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by kgermino 3y ago
Eh, Milwaukee has fairly lax parking requirements (including no minimums for most downtown developments) but most developments have more than legal required. Developers are pretty open about the reason (it's not uncommon for neighbors
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by kgermino 3y ago
That also means they test from a different perspective than the dev does. If I get a requirement my build is based on my understanding of the requirement, and so is my testing. A separate QA person coming at it from the customer's pers
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by kgermino 3y ago
Oh what I'd do for that. Even just in a decent biking distance would be amazing. Ours are all in the distant suburbs. What city has one downtown?
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by kgermino 3y ago
This is the biggest reason I love Costco. If you need something they're selling you'll only have a couple options, all will be at least decent, and it's usually obvious which one's for you. E.g. I needed a shredder. Ther
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by kgermino 3y ago
They’re not building new office space. They’re converting an office building into… an office building. At worst this is neutral for the glut. And it’s actually a bit better than that, because IMU the glut is in lower quality buildings while
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by kgermino 3y ago
That seems reductive. Ideally it’d be a little bit bigger and I’m not sure what the range is but I could totally see myself using one of those. Even just being able to pickup appliances and furniture + run stuff to the dump would be enough
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by kgermino 3y ago
Of course base model Kias are so low tech they take about 90 seconds to steal, so there's tradeoffs :)
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by kgermino 3y ago
I agree, I'm just pointing out that you're talking about road trips. For my driving, though I don't have an EV, almost every day would be cognitively simpler than my current situation. I just don't drive more than 200 mi
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by kgermino 3y ago
I do think that "There is a higher cognitive load than just driving around in an ICE and pulling into any of the 15 nearby gas station "within range" for 5 minutes when your gas light goes on." is more about familiarity
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by kgermino 3y ago
> Also, on the small side where you have traffic circles rather than roundabouts, those also suck. Interesting. Can you elaborate? We have a few of them (and growing) by me and they’re fantastic as far as I can tell. No stopping every bl
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by kgermino 3y ago
Also direct funding, I believe in the form of subsidized loans
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by kgermino 3y ago
Especially meaningful savings with taxable interest. Yes, most people with more than a few hundred bucks in savings accounts will get a 1099-INT, but a lot of people just use checking accounts and if you're at a big bank like Chase eve
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by kgermino 3y ago
Density. The current property tax system makes it more likely that (in your example) the law firm will push out the bakery. Because improvements are taxed adding more commercial space means paying more taxes, which makes it less likely to h
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by kgermino 3y ago
Strictly speaking the problem isn’t that it’s random, the problem is that it’s a lie. The fact it’s random proves that the number isn’t real. The RNG is used to give some variance to the number without accidentally making a pattern (which h
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by kgermino 3y ago
Ya there’s obviously a balance between backwards compatibility and jumping to the new best thing. When they launched the lightning port in 2012 they said it’d be the connector for the next decade, and changing too quickly would have upset p
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by kgermino 3y ago
Turn it off completely. It’s hard to test what combination or settings/silent modes will actually suppress an alert like this
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by kgermino 3y ago
Honestly given the circumstances (emergency short term contract to get them back up) the 10/7 schedule doesn’t bother me that much. It’s also not clear to me that they’re only looking for one person. The pay though… I don’t know what S
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by kgermino 3y ago
Going back to the beginning what started this is a debate about whether trees cool cities. I don’t think anyone (certainly not me) has intended to argue that trees can replace AC, just that they make the city around them (including indoors
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by kgermino 3y ago
I guess we disagree on what trees do well. I’m in the Midwest with warm semi humid summers. Trees keep the area around them massively cooler, not by evaporation but by shading. Maybe it’s a disagreement of terms? I guess they aren’t technic
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by kgermino 3y ago
Trees are so much more than swamp coolers. Leaves block the Sun relatively high off the ground, meaning people are in the shade during the hottest part of the day and feeling as much radiation off buildings and streets in the evening. Beyon
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by kgermino 3y ago
Not everyone has paper copies and if I’m going out to dinner with my wife the last thing we want to do is pull our phones out and figure out a pdf menu
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by kgermino 3y ago
I is rechargeable a for almost everything, but I have some devices which don’t tolerate the lower voltage of NiMH
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by kgermino 3y ago
Ya but that’s not new. People started getting really upset when they offered a subscription option in addition to the one time purchase. I don’t generally like subscriptions on hardware features, I wouldn’t get one and I worry about what
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by kgermino 3y ago
Salinity issues aside, in my understanding locks generally don’t pump water at all: they work entirely on gravity. In effect this means that a burst of water flows downstream every time the lock is cycled.
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by kgermino 3y ago
> me never going back there again is going to cost them a whole lot more in the long run, than them missing out on my membership fee from my occasional visit. That’s actually not really true for Costco. They famously break even on sellin
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by kgermino 3y ago
For the same function, wavy walls use fewer bricks
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by kgermino 3y ago
Are you complaining that the west was left out of their list of viable starter routes _and_ saying that the west isn’t viable due to high construction costs caused by the mountains/environment?
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by kgermino 3y ago
The Midwest and northwest are also northern US by every definition I’ve seen.
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by kgermino 3y ago
How far away from the shore would you need to go? I imagine it would be fairly easy to pipe the brine a few miles off shore to deeper waters. I have no idea how much of an impact that would have though.
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by kgermino 3y ago
Of course, if you raise the cost of energy that much heating will have more of an impact then A/C. I still think the northern US cities will be more resilient (and I do live in one) but heating isn’t cheap

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