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That guy was using the road for access to public land. It doesn't necessarily matter who owns the land under a road because the use of the road is supposed to offer access rights. The problem is the guy doesn't have enough money to take on billionaires to assert his access rights.

That is the problem. Land owners don't pay property tax on land that they have placed a conservation easement on.

https://www.landtrustalliance.org/topics/taxes/income-tax-in...

Martin's Beach, closed by Vinod Khosla.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/technology/california-bea...

I guess that's why there are no advertisements directed towards children on networks like Nickelodeon.

This is yet another hit piece by wallstreet short sellers. Autonomous vehicles may kill people occasionally, but far less frequently than human driven vehicles.

I don't think vaccinepapers.org is a reliable source.

The problem with filling the interior of the cathedral with light is that you won't get the same effect from the stained glass windows and the candles. The great thing about this design is that it leaves the traditional experience of the interior of Notre Dame exactly the same while also offering a new space for contemplation.

It is the only way to get mainstream films on netflix any more.

Ask your coworkers if it bothers them. The fact that they have not complained to you does not mean that it doesn't. They are more than likely being non-confrontational. People who get called out on their mechanical keyboards often get very defensive. I have seen it ruin team dynamics.

It also matters what sort of keyboards everyone is using. Horribly noisy mechanical keyboards make it impossible to concentrate.

It's a great precedent to set. First solar then high density zoning.

In most ares of the US, it is illegal to charge to use the restroom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_to_End_Pay_Toilets_i...

SEI is the organization that hacked the iPhone for the FBI.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/534km8/carnegie-m...

That was in Freakonomics. http://freakonomics.com/2013/10/23/what-makes-people-do-what...

I always like getting a new battery when something else fails in the top case.

MAX doesn't have the Caltrain problem because it is not at grade outside of downtown.

You are comparing Portland to European cities which is not a fair comparison. Compared to any city in California, Portland is miles ahead.

MAX is not that handicapped by being at grade because it has dedicated roads/lanes everywhere it goes. Portland will eventually ban cars downtown anyway (they are close).

Zoning laws are changing and have changed to allow infill. Plus, there is an urban growth boundary which will force higher density.

The bottlenecks in Portland are the bridges and there is at least one bridge that cars can't drive on, only busses and transit and there will be more in the future.

There are entire streets where vehicle through traffic has been blocked in favor of bicycles. There are still bike lanes on the major roads a block away too which is why you probably didn't notice the dedicated streets.

Portland is being upzoned all over the place. look at any major street west of 82nd and you will see new apartment buildings on almost every block. The suburbs of Portland haven't caught up, but in 20 years if trends continue in both places I could see Portland being more dense than San Francisco and the suburban sprawl not ending till the sierras.

The AppleTV doesn't have optical audio either.

Fast food chains are actually building automation. A lot of McDonalds have self ordering kiosks. Startups are working on automated cooking. Pretty soon fast food locations will have no workers.

Sprouts is squeezing Whole Foods in the west.

Scanning groceries as you shop and not having to take them out of the cart again at a till has existed at Waitrose since at least the year 2000

I love how the asian grocery store accurately labels it as "coffee with chicory" whereas whole foods just calls it "regular coffee"

Kitty is OpenGL based. Apple is deprecating OpenGL in Mojave.

I think it is easier to sell vehicles stolen in Europe. All a thief needs to do is drive the vehicle to Eastern Europe and there will be a buyer. Selling a stolen vehicle in the US is a lot more difficult.

My statement very directly refutes the assertion that they are "bringing politics into the office", when in fact politics are already there.

Summarizing arguments is necessary when people obfuscate the true argument they are making. Dog whistles are a great example of this. If you can't all an argument out for what it is, you can't refute it at all.

Not expressing an opinion against immoral things is also a political act. You are saying that profits should come before everything else.

This one does. https://www.apple.com/us_smb_484614/shop/product/HKN62LL/A/l...

IR LEDs aren't hot.

In all fairness, the urea systems are really annoying. I was driving a rental vehicle and I got a warning that it was out of urea in the middle of nowhere. I stopped at a gas station which did not have any and the vehicle would not start until you put urea into it which I could not find in the middle of the desert.

Eliminating demonstrated interest seems to go against the whole Carnegie Mellon ethos. After all the motto is "My heart is in the work." Demonstrated interest was a way of admitting people who have passion for the subject and who may not have been admitted with grades or test scores alone. With this change, CMU will likely get more of the same applicants that all top tier universities get who just study for the SAT constantly instead of the kids who spend all their time programming or competing in robotics.

The argument advanced seems to be that eliminating demonstrated interest makes the admissions process more equitable because wealthy parents will push their children into the activities CMU is looking for and will know how to demonstrate interest. The counter to this argument is that wealthy parents will always be able to game an adversarial process. Parents will just push their children to study for the SAT more and pay more for SAT test prep. Parents will just push their children to work more on grades and classwork instead of things the children actually want to do like robotics or programming.