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Sad. I grew up in Champaign-Urbana and remember attending a talk he was giving about Prairienet.

Please don't give the EU any more ideas.

He paid some ex-con $50k to dig up dirt on the guy.

I believe the official term is accessory dwelling unit. You'll have to check your local zoning regulations on the rules and regulations for those. Yes there are companies that spec…

My dad was a EE professor specializing in semiconductor fabrication and he warned me away from a career working at semiconductor labs. He has warned me about every single warning o…

Whether they represent a liberal district or a conservative district, every legislator in California represents a significant number of constituents who wants their kids to go to C…

Yeah I got a kick out of watching his videos and seeing him every so often pull out some slightly wilted vegetables to make his dish. Quite the contrast to seeing all the pristine …

And, although not a junior, Eric Hansen aka one of the chessbrah also beat Magnus this tournament!

A professor of mine once told me about when he was in school he studied a book written by a famous expert in the field and found a bunch of errors. So he wrote back to the author w…

Beto O’Rourke, former U.S. Congressman, was a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow [1]. [1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-poli...

> People roll stop signs all the time Those people are called bad drivers.

The Raiders moved mostly due to receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in public financing to build a state of the art stadium in Las Vegas as opposed to playing in the semi-dec…

Did they also study whether total sugar sales rose in the cities next to Seattle? I can imagine that some price sensitive soda drinkers just drove to the nearest store outside of S…

Some commuter rail lines in the U.S. are designed to only cater to commuters. So they may not run any train into downtown at night, or they may stop running well before the shows e…

20% low income housing (and we're not talking about dirt poor people but people with solid middle class jobs)is hardly giant towers full of low income housing.

I live in SF and I'm not aware of there being any lockdowns here in the city either.

False: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/11/30/fac...

Interesting... that fur store always seemed so out of place in the North Loop as shiny new apartments and restaurants sprouted up around it.

There is some controversy regarding that paper: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/peer-review-of-a-vaers-dump...

Sure, a few restaurants I loved have closed, but that seems to mostly be due to covid (e.g. Bachelor's Farmer) or poor management (Butcher & the Boar). If anything restaurants have…

In high school, my school's basketball team went to play a basketball game at my state's high school for the deaf. A really interesting and unique experience.

Then you would probably choose to live somewhere else?

>1. People (in the US at least) overall consistently choose more land over living somewhere walkable. In a lot of places, the marginal cost of more land is near zero Yeah this pret…

Eh. I suspect besides housing prices, a significant amount of people also move to Texas because of political preferences. Also according to exit polling (as unreliable as it can be…

> So apparently all schools are amateur at commercialization. UF just has more experience than most. I knew an engineering professor at a large state school with a renowned enginee…