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hanging··on Rewarding Neglect and Punishing Investment in Struggling Neighborhoods

  new developments are in 3000 sq ft lots and have 2400-2600 sq ft built area
I'd like to see your source for these figures. 400 sqft doesn't even meet setback requirements for a 3000 sqft lot in any Bay Area city I'm aware of.

Likewise, that initial 20% by area (2000 of 10,000sqft) structure dimension ratio sounds made up.

hanging··on Monty Python's Cheese shop sketch transcript
Video of the original TV performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPqGt0ZI_1k
hanging··on New Research Suggests Solar System May Have Once Harbored Super-Earths (2015)
Paper: "Jupiter's decisive role in the inner Solar System's early evolution"

https://authors.library.caltech.edu/55970/

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Related video: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6011990894001/#sp=show-clips
hanging··on H-1B: Outsourcer HCL games visa system to discriminate against non-South Asians

  What I found was that 12k USD inflated adjusted was same as 5k USD in 2007
No, $5.000 in 2007 dollars would be $5.060 in 2012 dollars[0]. You are off by over 2 orders of magnitude when speaking in "USD inflated adjusted" terms.

[0] https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=5000&year1=200...

hanging··on Democrats Unveil New Bill to Fully Restore Net Neutrality
The bill in the tweet in this article is a Senate bill.
hanging··on Democrats Unveil New Bill to Fully Restore Net Neutrality

  just how reprehensible they are
Are you unaware that we had NN under Bush and then lost it by actions of the Obama administration? And that Pai was originally nominated by Obama?
hanging··on The least you need to know to experience the joy of better brewed coffee
A striking omission is the importance of grinder type (Burr vs. blade).
hanging··on Ask HN: Do any of you who live in the Bay Area live on a boat in the Bay?
You'd still need a slip somewhere, with its associated costs.

Years ago, a friend lived on a boat at Pete's Harbor (Redwood City). He wasn't a fan.

hanging··on Starbucks' music is driving employees nuts
For those unfamiliar with the reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place

hanging··on Starbucks' music is driving employees nuts
Almost every Panera I've been in was poorly run. Poor service and bad, old coffee more often than not.

SF at 4th and King was the lone exception.

hanging··on Starbucks' music is driving employees nuts
That's one thing I miss about record stores like Tower. The music was chosen by workers on shift, a full album side at a time. I discovered some great music that way, including "popular" artists before they were popular.
hanging··on Ask HN: How do you keep cell phone away from bed room when you are oncall?
Call forwarding to whatever line you do have in the bedroom.
hanging··on Oregon expected to enact first state-wide rent control law
The broad market is in equilibrium. SV doesn't define the broad market, nor does Flint MI or Gary IN.
hanging··on Citing parental freedom, Arizona lawmakers move ahead with anti-vaccine bills
This doesn't explain the more severe measles epidemics in low-Internet-usage countries like Vietnam.

Measles doesn't spontaneously appear within a community; it's brought in from the outside.

hanging··on Can We Delay a Greenhouse Warming? (1983) [pdf]
Were you WA and NV residents aware that you live in "Third World states"?

And AFAIK, the US has never exported domestic reactor waste.

hanging··on Microsoft CEO defends US military contract that employees say crosses a line

  I can never understand those protesters
I think it's hypocrisy to say that defense/intelligence work is evil but manipulating individuals into giving away their privacy to the entire commercial space is fine and dandy.
hanging··on Chevy Volt discontinued: Chevrolet's last Volt rolls off the assembly line

  not having to lug a traditional gearbox around
You mention the Prius. Are you unaware of the complexity of its complex, heavy drivetrain?[1] Much heavier than even a traditional gearbox.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Synergy_Drive#Transmiss...

hanging··on California Considering Lanes with No Speed Limit
And to legally use radar enforcement, there has to be a current survey affirming the limit.
hanging··on A Beach Nobody Can Touch
There are oddly strong parallels here to the H-1B visa debates: raise the price and/or broaden the geography.
hanging··on I Was Taking Pictures of My Daughters. A Stranger Thought Otherwise (2014)
“I would be remiss if I didn’t ask if you were okay” is all he said.

The father later hunts him down and confronts him with, "Excuse me, sir, but you just embarrassed me in front of my children and strangers. And what you said was racist.”

He later proceeds to write an editorial about this perceived denigration.

Um, okay. Somebody certainly embarrassed the father, anyway.

Meanwhile, the world becomes, incrementally, less likely to look out for his family's safety.

hanging··on How the US has hidden its empire
"Contrary to popular memory, the event familiarly known as “Pearl Harbor” was in fact an all-out lightning strike on US and British holdings throughout the Pacific. On a single day, the Japanese attacked the US territories of Hawaii, the Philippines, Guam, Midway Island and Wake Island."

This is horrendously sloppy journalism.

The first attack on Wake was three days later and was repelled. The successful attack was another 12 days after that.

And the Midway attack was six months after Pearl.

hanging··on How the US Has Hidden Its Empire
"Contrary to popular memory, the event familiarly known as “Pearl Harbor” was in fact an all-out lightning strike on US and British holdings throughout the Pacific. On a single day, the Japanese attacked the US territories of Hawaii, the Philippines, Guam, Midway Island and Wake Island."

This is horrendously sloppy journalism.

The first attack on Wake was three days later and was repelled. The successful attack was another 12 days after that.

And the Midway attack was six months after Pearl.

hanging··on Vanlife: Build your own van to live on the road
Note: "Volkswagen", not Volkswagon
hanging··on Why Captchas have gotten so difficult
And would it be possible to sabotage via a botnet that submits all-incorrect responses?
hanging··on Why Captchas have gotten so difficult
Related article from 2012, 230+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4307136

Reposted in 2014, 190+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7945283

hanging··on Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing
Another view on their methodology:

"The (K12SSD) table at right shows that the majority of “school shootings” over the last 48 years occur outside while on school campus. When tied in with non-shooting “school shooting” definitions, such as brandishing, we get a very different picture. By this project’s definitions, if someone on the sidewalk outside the school brandished a gun, that was a “school shooting”. Three percent of “school shootings” in the database involve no shots being fired at all. And if we include single shots (regardless of from where they came, or if they were suicides, or if they were late at night, etc.) those add up to 63% of all incidents."

http://www.gunfacts.info/blog/school-shooting-database-and-p...

I hardly think K12SSD's releases come "with no editorializing".

hanging··on H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads
Agriculture (including aquaculture) work visas are a different category:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-2A_visa

hanging··on Timeline: The rise and fall of immigration reform
(2014)
hanging··on What Happens When You Drink a Gallon of Water a Day?
"A switch to water that’s been ultrapurified by reverse osmosis (plus “carbon polishing” and UV sterilization) has proved revelatory."

This can mess with one's electrolyte balance to a dangerous degree. (She makes a vague reference to buying an "electrolyte mix", but that's before switching to purified water, and she makes no mention of using any.)

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