WildUtah

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by WildUtah 11y ago
Just demolishing the Central Artery and replacing it with nothing would reduce emissions even more.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
The benefits of the Big Dig are confined to the excellent removal of the hated green monstrosity. (Not to be confused with the beloved Green Monster) The new greenway park brings the city back together and makes us ache once more for the We
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Read up on the Centeal Freeway, Embarcadero Freeway, the Freeway Revolt, and the eventual demolition of those freeways. What you describe was almost complete in SF in the 1960s and it was stopped by mass citizen opposition. It was a complet
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Only supply and demand explains prices. Density is necessary to build more supply in the same area. Unless you have a plan to level mountains and use the rock to fill the bay, they aren't making any more land area. That's why dens
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by WildUtah 11y ago
There is little evidence of that. The EFF is still very valuable to electronic freedom. This bill simply used to be much better in earlier versions.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
The comment you responded to cited local support for cartels, not national. Also, the government is rightly considered responsible for cartel violence more than the cartels. Previous governments limited violence by managing cartels without
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by WildUtah 11y ago
This law would take the most effective tool against trolls and weaken it without providing any real relief for innovative small companies targeted by trolls. The post-grant review process is the only way patents get a serious review of thei
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Thousands showed up to protest the arrest of el Chapo Guzmán last year [0]. The cartels fund schools, parks, businesses and public works in Mexico. Of course, some communities also organize to fight against cartels with autodefensas. The fe
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by WildUtah 11y ago
The Zetas didn't emerge until after op's story ended.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Mariguana is most of the weight and the volume of cartel operations but Mexican intelligence analysts say it produces only a quarter of the revenue. That leaves the majority of cartel revenue still viable as long as amphetamines are restric
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by WildUtah 11y ago
These regexes aren't really regular expressions. They're PERL regexes with backreferences so a DFA won't do.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Conventional oil production peaked in 2005. That was the year ordinary oil (land and offshore) wells produced their peak quantity of crude oil and condensates. Tar sands, deep water, synthetic fuels, coal and gas conversion, and hydraulical
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"state funding for higher education has been nearly monotonically decreasing since the 80s" That's not because of taxes. Taxes haven't gone down. Doctors and Pharma have extracted ever more cash from Medicaid. Wall Stree
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Sediment loads aren't really a problem. The sediment drops out as soon as the water goes slack so it all accumulates at the far upstream section of the reservoir and raises the river level rather than filling in much capacity. The Gran
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"ou can grow a wide range of crops up to ~5,000 feet and some vegetables up to ~7,000 feet. " Meters, not feet. You wouldn't even notice 5000 feet for agriculture. Corn, tomatoes, squash, potatoes, and many other essentials w
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"There is a trend, Japan won't beat the trend, but right now they are way worse than the rest of the world" Far from the worst. And the European countries in the link are artificially propped up by immigrant births; their tru
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Before the 1974 Congressional Budget Act [0], it had been the law for 185 years that the president could simply refuse to spend money Congress had appropriated. He could hold back the cash even if he did spend other funds appropriated in th
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by WildUtah 11y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u0wj38qTtFU
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by WildUtah 11y ago
The US Dollar is positively correlated with the price of things the US exports. And negatively correlated with oil prices because the US is still a net importer, though importing only about a third as much as it did a decade ago. So you wil
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"forking and threads are basically the same thing" It's nowhere near that simple. You can fork lightweight like threads or heavy. One of the terrible things about Apache performance was all the heavy forking on every single r
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by WildUtah 11y ago
On the question of whether there is a Belgium in 2015, consider the adventures of Tintin in Molenbeek: http://twitpic.com/9sbafs
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"This is an effective subsidy for "sprawl" and is a huge driver of why the US built environment looks the way it does." To be fair, the subsidies are not mostly in highway building. Suburban feeder style streets (4-8 lan
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"that this article is getting so many down votes." You can't downvote stories. The secret ranking formula automatically downgrades stories that reach certain thresholds of views and votes depending on the distribution of comm
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"pregnant woman’s data is worth fifteen times" The reason for this is obvious if you've ever budgeted for a new baby in the house.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
The importance of that really depends on who observes holidays. There is no legal incentive for US employers to observe any. I don't know where your eleven come from, but that sounds like the Federal Government's number for its em
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by WildUtah 11y ago
unless you move there It's a big opportunity for Mexico, then. Already home of the most cost effective first world (OECD) universal health care system, Mexico has good facilities right on the US border in half a dozen cities and is p
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Everybody in the startup community could explain why LivingSocial was doomed from the start five years ago. It's only the East Coast naifs investing great wealth of other people's money that are in any way astonished. I wouldn&#x2
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Watching Lawrence of Arabia I kept trying to identify the geologic layers in the familiar rock formations. Then I realized that it was actually filmed in Arabia. It only looked like Arizona. So no, I don't expect that a non-geologist w
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Two thousand seven was picked because the US economy had the beginning of a steep downward plunge starting then while Mexico's economy was steady. It's also the year op identifies for the immigration turnaround.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Author decided to violate the law every day he stayed in the USA, especially after age 18. The Dominican Republic isn't a prison and author has family there and is a free, full adult citizen there. It's the author's mother he

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