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Sounds like you are asking about tech transfer capabilities? As a starting point, here is a good intro article from WIRED that you might find useful: https://www.wired.com/brandlab…

Yeah, that also struck me as more of arising from an "antagonistic, competitive" culture vs a collaborative/cooperative one. And as Facebook shows, "everyone shouting and whoever g…

This was a cool AlphaPhoenix video doing a large-scale crystal growth simulation that looks amazingly similar: https://youtu.be/06TscuHNvGQ?t=305

> I presume one would have recourse under contract for such a foul up? Possibly, but delays in construction are what kill you. You can't really FedEx overnight new structural steel…

The name of this index is like clickbait gone awry... Couldn't they have gone for something more like the Perception of Integrity Index since being #1 means "least corrupt"?

But again, in practice banks will loan more money more easily to those with a verified identity that has recourse beyond simple "loss of creditworthiness", so those loans will alwa…

sorry for pedantry but you do mean "this will take 20 hours", yes?

A fun way to play with people who won't believe you is to say OK then, let's play 10 games @ $10/game: Get 3 cards and pick one to be the prize. Your mathematically-challenged part…

Assuming you aren't trying to intentionally throw shade on CA rent control: Rent SUBSIDIES are a hidden redistribution as you discuss. Rent CONTROL forces recent transplants to sub…

Yeah, annoyingly I used to lightly rest my fingers on the brightness/escape function keys, so now every once in a while I won't pay attention and the screen is now either full blas…

I'm not sure I know too many 2.3 person households that are in a studio apartment, though. Also above we counted adults vs everyone so the numbers are a bit high for the full house…

OK, I finally did what I think is the real, updated math: According to [1] from 2018, "Roughly half of the budget consists of self-supporting activities at the City’s Enterprise de…

Do you have a source for your "SF collects $2800 per month per household in taxes" number? This Quora answer[1] suggests it's more like $3300/person/yr. The 2010 Census says SF has…

My brother actually has a company called OnSightEyes.com which uses a smartphone-powered device to measure prescriptions. Their model is to show up at companies and run diagnostics…

GrapheneDB (Neo4j) on Heroku here - relatively small scale project so far (1000's of users) but very easy to use, no problems, great support. If your problem space is a graph, usin…

Wait - are you claiming that New Jersey is somehow bribing New Mexico for policy concessions? https://www.moneytips.com/is-your-state-a-net-payer-or-a-net...

Do you think some kind of bidding or voting on the maximum donation amounts involved would make sense? Ie, cities each vote on what they think a "proper" maximum reward would be, t…

But isn't the IRS knocking in a few years better than the IRS knocking THIS year? IANAL (or a CPA), but it seems like a good-faith attempt to invest in an OZ should not incur penal…

Took me a minute as well - I think he means logical OR (vs logical AND, etc) ie IF (A OR B) THEN ...

Well... you can still execute the OR essentially via BFS vs DFS... Spend some "cycles" or steps executing one path, then the other, then keep alternating. Eventually you will hit t…

For some reason I am able to understand single-DA better as: 1. All students are sequentially ranked via lottery 2. You walk down the list, and each student gets their pick of scho…

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/sec-charges-madoff-auditor-wi...

This is the main blocker for me right now for sure.

The other stat I think is relevant is that the average car today is 11.5 years old. Or looked at another way, in 11 years, HALF of the cars on the road are the cars that are on the…