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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.

Parent poster was rejecting the month-first version.

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.

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

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

You confuse "corporation" with "company"

It what sense does Bezos lack control?

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

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

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

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

Hint in username.

ambitions

vs

had offices

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

If you have a website as a desktop daemon (like a calendar app), it's handy. But mainly it's a way to put more ads in your line of sight.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3220216

chrome://settings/content/notifications?search=notifications

Only on a technicality, because Gates's Net Worth doesn't include money in the foundation that Gates controls.

His non-foundation donations don't add up to close to foundation donations. That would defeat the purpose of creating a foundation.

Most Amazon employees are non-shareholding warehouse workers (even if technically they go through a contractor)

Bezos invests in his favorite stock, AMZN, which grows > 8% /yr

This is why foundations exist; to hold accumulated wealth.

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/

http://tsffoundation.org/

http://www.bezosfamilyfoundation.org/ <- Jeff's parents, not Jeff

If someone can't pass FizzBuzz, they need a year or two of education to be useful as a programmer, and might never make it. Sure, you can hire someone to do helpdesk and help them try to grow into a programmer, but you can't hire a programmer who knows nothing, and then entrust them to not ruin your company, destroy your data, etc.

I'd like to see that graph expanded to distributions, and weighted by population.

I'd also like to see China and India and Russia on that list.

USA is big enough to be an above average nation and a below average nation combined.

Israel, that ranks significantly below the US on that chart, has perhaps the largest technology industry per capita in the world.

We're not talking about elites, we're talking about average. There will never be enough 'elite' students to go around.

There's a huge middle ground between "Being #2 is failure" and "no need to ever try to do anything"