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by spikels 12y ago
The NSF grant played a minor role but the OP is exagerating it's importance to support her political viewpoint of how the world should be run. More background here: http://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements&#x2F
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Hyperloop moves closer to becoming reality(cnbc.com)
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by spikels 12y ago
I've dealt with SF Planning several times in the last few years. With one exception (existing illegal units) planning restrictions have only gotten worse. For example development along the Embarcadero has been banned by ballot measure.
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by spikels 12y ago
How's he enjoying the weather? I was just back there last week -20F then came back to SF sunny and 70F. Reminded me why I made the opposite move years ago.
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by spikels 12y ago
The solution is obvious don't allow outside observers into education classes. /s
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by spikels 12y ago
There is no difference. Because of their extraordinary concentration of power all of these leaders are a source of risk. If they screw up many will suffer both inside and outside their countries. Greece is at a critical point. I hope Yanis
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by spikels 12y ago
Legally yes - just like his first class ticket legally entitled him to better service. But is it right for him to have such a huge influence over the so many people both in Greece and outside. Seems like a single point of failure to me. I&#
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by spikels 12y ago
I find this hilarious! Despite his epiphany in the airport line he seems to have no problem deciding the economic fate of not only his entire nation but much of Europe. Now that's a false sense on entitlement!
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by spikels 12y ago
A crappy website (iOS not recommended) is not nearly as useful as the actual data which might be really interesting. Why are news organizations so often barriers to getting information? Please release the source documents.
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by spikels 12y ago
I'm not as worked up about this as you are ("serfs" c'mon). The "machines" are mostly doing mind numbing clerical work which they are relatively better at performing after considering costs. And they are doing
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by spikels 12y ago
If I'm understanding the article correctly, this seems correct. Of the many models almost everyone chose to emphasized the models with the more extreme output. Different parties had different motivations: selling news, avoiding politic
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by spikels 12y ago
You are confusing land and housing - they are not the same. Land area is fixed but habitable space is not. In built up areas the constraint on building new housing is largely regulatory (mostly planning regulations).
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by spikels 12y ago
So Palantir is Big Brother Inc.
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by spikels 12y ago
Article about using hundreds of Playstations to model two black holes merging: http://www.space.com/26943-sony-playstations-calculate-black... Unfortunately does not clearly answer your question. Very complex.
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by spikels 12y ago
Not a physicist but I'd guess nothing would happen when the event horizons touch as the black holes themselves are point objects at the center of thoses spheres. So neither's mass would be within the event horizon of the other. Wh
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by spikels 12y ago
The experienced length of your prison sentence would depend on the gravity in the cell where you were kept. After 10 years in that cell a 1,000 years may have passed on earth. Might be a good situation for both the victim (now long dead) an
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by spikels 12y ago
Was referring to the methodology in the UNICEF report Stiglitz linked[1]. While not a relative poverty measure the regular Census methodology you refer to has all the other weaknesses I mentioned but the biggest is it is based on a rather a
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by spikels 12y ago
Stiglitz has a political agenda so his definition of poverty is not what you might think (i.e. lack of food or shelter) but "relative poverty" - defined as income below 50% of median adjusted for family size (which are larger for
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LA To SF In 30 Minutes? Hyperloop CEO Says Speed Tube Could Become Reality(losangeles.cbslocal.com)
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by spikels 12y ago
I like DDG too but I bet thay can't afford to pay Mozilla enough to survive. Google was paying them close to $300 million. Hopefully Yahoo can afford something similar or Mozilla will need to cut back on spending. Long-term given the s
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State of Mozilla 2013 (released today)(mozilla.org)
5 points by spikels 12y ago|0 comments
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Mozilla – 2013 Audited Financials [pdf](static.mozilla.com)
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by spikels 12y ago
It's a non-profit serving the public interest so I had assumed donations from individuals and foundations would be a bigger source of revenue. It looks like they have collected less than $2.2 million in the 8 years covered by the finan
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by spikels 12y ago
Google paid Mozilla around $275 million in search royalties in 2012, the latest year Mozilla has released financials. Source: https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla_Audited_Fi... 90% of $305 millio
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by spikels 12y ago
Yikes I never realized Mozilla was so dependent on Google % of Revenue from Google Search Royalties: 2013 Not released yet (usually 11 months! after end of year) 2012 88% (90% of 304,539/311,005) 2011 84% (85% of 161,904&#x2
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by spikels 12y ago
Keep in mind that buybacks and dividends are very different for holders of stock options. Option holders benefit from buybacks but get nothing from dividends - that money is just gone (unless they are very rare "dividend protected&quot
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by spikels 12y ago
We are just going around in circles timr. The Cronicle article (as usual) is pretty poorly written so it's not clear who was evicted. Given the regulation at the time concerning demolition, rent control and live/work I am confiden
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by spikels 12y ago
I agree that without getting into the details you can be misled. "Cities" are defined many ways: city, county (same as city in SF but not in LA or SD), metropolitan division, metropolitan statistical area and combined metropolitan
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by spikels 12y ago
Prices in SF, LA, SD all move together with the economy but increases in SF have outpaces almost every other city. This has been going on for decades and hard to see on your chart as differences in price changes are compounded up over the y
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by spikels 12y ago
What like 9x increase? Clearly more housing would be built if were simply allowed. Developers are building to the maximum units/sqft permitted on every project.

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