Links March 22-24 2018
Saturday March 24, 2018
A seasoned tech investor and early facebook investor pulled out, saying there's a legitimate case the company is 'parasitic'. promarket.org
Friday March 23, 2018
American woman sets up in Syria a "slackline" ropes course so war-worn kids could have one day of childhood. popularmechanics.com
What's behind the very peculiar, very sudden jump in this Bay Area county: they rose 27.8% in just one year. sfchronicle.com
Design cities for people, not cars (interactive.) nytimes.com
Paper is biodegradable. Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now nearly 4 times the size of California: sfchronicle.com
Planet safe is a very dangerous place indeed: Court puts onus on California colleges to protect students from 'forseeable violence' sfchronicle.com
Elon Musk appears to have quit facebook. popularmechanics.com
Thursday March 22, 2018
The biggest bank in the Nordic region will no longer let its "sustainable investment unit" buy more stock in Facebook. sfchronicle.com
In attempts to attract business, Arizona requires no annual crash reports or engagement reports from driverless car companies, while California requires both. sfchronicle.com
Experts are now telling reporters the Arizona video of the Uber driverless car that hit and killed a pedestrian shows the car is at fault. sfchronicle.com
An editorial today titled "Drive carefully" says states such as California, which on April 2 will approve cars without backup drivers, should re-evaluate this policy. sfchronicle.com offline
Fred Rogers in 1997 told interviewer Charlie Rose his office plaque reads: "What is essential is invisible to the eye." youtube.com
The image vs the thing itself: "all these things deserve our respect, to be taken at face value, not to have their individuality destroyed by treating them as if they were an image of the thing they actually are." scripting.com
A seasoned tech investor and early facebook investor pulled out, saying there's a legitimate case the company is 'parasitic'. promarket.org
Friday March 23, 2018
American woman sets up in Syria a "slackline" ropes course so war-worn kids could have one day of childhood. popularmechanics.com
What's behind the very peculiar, very sudden jump in this Bay Area county: they rose 27.8% in just one year. sfchronicle.com
Design cities for people, not cars (interactive.) nytimes.com
Paper is biodegradable. Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now nearly 4 times the size of California: sfchronicle.com
Planet safe is a very dangerous place indeed: Court puts onus on California colleges to protect students from 'forseeable violence' sfchronicle.com
Elon Musk appears to have quit facebook. popularmechanics.com
Thursday March 22, 2018
The biggest bank in the Nordic region will no longer let its "sustainable investment unit" buy more stock in Facebook. sfchronicle.com
In attempts to attract business, Arizona requires no annual crash reports or engagement reports from driverless car companies, while California requires both. sfchronicle.com
Experts are now telling reporters the Arizona video of the Uber driverless car that hit and killed a pedestrian shows the car is at fault. sfchronicle.com
An editorial today titled "Drive carefully" says states such as California, which on April 2 will approve cars without backup drivers, should re-evaluate this policy. sfchronicle.com offline
Fred Rogers in 1997 told interviewer Charlie Rose his office plaque reads: "What is essential is invisible to the eye." youtube.com
The image vs the thing itself: "all these things deserve our respect, to be taken at face value, not to have their individuality destroyed by treating them as if they were an image of the thing they actually are." scripting.com
