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Let me throw in their excellent cheese selection.

Yeah, bartering was a 90s thing. I suspect it died out because it's actually a hassle compared to gifting.

You can also purchase RV pumpouts with cash on the spot, which is not sold by the organizers.

That's only sort of true. There are -plenty- of bars out there that will reward you with a drink once you entertain them in some way (flashing them, for instance).

But beyond that, it also depends when you're talking about. Bartering preceded gifting culturally at BM, and was definitely a thing in the early to mid 90s.

No it doesn't. The Burning Man Project has virtually nothing to do with the regional burns around the world, which is a sore point for a lot of regional organizers. They ask that the regionals follow their rules, then provide virtually no support for them, while simultaneously bragging about how they've spread the culture worldwide.

Regionals are run by organizations that are completely separate from the Burning Man Org.

Most tickets are priced at $425. The $1200 tickets are for people who can afford them but couldn't get them at $425. Some of the $$ from the $1200 ones goes to support the low-income ticket program fwiw.

I will say, if using a portapotty "ruins" the experience for you, you're going to be better off going to an event where you can stay in a hotel, vs a big camping trip to the desert.

I realize it's not cool to post value-less comments here, but....damn it.

They're in the process of ramping up pretty seriously I think. http://fortune.com/2018/01/22/coinbase-tina-bhatnager-twitte...

Occasional?

Sure it is. My problems that Soylent can solve include having an easy and palatable (I sort of enjoy the plain flavor when chilled enough) snack a couple times a week.

Tiburon, in Marin, already does this and has for years. http://www.marinscope.com/twin_cities_times/news/tiburon-to-...

All cryptocurrencies are durable, portable, divisible, and uniform. Nearly all of them will be worthless, and many that were already created and possess those four characteristics are already worthless. Bitcoin may escape that fate (I own a a fair amount, so I hope so), but it won't be because of those four traits.

You could have made the exact same case with the exact same chart in June/July 2014, after which the Bitcoin price crashed.

Was this basically an acquihire? No price disclosed. I would be very surprised if this was any kind of successful acquisition, given Curse has taken $60m in funding.

These guys are clearly flailing at this point.

It's been all of one week since a plane was hijacked.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/29/europe/hijacked-egypt-air-jet/

Lightroom is both an editor and a photo management collection tool. The Nik collection is editor only.

Hearthstone is excellent.

The trouble is that Visa functionality already exists and it already works really, really well for both consumers and merchants.

Wow. Well, I'm definitely heading over there to push the issue at some point. Fuck those guys.

I emailed Jonathon Goldman, the Dir. of Public Works and got a response. He wrote:

Good afternoon. Here's a short answer from MarinMap (attached). The pieces of roadway that have no zoning, are inside the City Limits (the red dashed line) and have no parcel boundaries crossing them are generally public right of way. Roads that transit parcels with a solid color (and are therefore not as visible on the attached), or have parcel boundaries across them or near the centerline are private and not publically-maintained. Wolfback Ridge Road, for example, has a public right of way part between US 101 and APN 064-276-22 (owned by the Marin Municipal Water District), a part that lies outside the City Limits and parts on private properties. Happy to try to answer any more specific questions. At some point, a land surveyor would be necessary to sort that all out.

The graphic he references is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hcsaclyxglbn1ih/Wolfback%20Zoning....

Honestly, I still can't tell which parts really are public and which parts aren't.

Awesome, thanks!

Oh, I'd love to see those emails if you can dig them up, thank you! If I'm confident that it's a public street, I'm going to go hang out on that street.

I was really curious about that, as I live in southern Marin and have wanted to go up that road before. Are you sure it's a public road though?

I found this: http://sausalito.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_...

On page 2, there's a line that says, "Wolfback Ridge Road is a private road maintained by the Wolfback Ridge Association, a neighborhood homeowner’s association (see Exhibit R for Association information)"

I can't find exhibit R, but the person who sent it appears to be a resident of Wolfback Ridge, leading me to wonder how legit the info is.