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by ocschwar 7y ago
A big problem is that it takes whistle blowers in the first place. This is why we have PE certification: so that projects with safety implications can't go forward if engineers are silent, instead of letting silence imply consent.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
It's Louisiana. Beneath the Southern charm is still the same layer of active malice that gets facilities like this placed right next to black neighborhoods.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Unless you hang with the violent crowd, or the violent crowd decides to hang with you. Which is why people who can afford it hire these consultants on advice how to avoid that fate. Just doing your time isn't a simple choice. You need
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by ocschwar 7y ago
"More control of when you leave/arrive, " I disbelieve. If you don't want to be caught up in nasty traffic, you have to check the reports, and have knowledge of when rush hour gets bad. So you're still on somone els
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by ocschwar 7y ago
> I'm hesitant to blindly take the scientists' side however I'm not. It's not a lot of money, and the Pentagon can think of far worse ways to blow that kind of money.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Some time around the early 500's, the Roman-British people pushed back against the Saxon invasion. We know this from archaeological and numismatic finds. Yet we have no idea who the hell led this beyond the legends of King Arthur. Dark
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Wrapper script for this project coming to Github in 3.. 2.. 1..
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by ocschwar 8y ago
I'm okay with it, personally. The LFLs in my area tend to fill up and stay full with books that nobody picks up, and which tell a lot more about the neighbors than the neighbors intend to tell about themselves.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
It goes to East Somerville. It goes to Chelsea. It goes to Everett. If you want to knwo how the night shift janitors in your office get to work, just hang around the Sullivan Square station at 6PM.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Massachusetts has a de facto policy of no road expansions, and especially not land appropriations for road expansions, anywhere in the state.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Under the law, the cops have the authority to impound the truck. I would bet fair money that the first moron to try rolling coal in Boston or Cambridge will also be the last.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
In Boston? The cleaning lady takes the T. No way she can afford parking downtown.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Boston has a proxy to congestion pricing: parking spaces are heavily regulated. Inside Boston proper they are effectively capped. Outside of the Seaport, you cannot build new parking. The rationale is that if you build more parking, people
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by ocschwar 8y ago
The "cultural freedom of driving" in America means a majority of Americans need a license form the government just to leave their homes and return with a gallon of milk. It's really a bizarre way to define freedom.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
No, but they are cyclists who would benefit from having an easier ride thanks to less car traffic.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Seems easier to widen the sidewalks by taking away a car lane.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
And potable water is a challenge. When basic necessities require heroic engineering, tourists go elsewhere.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
In hunter gatherer packs, out of 70-100 people, you generally get a loner here and there who pays more attention to the local flora and fauna than to the rest of the tribe, and helps revise the tribe's oral knowledge. You also get the
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Decided to add something. Notice also how Leo Kanner only published about autism in 1943, writing about just one child. Wonder why? The two doctors Hamburger and Asperger replaced, Frankl and Weiss, went to the US to work with Kanner. Yet n
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by ocschwar 8y ago
It is not just gossip. He was complicit in multiple murders. His work, such as it was, was based on only 4 cases.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
In this case, the bribes went to individuals at the universities, and not the universities themselves.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
> Boston was particularly bad about “what’s in it for me?” being the common theme of any conversation. I'm really surprised to hear that said of the city where RMS wrote GNU while living in his car. Not my experience there at all.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
The gas price build up went from 2005 to 2008, and then came the housing crisis. For this study to mean much, they at least have to go as far as 2015
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by ocschwar 8y ago
It's just a succinct way of saying the same thing a certain secular philosopher once said: "out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing straight has ever been made."
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Standing up to that fucker does, in fact, buy you your pride and dignity back. The only thing missing here is Bezos offering to up the ante with a newer dickpic.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Financial modeling of electricity pricing . It's only useful in grid regions governed by Independent System Operators with available market data, but I can see a lot of use here, not because it's good at. predicting where the line
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by ocschwar 8y ago
It's also so trivially easy to refute. If CO2 was a significant stimulant for plant growth, they'd be sucking it out of the air as fast as we were putting it out, and the whole issue would be moot.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
The first thing you should realize is that pedestrianized spaces are really nice for traveling in a wheelchair or mobility scooter. The second thing is that there are cars available in Europe, called Cantas, that are conventional gasoline I
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Students and minors don't make up anywhere near half of the working population, though.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Chicago's population isn't sprawling out because of stomrwater problemns. But the stormwater problems are because of Chicago sprawling out.

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