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This type of construction is only so profitable because it's usually illegal, and therefore a critically undersupplied segment of the market. Developers are therefore eager to do i…

I'm comparing the TCO of a good value gasoline car to the best value electric car available (including used models). If you have a ton of disposable income, buying a Tesla could be…

I saw Jello spinning recently at a fetish party at a gay bar. Punk enough for me.

The math works out a lot better if your society has a strong social safety net, and friendly bankruptcy and limited liability laws.

Leaving essential information out of the headline is a common clickbaiting tactic.

Doesn't Harvard own a bunch of prime real estate? Tax free, even. How tall is the average building on that land?

The academic job market is so tight in most fields that random universities in the middle of nowhere get hundreds of applicants for a single tenure-track job. If you go back 100 ye…

The US also gives nonprofit status to organizations that do stuff like buy expensive paintings and build megachurches. There's no general requirement that the nonprofits need to be…

Ultimately, there are not enough doctors to meet demand. Raising wages will just move them around. The supply of doctors is inelastic due to limited residency slots.

In general, people tend to be overconfident in their beliefs and too slow to incorporate new information. There is experimental evidence to back this up (pdf warning: http://www.re…

I didn't benchmark it and can't give a speed comparison, but I had success solving a pretty big optimization problem with GLOP, which I beleive uses or-tools.

I ninja-edited my post. Previously the EV for uniform guessing was zero, because the points value for all the answers (1, -.25, -.25, -.25, -.25) summed to 0. Now the EV is positiv…

My story matches yours almost exactly. Didn't take a class, did a bunch of practice tests, got an almost perfect score. I agree that confidence is very important, and aptitude matt…

I would never buy a Bose speaker, I know that the audio quality is nothing special. But I've found among Bluetooth headphones there is nothing that feels as comfortable and works a…

When I used versions of android with home screen roatation, I remember it would completely jack up most of my widgets. They were designed to be displayed at some aspect ratio and t…

You're bringing up an unrelated article to make an ad-hominem attack on the author. Seems like a fundamentalist response to a heretic.

I'm really skeptical of lower TCO for electric cars. My gasoline-powered car is worth $5k. All electric cars with decent range cost more in depreciation alone than my TCO. I think …

Most industries can engage in anticompetitive behaviors with impunity. But I think if Facebook watches which way the political winds are blowing for them, they would be more carefu…

I remember the read-only mode as some presumably cached pre-rendered html, not sure if it ever existed for the app/api. I wonder if the read-only mode didn't mesh well with the sin…

>No, they'll say it is your fault because the bad guys had your username and password. This sort of claim requires evidence. Many people have had money fraudulently taken out of th…

I don't know much about Florida, but it shocks me that there's any need to water a lawn there. Watering a lawn must take up a lot of bottles worth of water! I wonder if they use mo…

This article is missing evidence to support the basic claim in the title. What portion of water usage can be attributed to bottled water?

Burning Man doesn't provide any of those things for attendees.

Although iOS Safari does have support for ad-blockers built in, so most iOS users can easily get an ad-free web.

Yeah, I don't like telling people that they are asking the wrong question. But my experience says that if you are finding you have spare cycles in your job, you could probably be g…