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by spikels 12y ago
As explained live/work was only built on non-residential land - residential units were created and none were destroyed. This is good for housing and only bad for industrial users no longer welcome in SF anyway. You link does not suppor
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by spikels 12y ago
Nobody said SOMA didn't have residential property. It is a patchwork of different uses and zonings. But you are simply* wrong that housing was destroyed or people were evicted to build live/work. As you now admit it was only built
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by spikels 12y ago
Slight clarification: there are 4 COMMON species of the malaria parasite that are known infect HUMANS. Also known are around 10 rarer species that also infect humans and a few hundreds that infect other animals.
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by spikels 12y ago
You got your history wrong. Few if any people were evicted to build live/work units in SF. Live/work units were build exclusively in areas zoned industrial (i.e. old factories and warehouses) - not apartments[1]. In fact it is ill
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by spikels 12y ago
Well technically it is only the Ellis Act that makes eviction easier. TICs just happen to be the best exit for a building that has been "Ellis Acted" and therefore cannot be rented for several years. All the units still remain sub
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by spikels 12y ago
Another interesting article from Kim-Mai Cutler on the absolutely fascinating Bay Area housing market. In case you missed her last one and the discussion in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7590250 One correction is
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by spikels 12y ago
I thought this article was a waste of time. It is a grab bag of obvious truths, buzzwords, opinions and contradictions. The author seems to be confused and his prescriptions for more regulation, higher interest rates and more incoherent pol
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by spikels 12y ago
Branson and the Vigin team are absolutely brilliant at PR. All day the top headlines on Google News have been about his "determination" to "find the cause of the crash" and "move forward" with little reflection
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Hydropower May Be Huge Source of Methane Emissions(news.discovery.com)
4 points by spikels 12y ago|0 comments
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by spikels 12y ago
Domestic water is probably overpriced not underpriced. It's the farmers who pay way too little (often zero!) for water. This has created screwed up incentives for farmers. Many crops are worth less than the true cost of the water neede
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by spikels 12y ago
Best article I have seen on how to improve science. The author describes a whole spectrum of possible improvements - not just one, such as more replication, and not just the problems, such as misaligned incentives. Gives some hope - but as
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by spikels 12y ago
Somewhat worrying that the people in charge of protecting Boston from flooding would waste their time on such an obviously impractical and pointless idea. Even if Boston already had canals they would still need to build surrounding flood pr
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by spikels 12y ago
Wow - just realized how slow most drones are. Could something that small break the sound barrier?
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by spikels 12y ago
Since longer telomere's may give you brain cancer we should all avoid 100% fruit juice and drink more non-diet soda! http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/06/114956/longer-telomeres-lin... Better yet ignore
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by spikels 12y ago
You are proposing an experiment that would be almost impossible to run. Little if any nutrition research is actually run like a traditional science experiment (i.e. do something specific and observe results). Unfortunately outside of the pr
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by spikels 12y ago
Copying is fundamentally less unethical than stealing. When you steal something you deprive its owner of actual property. When you copy something you deprive the copywriter owner of a potential sale. So not only is there no actual loss of a
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by spikels 12y ago
"If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything." - Ronald Coase
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by spikels 12y ago
That's just cherry picking the one down year. 2009 was the worst of the recession and AirBnB was tiny in 2009 relative to today. As AirBnB grew so did visitors. Visitors (int'l & domestics) 2013: 54.3 million 2012: 52.7 millio
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by spikels 12y ago
The argument would be that by making it cheaper to visit means more people would go (supply up -> lower prices, higher demand). So even though you spent less, more people are visiting and spending and thus total visitor spending rises. T
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by spikels 12y ago
A private conversation would not be social because only two people benefit and everyone else get nothing from it (e.g. It would be anti-social!). Anyway most active people on GitHub list their email and/or twitter handle. Contact them
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by spikels 12y ago
Um - what's so hard setting up an 8,000 person email list?
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Ebola Test Is Positive in Second Texas Health Worker(nytimes.com)
11 points by spikels 12y ago|3 comments
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by spikels 12y ago
Make that 2 domestically transmitted cases of Ebola. http://online.wsj.com/articles/ebola-found-in-second-healthc...
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2nd Health Care Worker in Texas Tests Positive for Ebola(abcnews.go.com)
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by spikels 12y ago
Hilarious! I have had similar discussions - just about different data source.
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by spikels 12y ago
I think we agree that at the time of the invasion Iraq had some chemical weapons, a type of WMD, but was no longer producing WMDs. Right? And this implies that the statement "Iraq did not have any WMDs" is false. Right? What you a
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by spikels 12y ago
According to this article the justification for the invasion of Iraq was not that Iraq "possesed WMDs" but that they had "active WMD programs". Wow - I somehow missed that distinction all these years. And when people say
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by spikels 12y ago
A bit more detail here including picture of the "data" (i.e. metal film cans): http://nsidc.org/monthlyhighlights/2013/04/glimpses-of-sea-i... Which linked to this paper in the journal "The Cry
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by spikels 12y ago
It's not quite that simple. California, where they live, is a "community property" state[1]. This means that anything earned while married is community property - owned 50/50 by both people. On the other hand anything
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by spikels 12y ago
"Cost billions" would have be correct. Their value is "priceless" as the are clearly very valuable but determining that value is impossible. What is a ride on a time machine worth? My cynical anti-govt title: "Price

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