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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