Cryptid

6 ms·

1.
by Cryptid 5y ago
the webiste Strong Towns has some good info on parking minimums: https://www.strongtowns.org/parking https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/11/25/parking-minim... Some more: https:&#x
2.
by Cryptid 5y ago
'never too late to stop making things worse' is good advice in many areas!
3.
by Cryptid 6y ago
you read the links, thank you!
4.
by Cryptid 6y ago
>The Le Corbusier spirit of zoning It's not Le Corbusier. Zoning in the USA started in the late 1800s, an effort to regulate light and air in cities, and turned by the early 1900s into an effort to keep certain industries and ethnic
5.
by Cryptid 6y ago
You may mean Corian [1], which is a countertop surface[2] 1: https://www.corian.com/ 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corian
6.
New Israeli tank features Xbox controllers, AI honed by ‘StarCraft II’ & ‘Doom’(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by Cryptid 6y ago|1 comments
7.
by Cryptid 9y ago
Radiolab's More Perfect had a pair of very interesting episodes on Edward Blum: http://www.radiolab.org/story/more-perfect-plaintiffs/ and https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/architect-edw
8.
The allure of race science: America’s most ancient justification for bigotry(vox.com)
1 points by Cryptid 9y ago|0 comments
9.
by Cryptid 9y ago
Yes, it's happily becoming less common, but it was and is common for all options in a 401k plan to have high fees, and be set up to benefit the company http://time.com/money/3959942/401k-bad-choices/ ht
10.
This Design Generation Has Failed – Mike Monteiro(fastcodesign.com)
3 points by Cryptid 9y ago|1 comments
11.
How Mainstream and Local News Outlets Were Used to Drive a Polarized News Agenda(medium.com)
2 points by Cryptid 9y ago|0 comments
12.
by Cryptid 9y ago
> And you always have to walk fifteen minutes, just to get to the transit spot. I know a lot of broke people who live within less than a two minute walk of a bus stop and could not possibly afford a car. You might want to consider how t
13.
by Cryptid 9y ago
>I am sure this comment will only be seen by me, only through this browser. hi! Since your model has led you to an incorrect conclusion, are you going to revise it?
14.
by Cryptid 9y ago
"Is the Second Amendment the Second Most Important?" - "The order of that list, however, still reflects Madison’s view: They come in the same order as the sections of the Constitution that they would have modified." htt
15.
by Cryptid 9y ago
He was already a scumbag before prison: https://www.quora.com/Did-Andrew-weev-Aurenheimer-contribute...
16.
by Cryptid 9y ago
That would be telling.
17.
by Cryptid 9y ago
As soon as you said this I thought of Peter O. Knight and the Davis Island Yacht Club. I used to watch the planes land as we derigged our dinghies.
18.
by Cryptid 9y ago
Ada Palmer's "On Progress and Historical Change" https://www.exurbe.com/?p=4041 "So when I tell people about this election, and they ask me “Does it always have the same outcome?” the answer is yes and n
19.
This Future Looks Familiar: Watching Blade Runner in 2017(tor.com)
2 points by Cryptid 9y ago|0 comments
20.
by Cryptid 9y ago
>After 50 mins working on something very difficult my mind gets so mucked up. I am suddenly reminded of my college classes that were 50 mins on the dot, with 10 mins in between as travel time to get to the next class.
21.
by Cryptid 9y ago
Conor Freidersdorf argues this is an American phenomenon: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/what-th...
22.
by Cryptid 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14918928
23.
Palantir goes from Pentagon outsider to inner circle(politico.com)
3 points by Cryptid 9y ago|0 comments
24.
by Cryptid 9y ago
I would also recommend Caroline Alexander's A Winelike Sea http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/sea/winelike-sea and the ensuing discussion at MetaFilter "Achilles sat on the shore and looked out to the wine-dark
25.
by Cryptid 9y ago
The Census counts prisoners according to the "usual residence rule," assigning them to their prison for purpose of location and, of course, redistricting. A prison is a good way to get a lot of bodies to populate a district and e