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Comment · 9 years ago
Why? Surface buses can run quickly at night when there is light traffic, and the air quality is far better at surface level than in the subway.
Comment · 9 years ago
Parent poster was rejecting the month-first version.
Comment · 9 years ago
In what situation is it useful to know 355/113? It's approximation so it won't be used in any closed-form solution, so it's going to be converted to decimal or some other unit, which will either be a laborious manual calculation or require a calculator, which will have a more-precise value of pi stored in its memory.
Comment · 9 years ago
Are you referring to the legal compliance practices, like requiring logins to see some listing details?
Comment · 9 years ago
0.6MB to launch the app, which downloads 100MB more resources as soon as it starts up.
Comment · 9 years ago
Coders like to code. Product builders want to build products with a minimum of fuss.
Comment · 9 years ago
> Over the next two decades, 87 new pilots need to be trained and ready to fly a commercial airliner every day in order to meet our insatiable demand to travel by air.

> That's one every 15 minutes.

uh....

Comment · 9 years ago
Did you know that even today, old people are less healthy than young people?
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http://www.npr.org/2017/07/17/537645901/legal-challenges-exp...

Seattle is very progressive, and highly in favor of income tax.

Comment · 9 years ago
Less than 2 centuries. You think it's good to have bigger threats than starvation?
Comment · 9 years ago
You confuse "corporation" with "company"
Comment · 9 years ago
It what sense does Bezos lack control?

Being public means that the company is transparent, not that it is out of control.

Comment · 9 years ago

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