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Doing badass things that don't scale got him attention that could be monetized to further bring himself and others up. Goodwill (the business value kind) is a vital component to ra…

I did a casual bike tour through hundreds of miles of Netherlands and Belgium. We wore helmets, obviously. Not wearing a helmet is inconsisent with having many standards for reflec…

There should be vinyl wrap for bikes that provides a paintable, duct-tapeable substrain for camo tape and radioactive fuchsia and orange also camo ejaculation. Flat (no shine) pain…

Cryptocurrency evolution may end up looking like railroad track gauges. 1, 2, many in a Cambrian explosion and then mergers/acquisitions into just a few used everyday. The others w…

I'm vegan. "Plant-based" is not a panacea and not automatically healthy. This article is one-dimensional when there are multiple health considerations including both cholesterol ef…

Just an FYI that Koch-owned Georgia-Pacific papermills release tons of cancer-causing pollutants including PCBs, hydrogen sulfide, cyanide, formaldehyde, dioxin, acetaldehyde and c…

WF has been struggling because they helped paved the way for mainstreaming of organic, sustainable, etc. They couldn't pivot really and everyone else was undercutting their high pr…

Currently, US wages continue to slide and the middle class shrinks, while the top 8 billionaires own as much wealth as half of the world. This libertarian, trickle-down, union-bust…

Exactly. Unions built the middle class. Watch Robert Reich's "Inequality for All" which demonstrates how unions benefit workers. In the old days, unions were formed because robber-…

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Pulled over, off the street, on a bicycle in Palo Alto to comment... In California, it's the law for automobiles to give bicyclists 3 ft / 1 m of clearance. https://www.paloaltoonl…

Draw Muhammed and burn Qurans, because magical thinking must never be allowed to install another Holy Roman Empire or Caliphate.

5 isn't very many at all. Try harder. It may take 10 or 100 more. Social activities, sports, churches, universities or interest groups are the best places. I wouldn't rush into mar…

Especially not the Man Jose gender imbalance.

Replace transit passes and employee/residence/parking garage badges. Interesting story: I was in London and had an Oyster card but forgot I had the Clipper card for the SF Bay Area…

I have an iPhone 6S, QC35 and a MBP 13 mid-2012. The Mac won't stay paired after booting and sleeping once. Only fixed by rebooting (kext reloading, process killing, bluetooth debu…

QEMM, Super PC Quik, DeskView, Spinrite, hardcards, ...

Does anyone know if this opens up a back door to Secure Enclave by malicious operators of calibration machines?

1 hr 45 minutes without traffic 3 hrs peak times on the weekend 3-4 hrs rush-hour commute

For major airports, LA has Burbank and LAX. In fact, avoid LAX where possible. The other issue is LA is so spread out that that's its fundamental problem; it needs much faster, mor…

California business people have been wanting for more tha 4 decades to bleed the state dry on an over-priced "high speed rail" system that would likely suck.