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I’m a big fan of her current podcast - The Rest Is Science. Informative and entertaining as well as being easy to listen to (I’m not a fan of many audio-only shows, so listenabilit…

The original Costco HQ building overlooks this new intersection, so this is almost a relevant comment

I too live nearby The lanes are quite narrow, and the outer curb is deceptive - there’s a 1” edge with a curved curb behind it making it look wider than it actually is. Scraping al…

If you were building Rails apps in 2005/6, more than likely you were reading Ezra's blog post on how deploy to your VPS. It was tricky to get right, but Ezra made it so that it was…

If it does work this way, this is a breach of the Facebook developer terms of service. Data may be cached for specific amounts of time, but long term storage is not allowed. When t…

Hi - can you email me - tom at craz8 dot com? I'd like to know technical details and a price you'd sell this at. Thanks

The $12000 out of pocket is only if you use it because you need medical help. You don't actually spend the whole $22K unless you have a lot of medical issues, and then you'll be ha…

In addition to what others have mentioned, your old plan had a lifetime maximum payout - maybe $1M, maybe $2M. That is removed by the ACA, and that costs extra too. Also, there is …

On a positive note on how to move forward on this idea, there's an example in the Seattle startup scene that is tackling a similar government regulation issue by focusing on exactl…

Each country has it's import fees for commercial use. These are often quite large, and, as an import company, you will have to pay them to operate legally. The reason some of these…

Duty Free shops, I believe, are for personal use only. Gifts to family and friends are overlooked, but the limits are small enough anyway that you can't possibly give too much away…

Any time you cross a border with goods, there's a question that is asked about if this is for personal use or not. Sometimes this is on a form, sometimes in person, but the answer …

It's probably better to call this a 'Beta IPO' filing. This is a fairly new system that allows companies to work out bugs in their filings before they open it to public viewing. Cl…

They painted the plane too - so they clearly put some money into this in addition to what was needed for a test flight https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/t31/1.…

This chart is part of the reason that Amazon's recent quarterly report of earnings is a little off, despite record revenue. These guys are growing their businesses at an enormous r…

I think the plane was his, and was already there, so he probably picked up the tab for that one himself. One thing to note is that there is a hospital at the location he was evacua…

I hate the term 'rescued' here. They flew him from the harbor of the main town in the Galapagos, to the airport on the other side of the island to avoid a long drive or boat ride. …

Publish Date order was forced on me by circumstances - mainly that I started reading these books in 1986. This is a fine way of seeing the universe and Pratchett's writing craft ev…

I'm drinking a beer from that exact mug right now

Off the original topic, but I read something in the last week for MS treatment that seems to cure it completely. This is done by taking the patient's own bone marrow, and transplan…

3 1/2" The IBM PS/2 only came with the smaller disk, so bigger wasn't necessary

I mis-understood who the 'their' was in your comment. I agree with you on this point. There is an argument that allowing companies these tax breaks brings jobs to your country inst…

They have a fiduciary duty to do this to make more money for their shareholders. They have no enforceable social contract to provide taxes more than what they can legally pay. They…