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by reddog 6y ago
Isn't this one of those sites that advocate getting rid of "sprawl" and having everyone move to high density apartments near the train station? And they want to replace cars with government run mass transit so everyone gets
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by reddog 7y ago
That is odd. I know that during the war in the Pacific the Japanese were extremely careful to avoid having the vastly superior longlance torpedoes fall into the hands of the Allies. They would go to great lengths to search for and reco
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by reddog 7y ago
Where does the food come from if nobody is picking it, transporting it, processing it or selling it?
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by reddog 7y ago
I've been striking out with my fiction lately with one dud after another. Thanks for these excellent suggestions. I'm ready to dive back in. Three books that I haven't seen listed, but were impactful on my life: Vladimir Na
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by reddog 7y ago
I am also a big privacy advocate so I set up my Echos so that they only listen when I press the button on the top of the device or say the keyword "Alexa". And just because I am extremely worried about big tech surveillance, I&#
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by reddog 7y ago
>How about we blame the government for not ramping up production of masks back in January or not having a strategic reserve of masks, gloves and suits in a giant warehouse somewhere. You could rotate the stock though the marketplace dur
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by reddog 7y ago
What I get from the testing kit rollout is that the government is massively incompetent and I shudder at the thought of them getting their hands on anything to do with my healthcare. Make the federal government work and then we can talk.
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by reddog 7y ago
They might if they were the kids of people working at the nursing home. I am not sure if this strategy will work either but I get it -- every infected and recovered individual is another control rod pushed into the out-of-control atomic pi
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by reddog 7y ago
Indeed. If you have 20 to 30 people that you love or care about a 2% mortality rate means that there is about a 50% chance at least one of them will die.
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by reddog 7y ago
FYI: You can get get a 50 lbs bag of pinto beans at Sams for $33 and a 50 lbs bag of rice for $17. They will keep as is at least a year and provide, respectively, 76,000 calories and 82,400 calories. Maybe 80 days worth of food for a sing
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by reddog 7y ago
What if you microwaved it? To be clear, I don't have any idea if this works or not, I'm just asking. And of course it couldn't have any metal parts.
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by reddog 7y ago
It follows that private VPN firms would be a similar target for deep pocketed state intelligence agencies. What do you think the chances are that the VPN service or software you use hasn't been co-opted, compromised or is outright own
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by reddog 7y ago
Why isn't Trump talking to Elon Musk? Because he has NASA. NASA has a proven record of human and machine space exploration. It put men in space 60 years ago. It put men on the moon and returned them all safely before Musk was born.
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by reddog 7y ago
Yeah, the US GDP was 4x Japans at the start of the war and 7x bigger at the end. Japans fate was sealed on Dec 7th, 1941. But would a Midway disaster have extended the war 2 years? The US would become the worlds only nuclear power in 1945
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by reddog 7y ago
I bought an Oculus Go for $100 during a black friday sale last year just to see what this VR thing is all about. I think you can get one today for around $130. We've definitely gotten $100 worth of fun out of the thing.
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by reddog 7y ago
No thank you. In my 40 years of driving I've been in two accidents. Both times I was rear-ended while waiting to make a lefthand turn. Both times were major inconveniences that made me late for work and cost me time and money to res
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by reddog 7y ago
You can love your job but it will never love you back.
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by reddog 7y ago
Keep in mind, some people literally can't get off their butts to turn the lights on. And if you have lost your sight, being able to play a tune on demand via an Echo voice command is a miracle. So is being able to listen to a podcas
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by reddog 7y ago
That money is better spent on roads. How much bang could Amtrak get for even $75 billion? California's high speed rail was cancelled after its projected cost topped $77 billion. And that was for just one line between two cities.
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by reddog 7y ago
Just want to point out that almost all Americans already pay a substantial wealth tax. Most of middle class wealth is in the value of their homes and that wealth is taxed as much as 2.4% per year by states and local government in the form
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by reddog 7y ago
I am gobsmacked that the state of California is allowing PG&E to downgrade their power infrastructure to near third world status. Next time there's an Amazon HQ2 type competition between regions look for killer bullet points like &
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by reddog 7y ago
Christopher Buckley called this 'the yuppie Nuremberg defense'.
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by reddog 7y ago
If this is taken to its logical conclusion, everyone should drive. Trains are not more efficient than a the average car when measured in passenger mile per gallon equivalent. And trains are much less efficient when compared to a high MPG
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by reddog 7y ago
Great comment. I would add that back in the 30's everyone was swooning over Hitlers autobahns. It's incredible what can be accomplished when you don't have a pesky democracy getting in your way.
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by reddog 7y ago
I spent a week in Copenhagen a few years ago and, while it was incredibly expensive, I was very impressed. But on further investigation I discovered it was almost impossible to get a long term rental there. I read that Danes would put thei
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by reddog 7y ago
With a real carbon tax these numbers would actually be further apart. I was surprised to learn that in the real world trains are not more efficient than a the average car when measured in passenger mile per gallon equivalent. And trains ar
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by reddog 7y ago
Just because they are vulnerable in an all out war doesn't mean they are not useful. After all something like 12 USN carriers were sunk in WWII but every military historians would agree they were pivotal in winning the war in the pacif
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by reddog 7y ago
Really? It's no longer OK to identify as a Christian? It seems to me that in 2019 the only group that believes it has a monopoly on positive moral behavior are the new church ladies of the far left.
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by reddog 7y ago
When I've driven I have never had to stand for 40 minutes in rush hour in a jammed Milan subway car with my nose in a strangers armpit while another stranger breaths down my neck. I've never been ask for spare change while in my
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by reddog 8y ago
He also never guessed that we would eagerly stand in line to spend $1000 to buy our own tracking devices.

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