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This type of construction is only so profitable because it's usually illegal, and therefore a critically undersupplied segment of the market. Developers are therefore eager to do it every chance they get. If it were legal to build this way everywhere, they would only do it in the places it made sense. Developers wouldn't be building 4-story condos in Contra Costa county for people to commute 50 miles into SF and Mountain View if they were alowed to build enough to meet demand in SF and Mountain View.

Where people want to build, the power-hungry folks in charge put restrictions in place and demand a troll toll to let a few projects through. And the folks in charge where nobody wants to build see the opportunity and seize it. It's just human nature, and it's the reason local government shouldn't be put in charge of density regulation.

I'm comparing the TCO of a good value gasoline car to the best value electric car available (including used models). If you have a ton of disposable income, buying a Tesla could be a good decision, but very few people are in that position. Since we are taking about TCO, I assume we are talking about a financially literate purchaser.

I fully expect that electric cars will have a reasonable TCO in the future.

I saw Jello spinning recently at a fetish party at a gay bar. Punk enough for me.

The math works out a lot better if your society has a strong social safety net, and friendly bankruptcy and limited liability laws.

Leaving essential information out of the headline is a common clickbaiting tactic.

Doesn't Harvard own a bunch of prime real estate? Tax free, even. How tall is the average building on that land?

The academic job market is so tight in most fields that random universities in the middle of nowhere get hundreds of applicants for a single tenure-track job. If you go back 100 years ago you would find that Harvard was a lot less selective (there were far fewer academics), but it was still elite.

Overall, society isn't putting enough money into research. Elite universities hiring more faculty would be a great thing, in my estimation.

The US also gives nonprofit status to organizations that do stuff like buy expensive paintings and build megachurches. There's no general requirement that the nonprofits need to be using their money in the highest-utility manner. If such a requirement existed, I don't think elite universities should be the first organizations to crack down on.

Ultimately, there are not enough doctors to meet demand. Raising wages will just move them around. The supply of doctors is inelastic due to limited residency slots.

In general, people tend to be overconfident in their beliefs and too slow to incorporate new information. There is experimental evidence to back this up (pdf warning: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Baruch_Fischhoff/publica...). I think this applies to engineers as well as anyone else.

I didn't benchmark it and can't give a speed comparison, but I had success solving a pretty big optimization problem with GLOP, which I beleive uses or-tools.

I ninja-edited my post. Previously the EV for uniform guessing was zero, because the points value for all the answers (1, -.25, -.25, -.25, -.25) summed to 0. Now the EV is positive because they got rid of the -.25 penalty.

To make things more complicated: if you were gunning for a high score in the old system, it was even more important to guess, because your partial points could get rounded up.

My story matches yours almost exactly. Didn't take a class, did a bunch of practice tests, got an almost perfect score.

I agree that confidence is very important, and aptitude matters too (otherwise everyone who took a class would get a 2400).

Commonly-given wrong advice is about guessing. You should never leave a question blank. Prior to 2016, guessing had an EV of 0, so if you had any hint that any of the answers are better or worse than chance, you should guess. I heard advice like "only guess if you can eliminate two answers", which is clearly wrong.

Now they got rid of the penalty for wrong answers, so guessing has positive EV even if you have no information at all.

I would never buy a Bose speaker, I know that the audio quality is nothing special. But I've found among Bluetooth headphones there is nothing that feels as comfortable and works as well as the QC35.

When I used versions of android with home screen roatation, I remember it would completely jack up most of my widgets. They were designed to be displayed at some aspect ratio and that aspect ratio would change after rotation. Maybe they got rid of the feature because it wasn't worth it to herd developers of widgets into fixing this issue.

I'm really skeptical of lower TCO for electric cars. My gasoline-powered car is worth $5k. All electric cars with decent range cost more in depreciation alone than my TCO. I think in a few years a Bolt will have a competitive TCO, and maybe a Model 3 will a few years after that.

Most industries can engage in anticompetitive behaviors with impunity. But I think if Facebook watches which way the political winds are blowing for them, they would be more careful.

I remember the read-only mode as some presumably cached pre-rendered html, not sure if it ever existed for the app/api. I wonder if the read-only mode didn't mesh well with the single page app they have been pushing - perhaps it wasn't monetized in the same way.

>No, they'll say it is your fault because the bad guys had your username and password.

This sort of claim requires evidence. Many people have had money fraudulently taken out of their accounts, so there is a wealth of experiences to draw from out there. Lots of people are getting hacked via credential stuffing due to password reuse. If the normal response from banks were to blame the customer, everyone would be talking about it.

I don't know much about Florida, but it shocks me that there's any need to water a lawn there. Watering a lawn must take up a lot of bottles worth of water!

I wonder if they use more water filling the bottles or landscaping around the bottling plant.

This article is missing evidence to support the basic claim in the title. What portion of water usage can be attributed to bottled water?

Burning Man doesn't provide any of those things for attendees.

Although iOS Safari does have support for ad-blockers built in, so most iOS users can easily get an ad-free web.

Yeah, I don't like telling people that they are asking the wrong question. But my experience says that if you are finding you have spare cycles in your job, you could probably be getting a much larger salary at a higher-end job. Depending what you are making now, you might double your compensation. Check levels.fyi.

Strong evidence of how amazing the human condition is these days: we're talking about mobs and violence because some somebody knows what your face looks like.

As a user of a phone with a swappable battery, I keep an extra battery in my bag and swap whenever the battery gets low. The dead battery goes in a charger when I'm home. The swapping functionally is getting used frequently.

Also, as a user of a more recent phone with good battery life and wireless charging, the battery never dies so I've never felt the need to swap it.

On a side note, I feel that the rampant accusations of shilling lower the quality of discourse here and are indicative of a failure of empathy or theory of mind.

In the US, you can currently get a used Chevy Spark for below 10k.

There's a lot of investor money out there and not a lot of good investment opportunities. You only need to convince a small % of investors to raise billions.

Also, shorting this stock is going to be expensive.