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by ItsDeathball 9y ago
One of the mentioned cancelled projects was a coke plant with a small electricity co-generation component. Do steel mills still need coke? If so, the decline of coal in America could be due as much to the decline of American steel processin
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by ItsDeathball 9y ago
I think the key point is that they already have a right of way reserved for cycling use, so even if they all need to be rebuilt the cost is merely that of breaking up and laying down concrete. Generally any bike infrastructure project has t
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by ItsDeathball 9y ago
The piece seemed like it was intended to explain the historical consensus on ethnic diversity in Roman Britain and how that consensus was achieved, which one can't really do reasonably in 140 characters. She mentions the Twitter drama
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by ItsDeathball 9y ago
@ethbro: I'd expect anyone who fires on any side on a battlefield to receive return fire. That hypothetical entirely disposes of "alienness" as a variable. In any case, I've been trying to argue a point on my own rather
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by ItsDeathball 9y ago
My point was as a direct counter to your assertion that warfare increases with degree of difference between peoples. That would predict that the Germans would prefer to ally with other Europeans against people like the Japanese, who they ar
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by ItsDeathball 9y ago
Well, 1930s Germans were pretty similar to Poles and the Dutch, and even more similar to German Jews. Indians and Pakistanis are also not exactly space aliens to each other, nor are Iraqis and Iranians, Russians and Ukrainians, or Syrians a
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by ItsDeathball 9y ago
Several options: pump it back down the oil wells it came from, use fast-growing juvenile trees to "pump" it into house frames and libraries, use algae to "pump" it into useful plastics, or, if you have infinite money, bo
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by ItsDeathball 9y ago
It has been proposed before, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project , but would have a minuscule effect on sea level rise. Might be worth a look as a local climate engineering method, though, shoul
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by ItsDeathball 9y ago
That's the average for a new car. Most people don't buy new cars.
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by ItsDeathball 9y ago
That's a problem when the coastline is the reason for those industries and residences being there. It's not exactly feasible to relocate the oil refining and shipbuilding industries of New Orleans and Baton Rouge to central Missis
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by ItsDeathball 9y ago
Most of the Midwestern agricultural products exported overseas get transshipped from river barges or trains to oceangoing ships at New Orleans. Likewise, Houston is a major container port for finished goods. We need these ports for their va
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by ItsDeathball 9y ago
This sounds plausible, and fits with the incident if basically no one trusts the airline to negotiate in good faith. Employees assume that if they don't make a fuss about getting a seat, then they'll have to fly jump-seat or stan
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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
In the case of New Orleans, some of that high ground is within the city itself. If flooding eventually becomes frequent enough that the federal government decides to relocate flood insurance claimants and stop funding the Army Corps of Engi
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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
To be in line with the science, or at least the study [1] that 97% number comes from, they would have to sit through 33 witnesses who believe the planet is warming and humans are at least part of the cause, 66 witnesses who have not stated
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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
I had always wondered why aspirin tended to smell like vinegar and rarely helped with headaches. It's quite satisfying to have an explanation for both.
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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
The mortgage interest deduction distorts the market in several ways. Making credit more available does allow people to spend more on homes, but this is then priced into the market. As you hint at, the subsidy is net neutral for homeowners,
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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
An airburst not only minimizes fallout, it also maximizes the damage done by a nuclear weapon. I would expect a nuclear exchange to be primarily airbust weapons, considering the intent is to destroy the enemy's infrastructure and fight
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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
The founding fathers yes, their pawns not so much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shays%27_Rebellion
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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
There is a difference between the NSA being able to trace your identity vs. a profit-driven corporation being able to connect your identity to your online speech, location, and contacts. The first is governed by due process and need-to-know
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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
Desirable tropical beachfront property?
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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
On the other hand, perhaps the answer is that they're just complicated enough. If the big, old cities didn't provide a unique economic advantage through their increased interconnectivity then no one would stick around to tolerate
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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
I actually know someone who just shuts down and freezes for a few minutes at the mere mention of the word "rape". This person has made their discomfort known to their friends and requested the word be avoided in conversation, whic
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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
Of course, they also need separate CO2 scrubbers to keep the air breathable, which consume a lot of power, use caustic and hazardous chemicals, and make the whole ship smell pretty bad. An artificial leaf that removed CO2 without these down
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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
You might be surprised. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina I didn't have access to a car and instead rode my dad's ridiculous full-suspension Schwinn (from Walmart) to and from work. This was a 3 mile round trip on flat asphalt
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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
Tennessee Williams certainly agreed with buckbova: “America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.”
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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
Assuming that's a serious request, this is a decent summary and starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_the_United_S...
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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
Tim Ferris's book "The 4-Hour Body" is written with time min-maxing in mind. There's some weird stuff in there ("I supplement with garlic because a random homeless guy told me it's good for weight loss") b
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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
As usual, though, you get what you pay for. The free energy often comes in at a suboptimal angle, and half the time you can't even use it because there's a planet in the way.
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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
Russia may be one place this technology makes sense. They have to rebuild the Trans-Siberian Railway anyway to get it up to modern standards, so why not skip ahead to something faster than a subsonic flight to Vladivostok? Additionally, an
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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
It's mentioned in the article that this is about local, city-maintained streets. Unless you live directly on a state or federal highway, those gas taxes, state sales taxes, and income taxes do not go towards the street you live one. Lo

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