greenburger

You’re mixing up Puerto Rico and DC. DC population is only larger than Vermont and Wyoming.

Not sure that I understand the argument. The FAA is also clearly not hitting optimal space between "safety" and "getting new planes flying fast". Sometimes it appears the FDA hasn't been conservative enough, see Vioxx and labelling/guidance around opioids.

Let's hope the FDA does its job of ensuring it is safe and actually works as its proponents say. I'd rather they not give it 737 MAX style review.

Another study of the efficacy of homemade masks [1]. Seems to find that they are better than nothing; however, the primary author’s summary of the research is not effective [2] [1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258525804_Testing_t.... [2] https://twitter.com/chaiclate/status/1232972182667612162?s=2....

You might want to look into a backdoor Roth contribution

Even a simple homemade mask has some efficacy [1] though it significantly less. The primary author’s summary of wether they would be protective is “no” [2]

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258525804_Testing_t...

[2] https://twitter.com/chaiclate/status/1232972182667612162?s=2...

From 1990 to 2007 housing units increased by 9%, outpacing the San Mateo county which grew at 7% over the same period. The growth in the decade after 2000 did slow, that was the period immediately after a major contraction in 2001 of the tech industry

Cougars in California appear to be afraid of human voices, not surprising as we are their largest threat. Convincingly demonstrated by this research [1] PDF [2].

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.13344 [2] https://wildlife.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Suraci_...

Not clear what newspapers you’re looking at but NYTimes has these options that seem to meet your criteria.

https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/gift

I get your point but the relevant agency division FAA AVS employees 7,200 people [0]. Fewer than that are involved in certifying aircraft safety. Agencies like all other human groups have cultures.

[0] https://www.faa.gov/about/plans_reports/congress/media/fy17_...

The same people in important places that approved the 737 Max?

That may have been the estimate, but so far receipts are not keeping pace with 2017. Depending on your reference tax year revenues are 3% - 8% lower than 2017 thus far [1].

[1] http://www.crfb.org/blogs/tax-bill-did-not-cause-revenue-ris...

PG&E is publicly traded (PCG.SG), the debate in the capitol is how much those stock holders should pay (through reduced dividends) vs. ratepayers.

PG&E is making the argument that the cost to too high to be paid off by investors. If they state allows the cost to be fully covered by rate payers (keeping profits margins unchanged) what is the incentive for PG&E to take actions that reduce fire risks in the future?

This issue has come up in the past as well, e.g. the San Bruno pipeline explosion and what resulting safety upgrades should be financed though state approved rate increases vs. investors (reduced profits)

In the US alone this would greatly aid a transition to wind and solar:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/better-power-lines-wo...

In the US tenure track university faculty typically have three ranks: Assistant Professor (upon hire and prior to tenure) Associate Professor (typically awarded at tenure) and Full Professor. All of these ranks are referred to as "professor", in fact, non-tenure track faculty as also frequently referred to as professor.

Probably not. Humans have eliminated many species and the niches they occupied haven't been always been filled by other species. Megafauna on many continents is a good example.

If such a system were rolled out state- or nation- wide infrastructure costs would fall. If rural roads were only enrolled once major upgrade/repair work was done, it would probably constitute a small portion of the project cost.

Not really, IC cars vary greatly in fuel efficiency. Additionally because older cars have lower efficiency and tend to be owned by the less affluent it is regressive.

The API at https://query2.finance.yahoo.com seems to still work [0]

[0] https://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v8/finance/chart/VZ?period1...

The Economist has done this a few times in recent years:

https://www.economist.com/news/business/21601884-payback-tim... http://www.economist.com/whichmba/think-twice

For bet details: http://longbets.org/362/ [edit: grammar]

The TextMate bundle has several reports built in that use R and ggplot to plot reports across time. Perhaps other editor support packages have similar features.

https://github.com/lifepillar/Ledger.tmbundle

Nature Publishing Group is based in London

I suspect because SuperShuttle franchises have different terms for the TCP permit they carry.

http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/transportation/FAQs/psgfaqs.htm

They could do a Louis Vuitton and make their trademark an integral part of the password design. Or pick a nice QR code and trademark that.

The article never mentions DARPA. The research discussed was actually funded by NSF, and the researchers appear to be thinking of broader applications than night vision.

For data munging and sorting/organizing and basic analysis I would say that matlab/python easily match R or even exceed (especially performance-wise) it's capability. The true strength of R is in the available third-party packages. There are over 5000 available with pretty much any statistical algorithm you can think of implemented by at least one.

At my last job I used Outlook and was very frustrated by the speed of searching my mail. Outlook seemed to take ages; Gmail on the other hand excels at searching.

Disclaimer: I don't have as much experience with Outlook as I do with Gmail. And it could very likely have been the backend at my last place.

For a detailed analysis of where North Korean prison camps are thought to be located see http://freekorea.us/camps/

Some of the camps are massive, for example Camp 22 is estimated to be 225 sq. km and holding 50,000 people [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_North_Korea#Int...

My comment was directed more specifically to Harvard and narrow set of top tier schools, I do not believe that universities don't care about teaching. The list of "very high research activity" (apparently research 1 is no longer used) includes 108 schools [1] of which Harvard is at one extreme end.

That said, my father recently retired after 33 years with his department at a "high research activity", the second tier, and he can't recall a single case when someone was denied tenure where teaching performance was an issue. Research, and increasingly grant acquisition were always the issues.

Personally, I went to a small liberal arts school. Having taught at two top universities, private and public, I'm happy I went where I did. Undergrad teaching was the top priority and the difference is stark.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_research_universities_i...