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gpawlon New York’s Subways Are Not Just Delayed, Some Trains Don’t Run at All

Why? Surface buses can run quickly at night when there is light traffic, and the air quality is far better at surface level than in the subway.

gpawlon Pi and the collapse of peer review

Parent poster was rejecting the month-first version.

gpawlon Pi and the collapse of peer review

In what situation is it useful to know 355/113? It's approximation so it won't be used in any closed-form solution, so it's going to be converted to decimal or some other unit, which will either be a laborious manual calculation or require a calculator, which will have a more-precise value of pi stored in its memory.

gpawlon Redfin shares surge more than 30% in $138.5M real estate tech IPO

Are you referring to the legal compliance practices, like requiring logins to see some listing details?

gpawlon Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web

0.6MB to launch the app, which downloads 100MB more resources as soon as it starts up.

gpawlon Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web

Coders like to code. Product builders want to build products with a minimum of fuss.

gpawlon The U.S. has a staggering pilot shortage

> Over the next two decades, 87 new pilots need to be trained and ready to fly a commercial airliner every day in order to meet our insatiable demand to travel by air.

> That's one every 15 minutes.

uh....

gpawlon First Human Embryos Edited in U.S

Did you know that even today, old people are less healthy than young people?

gpawlon First Human Embryos Edited in U.S

https://www.reddit.com/user/martinshkreli/

gpawlon First Human Embryos Edited in U.S

Please tell me which of these bodies is superior to the others: http://mymodernmet.com/howard-schatz-beverly-ornstein-athlet...

gpawlon Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/17/537645901/legal-challenges-exp...

Seattle is very progressive, and highly in favor of income tax.

gpawlon SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately Held Companies

Less than 2 centuries. You think it's good to have bigger threats than starvation?

gpawlon SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately Held Companies

You confuse "corporation" with "company"

gpawlon SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately Held Companies

It what sense does Bezos lack control?

Being public means that the company is transparent, not that it is out of control.

gpawlon SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately Held Companies

Whence this myth that Musk doesn't love money, just because he makes his money making cool tech?

http://variety.com/gallery/elon-musk-buys-fifth-bel-air-home...

http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-mclaren-f1-hypercar... wrecked-it-2015-6

gpawlon Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs

and continuing to skyrocket: http://www.king5.com/news/local/seattle-public-utilities-pit...

gpawlon Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs

Why would you wash your car or water your lawn in Seattle?

gpawlon Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs

Hint in username.

gpawlon Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs

> ambitions

> had offices

gpawlon Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs

Other cities on the list have ~half the research spending, plus ALSO large tech industries.

gpawlon A Sculpture Controlled by Live Honeybees

If you have a website as a desktop daemon (like a calendar app), it's handy. But mainly it's a way to put more ads in your line of sight.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3220216

chrome://settings/content/notifications?search=notifications

gpawlon Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person

Only on a technicality, because Gates's Net Worth doesn't include money in the foundation that Gates controls.

gpawlon Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person

His non-foundation donations don't add up to close to foundation donations. That would defeat the purpose of creating a foundation.

gpawlon Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person

Most Amazon employees are non-shareholding warehouse workers (even if technically they go through a contractor)

gpawlon Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person

Bezos invests in his favorite stock, AMZN, which grows > 8% /yr

gpawlon Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person

This is why foundations exist; to hold accumulated wealth.

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/

http://tsffoundation.org/

http://www.bezosfamilyfoundation.org/ <- Jeff's parents, not Jeff

gpawlon 42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the U.S

If someone can't pass FizzBuzz, they need a year or two of education to be useful as a programmer, and might never make it. Sure, you can hire someone to do helpdesk and help them try to grow into a programmer, but you can't hire a programmer who knows nothing, and then entrust them to not ruin your company, destroy your data, etc.

gpawlon 42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the U.S

I'd like to see that graph expanded to distributions, and weighted by population.

I'd also like to see China and India and Russia on that list.

USA is big enough to be an above average nation and a below average nation combined.

Israel, that ranks significantly below the US on that chart, has perhaps the largest technology industry per capita in the world.

gpawlon 42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the U.S

We're not talking about elites, we're talking about average. There will never be enough 'elite' students to go around.

gpawlon 42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the U.S

There's a huge middle ground between "Being #2 is failure" and "no need to ever try to do anything"