Fern_Blossom

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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
Sunshine bear, check out the menu on that link. Hit load all from the past week. Next, search the LA to SF proposed HSR route. There were 2 dozen earthquakes along the route between 1-2.5mag and 1 at 2.5mag in the last week. The route was
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
You fail to understand construction reality. The LGV route is a far more open and "flatter" (relatively speaking) than LA to SF. There's way less for them to tunnel or grade, which gets expensive quickly. HSR requires more ge
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
I'm going to fully agree to this. There's a huge obsession with bloated pages for the sake of bloat at that. Somehow they're using it as an excuse to why they need the whole per-instance cloud setup when, as you said, a $5 (c
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
Yet the world keeps spinning just fine since it was adopted as the main language of the world. French has its own insanities and it was the lingua franca beforehand. Looks more like the more weird a language is, the more likely it will be i
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
>They/them works if you don't want to think about it. Except that's it's typically used a plural. Referring to one person as multiple is weird, awkward and clunky. Or, you're making a multi-personality joke. I th
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
People have also gotten rich off the lottery. Doesn't mean that's something you should always bank on. People have different lifestyle desires with various degrees of risk tolerance. There are different locales that benefit to dif
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
Just want to throw it out there. Sure, you have a sub-six-figure salary in different parts of the country, but your rent/mortgage for a similar sized home is a third. Compared to Cali, your taxes are less too in most states. While your
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
Yea, but that's not a "farming" or "meat" problem. That's a human problem. A well known one for a long time at that. If everyone owns it, no one takes care of it. Someone has to be responsible and thus, manage
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
That all depends how you want to look at it. It's a fun thought experiment but extremely problematic since we're talking about the interaction of global supply chains and how other countries fair/react, which then requires co
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
That's over grazing. That's lazy, over zealous and/or careless herders who fucked up. You rotate your herds on different land so they don't strip the vegetation. Allowing it to regrow quickly. You're managing the la
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
Except there are already laws that exist in these countries that need to be enforced. An extra-judiciary force for something that should be taken care of in-house is just unnecessarily power wielding that will be abused. If it was an inve
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
And you totally didn't argue against the point I'm making. Just stating that, "It's about saving the world maaaaaaan." I'm for environmental protection. I'm the guy that will gladly vote for implementing p
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
Yes. In general, I'm not against "eco laws". If they are hard set rules and if they are applied evenly amongst all countries and politicians, I'm for them. I really am. But we all live in the real world and recent histor
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
You 100% missed the point. There's something totalitarian about setting vague rules to hold people responsible when you deem fit to prosecute. As an example of how this is going to be politically misused, if you actual read the Paris A
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
I totally agree with you and probably that's my problem with the whole tidbit info thing. Does it actually matter if it was a German, Chinese or whoever that invented the first printing press? I mean, yes, it's nice to give cred
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
Floridian here, travelled the country for about a decade and came back to Florida the past few years. Until you see how other state, county and municipality governments function, you can't really appreciate how well Florida gov general
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
You said that perfectly. From beginning to end, it's amazingly spot on.
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
The goal was to help 50k people commute between two cities. One potential solution is to widen the highway by one lane on both sides. One other solution is to setup a dedicated commuter rail. The money was being spent for commuters, you are
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
I do hope you're not considering the highway system as a short-term, disconnected system. Last I checked, it's been a pretty good long-term, networked infrastructure project. How would HSR differ from traditional rail infrastructu
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
Don't know if it's my end, but your links aren't working. Did a quick search, is it this site you're referencing? https://www.bts.gov/archive/publications/federal_subsidies_t...
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
Okay, but does it add 5 times or more value? We're not talking about a 10% difference in price tag. Both are a long term maintenance drain, yes. But one has wide potential use, the other is niche. One is civilian commuter only. The oth
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
Yea, but let's reframe this... does it matter? Let's say people thought Bozo the Clown invented the printing press. What does it change? I'm not trolling. This might be more of me having too deep of thought on the matter. I&#
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
The widening of I-25 between Denver and Colorado Springs, about a 60 mile stretch, is a great example as to why you're wrong. To add an extra lane to help the load of roughly 20% of Colorado Springs residents (~50k people) that commute
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
What is with this closed loop fascination? 100% of your time has to be devoted to benefiting humanity? I'm all for ranking certain careers and their value to society, but if someone who is apart of Doctors Without Borders likes to drin
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
If they're using their profits for purchases or hiring folks for new shows, the "tax" comes out of the sales tax and the income tax. I mean, this isn't as mustache twirling as people are making it out to be. The tax code
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
No, humans coordinate. The idea of dropping a tool of coordination because you think it's about the numbers and not the utility is a terrible argument. Yes Mars will not have a 24 hour day. That doesn't have a single thing to do w
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
Because time is a social construct and humans have no business having any form of social norms or social rules. It's not like humans are social creatures. Abolish all the social constructs! I know, it's the weirdest thing calling
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
Same here, this is so far the best one yet. Far better than VW's shitty attempt. Though, it dawned on me, Mars could have real time zones. Not the stupid political mess we have today. Perfect, logical longitudinal time zones from the
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
I literally just did a huge rip on crypto currencies the other day, mostly regarding bitcoin. However, there's one aspect to Filecoin that I do see as... potential is a strong word, but maybe appropriate still. It's not entirely f
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by Fern_Blossom 6y ago
I love how you proved the essay's point even better than the actual essay, while using a poem.

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