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One issue is plumbing. A floor of apartments needs more pipes and drains than were built in for office space. Interesting problem to solve, for sure.

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This guy better brace himself for internet fame, he's got a full page dating profile on The Guardian. He might never leave Wales but I bet people come to him now.

Most children understand the Golden Rule without much guidance. Being good isn't complicated or controversial. Sharing feels good. Friendship feels good. Being kind feels good. Exp…

Anyone interested in historical Indian law cases that didn't set good precedent might be interested in reading In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever De…

Watch Gaza Fights for Freedom , a documentary by Abby Martin and Mike Prysner, for a horrifying look into what life is like in Gaza for the Palestinian people. It was filmed inside…

My wife is a graphic designer and works on both a Mac desktop and laptop. The assets she generates for a single project can reach into gigabyte territory – multiple versions of a s…

While it's nice that Dell promotes Linux, they need to greatly improve their support for the products they sell. I bought an XPS with Ubuntu and regret it: persistent wifi issues, …

Bundling service config and launch makes the whole process easier, for sure. There's also more than one way to configure this depending on what your needs are, so it'd be cool to h…

I've seen this more where I'm from, too. Our underwater ecosystem is collapsing. Their world must be like some of our smog-choked, acid rain hellscapes, if not moreso and even more…

I agree with you about government action. That said, if you work for a company, rally together with your like-minded coworkers to push for change within your organization. Even sma…

I use a shared host for some personal projects, clients, and friends. Most people I know aren't tech-savvy and want WordPress or small no-frills HTML website and the ability to upl…

What have you been trying so far?

Is organizational politics inevitable once you reach a certain size? Any ideas or lessons in avoiding politics in favor of solving problems – short of a mind meld?

I think PG makes a few assumptions in this musing that deserve more though and criticism. Power and charisma together often brew megalomania, and I don't see charisma itself as a p…

It isn't even a terribly difficult Hawaiian name, either!

Fix the SFMTA would be a great hackathon project. I'm sure there's more than a few willing and talented people in the city to lend their skills to solving this immediate problem...…

Systems of Survival by Jane Jacobs

I like the post, and the ambitious GitHub repo with a single README made me smile. We're re-discussing an existing idea to see if maybe something sticks or clicks. An idea might be…

How much better this letter would be if it were reframed: we can't ignore the pain, struggle, and despair of the homeless; we need to do more to help – and here's what I plan to do…

There's a world of difference between the two candidates' positions. Sanders has a history of stubborn, unwavering commitment to his progressive ideas, whereas Clinton has only rec…

I'm glad someone else picked up on this. I cringed when I read that paragraph. For some interesting perspective on men's issues, take a look at the Men's rights movement. It's ambi…

> "Public space is an arena in which no single authority should reign and multiple voices should be heard, so we started from a profoundly democratic conviction that the public sph…