If Iran came hat in hand begging to Trump they'd get their deal, but Trump's win at all costs mentality and need to ridicule and mock Obama makes Trump look like a very small man. If he didn't do "the deal" then it isn't honored. So tribal and a throwback in time.

We created the theocracy in Iran when we supported the Shah's brutual Savak secret service.

If we really want to win in Iran we need to go back to the 80's cold ware mentality of MTV, McDonalds and Coca-Cola. It worked for the Eastern Bloc countries.

It almost worked in China, but we gave into making them WTO partners - something that should be reserved for functioning democracies, not totalitarian governments.

Excellent article on San Francisco's new generation of skyscrapers and the need for updated earthquake codes. The website is amazing and the article is well written. The next "big one" could seriously wreck havoc. The sinking millennium tower is already a billion dollar lawsuit, and the new Sales Force HQ is at the heart of San Francisco's new transit center that will connect California's new high speed rail with LA in another decade. What I found amazing was the article's mention of how the Ferry Terminal survived the 1906 earthquake - a huge vital lifeline for bringing in aid from Oakland. The Bay Bridge that was built to replace the ferry terminal had a catastrophic failure in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that dropped the upper bridge into the lower decks (which was built and used to have transit rail service & was built to a stronger specification). Can't imagine the cost if the bridge had collapsed into the bay. Seems like every Earthquake inJapan or California we learn more about how to build better structures. Lets hope our building codes can be proactive instead of reactive for the next one!

RR ReallyRead.it took 10 minutes to get through this article. Not sure if it is the embedded images that it hung up on, or if you need to keep scrolling up & down after you finish reading to get it to register, but clearly something needs to improve.

As for the article: Economic impact reports for crimes is a huge step forward. What people do to themselves vs inflict on others is a big step forward in what crimes should be prosecuted. I hope it leads to real legislative reform. Fighting the prison industrial complex is going to be tough with all those lawyers losing fees.

Biologically postpartum depression was a way for a mother to pull emotionally away from a baby that wasn't working hard enough to engage mom. Some scientists believe this was a way for mothers to stop giving precious resources to babies who weren't going to make it.

This probably made sense when we were primitive humans struggling for our very existence. It also fostered the role of family and community by making sure mothers had the support they needed to help raise the next generation of humans.

Fast forward to today where we have single moms having to work and raise kids with little help from anyone, and daycare more expensive than ever. It is no wonder that this article nails home the huge negative affect a mother's depression has on the well being of her children.

When they look at kids who fail in school they find the number of words spoken to them before they could talk was a fraction of what it is in successful kids. Having a mom who ignores your needs has HUGE impacts on society - it is no wonder mental health issues, opioid abuse and mass shootings dominate our news headlines.

The writer's call for more screening for depression in mothers is something that should be at the forefront of mental health funding. It is also something that should be reflected in building communities through public policy, architecture, family and community support for new mothers, etc.

Bumble is bumbling along with Herd thinking at the helm.

For an Austin based startup to give 100k to anti gun groups and ban killing tools in photos seems a bit crazy to me. Using that logic you should ban photos with cars or fatty foods which kill more people each year than guns or knives.

Article seems like pure publicity for Bumble. The journalist misses the opportunity to dig into Whitney Wolfe Herd's background as one of the few women tech startups. I'd rather see info on how she's managing in a #metoo world than to see a blatant publicity grab to ban gun enthusiasts from a dating site. I can only imagine once the news dies down if meat eaters will be next, as her mantra is, "its the right thing to do."

Excellent article from San Jose's freekly (free weekly rag).

So much FakeNews comes from folks reading the headline and no informed discussion. The comment that Palo Alto has 3 daily free papers while most places struggle to support even one marginal newspaper hit home! Most folks don't think of Facebook as a media giant - but from reading this article it clearly is. They figured out how to rip off other folks content while taking none of the journalistic ethics in refuting fake news.

Also very timely article for reallyread.it - If facebook used ReallyRead.It before letting folks make comments on news articles a lot of these problems would go away!!

If you can't land Facebook, I hope you'll look at a word press and medium rr plugin versions for those authors that do care about their work. This would allow blog writers to easily use reallread.it as their commenting platform and would act as a built in spam filter from fake news bots.

The article drills down on Facebook's huge fake news problem and the history behind it. I had forgotten they had gotten rid of their human reviewers. Its clear that Facebook doesn't want to own news by either paying for real journalism or to spend any money keeping fake stories off its platform. In the "old" days the government required that channels carry the money losing NEWS shows as part of their agreement for using public airwaves. They made most of their $ off syndicated shows and they subsidized NEWS for the awards and the public good of preferring CBS vs NBC vs ABC. Today coporate giants own media and have conflicting interest in covering the news. Amazon's Jeff Bezos owns Washington Post. Bloomberg'a Business week is owned by Michael Bloomberg NYC exMayor. Murdoch owns Fox News. Jack Dorsey's Twitter has his champion Trump, but the real credit for Trump winning the election goes to FaceBook founder Mark Zuckerberg and the stealing of Harvard dorm girl photos to start FaceMash breaking all kinds of privacy rules.

This is the first article to point at a possible cause for the accident.

The photo of the pilot smiling hopefully wasn't reflective on the tragic loss of life for his passengers. Given the number of water landings in NYC it seems like tourist helicopters should probably be equipped with some water flotation skids that might have bought the passengers valuable time to unbuckle their belts before going upside down making it virtually impossible to do so.

This isn't the first time the AS350 has had fuel switch problems. There was another accident where investigators couldn't understand how the engines ran out of fuel so hopefully some safety improvements can be made. The recent Grand Canyon crash was over fuel tanks that should have been recalled, but this article doesn't make mention of it.

I wish more of the world was vocal in publicly condemning this move by China to let their leaders without limits. To often world strife is caused by these one man despot rulers and too often it has been democracies that have been asked to put an end to their tyranny.

Given the large young male population of China, the lack of democratic reforms and the potential for a trade war that will cause further economic disruption it is inevitable that China is headed towards another political upheaval. The whole reason Xiaoping enacted 2 term limits was to prevent this from happening again. Xi has learned nothing from his own history.

Quick Read would blame this on PTSD, but for folks that Really Read It you can read the larger legacy of what it feels to not be wanted.

The common thread in young male shooters is the theme of rejection and the subsequent dejection and anger that follows. "herr and her husband worked full-time, they decided to put him in foster care" - Bounced from his own parents, his foster parents who paid for private school, the foster care system and then the orphanage of last resort the US Army.

The break down of society, community, religious groups and civic life has torn a gaping hole in our society, and young men have had it. Sad to see how he took it out on the 3 women who tried to help and then they too kicked him out and this time he lashed back.

Bill - You need to add a reallread.it forum thread on the site so folks can talk about features. Features like a speed reading test where we pay $1 to take a speed reading quiz and winners get their really read it speed read time adjusted!

As for Silicon Valley is Over - ugh!

“you’re basically paying landlords, Twilio, and Amazon Web Services,” - this is true no matter where tech goes. Unless cities are offering free rent for startups.

The real expense is TALENT. Salaries in Silicon Valley are crazy high, but they have to be since it is so expensive. Most schools in the area are seeing DECLINING enrollment. It isn't a lack of residents, its a lack of kids. Nobody in Tech can afford to have them.

NY Times was off in this article. No real VC would be put on a party bus and be trapped to sit thru city presentations. In reality startups still need to come to Silicon Valley, pitch their idea, find engineers, and then if they want to move back to their hometown they should.

The reason why SF's population is going DOWN and San Jose's population is going UP is thats where the housing is. Anyone who can afford a SF Victorian has given up on trying to rent out rooms or AirBnB a multimillion dollar mortgage. Rich folks are just buying them, kicking out the renters and decreasing the SF population as a result. The number of folks buying homes in SF with CASH is crazy.

Who the hell is Honor Jones? The days of men telling women what to wear are over. If women want to wear sweat pants let them. If they want to wear yoga pants let them. If they want to wear the same outfit 3 days in a row let them. Real men are comfortable wearing what they want. Real women should do the same.

As a father I'm torn between what my daughter wants to wear (skin tight yoga pants) and the arousal I know men feel when viewing sexually attractive women. I'm grateful her school has a strict dress code and baggy unisex sweat pants for PE that hide the human form and erections so common in male adolescence.

I think fathers play an important role in letting their daughters understand what is going on in the male brain and to emphasize the importance of intellectually and emotionally attractiveness, and not to just rely on physical attractiveness as the merit of one's worth.

Nature uses the physical form to determine health and fecundability. The reason we have two eyes, ears, nostrils, arms & legs is so that it is easy to see symmetry. Deformity is an easy way to detect problems with adequate nutrition, genetic cell division, disease and other maladies.

I try to educate her on the reasoning behind makeup, clothes and accessories from a male's reproductive view point (sadly I don't feel qualified to describe what makes men attractive to women and leave that advice to her mother). Most men have a preference for rosy cheeks and puffy red lips as a sign of good blood flow and how makeup helps to give visual signs of good health. Eye shadow, long lashes and flirtatious winking help to draw visual engagement with another person. Padded bras and fuzzy sweaters promote softness and the impression of caloric reserves to feed offspring. High heels offer the appearance of partner height matching (statistically important in monogamous relationships and views around equality) and tilt the hip's lumbar curvature to show that women could still forage for food while pregnant (a biomechanic thing where women were expected to forage while pregnant). Big butts help to emphasis this 45 degree curvature that males appear to prefer. Perfume is processed by our olfactory senses that bypass the thinking part of our brain. An attractive smell can stimulate sexual desire without revealing what stage they were in their cycle. Other animals use smell to know when a female is ovulating but this trait was breed out of humans to discourage polygamy and encourage cooperation between males. It gave females the ability to voice a preference for their partner and more control over who they chose to breed with.

In the end yoga pants aren't bad for women that want to showcase their physical assets. In many parts of the world women don't have control over what they want to wear in public for fear of violence or shaming. Just like how bicycles finally gave women the right to wear pants over dresses despite all kinds of crazy claims it wasn't medically advisable or society acceptable.

What kind of perverse logic is the take the mad money and agree to never work for Amazon again? People change, work environments change. If I signed an agreement to never work for an employer again I certainly wouldn't be spending my money there or recommend my friends work or shop there. The seeds of the downfall of the mighty Amazon have already been laid by the 500K employees who at some point will take the mad money, change jobs, bad mouth the company, stop shopping there, share horror stories and convince others to stop shopping there to.

Is the mobile app free or is there a paid version? Does it have the same features as Chrome? Any reason why you don't support mobile chrome on iOS and Android first? Looking forward to your app release! Post the app icon for feedback! It would be great if you could have an option for dark mode so that when I'm reading in bed my wife doesn't get all pissed!