May 2012
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Now Coveted - A Walkable, Convenient Place →
WALKING isn’t just good for you. It has become an indicator of your socioeconomic status.
Until the 1990s, exclusive suburban homes that were accessible only by car cost more, per square foot, than other kinds of American housing. Now, however, these suburbs have become overbuilt, and housing values have fallen. Today, the most valuable real estate lies in walkable urban locations. Many of...
FCC Chairman Says It’s Okay to Be Charged for the... →
wilwheaton:
Mr. Genachowski said tiered pricing, will “increase consumer choice and competition” and yield in “lower prices for people who consume less broadband.” Although, as Electronista notes, “he did not clarify what mechanism would drive prices down.”
Public interest groups have decried the potential impact broadband data caps will have on the market and innovation, not to mention the...
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“But today you don’t need to read SF to get a sense of wonder high: you can...”
– Charlie Stross, “SF, big ideas, ideology: what is to be done?”
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NATO approves $1.7 billion for new drones →
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thepeoplesrecord:
Yet, somehow we don’t have enough money for schools, healthcare or food to feed the hungry.
^^^^^^
Insanity.
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