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by gbronner 6y ago
That's nice... Might as well let private companies operate land cruises the way they do in other countries, and to own and operate their own rolling stock in cooperation with the host railroads. NOrtheast Corridor, and some of the west
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by gbronner 6y ago
>Why not make freight fast, too? Physics. Running a freight train at 150 mph requires serious engineering to make sure it can go around the curves well, and wear and tear is immense.
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by gbronner 6y ago
54 sleeper car actually can be full. Basically no way to fill the Amtrak car, as people don't like to share the bedrooms. Russian trains used to have 3 bunks, which improved the economics.
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by gbronner 6y ago
The route is seriously dumb -- goes straight to Milwaukee and then south, versus going directly through Madison. Badger bus already does MSN-MKE cheaply and quickly, and there's almost no chance that this routing could ever be time-ef
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by gbronner 6y ago
Comment section will bring out the foamers, but consider: There's demand for service from mpls to Chicago, but it would have to be much faster- at 3 hours it would be competitive. That would require massive rail investment, and would
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by gbronner 6y ago
I got in with my hotel key card when I was staying for a week or two. There's an argument about limiting the number of people who visit in order to preserve the natural environment, and residents who pay for it should have first priori
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by gbronner 6y ago
There's a market failure here: everyone now applies to 15-20 elite colleges, at an application cost of perhaps 1500$. Kids have no idea where they'll get in, and colleges have no idea who will attend. Limiting applications to 8 o
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by gbronner 6y ago
A third explanation is that if you barely got in, you feel as if you aren't smart enough to be a professor, and work unusually hard to be successful in highly remunerated fields
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by gbronner 6y ago
NYC has taxed the wealthy very aggressively to pay for cultural entertainment (to keep the wealthy) and social services that help reelect the politicians who set up this system. Clearly there will be changes coming.
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by gbronner 6y ago
Someone needs to invent the elevator combine -- existing combines are super efficient. Not sure how you harvest wheat in a vertical frame efficiently though. Maybe the frame rotates and you guillotine it all off?
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by gbronner 6y ago
People Express used to do similar things
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by gbronner 6y ago
It would be better to norm "getting a PhD" by undergrad department. Ivy league stem graduates often go straight to work because their salaries are basically as high as a phd
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by gbronner 6y ago
Relatively small sample size, and lifestyle issues may dominate the effect postulated
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by gbronner 6y ago
Parents should be wise to educate their children in never posting their feelings to social media. Thoughtcrime is real.
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by gbronner 6y ago
There's no Adolf Hitler university. There was a time when lots of us people, especially Jews, would but buy a Volkswagen. Today nobody cares. People are not going to UConn over Yale because of the name
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by gbronner 6y ago
Exactly. But most students don't need these resources, and most current teachers don't work at these institutions
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by gbronner 6y ago
I heard a story about a famous stem researcher. In class, a brave student asked a question. After glaring at the student, he slowly responded "I came here to teach. I didn't come here to answer questions". That department ha
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by gbronner 6y ago
This is looking more and more like an extinction event for academia. Elite institutions can charge whatever they want for their brand name and selectivity, and for the environment of other equally motivated high potential students. Other sc
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by gbronner 6y ago
snowplow. Really nothing like it for clearing a lot of snow on a gravel road that is hilly.
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by gbronner 6y ago
Nope. The hybrid can pump out 72 kwh/10 hour day, and still tow your equipment trailer home. CT isn't going to be able to do this for a while yet
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by gbronner 6y ago
Many buildings in NYC require people delivering furniture to have certificate of insurance, and to schedule deliveries 48 hours in advance. This creates a lot of overhead, and makes it hard for 2 guys with a truck to compete, as they often
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by gbronner 6y ago
People who are getting evicted are stressed. They often trash the property or behave in such ways that others don't want to live near them. For the ll, it is money; for their neighbors it is their life.
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by gbronner 6y ago
H1B is terrible for the employees, and for those who work alongside them. Companies try to slow down green cards, and use H1Bs as virtual indentured servants. They also fake looking for Americans- in practice, many of the jobs are earmarke
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by gbronner 6y ago
My comment was independent of study area. A 66 year old woman has a life expectancy of perhaps 18 years, but an expected labor force participation of only a few years. It is difficult to start a PhD worthy job in a new field at 66, as ther
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by gbronner 6y ago
I see little difference between using scarce university resources to produce human capital that will not be used and art. I'm sure the author enjoyed it, but it, but it doesn't seem that she will use her new educational skills at
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by gbronner 6y ago
Multiple states can consider you to be domiciled there, and you are liable for state taxes in each. There is no constitutional protection that prevents you from having to pay multiple resident state taxes, though in practice, it doesn'
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by gbronner 6y ago
The series is pretty well-written, and useful for C# practitioners, but I assume that the techniques have been known in the C++ community for a long time, so while it is faster than an unoptimized C++ implementation, it is no faster than a
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by gbronner 6y ago
At Lehman Brothers, the waves came every few weeks. On Tuesdays, HR fired business people, and engineering people cleaned up the mess. On Wednesdays, HR fired engineering people. On Thursdays, HR fired each other. It allows you to ramp down
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by gbronner 6y ago
As one who does hunt in the suburbs of NY: Most hunting in the NYC area is done with bows, and some with shotguns. Almost all is done from elevated stands or occasionally cliffs. The maximum effective range of a bow is 40 yards (above that,
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by gbronner 6y ago
You can get 60 lbs of meat off a medium sized sized deer, and more if you go for bones, certain organs (e.g lungs, testicles) that are less commonly eaten.

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