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The long-term neurological effects are scary too. https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-and-the-brain-diagno...

The current US population is 7 billion, US population is 300 million. How many of the 6.5 billion non-Americans do you think could be rapidly absorbed, both terms of infrastructure (roads, water, sewers) as well as housing, culture, and government subsidies?

Your answer MUST be expressed a NUMBER, not some vapid BS platitude.

The actual ratio of rent to income really does matter. If we were comparing two cities where the ratio was 18% and 22%, then people would "want to spend less" or "pay a little more and enjoy better entertainment, culture, weather, sports franchises, etc."

But if a college graduate has to spend 95% or 105% of their after-tax income just on rent there is ZERO left for student loans and insurance, the conclusion is that both cities are completely unfeasible except for graduates with very wealthy and generous parents.

Your sole point is that "SF is more unaffordable than Boston". So what: living on a moon base would cost even more than SF.

one would not expect that just starting out that you would have an average single bedroom

I have had a lot of roommates a lot, but I don't even see how that's workable in SF for the vast majority of graduates. And we are talking about college graduates: these are people whose employers expect them to arrive clean and rested, which is difficult to do when sleeping under a bridge, and who didn't grow up expecting to have to wait until they have 10 years of experience and 3 children to finally afford a 1-bedroom apartment.

As much as I love Boston, SF is not the only other city in the world, and both cities are extremely atypical. The graduates are likely leaving for a place where they can get a $49,500 salary and a $700 apartment.

EDIT: and your percentages are wrong: try 48% of gross for BOS and 60% of gross for SF. Figure 40% for taxes and you have either very little for food, insurance, medical care, transportation, clothing, entertainment or you're already negative. Oh, and I forgot: STUDENT LOANS.

dollar-store version of Trader Joe's

The family resemblance is to be expected since the two brands are the result of feuding brothers splitting their family business: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/12/02/aldi_grocery_...

Several companies on this list are household names; Avis was run as a typical corporation, W. L. Gore has no managers, and Springfield ReManufacturing is discussed in Jack Stack's book _The Great Game of Business_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_employee-owned_compani...

Common cinder blocks / gray blocks measure 16" x 8" x 8" and cost about $1.30. I stack two in order to get 16" of lift and place a stack under each corner of a traditional flat desk. I actually have two desks, one for keyboards and another for monitors, so I needed 8 stacks, but you get the idea. It provides a huge, stable flat work surface for $10.40 per desk.

If you are shorter, half-height blocks are available to get to 12" of lift, or if your are even shorter, just use one layer and get 8".

I also bought a 29" wooden bar stool at Wal-Mart for $20 to take brief breaks for standing.

It's very typical to more strictly regulate commercial use of the sky than non-commercial. For human aviators, the progression in licenses is Private Pilot (cannot even charge passengers more than their pro-rata share of expenses), Commercial Pilot (can get paid for banner towing, crop dusting, and aerial photography), and Airline Transport Pilot. Aircraft themselves are subject to increasing regulatory burdens regarding maintenance intervals and documentation depending on whether they are for private use (Part 91), Part 135 (charter), or Part 121 (airline).

In broadcasting, amateur radio operators ("hams") are allowed to use the airwaves much more easily than commercial broadcasters.

Perhaps this principle does not translate perfectly to drone operations, but the general goal seems to be to protect both individual liberty and consumers of for-profit service providers.

(Note that contrary to political rhetoric "government regulation hurts business", the viability of the airline industry depends on safety standards: the market has to be larger than "hardcore daredevils" to justify a fleet of 737's.)

Or even how it scales to individuals over 6 feet tall.

Automattic, the creator of WordPress, the blog and website tool. Still, every hire, without exception, goes through a two- to six-week contract period, and is paid the standard rate of $25 an hour.

$25/hour: seriously?

The worst part is that we're failing even on simple things that could reduce light pollution, such as using outdoor fixtures that direct the light only downward.

The International Dark Sky Association exists, but I don't know how successful they have been. http://www.darksky.org/lighting-codes/simple-guidelines-to-l...

I see your point. But I love that it's one feature at a time, rather than being placed between two columns of links to other stories, other photos, automatically-playing videos, and ads.

Please tell us about your stack. Which implementation of Common Lisp do you use?

"personal loan" does not mean "peer-to-peer loan"

One source of conflict is that many "business type" tasks/projects can be fairly easily time-scoped: "a report about opportunities for our product in Poland" can be a 5 minute comparison of populations, or a multi-year PhD dissertation.

Technical work often has a more rigid "minimum viable solution": a civil engineer can't just give up on a bridge halfway over a river, nor can he say "I just skipped the wind loading calculations and hope the school buses don't run on windy days." Some types of software (especially embedded e.g., aerospace and automotive) have similar concerns about safety and warranty.

bad code forever because your technical team get annoyed and leave

And the effects of technical debt and bad code will eventually result in slow iteration and poor product quality which will eventually become visible to customers.

pass object references by value (is their a better name for this?)

Barbara Liskov used "call by sharing", aka "call by object-sharing" or "call by object". http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40480/is-java-pass-by-ref...

Thanks. How do current Lisps (CL, Racket) compare to *Lisp on parallelism?

who had drugs shipped to him...(he was uninvolved)

"had drugs shipped" is a little ambiguous: someone shipped drugs using the mayor's house as the destination; Mayor Calvo had no knowledge or involvement in this. Despite his lack of involvement, the SWAT teams shot both of his Labrador retrievers, including one that was fleeing.

Photo of the mayor and the deceased: http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2009/09...

I found their finances interesting. They seem to have made a very good living (including covering expensive medical conditions such as a pacemaker and travel from California to Mayo for treatment) by remodeling and reselling houses on a very part-time basis for over 30 years.

An important corollary is that "the happiness of current residents" may negatively correlated to "the happiness of new migrants" (who won't have the deep family roots).

Therefore, using this research to plan a relocation may be counterproductive.

trend toward more CISC-like hardware, because designers have figured that operations that would've been done in software can be done faster with dedicated hardware.

And since clock speeds stagnated a decade and a half ago, but Moore's Law still allows more transistors to be packed onto a chip, adding dedicated hardware for specialized operations is about all designers can do.

Aside from cancer, one needs to be concerned about aging: just look at the difference between the sides of truck driver William McElligott's face: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/06/06/bill-mcelligott-sun-...

How do you guarantee that this DNA will not get released into the wild, and what is your responsibility for the consequences if it does?

I have used ozforex.com.au for business; they have a consumer-oriented branch http://www.tranzfers.com/

This is nice to see a relatively brief introduction to the essential features.

Steve Yegge wrote: "Go look over Paul Nordstrom's shoulder while he works sometime, if you don't believe me. It's a real eye-opener for someone who's used Visual Blub .NET-like IDEs their whole career."

Does anyone know of any public video of Mr. Nordstrom using emacs, or can someone who knows him request one? [edit: properly attribute the quote]

immigration, which is completely under our control.

And yet media reports consistently imply that restricting immigration is both impossible and unethical.

Overloading a fundamental term within our industry is questionable. You can make something up, or use something from outside the industry, but please don't redefine a common and essential industry term.

For instance, you could call your computing product Hammer, or call a rocket Hammer, or call a person Hammer (Mr. Martel or Mr. Burrell), or you can make a carpentry tool called the "Martel Hammer" or the "Burrell Hammer" or the "Rocket Hammer" or the "Lambda Calculus Hammer". But if you invent a new carpentry tool that is not a hammer, you don't get to call it "Hammer".

One of my biggest disappointments with Gnumeric is the file extension: tab completion only works sometimes, and I'd really like to change find ~ -name \.gnumeric to find ~ -name \.gnm or find ~ -name \*.gsc Also it takes up more space when listing files in a terminal.

Also, the 3 letter convention is a somewhat helpful limitation in the same way that countries defining which side of the road to use is actually helpful. For instance, it is nice to have all of my JPEGs ending in .jpg rather than a mix of .jpg, .jpeg, .JPG .JPEG.

One reason is that the the USS Cole bombing occurred less than a year prior.