kennystone
Joined 16 years ago
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Comment · 4 years ago
They shot a live torpedo at FDR. Not the usual.
Comment · 6 years ago
Really smart from Mozilla; they leverage trust in their brand with a product for which trust is the most important feature. Making a VPN is a non-trivial technology project, but it's pretty straightforward how to do it well.
Comment · 7 years ago
George Pullman made a town outside of Chicago for workers to build his railcars. It didn't end well:
"the town and its design were... a paternalistic system that took away men's rights as citizens, including the right to control their own domestic environment"
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1030.html
Happy that google is making this investment; it's worth a shot even if it is far the ideal way to build housing. Hopefully the NIMBYism that defines this area won't kill it.
Comment · 10 years ago
The queues at stores have always been the worst part of the experience. You put stuff in a bag, which is effectively a queue, then you wait in a line - a human queue, then you de-queue your cart on a belt, which is another queue, it gets scanned item by item and then placed right back into a similar bag to where it started. Good job Amazon for finally working to eliminate the queues.