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For SF proper, most neighborhoods would be relatively little affected on account of hills, though there are significant amounts of the city built on bay fill or low-lying land, particularly the Marina, parts of downtown, SOMA, and Hunters Point. Around the rest of the bay, communities/developments on the bay itself (especially on the bay side of major highways) are more likely to be on fill and subject to rising sea levels. This includes major office parks in various parts of the bay, including much of the North First Street area of San Jose, the GooglePlex, Oyster Point, Emeryville, Hayward, and Fremont.

As the maps make clear, the real hazard is in the Delta and Central Valley. Prior to modern flood control (dams and levees), much of the Central Valley was effectively an inland sea through the winter and spring. Rising sea levels would put much of the existing (and already threatened) levee system at risk. Sacramento, Stockton, and other communities would be substantially affected.
I duly note that you don't think that either Facebook or Fedex are disruptive. by that definition of disruption, sure. Entrepreneurship is not disruptive. I rest my case
Well, everyone's experience with this is going to depend on the type of people they know and their personal background. I am a programmer with a postgraduate degree myself, so I know many bright people in fields like physics and mathematics who have chosen masters degrees and even doctorates as a route to pursue their passions for physics and mathematics, and who have gone on to become excellent programmers.

Granted, they could have made more cash by going straight into programming - or banking for that matter - but they've got passion and intellectual curiosity, and in my book that's a good thing for a programmer to have.

That's not to say everyone with a postgraduate degree is great - I'm sure the population has its share of idiots and assholes, like every population!
Only in the US. In Australia and the rest of the world -- after the first month or 2 you could go and buy a dozen wii's in any store.
> 1- How about the Nexus 7, is it also being sold at a loss or near break-even ?

Reportedly break even. It is not surprising that a mobile phone costs more (in the same way that for a very long time, a laptop cost more than an equivalent desktop+screen: less forgiving constrains make a more expensive product).

> How big of a margin do you need before you deem a business profitable.

positive. Really, that's what profitable means: positive profit, regardless of percentage.

> if a business operates at 7% profit margins, would you describe them as pursuing a loss leader strategy ?

Loss leader has some gray areas, but basically: If something is sold at below-marginal-cost: (bill of materials + cost of assembly + cost of shipping + cost of support), then it is a loss leader, otherwise it is usually not considered one. The uncertainty comes from R&D cost attribution, which is subjective.

> the 649 $ price point makes it impossible to have competition because nobody (or very few) would pay that for a handset, thus the carrier/ subsidy model longevity

And yet, most of Europe manages that easily. You have to revise your axioms, as they are inconsistent with evidence.

> How about the fact that the Nexus devices come without skinning. don't underestimate the cost that goes into that exercise

Ok, what's the price you'd put on that? $1M would be super generous in my opinion, which would translate to a couple of dollars per device in the long run for the likes of Samsung or LG.
SO WHAT ? these numbers are pointless.

Well - for a start they act as counter to the argument I see in lots of places in the tech world - here too on occasion - that there is some special advantage to being a young entrepreneur. That doesn't appear to be true.

And for those who do value marriage and kids - it helps them see that this isn't a barrier to running a successful new business.

It's just data for goodness sake. It's not saying that you should marry and have kids. Indeed I suspect that it's largely a correlation to the age of the successful folk.
Of course it will. Only zealots who have a weird grudge against Java would think otherwise.
I'm a physics student. Sometimes I'm thinking if I should completely change my path to math. I always sucked at it but it seems to be so huge, exciting and powerful.
I've run two companies, have 3 children and have been happily married for 15 years. It wholly depends who you and your spouse are and how much time you put aside for your family. Your family are more important than any business venture - that's the key to success. Also don't base any relationship on financial benefits - many a time we've had literally nothing to this point we had to eat on 12GBP a week for a couple of months and put every bill off and that's not been a problem because we're good company for each other without any tangible items to amuse us.
As Sandy made clear, it's not just persistent rises in sea level, but the frequency and extent of intermittent rises as a consequence of cyclonic storms or inland flooding and watershed drainage which are likely to have significant impacts.

My understanding of carbon and warming predictions is that we've trended toward the highest (most extreme and dangerous) ends of forecast ranges, which suggests that the higher seawater rises might be more appropriately used in disaster planning. And adding a few feet to storm surge, and increasing frequency of high-surge events, would be disruptive enough if not quite so much as a persistent 5-10 foot rise in sea levels.
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I wonder if as part of the deal they couldn't make cuts for a year?
"Release early release often" applies to Math as well. Wouldn't it be better for everyone if he hadn't been so secluded and published some of his work in the meantime?
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It took me a while to remember that the Northwest side of Alameda is the naval base, and that's why it shows as white on both "occupied by renter" and "occupied by owner" maps.

The "occupied by renter" map confirms a lot about what I think about SF real estate, thanks
What's also impressive is the choice of project: pg has written about this (think he calls it the schelp filter or something). Payments is one of the most difficult, red-tape entangled, regulation-choked domains to start a company in. Not to mention the extreme security requirements and general unsexiness of it all.

Think they've managed to do an awesome through all the hurdles - if I ever decide to follow their example and start a payments company in India it will simply be "Stripe-API compliant". That's pretty much all the marketing / features it will need.
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Think about the engineering involved. A 25ft rise would require what, a 35ft high reinforced concrete structure? It has to be capable of dissipating the wave energy from a storm like sandy. The foundations have to be pretty deep to guarantee resistance to scour. The buttressing structure will extend back at least 35/tan(45) ft back. Where and when do you decide to build it? What political process allows you to demolish all those houses without an impossible political deadlock about compensation land rights etc? What about rights of light for all the others? Re-routing subway lines, highways, utilities etc. How long is one these for New York/Jersey/Long Island? 50miles 100miles 250?

Edit: tan(45)/35 to 35/tan(45), whoops.
"this should come as no surprise"? To me, the 60% figure seems like an invertible fact.[1]

Imagine the article said, "75% of successful entrepreneurs are single." People would post comments similar to yours, but with other rationalizations for why the fact is true. "This isn't surprising. Single people have more free time." "This shouldn't come as a surprise. Single people don't have to worry about providing for a family." "This doesn't surprise me. Single people can take more risks."

We like to project an unsurprised, unperturbed, and confident attitude. But thinking "I knew it all along" can be dangerous.

The number of hindsight-biased comments do surprise me a little. I expect more from our community. The world is complicated, and our minds can't model it accurately all the time. Paradoxically, we should expect to be surprised.

1. See http://lesswrong.com/lw/im/hindsight_devalues_science/
That might be a possibility, but how much would Google have to pay them for making a phone that outclasses all their other phones in price/performance? Google would have to pay as much as the whole mobile earnings of LG?

And destroying the business of the other makers would seem like a bad move, too. I think it must be possible to build such phones for that price, otherwise Google would only pay to destroy it's own ecosystem.
doesnt the canister of water become the same temperature as your body pretty quick?
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Full-scale

Whole-sale

Pick one and only one.
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A friend of mine is desperately waiting for a 27'' iMac to become available. You can't order those from Apple yet. So Apple is not necessarily doing it smarter than Google. Probably they simply can project when iPhone 5s will be available again, whereas they can't project availability of iMacs, and Google can't project availability of significant numbers of N4s.

I suppose it is a fine line to walk: you could of course always accept orders and just queue them indefinitely. But after a certain period of time, people who have ordered and don't get anything might feel even more angry than people who can't order to begin with.
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this: http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Special:SeaLevel
and: http://www.elstel.com/SeaLevelRise.html#Maps
> And any salary considered 'high' pays 41% in taxes (where high is > $41k per year)

That's incorrect. You don't pay the high rate of income tax on all of your income, but only on income over a certain threshold depending on your circumstances. Actually we have pretty low income tax rates when compared to other EU countries:

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/it/leaflets/it1.html#section3
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>And yet, most of Europe manages that easily. You have to revise your axioms, as they are inconsistent with evidence.

What's the % of smartphones in Europe that are sold at full price ? Please.

> Ok, what's the price you'd put on that? $1M would be super generous in my opinion

That's a laughable number. That's the cost of 8 senior Devs per year. Samsung has hundreds of people working on their skins.
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The flip side of that is how many non-married founders crash and burn because they didn't have a supportive, safe place to go to outside the company.

I'm not married - but my partner and I have been together for more than 17 years now. I don't think I'd have started our first company without her support and pushing. I definitely wouldn't have started my second after our first one crashed and burned!

Stress happens in all relationships. For me anyway the stress of starting two businesses, and having one fail horribly, doesn't get into the top three most stressful events of the last 17 years. It barely makes the top five ;-)
50% of marriages end in divorce, but substantially fewer than 50% of married people end up in a divorce. It's just that the people who get divorced tend to get divorced more than once.
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Assuming its just data at rest? Use gpg. Encrypt your plaintext with all of the authorized users public keys. When someone joins few crypt with the new persons key. When they leave rotate creds and rencrypt minus their key. Keep the cipher text in VCS so you have change history and a light audit trail.

This method is very maintainable for a dozen or two users. I've never looked, but there's probably a management application built around this work flow as well.
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Single men are also less likely to have a mortgage and other family expenses they are beholden to that can be used as leverage.
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The only way I can put my mind at ease is to realize that when I die I'll be no more human than dolphin, dust mite, seashell, moon rock, or electron. In an abstract sense my contributions to humanity mean nothing. So it makes little sense to fret about my impact on humanity, and in addition I do not strive to "live on" in the minds of humans (whatever that means) or any other beings.

If you buy this philosophy then the importance of time vanishes and there is no need to pretend that you have all the time in the universe. Choosing to waste time is not objectively worse (though it may be boring) and on these grounds I agree with the author.

However by the author's same reasoning it is not important to be happy either. After you have died it will not matter how you felt while you were alive. So to me the conclusion is silly.

But I nevertheless enjoyed the article. I do ponder my own life from time to time and I like reading about how other people deal with the finiteness, or rather infinitesimal-ness- of it all -- just the idea terrifies me. (So does the idea of living forever -- a pretty unfortunate Catch-22.)
I'd venture into guessing that the parent reason is that ++ and -- operators tend to make easy to bury side-effects where they're not obvious, like in the provided code sample:

__raw[args[i++]] = 1;

(C programmers would disagree about this, of course :) )
Your point does not really apply because Django had a pretty good reference and tutorial from day one and the docs are kept up-to-date.
Only 60%? 60% isn't really that high of a number to make a point here.
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Just because you have wife and kids doesn't mean much.

How much quality time can you afford to spend with them if you are trying to build a successful business at the same time?

What I found interesting was:
"Founders tended to be middle-aged—40 years old on average—when they started their first companies.".

I always thought that starting a new company was driven by the fire of youth, but it seems like it is mid-life crisis that may also be responsible in many cases.
The survey included 5 high growth industries: aerospace, defense, computing, electronics, and health care. For me, personally, the only industry I am concerned about is computing. Including datapoints from outside my industry muddies the water. ...making it difficult for me to extract anything useful out of this study.

For example, starting an aerospace or defence business might be easy if you have the right contacts - just win a government contract. ...something which is probably more likely to happen for older married men.
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If they do want to make money off of hardware, what's the point of Motorola?
Learning to fly takes time and money, but how many people with money and the time to spare have you heard of being able to pilot a plane by themselves at the age of 22? It takes an incredible amount of hours before you can become a pilot. May be trivial, but I think it actually shows just how incredibly committed and talented he actually is.

Lets just hope he continues to use his intellectual gifts for good and not to better his pockets. He's off to a good start though.
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It looks like Salesforce is pursuing an aggressive strategy to take a significant share of the enterprise DB market away from Oracle.

This acquisition seems to be more evidence of that. I don't see it working though. For one, I don't see any significant use cases for Prior Knowledge. Is it just a database married with bayesian logic? Couldn't you derive better analytics by doing such work manually?

In any case, Oracle DB's have been developed over decades. Their products provide the reliability and accountability that salesforce will not be able to achieve in a short amount of time (which salesforce is attempting to do).
This is the clearest explanation I've read. Microsoft may have convinced themselves that Metro is a viable desktop UI but that is post-facto justification.

The real reason is 'developers, developers, developers'.
Really? Like a relationship is something a guy can just - bang! - 'make work'. Good luck 'directing' your SO or 'driving' your marriage like a project. I feel for both of you.

Despite popular notions of 'being married to one's own startup', apples to oranges is not even close to comparing relationship to startups.
I also recommend them. Cumbersome web interface, but the best prices and stills seems secure.
Nexus seems to have evolved into a strategy to maintain the health of the Android OEM ecosystem, to prevent a dominant OEM player from establishing itself (read: Samsung). To that end, it's hard to think that one OEM (Motorola) would become the sole Nexus supplier.
As an outsider .. I thought the US had loads of out of work high skill programmers etc. The problem is just that companies don't want to pay them a reasonable rate, and use green carders instead?
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We're talking about 300 years from now. Even 100 years from now the global economy is going to be around 1 quadrillion dollars (in today's dollar) and technology will be unimaginably advanced. As much as I think long term planning is often important, I think this is a case where it's better to leave things to our much wealthier, much more technologically advanced future selves / children.
Does it really make a difference anyway? If it were 70% for the computer field, would you rush out and marry someone and get her pregnant as soon as possible? Or if it were better to be single, would you sit your wife and kids down and explain to them that to maximize your chances of success, they're being "downsized"?
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I think Google probably knew its target market - Americans tech savy enough to know about locked/unlocked phones and subsidized/unsubsidized prices. That's not too many people - but to those people the Nexus 4 is incredible value.

What I think they didn't anticipate is that there'd be a huge demand world-wide. In other places where phones are sold unsubsidized, coming in with the Nexus4 is like christmas and easter on the same day, unbelievable value, and surely there's a buck to be made selling this phone at a slight markup on those places. The iPhone grey market shows that great numbers will move even if the profit is only $100 per phone.
Most of your comments have been simply obtuse. This one is either a troll or downright idiotic.
As is also happening right now in the UK ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20490999

(And to think of all the people still denying that climate change is a real thing).
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Wow. Thank you! That's quite a complement, and I'm grateful.

I should point out that much of what I say - or write about - are from conversations with my colleagues. I just happen to be the most vocal among us :)
It is. It's what Matz tweeted after we launched RubyMonk at RubyConf in New Orleans last year. Here's the original tweet he made: https://twitter.com/yukihiro_matz/status/126447696478347265
I know that (and this often confuses people), I didn't want to add all the explanation there.

But yes, you'll pay 41% on what goes over a certain limit (that is, above $41k annually or 32.8KEUR).

About your second statement, not really: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_of_Europe
While there are differences, aren't there also massive similarities?

These are largely industries that require skill and talent as much or more than they require physical assets, they're all things where building up experience is likely to have benefits and so on.

Looking at what happens in computing is useful, but it feels like we should be saying if someone can be a successful entrepreneur in healthcare under set of circumstances X, why CAN'T someone in that same set of circumstances be successful in IT.

We need to be careful not be too insular, not to buy into our own myths (that of the teenage genius founder for instance), and not assume that we're too different or too special, as I don't think those things serve us well.
No it doesn't take all that long, not at least for a PPL with no ratings.

In theory, a PPL can be earned with just 40 hours of flight time, although the actual average is closer to 60-70 hours. There's obviously a ground school component, which can be self-study, and depending on learning speed might require about another 100 hours. Factor in the time to write the written exams and pass a checkride, and it's not a horrendous time commitment. I've heard of people doing it in a month, albeit working on it nearly full time.

It's still an admiral accomplishment. There's a lot to learn while learning to fly!
"Given any proposition in arithmetic, the mind can decide its truth value."

Really? I don't see what reason we have to believe that this is true.
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I find those findings fascinating. As someone who carries two devices,an iPhone 4S (iOS 6.1 Beta) & a Galaxy nexus (4.2), I do find myself reaching for the iPhone more for subtle & seemingly unimportant reasons that add up in the long term to something really significant.

iOS polish & fluidity, the quality of the APIs upon which developers build their apps & the design language is still somewhat ahead of Android.

Don't get me wrong, In other aspects, Android rules supreme. The automatic app updates feature is very convenient.Google Now wipes the floor with Siri. Widgets are a welcome diversion from the the stale app grid...etc

That being said, other simple tasks such as browsing the web are still more comfortable on an iOS device...& that despite the smaller screen which I'm really starting to hate.