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This is awesome.

I roast coffee at home and have been experimenting a lot with ratios and techniques for brewing. I've come to realize that my favorite technique is cold brewing. For home coffee br…

This is fantastic. Great breakdown of the different city types.

The area around Mint Plaza in SF, specifically at and around Blue Bottle, does this well. This was achieved by closing off that street to vehicle traffic, and allowing only people …

Actually, I think areas with more density are actually better for achieving what the author describes.

I live in SF and have both a personal commuter bike, and a BABS membership. When I factor in the convenience of not having to do any maintenance on the BABS bike, don't have to wor…

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A game we made "could be one of the dumbest mobile games ever made."

Interesting thesis but thin on citations/support. Anything better out there that supports or refutes this?

"'We have ourselves to blame,' Kim said. 'As an industry, we did not meet the service demand,' said Kim [owner of DeSoto Cab]. 'For years, every survey showed we were undersupplied…

This is nuts.

I remember reading this back in 2008 when Randy Pausch shared this on his site as he was fighting cancer: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/Web/People/pausch/news/index.ht...

I'm curious if red light cameras actually discourage red light running. Do we actually run fewer red lights because some intersections have them? Would be curious to see actual dat…

What about a bunch of partitioned rooms with soundproof glass walls?

This is click bait.

We still have four months left!

As a fan of cooking without fire, I like this.

Based on what I saw from researching this piece, many of the drivers in the accidents are professional truck drivers, who typically have a lot more experience and more stringent dr…