StuffMaster

>Compact cities are more efficient, but congested urban sprawl is most definitely not.

The article was arguing for density, not sprawl. Also that affordability is more important than desirability.

Locke registered a long time ago...maybe he'll go straight to hollywood!

>The big difference is Android uses a standard back button for all applications

And this is the first thing I mention about why I like Android better.

>one of the most pressing problems that humanity has today is obtaining clean drinking water. Yet no university has a Department of Water.

He made some interesting points, but this just sounds crazy.

Development restrictions leading to high rent is mentioned in the article. I don't know about the rest of the state, but I constantly hear this mentioned for San Francisco.

These will be ICANN domains, thus still under US jurisdiction.

I found a morning talk radio show that I liked, and set it to a low volume. Sometimes I actually listened to it while sleeping! Awake or asleep, it caused my brain to wake up a bit.

I wish there was at least one more - "OK". As in, I didn't "like" it, but I don't regret watching it.

Apparently you have to run full screen. I sure hope they fix that.

I believe that the quants actually warned against believing their equations were infallible, but were ignored.

>just a symptom and an effect of the initial cause.

The major problem was that the banks had all that bad debt, not Fannie and Freddie. The government caused Fannie and Freddie to take on a lot of bad debt, but that in no way sank the economy. The stampede for the mortgage securities was all private sector and voluntary.

Saying that Bear Stearns' collapse was a 'symptom' of government policy is the conservative party line, and it's maliciously untrue.

"checkout a repository"

I see this pattern all the time where people use the single-word noun form as the verb. It should be "check out" in that instance.

I think he was just making fun of how easy it was to capture.

You can use a much smaller rocket due to the launch altitude. Notice how ground-launched rockets go straight up for quite a ways.

I agree, a lot of people take offense to being sidelined for the purpose of "not offending anyone". So ironic.

I get the "You're a dumb user" feeling every time I open the options in Chrome.

The point of high-speed rail isn't to be profitable, it's to transport people. You won't believe how unprofitable interstate highways are.

It looks like it is linkbait to get you to check out their company.

He paints a picture of “Google pretending to be Switzerland, but doing back deals with everyone, and Apple being left alone to build the Deathstar.”Guess where that will leave most startups.

Nice analogy. Time to move to Dantooine and work on my X-wing startup.

And even if they're not, I have to do mental work: icon -> wtf does this picture mean -> english translation. I find that far more tedious than standard word scanning.

>The text is there, it's simply been converted into tooltips. Are you really going to need to have the text there after using the button a few dozen times?

Multiply this attitude by a hundred apps/websites and YES I WANT TEXT. I don't use the toolbars of half my apps because I don't know what the buttons do, and I shouldn't have to work to find out.

Also, teenagers have an intense drive to move out and be on their own, and often to rebel. When thinking about how our ancestors created new villages and settled new territory, I believe that this probably played a role.

Well...a bloated ship won't sail well. Galleons held plenty of cargo but were slow and unwieldy.

I can't possibly upvote this enough. 99% of websites I visit have too much style, and I think it's better to go under than over.

I saw it as a list of big pictures and left quickly...

He probably does, but that's no justification for using it. If I left-click on a link, that means I don't want it to open in a new tab or window.

It may be his local affiliate that plays the classical music.

I accept. Let the battle of wits begin.

Stop being so negative. Here, I found this video to explain it to you...

>Also, a boson is a force-carrier particle – like electrons – whereas a fermion is associated with being a matter particle.

I think he got that backwards. An electron is a matter particle and not a force carrier.