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by tbihl 9y ago
I recognize the thrust of this argument, and anecdotally agree with it from my experience,but it's not practical advice. Work 12 hours, spend at least 30 minutes each way commuting,work out, prepare and eat meals, and you're at pr
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by tbihl 9y ago
Unless I'm missing something,the first two examples are not rocket-propelled, and the third is not rifle-mounted.
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I'd say the logical place to start in the US is by finding the streets that have negative cash flow just from maintaining the infrastructure, and start handing those streets back over to the home- and business-owners located on them, i
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by tbihl 9y ago
This is precisely the type of thing that US cities need to stop doing. Building to a top level of service from the outset is a terrible plan. What US cities need is a chaotic process of applying improvements, then making more permanent and
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by tbihl 9y ago
Your point about nuclear is interesting; do you know an approximate magnitude disadvantage of varying nuclear plant output? Presumably it's a concern of cool-down thermal stresses, or perhaps flux tilting/uneven fuel burnout. Or i
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by tbihl 9y ago
I don't think that Houston is unique; it is my focus because it is the article's. I think there are many places in the US where transit infrastructure is hopeless. I don't say impossible because I have no doubt that we could
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by tbihl 9y ago
I addressed parent's comment (parallel your own) and your concerns, but you beat me to submitting.
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by tbihl 9y ago
To amplify, for others reading this comment, it's not just about the area. There's a much more fundamental problem than the enormous expense that would be required to put transit over such a wide area. Namely, you don't have
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by tbihl 9y ago
I'm studying to be qualified to drive a steam engine.
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by tbihl 9y ago
To be fair, Venezuela hasn't been able to feed its people properly even WITH these glaciers (not to mention the enormous oil wealth.) With a functioning economy, you can overcome a lot of natural obstacles (see Singapore).
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by tbihl 9y ago
FWIW, US Navy ships don't broadcast on AIS, though they monitor it. That means the other vessels around them have to look out the window to notice them (or get hailed on radio.)
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by tbihl 9y ago
So the guy accumulated all the pieces of the puzzle before he could assemble them? It's not efficient,but it works as long as you don't get laughed down for finally grounding your facts in something. Sometimes you just have to kee
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by tbihl 9y ago
I don't exactly know the history of these courses, but SWOs now attend BDOC,though sometimes not for a few months after reporting. It's pretty heavy on seamanship.
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by tbihl 9y ago
It doesn't exactly fit the question, but you should check out survivor library. It's definitely run by people who take this apocalypse idea pretty seriously. Most of the things I've seen are old books describing pre-industria
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by tbihl 9y ago
Oh boy, you're in for a surprise: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_U.S.... Lots of states use the same names over and over. For example, Portland, OR being named after Portland, Maine. It ge
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by tbihl 9y ago
This feels to me like just one of a million ways to write "I'm getting older and my preferences change." Author no longer wants things that are new just for newness' sake, instead preferring something that works the way
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by tbihl 9y ago
Only when looked at from the craziness of medical school. Tuition: $42k/year (similar to most PA schools, though a few have better in-state pricing) http://publichealth.tufts.edu/Admissions/Financing-Your-Educ...
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by tbihl 9y ago
And brought all of Venezuela toward the eventual disaster under Maduro that was the necessary result of his policies.
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by tbihl 9y ago
Do you mean to say that the ones I see in grass and parks are some beekeeper's? I'm doubtful, but that would be pretty interesting. Are there that many amateur beekeeper's? I figured they were much less common a backyard proj
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by tbihl 9y ago
It's probably not very informative to think of humans as apex predators. Yuval Harari in "Sapien" puts forth the interesting point that we were catapulted suddenly from cautious foragers to extreme lethality by our harnessing
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by tbihl 9y ago
Plenty of environmental groups would be pretty happy to curb emissions in "just" US, Europe, Japan, and China...
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by tbihl 9y ago
And a stream of potential employees flowing, fully-trained, out of the military.
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by tbihl 9y ago
At some point in my keyboard-optimizing phase I decided that trying to find the ideal keyboard was the wrong approach. As long as it's a mechanical keyboard, I'm probably happy enough, and really from that point my optimizing was
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by tbihl 9y ago
The camo also helps to hide the diesel and oil (at least until 2019).
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by tbihl 9y ago
You're talking about allocating some set portion of your savings as bonds or cash, and occasional rebalancing away from your higher returning investments to maintain the proportion?
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by tbihl 9y ago
I agree with most of what you've said, but I'd also argue that having large groups living out in the desert is such an absurd configuration for humans that it presupposes an indifference for any sort of sustainability.
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by tbihl 9y ago
In some topics, the copying method still works perfectly well. As I've experienced it, the necessary component is time spent mulling over a concept. Sometimes copying is part of that, especially if you need to have facts in your head f
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by tbihl 9y ago
But that's a 30-year old Volvo, no? In 2017, buying a 10 year old car would mean getting that Renault.
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An alternative reading is that every country that has possessed nuclear weapons has acknowledged that their destructive capabilities make them a virtual suicide pact that would be fulfilled in the case of war between major powers.
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If a power plant scrams, how long is the subsequent startup? Do they have any sort of fast recovery procedure?

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