Intel acquired Movidius, Mobileye, and a few other big budget acquisitions in the years since they acquired Altera.

I'm wondering if this is just a one-off, or if we'll see similar deals in the weeks to come.

OnePlus basically built their brand on phones with versions of Android very close to Google's with no fancy or unneeded add-ons and the ability to easily unlock/root the device.

If they're now adding this kind of bloatware, it represents a significant departure for the brand.
Now that they've raised the prices of their phones to match Samsung/Apple, consumers who previously fit into the OnePlus niche may look elsewhere.

It's too bad, the mobile market sorely needs more competitors challenging the status quo and it looks like OnePlus may no longer be challenging much of anything.

This.

You'd have to be insane or just want to burn cash to go with most of these delivery apps. Doubling the cost is not worth time saved. Add to that a significant percentage of orders with wrong or missing items, is this really an attractive proposition?

It's possible the copy originally belonged to Milton's father who was well educated and living in London at the time. Also possible Milton bought it for himself as a used copy from another collector.

It's pretty much the opposite actually.

Facebook's current like system created giant echo chambers where no outside perspectives could get in.

Large mobs screaming at the minority with overwhelming likes for consensus views, burying anything contrary.

Facebook basically created a poisonous culture through likes and now it looks like they're trying to find a way out of their mess.

What about setting up roadblocks for a city of 200,000 people based on one localized shooting incident? It's not like San Bernardino is some tiny village, after all.

It'd be like closing down five blocks surrounding a liquor store hold-up. Either the government is grasping at straws, or their purpose for this survellance is pretty much unrelated to the incident.

The California High Speed Rail project has been in various phases of development for over a decade.

These things aren't built overnight. It also relies on voters getting passionate about funding it, which changes depending on how the economy's doing.

The former mayor of Palo Alto wanted to hold it up awhile ago, because he's basically afraid it'll reduce property values. The new mayor basically bragged to her constituents upon taking office about successfully holding up the project at added expense to the state. So, you have those kinds of obstructions to consider as well.

Sure, because we should judge an entire city due to a few crazy people. That's rational.

No, it doesn't reduce congestion. It convinces employees working 40 miles away from the city that they can still live in San Francisco and don't have to worry about driving the commute.

Basically, it creates an inefficient working population living far from their place of work.

Chances are, far more would choose to live closer if they had to take public transit or drive their own car.

That depends on how fast your upload speed is.

You don't need to deal with hypotheticals.

California implemented an all-inclusive trans-fat ban in all restaurants starting in January 2011. It replaced an earlier partial ban dating back three years earlier. And, yes, we still have cookies, doughnuts, etc...

It turns out, animal fat works great for these things. What do you think people used before Crisco started marketing trans fat 100 years ago?

We've heard from David Cameron that Snowden's leak "damaged national security."

Cameron made veiled threats suggesting he could take the media to court over publishing the leaks.

Government enforcers employed heavy-handed tactics to intercept, detain and threaten those even tangentially connected to the leaks.

Many were forced to destroy technical equipment in a quixotic quest to purge the unpurgeable.

Now, all of that failed. Predictably, this is the kind of horse shit they've resorted to slinging.

As it is now, you have time zones. Those are just as confusing as local time customs with universal time.

In fact, just keep calling them time zones.

Pacific Standard Time would just mean the zone where shops close at 1:00. People would adapt within a month.

Exactly this.

Even the new Kindle Paperwhite is meant to be used with a backlight, increasing the likelihood of headaches and eyestrain.

Unfortunately, this is one of those cases where people just aren't informed enough as an aggregate to realize the advantages of non-backlit e-ink for reading.

The market demands tablets with outlandishly bright backlights, and companies provide them.