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by knz 10y ago
The Canterbury earthquakes have done something similar in Christchurch, New Zealand. There has been a lot of political contention over how best to rebuild the CBD and fights over bike lanes/slower speed limits as well as concerns about
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by knz 10y ago
IIRC GIS exists in its current form because of the benefit in using it for land management. It's definitely a powerful tool to show climate change etc but unfortunately I think we are past that phase. Most people have made up their min
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by knz 10y ago
Is that unique to the bay area though? It's been a few years since I was there but to seem I recall some larger high rise buildings. Smaller apartment blocks (3 stories etc) doesn't have to come at the expense of the lifestyle eit
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by knz 10y ago
Many mid size urban areas (often away from the coasts) are having a small renaissance and have a thriving local culture. Rural areas aren't a cultural wasteland either. Urbanization had been a consistent pattern for centuries now - dec
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by knz 10y ago
Is the resistance to more high density housing in SFO just due to a NIMBY mentality? Building up seems like such an obvious solution and one that would only benefit the economy there - how much talent avoids moving to the Bay area due to th
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by knz 10y ago
Can you clarify what impact that has in regards to population? I don't believe the US has significantly different medical needs compared to any other OECD nation?
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by knz 10y ago
I'm not sure what the UK is like but New Zealand has a public system and, to be clear to American readers who only hear negatives about wait times, you generally are not waiting if you have a life threatening issue. The wait time if fo
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by knz 10y ago
And (in many countries) significantly underestimate the the threat from actual threats like pollution and climate change. I've been working on a project related to greenhouse gas emission savings lately and it's depressing how &qu
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by knz 10y ago
Unfortunately (in this case) the US seems to have a much greater sense of individual right rather than collective right. My right, and that of my family, friends, and community, to clean and pollution free air seems to be less important tha
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by knz 10y ago
> I think Minnesota is underrated Shh. The locals like it that way.
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by knz 10y ago
The Updraft blog by Minnesota Public Radio just had a small piece about how the various weather models change and what that means for local snowfall. http://blogs.mprnews.org/updraft/2017/02/snowcover-view-fro
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Probably comparable. I'm in Minnesota though where the cost of living is low but IT wages are relatively high.
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by knz 10y ago
I live in Minnesota now. My wife was born and raised here but has spent a couple of winters in Christchurch. She has always maintained that a winter in Christchurch is worse in some ways that one in Minnesota because of how damp the cold is
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by knz 10y ago
Even over the summer months? Google is telling me about $1,400 for late March. United entered the market within the last two years and that does seem to have driven the prices down a bit. I fly to Auckland or Christchurch at least once a ye
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by knz 10y ago
$950 from SFO isn't a bad deal. It can be considerably more expensive around peak season if you don't catch a sale (easily $1.6k to $2k).
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by knz 10y ago
Perhaps they mean they wanted a more traditional winter than what Auckland offers? I grew up there (and Christchurch) and remember being excited when their was a frost - it was the closest to snow we ever got. It's an amazing place for
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by knz 10y ago
This assumes sea level change is the largest hazard of climate change. An increase in severe weather and changes in the climate of arable regions seems like a much larger hazard. Adaptation isn't necessarily the hardest part either - o
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by knz 10y ago
> As a US citizen who has traveled to nearly 60 nations, I have never met a more accusatory, aggressive, macho, angry, often-times rude reception than in my land of birth, and I'm a native-born citizen! I don't disagree with yo
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by knz 10y ago
It's unprecedented to experience that change with a population of 7 billion. 125,000 years ago we didn't have millions of people totally reliant upon just in time food shipped in from distant locations or have massive settlements
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by knz 10y ago
It's cheap and they have some products that are remarkably solid. Others and cheap and fall to pieces or sag quickly. Caveat emptor always applies at IKEA!
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by knz 10y ago
> This is the topic I've been most worried about. My only solace is the brilliance of the Framers of the U.S. Constitution. Perspective matters when considering the brilliance of the Framers. The debate over the electoral college an
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by knz 10y ago
> debating with holocaust deniers. There is mountains of definitive evidence of the existence of gas chambers The stupid thing about this argument is that many of the victims were killed in their communities by groups like the Einsatzgru
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by knz 10y ago
Maybe a modern version of a punt gun? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punt_gun
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by knz 10y ago
The problem with a shotgun is proximity. The effective range of most common shotguns (12 or 20 guage) is a lot closer than most people want to be to anything explosive that is on a trajectory towards you! Punt guns ( https://en.m.
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by knz 10y ago
An earthly tangent to this is remote sensing ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_sensing ). It's not quite as incredible as inferring whole ecosystems on distant planets but it is amazing what scientists are able
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Clinton did plenty of campaigning in impoverished areas - the difference is that she wasn't making some wild claim so it did not generate the same coverage. "Clinton gives speech in Detroit" doesn't have the same media i
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> That the "center of America" (same as for rural areas in Germany, which also heavily tend to vote conservative/right) has been vastly ignored by the left is a fact. I disagree with this premise. Many of the signature pol
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by knz 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12999934 Recent discussion on the same subject. Rural land in Tennessee, Arq/Google, and Crashplan were the top three. Personally I use Google for photos and documents, and have the
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Two of my coworkers experienced armed home invasions while on holiday in Costa Rica (5 years apart, within the last 10 years). One of them had the same people come back the following evening. It's a small sample size but it's a he
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> For example, the aforementioned Gotthard Road Tunnel had over 875 accidents and 30 deaths in a span of just 24 years. Pollution from congestion probably has at least a similar impact in terms of premature death and debilitating disease

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