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Doing badass things that don't scale got him attention that could be monetized to further bring himself and others up. Goodwill (the business value kind) is a vital component to rapidly scaling a venture. Things that scale come later.

I did a casual bike tour through hundreds of miles of Netherlands and Belgium. We wore helmets, obviously.

Not wearing a helmet is inconsisent with having many standards for reflectors and traffic planning. Although someone maybe slightly more careful, falling on a bicycle means a risk for head injuries. Why not take reasonable precautions, including instructing people that helmets do not add safety to anything besides head injuries? They're not a panacea, but protect against certain classes of injuries.

Anecdotally: When I was a kid, an obscured oily patch of road contributed to a fall to one side, head first, and slide for about 10 feet and the helmet I was wearing cracked instead of my skull. Road rash but didn't die or end up with traumatic brain injury.

There should be vinyl wrap for bikes that provides a paintable, duct-tapeable substrain for camo tape and radioactive fuchsia and orange also camo ejaculation. Flat (no shine) paint makes a bike even less attractive.

PS: I had a old/ugly bike that I had for 16 years in Davis, CA that I still locked and it was stolen from an apt complex the one and only time I forgot to lock it. There are thieves whom ride around in cargo trucks stealing bikes wholesale, in addition to people whom just "borrow" bikes and dump them whereever.

Cryptocurrency evolution may end up looking like railroad track gauges. 1, 2, many in a Cambrian explosion and then mergers/acquisitions into just a few used everyday. The others will be there but little used.

I'm vegan. "Plant-based" is not a panacea and not automatically healthy. This article is one-dimensional when there are multiple health considerations including both cholesterol effects, cancerous compounds in cooking vapors and cancerous compounds like aldehydes generated depending on the amount and time of heating.

In general, olive oil is the healthiest oil to use for frying, both in terms of cholesterol effects and aldehydes. Furthermore, oil consumption can be greatly reduced by good cooking and minimal frying techniques.

The graph in this news report probably started the coconut oil cargo cult, which overlooked its inherent unhealthiness:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11981884/Cooking...

Just an FYI that Koch-owned Georgia-Pacific papermills release tons of cancer-causing pollutants including PCBs, hydrogen sulfide, cyanide, formaldehyde, dioxin, acetaldehyde and chloroform into neighboring communities.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1007148

http://www.newsweek.com/2016/04/29/crossett-arkansas-georgia...

WF has been struggling because they helped paved the way for mainstreaming of organic, sustainable, etc. They couldn't pivot really and everyone else was undercutting their high prices and they've been unable to increase profitable foot-traffic to stay alive. Amazon could basically use WF as a laboratory for deploying Amazon Go without having to build grocery logistics from scratch. Hope it works out.

Currently, US wages continue to slide and the middle class shrinks, while the top 8 billionaires own as much wealth as half of the world. This libertarian, trickle-down, union-busting, union-whining nonsense has to stop if people are to realize they're not going to get a fair slice of the pie without resisting corporate greed together. Almost every rich person never gives up a dime without a vicious fight, that's just the way it works. So lower- and middle-income people have to coordinate together to stop working until they are paid what the jobs can afford to make a livable wage.

Exactly. Unions built the middle class. Watch Robert Reich's "Inequality for All" which demonstrates how unions benefit workers. In the old days, unions were formed because robber-barons cheated workers out of pay, much like today. It was a hard-won struggle, with many murders.

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https://youtu.be/a6iW-8xPw3k

Pulled over, off the street, on a bicycle in Palo Alto to comment...

In California, it's the law for automobiles to give bicyclists 3 ft / 1 m of clearance. https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2014/09/16/3-foot-buffer...

Other things like bicycle lanes and intersections need to be designed to minimize risks like in the Netherlands.

Bicyclists and drivers have responsibilities to follow safe practices like:

- not running stop signs

- using proper reflectors, clothing and lighting

- not getting too close to other traffic or occupying their blindspot(s)

- not getting caught between curb and turning vehicles, and turning vehicles eliminating space to prevent bicycles from occupying space that is unsafe.

- not riding on sidewalks because it's mostly illegal

Draw Muhammed and burn Qurans, because magical thinking must never be allowed to install another Holy Roman Empire or Caliphate.

5 isn't very many at all. Try harder. It may take 10 or 100 more. Social activities, sports, churches, universities or interest groups are the best places.

I wouldn't rush into marriage, because it's the best way to rush into divorce.

https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/inside-america39s-billion...

Especially not the Man Jose gender imbalance.

Replace transit passes and employee/residence/parking garage badges.

Interesting story: I was in London and had an Oyster card but forgot I had the Clipper card for the SF Bay Area too. On seemingly reading the Clipper card, the Tube gate turned orange and basically shutdown.

I have an iPhone 6S, QC35 and a MBP 13 mid-2012. The Mac won't stay paired after booting and sleeping once. Only fixed by rebooting (kext reloading, process killing, bluetooth debug menu don't work). Also, it's annoying that it won't charge and stay powered-on simultaneously. Finally, there's ground loop noise originating from the iPhone if charging the iPhone & QC35 from the same source with using the audio cable together.

ProTip: Apparently, the QC25 remote cable with buttons works on the QC35 too.

QEMM, Super PC Quik, DeskView, Spinrite, hardcards, ...

Does anyone know if this opens up a back door to Secure Enclave by malicious operators of calibration machines?

1 hr 45 minutes without traffic

3 hrs peak times on the weekend

3-4 hrs rush-hour commute

For major airports, LA has Burbank and LAX. In fact, avoid LAX where possible. The other issue is LA is so spread out that that's its fundamental problem; it needs much faster, more pervasive and efficient public transport that ties into national and international travel.

iPhone and Android apps, freemium or ad-supported

That's a false dichotomy followed by a false equivalency. Escaping certain death in Honduras to work as a bus-boy or entrepreneur creating 20 jobs isn't anything like robbing a bank. There is no process for waiting for bureacratic paperwork and understaffed consulates as one escapes a dangerous situation because American agribusiness encourages undocumented migration. In Mexico, the American meat-packing industry advertises wages in local newspapers to encourage people to migrate. Furthermore, only token raids happen near the five major meat-processing facilities because the corporations have a strong lobby.

Guest worker programs need to be readily-accessible.

If ICE/CBP really wanted to do their jobs, the State Dept would have sufficient capacity and outreach to process many more people however they come and reward people for becoming documented.

Criminalizing otherwise honest people escaping certain death or looking for seasonal work isn't either humane nor reflects well upon the country, it only benefits the corporate, for-profit prisons like NWDC run by companies like GEO Group.