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New comment by gpawl in "New York’s Subways Are Not Just Delayed, Some Trains Don’t Run at All"

gpawl — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 18:18:17 +0000

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.

New comment by gpawl in "Pi and the collapse of peer review"

gpawl — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:11:04 +0000

Parent poster was rejecting the month-first version.

New comment by gpawl in "Pi and the collapse of peer review"

gpawl — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:10:17 +0000

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, which will either be a laborious manual calculation or require a calculator, which will have a more-precise value of pi stored in its memory.

New comment by gpawl in "Redfin shares surge more than 30% in $138.5M real estate tech IPO"

gpawl — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 17:40:21 +0000

Are you referring to the legal compliance practices, like requiring logins to see some listing details?

New comment by gpawl in "Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web"

gpawl — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 08:09:57 +0000

0.6MB to launch the app, which downloads 100MB more resources as soon as it starts up.

New comment by gpawl in "Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web"

gpawl — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 08:07:42 +0000

Coders like to code. Product builders want to build products with a minimum of fuss.

New comment by gpawl in "The U.S. has a staggering pilot shortage"

gpawl — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 08:03:45 +0000

> 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 every 15 minutes.

uh....

New comment by gpawl in "First Human Embryos Edited in U.S"

gpawl — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 08:02:42 +0000

Did you know that even today, old people are less healthy than young people?

New comment by gpawl in "First Human Embryos Edited in U.S"

gpawl — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 08:01:44 +0000

https://www.reddit.com/user/martinshkreli/

New comment by gpawl in "First Human Embryos Edited in U.S"

gpawl — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 07:54:04 +0000

Please tell me which of these bodies is superior to the others: http://mymodernmet.com/howard-schatz-beverly-ornstein-athlet...

New comment by gpawl in "Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs"

gpawl — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 06:27:34 +0000

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/17/537645901/legal-challenges-exp...

Seattle is very progressive, and highly in favor of income tax.

New comment by gpawl in "SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately Held Companies"

gpawl — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 06:08:11 +0000

Less than 2 centuries. You think it's good to have bigger threats than starvation?

New comment by gpawl in "SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately Held Companies"

gpawl — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 06:07:29 +0000

You confuse "corporation" with "company"

New comment by gpawl in "SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately Held Companies"

gpawl — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 06:04:41 +0000

It what sense does Bezos lack control?

Being public means that the company is transparent, not that it is out of control.

New comment by gpawl in "SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately Held Companies"

gpawl — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 06:03:40 +0000

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.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-mclaren-f1-hypercar... wrecked-it-2015-6

New comment by gpawl in "Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs"

gpawl — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 06:00:44 +0000

and continuing to skyrocket: http://www.king5.com/news/local/seattle-public-utilities-pit...

New comment by gpawl in "Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs"

gpawl — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 05:57:15 +0000

Why would you wash your car or water your lawn in Seattle?

New comment by gpawl in "Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs"

gpawl — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 05:56:11 +0000

Hint in username.

New comment by gpawl in "Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs"

gpawl — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 05:53:38 +0000

> ambitions

> had offices

New comment by gpawl in "Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs"

gpawl — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 05:53:04 +0000

Other cities on the list have ~half the research spending, plus ALSO large tech industries.