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Yes, public transit needs more investment. Claiming that the 'future of cities' is reliant on that investment is a bit myopic. The future of cities depends more on sensible plannin…

The 'commitment' from that article is: "No launch date has been set just yet, but it could happen in as soon as six months' time."

The quote of interest (being able to be tested in months) references another article where nothing has been committed but could be done in 6 months. On one hand it's great that thi…

I don't buy this. The same logic suggests that Tesla would not have been able to innovate the automotive market. AirBnB would not have been able to breakthrough the accomodation ma…

This raises some interesting points about the established order of Apple in the tech landscape: 1. Around the same Apple was beginning a fight with FBI and law enforcement about pr…

Most interesting that The Economist, which has it's own substantial CMS web presence, is using Medium to publish!

This is that awkward moment when you realise your colleague has terrible taste in music

Today is Jira Janitor day - that day where you finally clean up all the tasks, chase up open tickets, etc etc. Starting with assigning epics to all orphan tasks. Need help: need a …

This touches on the age old of problem of if you have police (moderators), who polices the police? Ultimately this is solved by having elected representatives and putting the power…

The underlying argument here is there is no difference between say Google and Verizon: the customer has to opt in (or pay) for both. And from a free market (aka conservative) econo…

My wife works in fashion. What they have found is instructive. They have spent 20 years outsourcing their production to China. After 20 years of economic and wage growth in China t…