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by thehappypm 7y ago
Another fun fact is that, in my lifetime, Massachusetts will be a very green-energy grid. We are building a transmission line through Maine to connect to a Quebec hydro plant, and offshore wind is growing fast (though it all takes time). A
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by thehappypm 7y ago
I was getting a new car either way, replacing one that had broken.
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That sounds nice—I take it you own the parking spot? That would have changed the equation for me considerably.
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by thehappypm 7y ago
It is not illegal to own a car without a parking spot. Where did you even hear that?
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by thehappypm 7y ago
This stopped me from buying a Tesla with my most recent car purchase. I live in a 100 year old apartment in Boston that has 0 parking spots for over 100 units. My wife and I share a car, mostly for weekend adventuring, so we rent a spot in
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by thehappypm 7y ago
The second list is, by construction, a list of numbers from 1 to 8. The first list also ranges from 1 to 8. It isn’t shocking that when you sort the first list it aligns with the second within some margin of error.
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In 1900 the population of New York City was a fraction of its population today and probably more importantly, cars were not widespread as the Model T had not even hit the market yet. It's bizarre to try to compare different eras.
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by thehappypm 7y ago
This does happen in the US where it's cost effective. The Tappan Zee Bridge was replaced by a new bridge built completely from scratch in parallel, then the old bridge decommissioned.
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by thehappypm 7y ago
China, especially a few decades ago, was so poor that eminent domain was a complete non-issue. Combined with a fairly authoritarian government system, building a train line faced basically no resistance. In the US, it's almost the oppo
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by thehappypm 7y ago
Alaska is not nearly the cold wasteland you think it is. Its largest city, Anchorage, shares the same weather pattern that keeps Seattle, Vancouver, and Portland warm and wet. Though by being 1000 miles further north, it is much colder than
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by thehappypm 7y ago
Many people would probably leave Alaska altogether if that was the case, which would be much worse for the tax base. The subsidy is crucial to keeping Alaska populated at all. They still collect various other taxes despite the subsidy.
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by thehappypm 7y ago
What democratic breakdown? I'm fairly unplugged from politics, but the major things people seem to talk about (Trump, Brexit) at least in my area seem to be deeply rooted in democracy.
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by thehappypm 7y ago
To be fair, people with disabilities walk a very different life than able-bodied people do. For the mobility impaired, every trip requires careful forethought and planning. The mobility impaired are far less likely to hop in a car, drive in
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by thehappypm 7y ago
People rarely discuss the positive impact of AirBnB: boosting the number of tourists. I wonder how much additional tourism spend and tax revenue the city is getting from the influx of tourists. Hotels aren't closing down; AirBnB's
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by thehappypm 7y ago
You're getting downvoted because this is both a bad business idea, and a bad product idea. Uber and Lyft have proven that drivers and riders don't want to think particularly hard. They want a magic button that either a) makes a ca
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by thehappypm 7y ago
This deal is structured with no cash exchanging hands, it's a stock-only deal. Tableau stock becomes fresh Salesforce stock.
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by thehappypm 7y ago
The typical business user wants nothing to do with Python or R. Those are nice features, but not really where the bulk of the market is.
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by thehappypm 7y ago
Three case studies from three people I went to high school with Student A was an A student. He got into several ivy league schools. He chose to go to a mid-pack private school that offered him a generous scholarship and some financial aid,
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by thehappypm 7y ago
HVDC means you can literally be a thousand miles from the power plant. That's distance from the Hoover Dam to Kansas City. There's literally nowhere in America beyond the range of a viable hydro plant.
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by thehappypm 8y ago
Realistically, hydro meets your three objectives (clean, reliable, carbon-free) with way less risk of irradiating a city or proliferating nuclear fuel generation. Advances in transmission line technology also enable hydro plants to be hundr
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by thehappypm 8y ago
I flew Providence to Miami for $25 each way last year on Frontier. Even factoring in the cost of parking at the airport and the extra hour of driving time from Boston, I spent less than $100. So, yeah, flying can be super cheap.
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by thehappypm 8y ago
I even take it a step further and I have a dedicated storage bin for all of my ski gear. When I get home, I religiously wash everything, then put it all 100% back in the bin. Next time I go skiing, I just grab everything out of the bin. Rin
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by thehappypm 8y ago
I work in the travel industry. I'm always amazed that people are still flocking to those traditional tourist destinations in such huge numbers. Sure, before the internet, travel research was much harder to do and going to places like R
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by thehappypm 8y ago
Each page takes a second to load usually, but it's a dopey Heroku web dyno, so it takes just about that long to load the landing page that doesn't go down that code path.
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by thehappypm 8y ago
I love simple solutions! It reminds me of a personal web site I built recently. I am climbing the 4000 footers of New Hampshire with my wife. It's a big challenge, to climb almost 50 of some of the biggest mountains east of the Mississ
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by thehappypm 8y ago
That's really inaccurate. 3 mph is fairly brisk (20 minute miles). 5 mph is a 12 minute mile, which is, for many people, a running pace. Were you thinking of kph?