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the doc death by china covers some of these issues... not free trade by a long shot, more like an ongoing trade war

or Columbia the hippos like it there

I've observed strong bonds are formed during hardship, so enduring the teenage years/military service/some other hardship with others will result in a deeper friendship, but people…

Reminds me of the 4ds: Disrupt, Degrade, Deny, Destroy

You have coins on both block chains now

Nearly all political persuasion is framed as a moral argument and dissenters are publicly shamed. Eg. You are a bad person if you drive a SUV. This is not just a property of the le…

If web assembly can render angrybots i dont see why it cant render the nyt...and i think it would be hard to adblock such a setup.

Try high contrast chrome extension choose increased contrast

One ingredient is missing, some innovation to secure the bike against theft, since $1000 electric is a target.

In a conversation about the death of the west, you express shock that there remains some vestige of Christian morality, and without a hint of irony.

The narrative in this country is people who dont agree with the liberal establishment are mentally ill in the form of racism, sexism, etc. This is the level of political discourse …

Beergardens were common until WWII, at which point they were associated with Germanism. Most parks I see get very little use, one empty baseball field after another, it wouldn't ta…

I think whats missing is greenspace with a commercial element. If you attach a beergarden or cafe to a greenspace people will spend much more time there

The Frontline on this issue was good. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/league-of-denial/

This is about the NSA, not the CIA, but still a nice link. "As the most recent National Security Advisor of the United States, I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered d…

This reminds me of this fine map, "List of writing systems" https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/World_al...

This might be true but the option for Americans is the American city or the American suburb. A lot of bloggers who rail against the suburbs juxtapose it against some beautiful Euro…

Seems to be somewhat true. https://www.redfin.com/city/10943/MN/Minneapolis/filter/prop...

60 mins did an episode on face blindness, and apparently the psychologist Oliver Sacks couldn't even recognize himself in the mirror.

I think it's more the case that American cities are just not that great especially compared to European cities. The proposition for city life in the US is not that compelling unles…

Political agitators exploit a situation with buzzwords to create headlines, meanwhile real students go to class.

According to a recent Frontline, maybe we are moving on: "A searing, two-hour investigation places America’s heroin crisis in a fresh and provocative light -- telling the stories o…

If you live in the city, the compelling use is that you never have to park. And on long enough timeline, if a enough people were doing this, much of the parking footprint of the ci…