According to the Google, median home price for SF is $1.3 million.

With dollars, you can stuff them in your mattress for a year and when you come back they'll purchase about the same amount. That's a good thing. You shouldn't have to take a risk just to store value. A currency that does its job ought to suck as a high-yield investment.

Maybe now we can get cryptocurrencies back to their best use, which is purchasing drugs on the dark web.

Here's the value of Windows: When something breaks, you can blame it on those dumbasses at Microsoft and no one will hold you responsible because you're just using the same platform that 95 percent of the world uses. When something breaks in Linux, it's all your fault because you took a chance on a screwball operating system to save a few euros.

Back when IBM ruled the industry they had a slogan: "No one ever got fired for buying IBM." Well that's been the case with Microsoft since the '90s.

FedEx and UPS often just handle the long-haul portion of a shipment and rely on the USPS for delivery from a USPS distribution center to a customer. If the USPS goes away. FedEx and UPS will not take its place. We'll all just be stuck with very expensive, not very convenient shipping.

This idea that learning to code is analogous to learning a natural language is a stupid one, usually promulgated by red-state xenophobes who really just want to cut funding for foreign language instruction, and send everyone to YouTube for a free Intro to Java tutorial and pretend it's just as good.

Seriously. It's bullshit. Just stop. Please.

Biosphere. God, what a metaphor! In other words, a self-contained inhabitable zone shielded from the harsh environment of--gasp--Seattle.

The whole point of locating in a city is to be part of the city. Let your employees meet for lunch at a local restaurant that hasn't been hand-picked by Amazon's Director of Restaurant Planning. Use the transportation system that the locals use, improving it for everyone in the process. Go to a public park to chill out, rather than a private park reserved for Amazon employees.

This kind of office park is all over Silicon Valley. To someone who's never worked in this environment, it sounds like a huge perk. But having worked in an environment like this, I'd rather just work in Seattle, not in a biosphere surrounded by Seattle.

A factory operating 24/7 on a massive scale with the goal of producing as quickly as possible is a lot different from a single McDonald's franchise.

Let me give an example. I've had the most brain-dead job imaginable: Palletizing (stacking boxes on pallets) in a factory. We had robots to do that for the high-volume jobs. But for the smaller runs it was more cost effective to bring in a couple temps at $12 an hour than it would have been to build another robot.

McDonald's is already very efficient. Most of the prep work is done, in advance, in a factory using robots. Preparing it for the customers requires relatively few employees operating well beneath capacity in order to serve the food as fresh from the grill as possible.

I'm not sure what the point is, staying open 24/7 near Union Square. It's very busy during the day, but most of the late-night activity takes place in other parts of town. Is the market so saturated that their next target demographic is homeless people?

When it was on, every woman and gay man with a blog seemingly had to share their opinion of the latest episode of Sex and the City. As a straight man, I was inclined to let them have their fun. I'm a modern guy. The world does not revolve around my interests.

Then I went to Chevy's on a weeknight, and there were like 20 squealing, tipsy-on-one-margarita ladies having a "Sex and the City" party, and I was like, ENOUGH! This show sucks! Years of overexposure had finally made me revert to the sexist troglodyte I had been repressing for all this time.

Compare to Blue Mountain State. It gets, maybe 1/1000th the media coverage as Sex and the City. I'm it's target audience apparently, yet I'm barely aware it exists.

He suggests dropping Algebra II as a requirement. The first two statistics courses I took in college had only Algebra I as a prerequisite. This wasn't "statistics for poets," either, they were the same courses taken by math majors.

Here's what I suspect. San Francisco has a lot of pedestrians for an American city, but it's still proportionally lower than Barcelona. Barcelona has a lower proportion of automobile traffic and a higher proportion of pedestrian traffic. Thus, more vehicle-pedestrian accidents in San Francisco.

I mean, 30 years ago, whenst last I drove through the downtown of actual SF, there was a 5-lane honking freeway slicing thru the heart of it.

If you mean the Embarcadero Freeway, they tore that down after the Loma Prieta earthquake in '89. (And there was much rejoicing. Visit the rejuvenated Ferry Building and there are markers where the supports for the freeway once stood, and plaques gloating over its demise. The Embarcadero Freeway was widely despised.)

Park Presidio Drive is technically part of US Highway 1, but is more like an urban boulevard for the part that is within city limits. There is no longer any freeway through San Francisco.

The car's clean enough not to make the person driving it sick. If everyone drove cars that cheated on emission standards, then sure, pollution would be a lot worse. But as a percentage of cars on the road, this model is a drop in the ocean. The more serious issue if you own this car is that it could cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars to make it street legal in California. If it can be made street legal at all.

PS, It has long been my opinion that Google wants its customers to have gigabit fiber, but they would rather some other company provide it. The purpose of Google Fiber is to goad Comcast and TWC into doing it. Like any for-profit enterprise, Google doesn't want to be in the business of providing universal access to high quality Internet. That's providing a commodity, and Google wants high profit margins.

On the bright-side, they're well aware of TWC's and Comcast's vaporware ploys and are unlikely to be deterred by that.

Which brings me to my point: If this rollout by Comcast is true, is someone finally getting out IN FRONT of Google Fiber, not just being a reactionary twit?

VAPORWARE (n) - A product that does not yet exist, but is sure to blow any competing products out of the water. Promoted by market-dominating companies to forestall potential competitors.