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Following this line of thinking, all or even more than all US GDP "growth" is attributable to wasteful medical and educational inflation.

It's not an open standard, but this was the one of the interesting pieces of RIM's software stack. Their push system worked reasonably well, used little power on the handset, and o…

Only on Hacker News is the fact that a database has a primary key for user accounts evidence of a global conspiracy against humanity. Here's some bad news for you: literally every …

There are messes that cannot be cleaned up. We have the leverage to destroy everything. Therefore it is better to focus on preventing the mess, than in futilely pretending we can c…

Can you provide some supporting statements for your point 1(a)?

Part of the German economic success story has been keeping housing cheap, so they can keep pay down, so they can export. As soon as housing prices rise, pay rises, and the story fa…

Yeah they have Mozilla but not Google which occupies the other 99% of the same building. Amazon also has significant headcount in SF.

If there’s one job that robots are certainly going to take, it is solar panel squeegee guy.

Like any utility, you don't need a guy just hanging around waiting for the transformers to explode. You truck him in every 50 years when that actually happens. It's time domain mul…

Solar utility installations in California that I’m familiar with employ fewer than 1 person per square km.

The old eastern span of the SF-Oakland bridge was a series of double-decked trusses between towers. Essentially it was several loosely-coupled, independent failure domains. In fail…

We still have a lot of prestressed concrete structures that predate good understanding of creep in such structures. Box-beam highway bridges, for example, were universally built fr…

Indeed, it's not the data but the code to support it. There's a bazillion features in there designed to avoid the user having to do additional page loads. For example in my Gmail m…

The very lightweight HTML Gmail lacks all of "normal" Gmail's latency-hiding features, which is one reason it uses so little memory. Gmail preloads all of the messages in the threa…

function getDCRTT() { // Assume this doesn't change much? return 500000; // ns } :thinking face emoji: High by 10x in my experience.

Debug symbols don’t inhibit identical code folding. What you get is one copy of the function and one arbitrary file/line entry which makes it look like your program makes impossibl…

It is very rare that I have seen a use of std::set that seemed justified, although it does happen. People just use it because it's easier to type than unordered_set! One way to spe…

But why would you look at VTA when it's one of the worst-performing systems in the nation? Their ridership is in freefall.

Black people get pulled over for being black.

In California no white person has ever been pulled over for having one non-working headlight.

Tesla's own SEC filings.

That graph does deserve some explanation, but perhaps it is sales by year rather than production? Tesla is currently running off orders they booked years ago, so production rate is…

The guy sitting right next to me has been increasingly angry about not being able to get a new headlight for his Model S, at a price well over $2000, for over a year. I don't think…

The F-14 didn't have any purpose during the Cold War either. It was an idiotic fantasy toy, just like the carriers on which it sailed. All of that hardware would have been on the b…

He doesn't seem to mention what the build times were with the Xeon.