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by andbberger 1y ago
nuclear war is a lot more survivable than people make it out to be. if you can get your hands on enough clean water to hide in a basement for a week you'll basically be ok
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by andbberger 1y ago
> Is finding a US Navy battlegroup a challenge in the modern era? And won't the nearby escorts still have their radars on? yes https://www.navalgazing.net/Carrier-Doom-Part-1
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by andbberger 1y ago
BART's doing great. good headways, same schedule all day everyday. name another american transit agency doing a takt
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by andbberger 1y ago
CAHSR is almost certain to not be priced competitively for commuting. it is far more valuable to have that seat full all the way to LA. OTOH had altamont been selected, it would have been extremely useful for commuting from sacramento to th
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by andbberger 1y ago
ok? my point was that you have projected your notions of project management on to the actions of CAHSR. there was nothing intentional or "agile" about the way the project was executed so far. that caltrain electrification has alre
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by andbberger 1y ago
618B is indeed closer to a trillion
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by andbberger 1y ago
there are a ton of nonstop flights between SFO and LAX so i'm going with yes
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by andbberger 1y ago
the inflation adjusted cost of the interstate system is closer to a trillion
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by andbberger 1y ago
HSR is perfectly viable for the east. decades of steady investment could have built a massive network out through chicago by now, and with a few more we could be closing in on the last gap in the network between kansas city and las vegas.
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by andbberger 1y ago
this statement has little bearing on how this project is actually playing out, but if it were true - why would we want to manage massive infrastructure projects in the same way bad software projects are managed? via a method regarded by ev
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by andbberger 1y ago
CAHSR was killed decades ago by politics and corruption. whether or not choosing the valley route over I5 doomed the project is debatable, but choosing pacheco and tehachapi over altamont and tejon certainly did. your guess is as good as mi
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by andbberger 1y ago
there absolutely is, SF-LA is an ideal city pair
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by andbberger 1y ago
the opportunity cost isn't a 7% increase in length, it's the tens of billions in extra infrastructure to build 350km/h right of way straight through the middle of every town all the way down the central valley, and the massiv
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by andbberger 1y ago
there is quite a lot of evidence supporting the existence of homeostatic mechanisms involved in weight regulation eg https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1105816
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by andbberger 2y ago
the rank and file just wants to do some science and have a place to lay their weary head. what's wrong with you man
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by andbberger 2y ago
has PV finally overtaken solar hot water?
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by andbberger 2y ago
stream this on twitch
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by andbberger 2y ago
REI is not a worker coop they just cosplay as one.
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by andbberger 2y ago
japan https://data.worldobesity.org/country/japan-105/#data_trends south korea https://data.worldobesity.org/country/south-korea-114/#data_... spain https://data.worldobesity.
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by andbberger 2y ago
name some nations that maintain healthy weight without drugs? your dogma isn't supported by the data. obesity is a public health problem and it's not caused simply by junk food
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by andbberger 2y ago
does the target market for a cheap iphone spend $150 on a charger?
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by andbberger 2y ago
I found it to be a poorly researched and implausible bit of hysteria. It's a sophomoric reddit post. The entire thing hedges on 1. US launching only a handful of mid course interceptors and they all fail, Aegis/SM-3, the most matu
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by andbberger 2y ago
level of discourse. you can just read journals
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by andbberger 2y ago
there are... probably better forums to be tracking the latest in biology research...
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by andbberger 2y ago
$$$
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by andbberger 2y ago
BART's on a takt now though. so you just have to memorize like 3 times for your local station
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by andbberger 2y ago
will it lead to muni running more service for less money? (it won't) then they shouldn't be doing it seltrac is fine. MBTA's green line does just fine with block signaling
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by andbberger 2y ago
what is this point of this, when would you not be using emacs?
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by andbberger 2y ago
a few hundred TB is on the order PBs
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by andbberger 2y ago
> which neuron is connected to which neuron yes. and you can get VERY roughly connection strengths by synapse count but that's as far as you can go

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