this practice. It could soon be next that there is regulation not allo
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by specialp 8y ago
Yes which is also in their interest because once personal information is sold someone else can use it without going through Google. And they benefit by having more personal information than anyone else. Instead they sell access to advertisi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonostomatidae Bristlemouth fish are the most numerous vertebrates in the world by far. They live exclusively in water between 800M and 4500M. There are 100s of billions to quadrillions of
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by specialp 8y ago
Without an example of them showing bias by actually giving an award to a product that is much like theirs that targets men this is sheer conjecture, and presumption of bias. Has the CES ever given an award for an adult product? Perhaps it c
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by specialp 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_lamp . These were used for a while before the incandescent bulb for street lighting. They aren't very power efficient. I used to work on one in a large projection system and I had
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by specialp 8y ago
I read the 2/1000 participants lost weight and kept it off on Weight watchers post you cited. It seems highly inaccurate. It considers within 5lbs of target weight as not successful as we cannot know if they were within 5lbs to begin
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by specialp 8y ago
Often times it is not even a mistake. I have been downvoted before with an on topic valid point because some people might not have agreed. I don't mind that, someone can read it and judge for themselves. I personally only downvote comm
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by specialp 8y ago
There's a difference with scientific publishing for most disciplines. I work for a non-profit scientific publisher. Much of the research today that is coming out is extremely specialized. Thus there aren't many people in the world
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If Google is going to have customers remain on their site for search information they have the duty to ensure it is accurate. More and more searches are now given a placard that is either community generated or scraped whether it be maps or
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by specialp 8y ago
Yes they have. I have had it for over a year. People don't want to subscribe for $10 a month or something but surely they can pay 20 cents for an article. Otherwise we are going to have junk news forever with auto playing videos and ad
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by specialp 8y ago
Thanks for that post. That is impressive that you went with the best/fastest tech available today rather than just leverage what was done with Harrys. I am interested with what you actually used for the e-commerce part of it. Are you i
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by specialp 8y ago
People tend to find things that they have done for a long time less complicated than something new despite it actually being quite complicated. I always ask people when they are debating stuff like this to think about how they would explain
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by specialp 8y ago
You are correct it isn't trivial but I'd argue some stuff is even easier than in the past. Like the whole responsive design (or a design at all) is already accomplished by using any one of many themes offered for Hugo. Then you do
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There are already more software devs in NYC than in Silicon Valley. There's also triple the amount of people in the NYC metro area, and a lot of other industries. I'm not sure NYC needed to give a lot of money to attract them. It
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15 years ago there were plenty of people paying $5 a month for shared hosting FTPing hand made HTML over. Now it is way easier and even tech people aren't hosting their own in general which is bad. Right now there are great JAM stacks
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The average American home was around 1500 feet 30-40 years ago and people raised families in them just fine. Instead of 4br 400sq ft each with en suite bathrooms, you had 120sq ft bedrooms for kids. It wasn't until the excesses of the
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by specialp 8y ago
"So for now, the Pittsburgh native and father to young children is living with his mother" In the past that wasn't so much of an option. You had to survive. I grew up with parents working jobs like the one he eschewed. They w

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