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Some of us like to jump out of moving vehicles and do a cool roll or flip like in an action movie! This is yet another use case the Silicon Valley technocrats didn't consider...

The value of the land is a function of the amount of money one could make off the land, which is a function of the overall economy. A coffee shop next to lots of office buildings c…

If you give away the land to someone else, but still own the building on it, the person you gave the land to would have to pay land value tax and they would pass that onto you in r…

>I don't see anything at all that contradicts the idea of the Shire as an idyllic anarchic/collectivist society. Sam is Frodo's servant. Anarchic societies don't have masters and s…

We do know Shakespeare was a real person because he did a lot more in his life than just have his name appear on some plays.

The court telling an artist they're not allowed to sell their videos to the highest bidder seems like a greater infringement on their freedom. What if no one wants to pay for this …

>The Viet Cong were able to pay those poor men too, but the vast majority of them chose to fight for and to be paid by the south. If this is true why couldn't the South beat the No…

I feel exactly the same way. The Dispossessed was both one of the best and one of the most boring books I've ever read. There are a lot of things I appreciate about it and I'm glad…

You could say that about nearly any good thing in life. Your current job/relationship may be holding you back from an even better one. Those leftovers you grabbed out of the fridge…

Why did you "help" (in other words make a post/comment) that person on Reddit? Because you enjoy it, you enjoyed reading posts and comments by strangers, replying to them, and seei…

I've yet to read a clear explanation of how "surveillance capitalism" is any different than regular capitalism with computers. As long as people are trying to make money they're go…

>I wish all of these benchmarks pitted autonomous cars against a somewhat comparable user group – say professional taxi drivers – over just a general sampling of the population. Wh…

I disagree. Some people will drunk drive no matter the legal consequences, or in my case, I once rear-ended someone because I was drowsy but kept driving because I wanted to get ho…

Why would someone drive drunk if they can just let their car drive them home while they snooze in the back?

Making something illegal doesn't stop some people from doing it, so it's something that should be considered when looking at the overall safety of human drivers. One benefit of rob…

Why? Allow enough humans to drive and inevitably some of them will start doing so drunk. It's in our collective nature.

>How about we invest in making our cities more pedestrian, bike, and public transportation friendly? There are tons of companies that would love to help (get paid to) build out pub…

> Keeping autonomous vehicles on the road will result in thousands of edge cases, and without a clear safety benefit (as opposed to Level 1 systems) its better to stop everything a…

>more pedestrian friendly infrastructure and use the boring technology that already exists to get people where they want to go. the future is on buses and trains and bikes and pede…

That's not hard for me to imagine. Now that I think about it, it should probably be standard for autonomous cars -- if there's an accident or something unexpected it should pull ov…

>but because they don't have the credit score for anything within city limits That's because there's not enough housing in the city limits. >Space and access to sunlight are also c…

I guess it depends on the listing, but I once booked a place that was billed as a nice romantic getaway in a beach town on AirBnB, and when we got there the room didn't look anythi…

Hotels aren't selling a boutique experience.

If your urban planning is going to prioritize giving tourists scenic views rather than building affordable homes for the people that live and work in the city, then you shouldn't b…

>I talked to someone who was renting out their basement apartment on AirBnB for a few months before a remodel was scheduled. They had one tenant try to file complaints about everyt…