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I think this article goes into it in more detail: http://markasaurus.com/2015/09/01/whats-wrong-with-shipping-...

If this happens, it seems likely that Apple would work out a special plan or add-on with the carriers just for this.

I would think climate would make some difference compared to California. I wonder how much though.

Happens in Scala too:

scala> 1+2+"="+1+2 res1: String = 3=12

There is a deeper level of vendor lock-in for serverless vs servers as well.

Houston's urban geography is not appreciably different from that of LA. Other than it's a lot cheaper. Yes, the weather is terrible and there are no hills or mountains.

From the article:

> Most of the children born into households in the top 20 percent will stay there or drop only as far as the next quintile.

And rewritten a bit, it sounds rather weak:

> More than 50 percent of the children born into households in the top 20 percent will stay in the top 40 percent.

Basically, it's Australian

> A simulated heart does not pump real blood.

Well, now, a simulated heartbeat implemented in a pacemaker and connected to a pump does cause real blood to be pumped.

A real brain adds real numbers, and so does a computer brain. A real brain composes real words, creates real emails, issues payments, requests shipments. Those are not less real than the words, emails, procedures, payments, and shipment requests that computers make today.

Not only was it possible to do everything in SMIT (or smitty) on the command line, smit would tell you the exact command line and options that it was running for any given operation, making it very easy to script and learn.

Hmm, but how many .vimrcs have

set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab

Seems like it should be possible to rate limit failed logins, and of course failed logins on a per-account basis.

Apple doesn't keep the base model small to save costs. They do it to increase revenue (and margins).

The cost to go from 16GB to 32GB is inconsequential. (They upped the step-up from 32GB to 64GB with no increase in price.) In fact, the cost to them from 16GB to 64GB is probably inconsequential. It's certainly nothing near the $100 in price.

The reason they keep it at 16GB is to make more people upgrade to 64GB. If the base model was 32GB, far fewer people would upgrade to 64GB, precisely because you would no longer have an unacceptably bad user experience.

The article also claims that it's a free market. While Hong Kong has a very free-market economy in most things, real estate and development is the one thing where it is less free than most places. It is the part of economy where the government is most involved. The government controls all land, and sells/leases it to developers at a restrictive pace, under its own requirements. There is in fact a lot of land area in Hong Kong, but the government only makes it available to build on in a very limited way. That is really one reason prices are so high, the supply restrictions. The government is fine with that as it keeps prices high when it sells rights to develop land eventually.

This is also one of the least transparent, probably most corrupt, and definitely most expensive and inefficient parts of Hong Kong's economy.

There is probably some role for the government to preserve open space and plan and so on, but to suggest that the free market is at work at the macro level in Hong Kong real estate is ignorance.

They actually do say "unlimited phone, and 7GB tethering". It's very explicit, and limited tethering is a specific part of the "unlimited phone" plans. And as the article says, if you want more tethering, you are able to add and pay for that separately. The issue is people bypassing the tethering limitations.

Oh, they're different. They cost more, take five or ten times as much plastic to make, take more fuel to transport, and take up more space in landfills.

Think about just how little material the thin bags use, and think about how many of them you'd have to stack to equal the thickness of the thick bag.

Well, that makes sense. But then, the cost of the bag should roughly reflect the cost of all these external harms from using them. What if it turns out that the cost is something like 10c a bag? That seems like a plausible number to me. It's certainly nowhere near $5 a bag, taxes and fees for street cleaning and parks aren't anywhere in that ballpark. In which case, we've already discovered that's not enough to eliminate the use of the bags (it does reduce it).

Does Austin allow give-aways of re-usable bags? I am not familiar, but I somewhat doubt it. Those bags typically sell for 99c in San Francisco. The 10c charge is for single-use bags (typically a paper sack, but plastic at some establishments).

If they're 99c, I would think that people are thinking of the value just fine. It's just that they're not thinking of using such a bag 130 times, and throw it away after, say, 25 uses.

Also it's not clear to me that the environmental resources required to wash a reusable bag on a household scale (sink, water, soap) is lower than that required to produce a disposable bag on an industrial scale.

Couple things:

* BART is straining these days. During commute hours, it's basically at capacity. The Bay Bridge is also at or over capacity.

* Housing within walking distance of BART stations in Oakland that are also somewhat close to restaurants, shops, etc., costs just as much as in San Francisco, at least until the BART ride gets up over 40 minutes to Downtown.

A "height restriction" in paris is means a seven-story building, while in SF, it's a three-story building.

There's where it's shot, and there's where it is run from.

Cab drivers who drive out to drop someone off are very likely to hurry back to the dense parts where they can pick someone up. Uber is able to cover a large hailing area, so if cab has gone to the suburbs, they are more likely to be able to pick up a ride from the suburbs.

I believe Mint does not use Yodlee, while most other sites that offer similar functionality do.

The author goes on a lot about metadata and bad search interfaces for it. Yes, classical music metadata doesn't fit with the "simple" pop music artist/album/song format. (Though the "featuring" and remixes in pop music also mess that up.)

Often people try too hard to fit data into a fixed schema or ontology. It made sense when data storage and retrieval was based around tabular and relational data, but in these days of search engines and document databases and JSON, it's just unnecessary. Instead of pre-determining the fields you search on, you should search with free text, then refine with whatever metadata happens to be available.

So instead of messing with Spotify's "artist" search, you could just go to Amazon (or Google) and type in "Beethoven's Ninth Bernstein New York Philharmonic" and you'll almost certainly get back the items you want near the top of the list.

In fact, they tracked prices for Feb 1-10, and the Super Bowl is Feb 7. The week before the Super Bowl is the dog-and-pony show. Whether or not people are actually going to fill up SF hotels for an event 40 miles south (vs staying in San Jose or elsewhere), the hotels are likely setting their rates high now. They can also expect to lower them later (during football season, say, as it becomes clearer which teams are likely to attend) if they can't sell them earlier. Basically, they have no idea how much to charge or how much demand they'll see, since they have no experience with this event, so the pricing is going to be set too high to preserve their option to lower them later.

So the survey and results are pretty much meaningless.

I came here and wasn't born here, older than those kids in the story. Fortunately I still managed to learn my elitist entitled attitude.

Pretty sure that if it was a hack or credible bomb threat, that they would not have been flying again after only an hour. A scenario like that would suggest just a normal IT glitch and a reboot/restart to fix and validate that it's back to normal.

So, mostly hard drive icons on the Mac since 2000? Maybe "Through the Ages" isn't the right way to put it.