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If the status quo means having a place to live in what was your and your family's neighborhood (cultural and actual) for a long time, yours is not really an indictment.

Here's an edge.org answer that briefly touches on this - from the other end, by another great physicist, Anton Zeilinger[0]: http://www.edge.org/response-detail/25548

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Zeilinger

Clearer images:

no rock http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/3528/1P441385599EF...

rock http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/3540/1P442453196EF...

Why would the executive branch curtail its own power?

It's a great idea! Not crazy about the busy background, but that might be an age thing. More importantly for me, having the "anonymous" label for posts is a bit of a distraction. Are the user names revealed only while logged in? If so, I'd hide that field from the unregistered masses, it doesn't inspire trust.

Anything to do with gentrification?

edit: I couldn't figure out why I was a little confused reading this, but it's because there is no one coherent answer in this article.

edit: I asked because the article doesn't answer that, aside from a small sampling. And the phase before this seems to be from only a couple of years ago ("Aaron Leitko wrote a 2011 Pitchfork feature about it called 'Positive Destruction'.") I don't know SF, but I've seen gentrification up close a few times in larger US cities, it usually takes longer. Hence my question.

The paper: http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw14.crowdfunding.mit...

Not to take anything away from the British love of sugar (or coffee), but coffee+sugar(+milk) is a Viennese invention. The coffee house as well.