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Yes, it's far too expensive. You can get a rental car for $20/day. The pricing scheme mentioned in the article with $1/trip would be far more attractive, along with drop off flexib…

What I find missing from this discussion is the safety aspect of wholesale ultrasound. Yes, we've been told they're perfectly safe. That was once said of x-rays as well and physici…

I'd be curious if the distribution of salary data from H1-B filings was more or less the same. Anecdotally for brand name companies, eg Netflix, the selection bias of Angel List da…

Your judgments aside, we have and are vaccinating our child. While it's correct that bipedal locomotion and big heads make childbirth more challenging for humans, it still is not a…

The entire mammalian animal kingdom is fully capable of giving birth, autonomously and unassisted (if necessary). Human females, too, can tap into that part of their brains, if you…

It's heart-wrenching stories like these that prompted my wife and me to have our daughter at home. It was a beautiful birth. Birth is not a medical emergency, but hospital economic…

That depends on the service. If you can afford outages that may be fair game. But if you have a high traffic service that's running hundreds or thousands of hosts, you can't take t…

I wonder what they used as training data?

Unenforceability of noncompetes + hot tech job market == free career insurance

Interesting. What's the rationale for this?

This is actually BMW's second foray into ride sharing stateside. They ran their Drive Now service in San Francisco for a couple of years. It never took off, because there were too …

You can't build a career on that behavior. Especially if you stick around a place for a decade or so, you'd be surprised whom you run into and whose help you might need down the ro…

But you can. The Brazen Head in the Marina, Thai Noodle on Haight and a bunch of places in North Beach will happily serve till 1 AM or later and at a quality that doesn't even comp…

This is why Google canned the whole idea of requiring a human to be alert and ready to take over. They want to get rid of the steering wheel and pedals, because they found in their…

I think that's spot on. Real Estate: The core Bay Area cities, the pinnacle of which is San Francisco, have not seen substantial real estate slumps in either recession in recent me…

Being a parent of a young child myself, I can very much empathize with this article, and the plight of child care workers. The conclusions are only logical that this is an area whe…

This is pretty interesting. Aside from the security questions already asked, and assuming they can be addressed satisfactorily, I have this question/suggestion: Financial instituti…

Agreed. In fact markets can from time to time exhibit systemic inefficiencies. What this means is that the very fabric of the market itself can give rise to bubbles or crashes. A b…

I've seen this phenomenon too, and have seen entire engineering teams descend into mediocrity because the companies and their leaders tolerated such behavior and/or had no effectiv…

Some people report that they can get in a state of flow while pair programming. I've experienced this on occasion but I'm unclear on what the exact ingredients are to produce flow …

Switch to Sonic Fusion DSL if you're in their service area (Bay Area, perhaps elsewhere?). http://sonic.net/solutions/home/internet/fusion/ Far cheaper than Comcast and no gimmicks…

I was wondering about the HOA restrictions too. Our condo in San Francisco that we live in came with CC&R's that limit how we can rent the unit out. It's permissible only for perio…

Before I came to the U.S. in the mid 1990's I geeked out on two grocery bags' worth of VHS tapes of StarTrek Next Generation. Nothing like learning English from the forever affable…