agilecaveman

Ok, i would like to see a more even ratio of men to women in software. However, making things that are "only for women" will likely increase the resentment between the sexes.

I do think we have a system problem in our education, but it's not that STEM favors men, it's that the REST of education heavily favors women. The recent college attendance numbers are a pretty good indication. STEM is just harder to discriminate, so more men are drawn to it.

First of all Twitter is not a "vastly richer internet giant". Secondly, the whole point of regulation is that twitter has to comply. What you pointed out they can ALSO do is sensor all the other tweets as a form of a boycott.

What the article points out is that for people opposed to sensorship, it's more productive to stop governments from sensoring, rather than pressure Twitter. If Twitter goes away, there is no guarantee other companies won't sensor things as well.

Good point. One of the best places for social interaction in the US are universities. It's no coincidence that students rarely own cars.

Back in my college (Yale), the campus and building layouts were pretty great. Some dorm complexes were much larger than city blocks, food was available in most living spaces. The ability to bump into people you know without need for mass planning is sorely missing from "adult" life.

Gas tax is an annoying way to make something less economic, because there is no way to control where the money will go.

What about tolling roads and/or privatizing them? This way it's easier to know which roads need expansion and which one's need to go away.

The biggest problem with mass-transit is that it's "public", i.e. state owned. Back in Kyrgyzstan (my home country), there are plenty of cheap private shuttles ("marshrutkas") which ferry people on pre-set routes. They are only slightly slower than cabs. Legalizing private mass-transit would be a good way to make it better.

Great article. Maybe another request for startups could be to kill cars.