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What is the basis for the claim that income tax in NYS and CA pushed prices and income up? This seems extremely unlikely, unless you are looking at pretax income or something.

That is overstating it a bit; there are mentions decades (but not centuries) after his reported death. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus has a good overview of the n…

This isn't accurate if you are talking about the federal level. A better model in terms of spending is that the federal government is an insurance company with an army. The federal…

What are the scientific Python ecosystem conventions that PyTorch breaks?

Paris agreement is non-binding. Who cares? What matters is if it's working or not. Of course it's hard to untangle if it's due to accords, scientific/engineering breakthroughs, gov…

there isn't a presidential election in 10 years.

The correct answer is probably to allow car deliveries/parking at certain times of the day (late evening and early morning?) and have the streets be pedestrian/biker only outside o…

I'd guess most are more concerned that if they give you a private office, others will request one and they aren't equipped to give lots of private offices. And if they give just yo…

What would be the choices now? Most references to alternatives suggest Haskell.

A decent analogy for most governments is that they behave similarly to an insurance company with an army. You absolutely pay a percentage of the value of what you are insuring (her…

Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit is pretty good: http://book.mixu.net/distsys/single-page.html . Focuses on theory results that are applicable to real systems and analyzes th…

They told you they rejected you because you don't have a degree from a top tier school?

Not only that, but cause and effect isn't obvious either. Let's say there's some correlation between high ratios of debt / gdp (our proxy for "unsutainable levels of debt") and low…

I'm not sure you have demonstrated what you are trying to show. If I understand correctly, you've calculated the chance a manager is promoted to director as 1/15 * average number o…

Caltrain doesn't have a stop at Montgomery or Embarcadero. You have to switch to BART before SF, walk, or take one of the muni lines that is slower than walking.

In California they are public and searchable by name, see http://transparentcalifornia.com/ .

I asked an anesthesiologist this question and am transcribing from memory (hehe), so I may have screwed some things up. The answer to your question in is no, you aren't suffering e…

No, search for MergeIndexes or --go-live.

Great point. Also -- at least at the hospital I'm familiar with in SF -- those registered nurses work 36 hours a week (three 12-hour shifts a week). It's hard to see how being an R…

The term is actually "Weaponized Keynesianism", http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/more-thoughts-on... for reference

I could see having that perception if you were coming from a large company that never fires anyone. I can say that for some people, it is absolutely scary, even if you are competen…

I guess it depends on how you define nerd. I would describe a large percentage of students at top schools to be incredibly goal oriented, but not really nerdy. They'll outwork ever…

people admit that their goal is to launder their money?

> its leadership is completely inept at fighting for its people against the cost-cutting mediocrities The worst thing about the "cost-cutting mediocrities" is the cost-cutting does…