paulsowden

The land the buildings are being built on are leased from NASA.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2008/08_51AR....

The bayview land is here: http://goo.gl/maps/PY8UD

(Source: http://laserfiche.mountainview.gov/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=5...)

This is a misquote in the NW title; the original Vanity Fair article states "The new campus, which the company is calling Bay View, consists of nine roughly similar structures, most of which will be four stories high, and all of which are shaped like rectangles that have been bent in the middle."

There's also HSA (although still taxed in California you'll still avoid federal taxes) which is tax deferred and if used for qualified medical expenses you'll never pay federal tax. After age 60 it can be drawn down on similar to an IRA. (Has the caveat that it to maintain an HSA you need to be on a HDHP, which for a healthy 20 something is probably a reasonable choice).

Perhaps also the page is tee-ing up for even faster results page access, by way of instant search.

And I haven't checked, but perhaps most of the k weight comes in after the page has rendered, in which case it wouldn't negatively impact perceived load time.

The page is also more featurefull than it used to be when in the logged in state.

See here: http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/ocs95apb.htm#programmer

I believe the theory goes that the administration expenses incurred by the operation of managing healthcare would be incurred either way, i.e. if the insurance companies were not managing distribution of healthcare the government would have to. Given that, allowing the private sector to compete allows capitalist dynamics to drive down the cost.

While both government and private companies are both theoretically incented to drive down costs, practically there is a lot more scope for government to operate the plans in an inefficient way without consequence; on the other hand private companies are primarily incentivised by profit, which does not always correlate with the most efficient way of delivering healthcare.

This is where the nuance kicks in (i.e. big government or small government); a well run government plan would better but leaning on the private sector is a hedge against poor management.

I wonder what happens to all the lat/lon locations fetched using GPS and the such on flickr, etc, they're all 10 feet off now..