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The upside of gentrification in SF(blog.sfgate.com)
3 points by spikels 12y ago|0 comments
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by spikels 12y ago
Call me "shameful, cynical [and] fearmongering" but I don't think the ineffectiveness of the CDC on Ebola is due to lack of resources or that $25 million will make a difference. They have a $6 billion plus annual budget ($25
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by spikels 12y ago
An elevator serving 50 stories should count more than one stopping at only 10 stories. A better measure would be total elevator stops but as usual you are stuck with the available data - especially difficult to overcome with mult-country da
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by spikels 12y ago
Surprising the early populist housing policies of rivht-wing dictator Franco were so similar to those of today's left-wing San Francisco government: rent control, eviction restriction, etc. And the results were pretty much the same: ho
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by spikels 12y ago
tl;dr: wolf good, deer bad
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by spikels 12y ago
All the choices offered are spend more or tax more. Haven't they been budgeting for the "$$$$$ $" in needed maintenance and repair all along? It appears that BART was never run to be sustainable but would require period bailo
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by spikels 12y ago
According to National Review it was Epic. This makes sense given their market share but keep in mind that National Review have an axe to grind as Epic is a big Obama/Obamacare supporter. Best to find additional confirmation. http:&#x2
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by spikels 12y ago
I may be wrong that it may be an ER worker but according to the NY Times "it occurred at some point DURING or after his second visit to the hospital on Sept. 28."[1] He tested positive on Sept. 30.[2] We will have to wait to see w
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by spikels 12y ago
So far this hospital has completely screwed up both in providing medical services and explaining what happened. Does it really make sense that an apparent emergency room worker would be wearing full protective gear including a face shield b
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by spikels 12y ago
This is bullshit advice. Vitamins and other supplements have never been proven to prevent any disease in healthy people. They have also never been proven to treat any viral infections or even been studied to treat Ebola. Sorry there is no m
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by spikels 12y ago
I think fufilling a lifelong dream to play pro football and the minimum salary of $420,000 explains why there are thousands of people lined up to take these jobs despite the well known health risks. BTW - The incidence of alcohol related ar
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by spikels 12y ago
Hot pumping action!
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by spikels 12y ago
Jacobin Magazine always good for a laugh!
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by spikels 12y ago
Krugman hasn't been that clear about why he doesn't like bitcoin. Apparently he mostly does not like it because it is favored by Libertarians. He has endorsed the views of Brad Delong (an econ blogger with similar views and style)
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by spikels 12y ago
The author was just on The Econtalk podcast discussing this work: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/10/david_autor_on.html
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Uncharted ocean mountains, trenches and ridges revealed by satellite map(theguardian.com)
3 points by spikels 12y ago|0 comments
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by spikels 12y ago
I don't think substitution to synthetics is very common for the reasons you mention. Oil substitutes such as ethanol have been driven by government policy not economics and would mostly disappear without subsidies. True synthetic oil p
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by spikels 12y ago
Agreed - it is either wrong or a contentless axiomatic statement. My sense is many "Peak Oil" people were predicting something dramatic would happen (not just price increases) and were simply wrong. What is strange is the strong a
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Scientists make droplets move on their own(phys.org)
5 points by spikels 12y ago|0 comments
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by spikels 12y ago
Why do certain phrases, such a "Peak Oil", make so many people have such strong opinions based on so little information and expertise? It must simply be one of those ideas what captures the public imagination and makes everyone fe
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by spikels 12y ago
I thought the peak oil people were saying we are running out of oil and that production would peak then decline relatively soon. If they were saying that prices would simply rise encouraging new technology to allow continuing increased prod
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by spikels 12y ago
Just to be clear - the story in the first paragraph is about royal jelly not honey. Royal jelly a totally different thing than honey: a bee glandular secretion rather than bee processed plant nectar [1]. However I doubt it should be given t
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by spikels 12y ago
Known as the Great Oxygenation Event, the effects were actually quite dramatic including killing most life on earth and triggering a 300 million year ice age as well as creating most of the world's iron deposits. http://en.m
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by spikels 12y ago
FYI - Neither Eliot Spitzer nor Charles Keating were ever legislators.
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Apple Watch in Apple Store Online(apple.com)
2 points by spikels 12y ago|0 comments
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by spikels 12y ago
While personally I am generally for both free markets and open borders I think most people make these judgements based on their understanding of their own self-interest - as they probably should. Depending on your specific situation you can
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by spikels 12y ago
Sorry you don't understand - let me see if I can make it simpler for you. Your alias (readerrr) gives me some pause that this will be successful. :) If something is preventable that means it can be prevented. Right? So why is it not be
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by spikels 12y ago
The problem with those "connected" results is that alcohol is very popular so a large fraction of any group has consummed alcohol recently. This is yet another example of the divergence of causation and correlation. If it is actua
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by spikels 12y ago
Your logic is flawed: (1) Businesses and employees can split the benefits of lower income taxes and both be better off (both in theory and in practice it is never an all or nothing choice). (2) Hopefully employees are not so stupid to care
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by spikels 12y ago
I thought of Putin too when I first saw this posted a day ago for the reason that Putin has indicated many time that he would like to reestablish the USSR. If he ends up invading Ukraine and other former Soviet states (he already took a te

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