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gpawl

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    Comment #14949815

    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.

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    Comment #14922761

    Parent poster was rejecting the month-first version.

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    Comment #14922747

    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, whi…

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    Comment #14876046

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

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    Comment #14872779

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

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    Comment #14872766

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

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    Comment #14872753

    > 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…

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    Comment #14872750

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

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    Comment #14872747

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

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    Comment #14872709

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

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    Comment #14872387

    http://www.npr.org/2017/07/17/537645901/legal-challenges-exp... Seattle is very progressive, and highly in favor of income tax.

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    Comment #14872329

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

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    Comment #14872326

    You confuse "corporation" with "company"

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    Comment #14872315

    It what sense does Bezos lack control? Being public means that the company is transparent , not that it is out of control.

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    Comment #14872307

    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.business…

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    Comment #14872293

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

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    Comment #14872278

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

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    Comment #14872277

    Hint in username.

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    Comment #14872271

    > ambitions vs > had offices

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    Comment #14872270

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

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    Comment #14872261

    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/3…

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    Comment #14869120

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

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    Comment #14869070

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

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    Comment #14869027

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

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    Comment #14869018

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