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by ocschwar 11y ago
Because everyone who rides the train makes my car commute easier.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
Well, if you have autistic traits, then however good you are at assessing other people's demeanor nowadays, you would probably not have been good at it as a child. So maybe you DID meet other children with the same traits.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
I have two, and already I find it far easier to pile them on the train than it is to strap them in for a long drive.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
And witness the repercussions. On the third day of the crisis, the Red and Orange lines were out, and a lot of people who normally came on them, drove instead. The result was that Cambridge was utterly crippled with traffic. On my way back
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by ocschwar 11y ago
Amsterdam. The quiet is amazing.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
"I agree that on a usual day, there are massive traffic jams everywhere." So, how much of Paris should be leveled to widen roadways? Do you want to see what a city looks like where there aren't massive traffic jams everywhere
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by ocschwar 11y ago
"Tough luck if you come from far away for work," If you come from far away for work, in Paris, you're using the RER trains. "if you are old " If you are old, maybe you should not be driving. Some of us would prefer
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by ocschwar 11y ago
Tel Aviv and Jerusalem go car free eery Yom Kippur. Driving ends at sunset, and you can feel and smell the difference within the first hour.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
While Microsoft's product issues do impose externalities on net users at large, that pales in comparison to letting 2 ton machines travel 60 MPH on the roads, while running closed source software. Simply require source code publication
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by ocschwar 11y ago
"The science of climate is not settled, and will not be settled in your lifetime. Get used to it. " The science of the shape of the earth isn't settled either. Nothing is ever really settled. But to "un-settle" a ma
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by ocschwar 11y ago
Or, if the street needs a line of two ton shields to separate car traffic from pedestrians, and you're willing to volunteer yours, we can come to an accommodation.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
Yeah, simply reducing the number of horse stalls per resident is not a free lunch. The article is forgetting the negative externality of making people tether their horses in the park.s
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by ocschwar 11y ago
"So, these poor farmers will demand low-cost solutions to manage these problems." Poor farmers can demand lots of things. They won't get them. " Entrepreneurs would sense this(Bill already did) and start building these t
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by ocschwar 11y ago
Humans have been adapting to nature BY SUFFERING MAJOR HARDSHIP for all of history. No, cheap energy is not "essential." It's essential to living like a suburban American, but when you see Europeans living more comfortably t
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by ocschwar 11y ago
It's not so much the roads as the BRIDGES. Iowa's road map was drawn from afar, before any surveyors could look at it, so there are a lot of bridges keeping the road grid continuous over rivers, creeks and dry streambeds.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
Good thing I still have all the MREs I bought for Y2K
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by ocschwar 11y ago
Interesting point. Every 7 years, all the Jewish farmers in upstate New York and Long Island have to either leave their lands fallow or lease them out to non-Jews. Clearly that's what's shaking up the market.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
What they really need to do (I live here) is triage. When the snow piles up, people should be on notice that not all of it will be cleared. Major roads should be cleared for 2 lanes. Smaller streets, one lane. And the T should be kept fully
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by ocschwar 11y ago
Wind's always flowing somewhere. The sun shines pretty reliably. And a huge percentage of our electricity consumption could quite easily be time shifted.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
I would guess that's part of a codebase for generating sales demos before LEOs.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
Use TCP/IP to coordinate consumption and production, and your storage needs go down considerably.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
There's a more efficient way to do that. Use TCP/IP to synchronize the consumption of power with its production. Solar and wind are pretty awesome if you can schedule around them. And most of our power consumption is amenable to i
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by ocschwar 11y ago
See these bollards? http://www.road-care.co.uk/images/bollard1.jpg They're all over Amsterdam. Strong selection pressure establishing a minimum height for men wanting to father children there.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
Which is why you should not follow along the denialist gambit and grab just those two data points.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
Oh, those models do make predictions. Just not the ones the deniers use for straw man arguments.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
Hint: decades don't have to start with year 10*n+0.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
When talking about the "significance," we forget that we're talking about differences of 5K in an ambient temperature of 300K. We're not "significantly" screwing with the climate. That's not the issue. The
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by ocschwar 11y ago
That "zero trend" is only there if you use annual averages. Again: use decadal moving averages, and an entirely different picture comes up.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
They've not performed well based on criteria chosen by global warming denialists. For example, you'd be hard pressed to find a climate scientist making any solid predictions about annual global temperature averages. You will, howe
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by ocschwar 11y ago
"I think that even AGW proponents know the science is not on their side-" Of the scientists who discovered the AGW problem, a substantial portion was made up of right wingers: John Tyndall: British Tory. Svante Arrhenius: Swedish

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