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> Cities grow organically because people want to live in that city.

That doesn't mean you can't stimulate that growth. You can take the initial steps to make an area a little more desirable and then let the rest happen organically. Nobody will randomly desire to live in an empty rural area.

It's a bootstrapping problem. Sometimes a single employer can make an area desirable, but that single employer may never move there because it's not a desirable area.

That is actually what we are doing. The problem is we can't decide on where the middle ground is.

> We all know what he meant

Having your mistake corrected can be educational even when you were understood. In the future, inanother context, the same mistake could result in confusion.

You can just use an alias.

The problem is public opinion. Americans either don't care or think imperial is superior.

It doesn't have to be a federal law. Change can start gradually with private companies. Pokemon Go, for instance, shows only kilometers and doesn't offer imperial units as an option. All water bottles in the US have both mililiters and fluid ounces on their label.

> Whether it's Metric vs. Imperial

To be fair, humanity did standardize that long ago. There is a country that is refusing to switch to the standard.

Exactly. The first 70 years of a 75-year life is probably more enjoyable than a 70-year old life.

By being born in the UK.

May ran a bad campaign. Corbyn ran a better campaign, apparently.

I believe the idea is the motivate you to contribute further by proving that your edit made a difference. How does your edit being viewed 100 thousand times makes you less interested in contributing? Would you rather contribute to a product nobody uses?

> I thought "why am I contributing to this ad-powered product that they're monetizing for millions, for free?"

You already knew Google Maps was monetized by ads, before making an edit.

I don't think it's fair to see this as free labor for Google. Your edits to Google Maps could be related to your own business. Or you might be helping your favorite local business to get more visibility and customers.

Perhaps it can also be seen as a contribution to your neighborhood.

Soylent is a meal replacement product. A fruit is not. Not to mention, it is indeed faster to drink the bottle you already own, rather than going to a grocery store.

At this point I'm beginning to think that is real possibility, not just a joke.

The phrase "from scratch" can't possibly have clear definition ("If you wish to make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe"). However, in this case I agree with you.

If you used a keyboard to make a keyboard, that is definitely not "from scratch".

Yes and this is known as Betteridge's law of headlines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

It's highly unlikely that this played a role in their decision.

Waterproofing the headphone jack isn't more complicated than waterproofing the charging port.

Not to mention, they replaced the headphone jack with even more holes which also require sealing.

> a scenario where your phone is out of power, your AirPods are out of power, and the AirPod case is out of power

No, I'm simply talking about a scenario where I want to listen to something but my headphones aren't charged.

In such a scenario, I have to wait 15 minutes.

> If you shell out for the AirPods, you can.

Which will need charging themselves.

Now I have to choose between being concerned about either my phone's battery or my headphones' battery.

Flash never worked well on mobile devices. So Apple never tried to implement it. Headphones worked fine with every mobile device in the world.

> helps with water proofing

There are plenty of waterproof phones with headphone jacks.

> if you really believe inequality rather than poverty is the problem

Maybe they're both problems. You're arguing a straw man here.

The comment you replied to simply says poverty was not the cause of French Revolution. It does not say poverty is not a problem.

> taking from the rich and giving to the poor helps only a little — and anyway expropriation is a one-time trick.

It is not explained why it helps only a little or why it has to be a one-time trick.

And why is the author talking about "expropriation" instead of "taxing"?

> healthy and non-starving adult black bears, some dogs, and cats happily consume cow milk if it is available.

How does that prove milk is good for us? Or for them?

Non-starving animals and humans can also enjoy the taste of junk food, we don't judge junk food's nutritional value based on that.

It is not a blind spot. Intolerance against intolerance is intentional.

> Surveys show that Americans have negative views of Muslims when they don’t know any; I suspect many liberals disdain evangelicals in part because they don’t have any evangelical friends.

If a liberal perceives Muslims and evangelicals to be intolerant (or at least less tolerant than themselves), their intolerance against them will be intentional and it may serve a purpose.

> At this time, the Reddit community can still choose to use Imgur or other sites for image hosting.

The fact that they used the phrase "At this time" makes it sound like they are planning to disable external image links in the future.

While it might help, you will be falling to much harder and uneven surfaces than the training mats in a dojo.

But PR pieces are not exactly spam.

You might block "27 Thoughtful Wedding Gifts" because it has product links, but there is chance some of those links would actually be useful to people looking for wedding gifts.

Such a blocker would have to block the entire Buzzfeed, for instance.

I don't think it's fair to call it "a show kind of like The Simpsons". The whole point is that it's taking place in 1970s and showing the life in that era. I found the show very interesting.

A touchscreen phone named Neonode N1 had slide-to-unlock 2 years before iPhone.

http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/25/slide-to-unlock-patented/

But the point is, it is a very trivial way of interacting with a touchscreen. It is, in fact, one of the few ways one can interact with a touchscreen.

> By the way, it seems like extreme product fail

Not necessarily. They just decided not to have this specific feature. It is a product design decision.

Seems like Google acknowledged this:

"From now on, our cars will more deeply understand that buses (and other large vehicles) are less likely to yield to us than other types of vehicles"