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by rwhitman 10y ago
Or at least they could join with some other companies to pool money towards a software trade association with real teeth that we can rely on to represent our industry's interests when it's under attack like this. It's appalli
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Yet another example of the consumer software industry being completely impotent when it comes to defending itself. Patent trolls file these frivolous lawsuits because they make millions and suffer zero consequences for their actions. Why? B
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I had a tech startup superstition of my own: When a founder asks you to write answers on a FAQ page or knowledge base in response to questions that have never actually been asked by a customer yet, the startup will fail. Based on a similar
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It's fascinating to witness this byproduct of the ubiquity of Google Maps / Waze as it begins introducing traffic jams of it's own creation. So many people are directed to alternate routes en masse that Google has the power t
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This article was an oversimplification of the story in terms of why there is a vertical farm in Newark, at least. If you google around a bit, the reason for building in Newark is simply that they needed a HQ with attached research facility
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Usually when a strip mall is re-zoned for mixed use, they demolish the older structure. But on the aesthetic side it's possible to turn these buildings into something interesting if they're renovated by someone creative. Worked ac
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I recently got sucked up watching videos of this on YouTube. From what I can tell they just run them at top speed directly onto the beach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kDbwE7mFck
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First-Time Homebuyer Credit. They stopped it after 2010 I believe
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It's all about profit for the builder in relationship to municipalities and their zoning codes. Municipalities that were mostly formed around the time of the suburban building boom instituted very strict zoning and regulations around d
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So much of the most comfortable housing stock in America is single-family "McMansion" type homes. The type of suburban detached house that likely the majority of middle-class American millennials grew up in. For a young adult in t
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All of Pennsylvania in general is highly undervalued. I spend one or two weekends in PA every month and am always puzzled by how little attention and investment there has been in the state during the last few economic booms. PA is littered
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I don't really understand how you'd build with this with any level of ease. Seems like there's still a big gap in the developer toolset. Interesting to see where it goes however..
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That's a really interesting concept. As a visual person this seems really useful. The name is weird but honestly it sticks out enough that I'd remember it, and it's simple too. Said as one word it rolls off the tongue. I&#x27
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Philadelphia has both
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I should have clarified this better but I'm talking more about "villages" really. Places that are too tiny to be classified as a city center (by my arbitrary east coast standards at least), but afford a little pocket of shopf
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The thing that drives me bonkers about OC and most California suburbs is the lack of town centers. On the East Coast home buyers have started to discover that all these previously neglected walkable little colonial & 19th century towns
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I really want to see what could happen if we could take the principles and lessons of uber and automated vehicles and apply them to mass transit use cases, like on-demand buses to fill in situations where rail lines are deficient, agile new
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If silicon valley put it's weight against a new investment boom in mass transportation (of any kind) it would do this country a world of good.
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A tool that does automatic withholding of business deposits in a savings account for taxes is something I've been dreaming of for a while, to the point where I even sat down for a bit to see if I could cook up my own tool to do it. Ala
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by rwhitman 11y ago
If only politicians in the US were capable of seeing things this way.. So many smaller cities in the US northeast have been isolated from the regional economy by railroad shutdowns, but there's so little interest in rail here anymore t
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This has worse problems with credible authority than the Forbes article they're debunking. Forbes is at least a journalistic publication, this is clearly content marketing with an agenda to promote.
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How is it that lobbies from oil, guns, banks, telecom have historically been so powerful in passing legislation through Washington, yet the software industry is still so completely limp at protecting it's political interests? I feel li
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The frustrating part is that Pennsylvania has had tons of railway planning, infrastructure built - but it's mostly been abandoned or neglected for the last 70 years. So much of the state was born out of investment in rail connections a
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Pittsburgh is unfortunately kind of isolated transportation-wise, which I think is a bigger disadvantage than it looks on the surface. It was founded when waterways were the main transportation access point, and boomed as it was the interse
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Satellite / drone camouflage. I'm certainly not a military expert, but it seems fairly obvious that China's military would benefit from being able to hide from high altitude surveillance. They're not doing a whole lot wi
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That is amazing. Not that I endorse criminal activity or anything, but I imagine the amount of power you now have to evade traffic violations, get away with jewel heists etc, must have made the wait well worth it
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They mentioned this in the article, but I'd say it has a lot to do with image. Boston Dynamics seems fixated on posting videos of people abusing their robots to demonstrate their ability to regain balance, but the general public finds
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You misinterpret.. My comment had a very specific list of middle-tier fast food joints that have gone to crap. McDonald's wasn't in that list. Neither was Taco Bell. Both very affordable, and still pretty consistent. But if you&#x
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Agreed. He clearly has a self-serving business and political agenda underlying his statements. If his business is suffering right now, it's because the American appetite has changed - people either want decent food made with quality in
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He's right - when the bulk of common minimum wage jobs have been replaced by machines to offset the human resource cost, it's going to decimate low-wage employment. There will eventually be a price point at which the cost of buyin

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