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> how much has "too" varied over time though? Looks like[0] the real value of your average acre of US farmland is about 3x what it was fifty years ago. There's more data available …

> too expensive or its in remote location This is generally how land values work...

Yes, refusing to testify to the grand jury... in the WikiLeaks case.

I've always taken "public ownership" to imply "publicly-traded company", which means John Q. Public can call up his broker and buy some shares in the company. This in contrast to p…

> It's not like we pay the police $2,000 for each arrest Not in a direct sense - but civil asset forfeiture and arrest/citation quotas do incentivize individual officers to take ac…

Sure, but the Mueller report was widely reported[0][1][2] to be released Thursday morning days ago. [0]: https://deadline.com/2019/04/redacted-robert-mueller-report-... [1]: https:…

AI doesn't solve the underlying issue that made ketamine depression treatment expensive: intellectual property rights on a particular molecule. If a company achieved AI that can id…

You're right, but that doesn't mean it's a waste of time to design systems more resilient to the human element.

Airplane safety should be more strict than car safety, because the damage an airplane crash causes is a handful of orders of magnitude higher than a car accident...

Follow-through. Google is infamous for this sequence of events, time and time again: 1. We made this great new thing that's gonna change the way you verb! Hope you enjoy it! 2. (1-…

If you feel like you're having allergic episodes when drinking, you may have some sinus issues lurking!

I'm glad we're waking up to this fact. It's not enough to hold a belief... in our system, action is required. I think this is why young people are so frequently screwed by politica…

Paratransit is recognized in North America as special transportation services for people with disabilities, often provided as a supplement to fixed-route bus and rail systems by pu…

"BuzzFeed launches a new website for its real journalism": https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/18/buzzfeed-news/ "Buzzfeed News adds a Pulitzer winner and top Pentagon correspondent to …

Babel (specifically, babel-preset-env, which I assume you're referring to) only ensures that your code's syntax can run within a given browser. It doesn't make sure all the web API…

I could've sworn that they closed down a year or two ago. Are you sure you just got this? Edit: yeah, looks like this happened 8 months ago ( https://munchery.com/blog/a-letter-to-…

> most of the US government is designed to self-sabotage things like publicly run transit anyway What level of US government is sabotaging transit? The federal government doles out…

> Giving someone 0-day notice and physically escorting them out of the company is simply unacceptable. This is a pretty common practice, especially when dismissing employees that w…

supposed !== possible

You're describing theft. Bird didn't abandon their scooter, they know where it is and intended for it to be there. As noted in another thread here, something being left on the stre…

It's probably on the front page because Chariot was part of YC W15, and later acquired by Ford.

Wellbutrin (bupropion hcl) is FDA approved as a smoking-cessation aid. I took it for a year or so (though not for smoking cessation), if you have any questions I'd be happy to answ…

If roads were 20x wider, 68% of LA County would be streets. Sure, turning two-thirds of a city into roads will cut down on traffic - but within realistic restraints on road constru…