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by abduhl 10y ago
You may be able to get the bid documents from the Owners (e.g. - WSDOT and SoundTransit) although I'm not sure. This would give you information on the soils and what the original consultants thought. Anything past that probably hasn&#
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by abduhl 10y ago
The soils vary quite significantly between the two projects with the soils up at Northlink being much more amenable to tunneling than those that plagued the SR 99 job at the start (and might at the finish). I have close ties to both jobs.
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by abduhl 10y ago
I used to post reasonable and non-snarky comments like this. I stopped doing it after about the fourth or fifth time that the commenters responding to my posts told me that I clearly had no idea what I was talking about and was uninformed
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by abduhl 10y ago
I look forward to his major technological advances, especially in the fields of property and easement acquisition, third party impacts and claims, and environmental and safety regulations. Hopefully Elon's advances aren't the same
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by abduhl 10y ago
>Can you say a bit more about this? No, I can't. Regarding the rest of your post, you would need to carry out a geotechnical investigation to see if the soils are amenable to a machine like Bertha. I would guess not, based on my ex
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by abduhl 10y ago
I doubt Bertha will be purchasable given the litigation on the SR 99 job. I don't know what you would be able or want to use it for - it's 58.5 ft in diameter. It is unlikely that you will get an inventory of all the parts in th
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by abduhl 10y ago
This is not correct. Most TBMs are advanced into a receiving pit or shaft, disassembled, and moved. Leaving tons of steel in the ground is not cost effective unless schedule is your main driver.
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by abduhl 10y ago
I design both boring machines and tunnels and am a regular reader on HN. I have worked on tunnels ranging from the smallest to the largest, rock to soil, and all forms of construction. I have stopped commenting on any tunnel related Elon to
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by abduhl 10y ago
Seems like they are dropping super sacks of rock. They might be dropping super sacks of dry mix, but I highly doubt it - the money just wouldn't be there. If they're just looking to armor then the rock would more sense. Shotcret
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by abduhl 10y ago
Can you link to a news story that says they are using concrete today? What location are they placing concrete at?
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by abduhl 10y ago
What would all these folks be doing? The shotcrete takes 7 days to cure.
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by abduhl 10y ago
Apple also filed suit against Qualcomm in the US last week tanking their stock http://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2017/01/24/apples-1-...
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Apple sues Qualcomm in China(wsj.com)
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I agree completely. Of course, rather than rewrite the EU treaties or make exceptions for countries that want to leave the Eurozone, the more likely thing to happen will be the same thing that happened in the USA when a couple countries (s
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by abduhl 10y ago
As far as I am aware, there is currently no way to leave the Eurozone without also leaving the EU.
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by abduhl 10y ago
The economies of these countries have already been ruined by ECB policies - that is why they are (and have been) discussing leaving the EU. Britain is the first of many, in my opinion, and their economy was strong relative to others in the
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by abduhl 10y ago
My understanding of how withdrawal from the EU works is that a country's withdrawal occurs 2 years after they invoke the Article 50 process regardless of whether a final agreement has been made with the EU. Is this not correct? If it i
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by abduhl 10y ago
It's only illegal if they can prove that you discriminated based on their age. This is why companies never tell a prospective hire why they've declined to hire them, instead they just tell them that it's a poor culture fit.
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by abduhl 10y ago
"Accusations of astroturfing or shilling without evidence are not allowed on HN. Rushing to that as an explanation is, invariably, evidence of sloppy thinking—or maybe non-thinking, of the kind that political passion leads us all to.&q
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by abduhl 10y ago
The WSOP main event does not allow rebuys.
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by abduhl 10y ago
Meanwhile, Tesla has missed on vehicle deliveries for the third time this year (out of four quarters). The stock is, obviously, up over 4% on this great news. http://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/tesla-motors-inc-tsla-mis
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by abduhl 10y ago
Rofl this is the first time I've ever read something that refers to "wipe your device" as a "moderately painless hoop to jump throigh". This is customer service these days?
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by abduhl 10y ago
I would be interested in reading the Supercharger agreement between Tesla owners and Tesla to see if this fee is allowed. As far as I understood, access to the Supercharger stations was included in the price of the package that Tesla owner
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by abduhl 10y ago
No, tension is what I meant. Imagine the pile hammer hitting the top of the pile. This impulse is transmitted down the length of the pile at the speed of sound as a wave. There exists a point where the wave gets to the end of the pile (this
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by abduhl 10y ago
One billion cubic meters is a cubic kilometer - a cube with each side measuring 1km. 11 of these would be a cube with ~2.25 km sides. Or slightly less than a mile and a half per side.
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by abduhl 10y ago
Driving concrete piling has generally been abandoned in USA/Canada/Western Europe due to the propensity of concrete to crack in tension during pile driving operations. Driven pile is typically steel now in most construction you w
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by abduhl 10y ago
This is not grouting. This is driving concrete piles. Grouting refers to multiple things when talking about foundations or underground work but here are some examples: Jet grouting - high pressure water/grout/air is used to displ
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by abduhl 10y ago
The argument of "if I don't do it then someone else will" is a self fulfilling prophecy. You are that someone and it speaks to a weakness of character in anybody who invokes it. If everyone said no then someone else wouldn&#x
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by abduhl 10y ago
I don't think this is true. The average Tesla costs what, $75000? $150 is 0.2% of the purchase price. People buying Teslas aren't people who are bothered by a $150 bar tab, let alone a $150 permit. In addition, many of them ha
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by abduhl 10y ago
note that in the background, Apple has also sued some patent trolls for colluding with Nokia: http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2016/12/apple-fi...

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