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Earthquake/fire/electrical regulations might not seem valuable until your entire house/city is in ruins.

I find it noteworthy that crypto-currencies are treated as investments and 'bets' which would seems to imply instability or a design feature of fluctuating value. Almost as if a pr…

I would much rather have an affordable public transit system built than another airport.

Humans are more complex than flies and social atmosphere would need to be healthy relative to dramatic population sizes. John B. Calhorn's mouse utopia experiments give some indica…

It's too late for that now, for now.

We can't all be plants and fungus.

Animation isn't subject to camera blurs, but since mechanically precise movement is so boring to watch animators have always utilized motion and frame blurs as stylistic expressive…

Hmm.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

Niche subcultures thrive on the internet. Friendships take an amount of effort and a reasonable level of sacrifice to maintain. The internet also makes it easy to ignore other peop…

This is fixed by removing the central authority monopoly over the printing of money and/or make them actually print the money. During the BTC gold rush hype, people were buying GPU…

You're making an assumption that the makers of crypto-currencies intend to produce "better" economy-exchange-token systems rather than pump-and-dump systems.

Why would I want to spend a limited edition BTC™ if I know the system that produces bitcoins is going to stop producing the coins? Adding the assumption that as the 'bitcoin econom…

in a system when you generate currency from nothing, this is true. But if you use currency as an actual IOUs, you would need to generate value to generate currency, and thus, if yo…

The "Genesis" BTC blockchain seems to have its fate sealed. Elements of a genius ponzi scheme mixed with psychology of the limited edition beanie baby craze and enough allure of "t…

What happens if no internet connection is available?

As if industrial workers give any thought to fashion hype over utility and tools..? as if

Mostly local red tape, zoning laws, and NIMBYism

"Koyaanisqatsi" director Godfrey Reggio made a film using just the blank gazes of kids watching TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuI_nCADnW0 When people talk about how kids are …

This is cool, thanks for curating all these services into one spot. I like searching for (FOSS) software via http://alternativeto.net/

This is a big issue in Vancouver, British Columbia. http://www.theprovince.com/business/Vancouver+critical+money...

Odd, In Manhattan, the initiative requires buyers in sales of more than $3 million to be reported; in Miami-Dade County, it requires reporting on sales of more than $1 million. In …

The reason you and others feel the unreality of reality is likely the excessive exposure to media and the facade of unrealities presented to us as "reality" News is crafted more li…

Evolve the idea of what a home is. Elio motors is offering a small 84MPG vehicle for $6,800. 30 year old Volkswagen Westfalia Campers maintain a high resale value to this very day.…