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Why doesn't anyone seem to be interested in this?


Everyone has a limited budget and you can't ask people not to consider the rental prices while choosing the locality.


I don't intend to speak for 'davidw, but communities imply a social contract and people picking where to live based primarily on rental prices seem quite a bit less likely to build a rapport with that community. I'm not blaming them for it--late capitalism, yo--but it is a thing and it's not unreasonable for an established, community-concerned member to be like "hey, there's more to us than where your apartment is."


>cash out and live like a king

That's increasingly the problem in CA. Current residents have spent so much on housing that their only chance for a decent retirement is of their home values keep going up. They've paid so much that they haven't contributed nearly enough to their retirement accounts.

You can hardly blame a NIMBY if nearly 100% of their net worth is tied up in their home value and falling home values will result in them having 0 retirement and no ability to sell their home and move because they are so far underwater.


That depends on the definition of the word "blame" that you're using. If it's a moral castigation? No, of course not; they are being ground down by the shitty circumstances that entrap most of us and of course it's hard to hold as a moral failing the maximization of what little they have (and while it is a lot to people below them, yeah, it's little in the grand scheme of things).

But if it is an identification of a problem? I think it is fair. The amount of misery that NIMBYs can spread through forced inaction significantly outweighs the amount received in the case of action, I think.


The first one. "You can hardly blame them" pretty much always denotes moral castigation rather than the technical attribution of fault.


I dont see whatsapp web on whatsapp menu of my computer.


Product name is called scaleqa.

We are building an end to end solution targeted at assisting manual testing. Manual tester can record, assert, playback in multiple platforms his scenarios. We are in final stage of beta and plan to show to few startups for feedback. Currently we are able to create tests for 70% of the scenarios of desktop websites. That percentage can be improved as we go ahead. Following are the screenshots of record and dashboard.

http://imgur.com/65X28Yv,JhZX9xX#0 http://imgur.com/65X28Yv,JhZX9xX#1

We are using modified version of sebuilder as record engine addon while a website integrated with addon as test dashboard. Manual testers we spoke to were enthusiastic about saving time significantly during build release where there are large number of tests run every week or once in 2 days.


Drinking water is supposed to be good health if the salt content is between 30 to 50 parts per million. If we speak about details the salt content present in water is supposed to be source of some minerals which you might not be able to get from food. It can also be supplemented with vitamin tablets but that would make distilled water not ideal drinking water.


Not just Africa, there are many places in India mainly the tribal villages where the women walk for more than 3 kms to carry 10 litres of fresh water.


Heck, places in the U.S. need water, why start in Ethiopia where the trial costs will be higher?


If a prototype has been validated, go big fast with multiple concurrent efforts.

The concerning detail is that the website lists this project as 2012. [0] Perhaps they were unable to get it working?

0 http://www.architectureandvision.com/projects/chronological/...


Is there anything you have done that might have compromised your account. Moreover bill could as well been much larger than $5000 i guess.


There are multi billion scams exposed once every month. The money spent on space exploration is negligible for people to make a big fuss about it.


Thats an awesome article. ISRO can be an inspiration not just to young kids but many other private/government agencies in doing technologically advanced things.


Does it mean the existing employees who hold shares are going to get lesser value for their shares after split?


Current shares held (or shares already offered in a contract) are all subject to the same GOOG A -> GOOGL A+ GOOG C split.

New shares offered (to employees, aquisitions, public) are likely to be GOOG-C


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