jlgreco

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541.
by jlgreco 13y ago
This is true, but I don't think we are anywhere close to there yet. If we started selling off land, I suspect there would still be buyers.
542.
by jlgreco 13y ago
The US certainly has assets that other would be willing to buy. As an obviously inflammatory/terrible example: I am sure many corporations or nations would leap at the chance to buy the mineral rights of national parks. How much woul
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by jlgreco 13y ago
If he cannot talk with a lawyer, how can he even be sure that he isn't a defendant? Is he suppose to learn law himself? How can he even know if such a restriction is even legal and enforceable, if he cannot talk with a lawyer? How
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Technically you have to tell the car rental company if somebody else is going to be driving. What then happens depends on the company, though at least several rental companies will allow your spouse to also drive the car for no extra fee
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I'm sure people semi-rarely drive them 24 hours straight. There are certainly situations where people do that outside of motoring events, driving several states away on a road trip for instance (I have driven across the country sever
546.
by jlgreco 13y ago
There are a few things I could use bitcoin for, but not enough for me to bother using bitcoin instead of other currencies right now. I hope that changes soon though.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
How about this: if I rent a car for one day, and the rental describes itself as "unlimited mileage", I expect to be able to use it for 24 hours straight. If I get fined for using it for the full 24 hours because that puts wear and
548.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Zero. I dislike the idea of using bitcoin for currency speculation, though I look forward to using it for normal transactions sometime in the future when it stabilizes and when buying/selling them on demand becomes more streamlined. B
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Imagine if cars were sold this way: "Unlimited high-speed Italian sports-car, leases starting at only $250/mo! <ultra-fine-print>By the way, we're also giving keys to your neighbors, and if you drive the car too often
550.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Using a privacy prompt for access to any sort of sensor seems like a reasonable policy to me, keyboard/mouse/touchscreen excluded.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
So do the turbines/generators go at the bottom, in the mine, in this setup? That seems like it would have some interesting engineering challenges.
552.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Isn't it true? "Oakland is fine, just don't go to [bad neighborhood in Oakland]" is just a more localized form of "The Bay Area is safe, just don't go to Oakland" (a premise that most people here seem
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Part of the difference may be that several of the communities along the R5 near Philly are affluent for the area (or in general, in some cases (Gladwyne)). Transit to poorer areas like Upper Darby isn't quite as nice.
554.
by jlgreco 13y ago
> This applies to any city that seeks some form of income and social diversity This seems like a tautology. "A city that seeks income diversity should seek income diversity" ... the point is that I and crazygringo do not t
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by jlgreco 13y ago
HVDC transmission is reasonably efficient.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The far-end (~50 miles) of the mainline regional rail line in Philly (used to be the R5, I forget what it's called after they renamed it) has half-hour coverage in the mornings for commutes, settling back on hourly during the day. To
557.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Does this only apply to SF, or should we also subsidize housing for poor people in Malibu? How can I get in on that? I'd love to live somewhere I cannot afford on other people's dime...
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by jlgreco 13y ago
How is that danger distributed through Oakland? Baltimore and Philly are both typically in the top 25 of those lists, but from personal experience I can say the actual danger presented to any particular person depends very heavily on whi
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Pumped-storage Hydro is a solution for storing power that is generation-method agnostic; it works with electricity from nuclear just as well as it works with electricity from wind. Basically the PSH station buys cheap electricity, and uses
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by jlgreco 13y ago
All I can think is how annoying this would be to use on a flat surface, like a bar. This thing looks like it will start rocking back and forth as soon as you poke it.
561.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Are you mistaking Apollo 11 for Apollo 1?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Technically it is regulated, not banned. Of course you could say the same of cocaine...
563.
by jlgreco 13y ago
At the risk of sounding like an insufferable hippy, it is absolutely ridiculous that hemp has been banned. Even if you consider pot to be harmful, it is stupidly obvious that hemp is harmless. On another note, the headline of the article
564.
by jlgreco 13y ago
That seems like a reasonable definition of "extremely rare". Platinum is extremely rare, several hundred tons of it are mined every year. (A number that sounds incredibly heavy, but pales in comparison to the numbers of common me
565.
by jlgreco 13y ago
I have absolutely no idea what this comment means; sorry.
566.
by jlgreco 13y ago
While true, keep in mind that Hulk Hogan was billed at 302lbs. There are potentially healthy body configurations at that weight, but not many.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Probably worth mentioning that Adria Richard's probably lost her job because she dragged(drug?) her employer into the fray on twitter.
568.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Not being able to use 'Do no Evil' software does not "cost" somebody who cannot use it anything. There is no "charge" going on there, nothing is being taken from them. Crockford has "cost" anybody s
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> It comes at somebody's expense. Bullshit. You are not entitled to any particular piece of software, not a single thing is taken from you when you find a software license intolerable. So something isn't licensed how you li
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by jlgreco 13y ago
If they are off in their own totally isolated little IE6 only world, I don't get why we care about them then.

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