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by trome 10y ago
Why would you live in a HOA controlled area? At least in the Pacific Northwest they are viewed as scum of the earth, and are not a common burden most people will encounter.
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by trome 10y ago
Eh, utilities aren't the main showstopper, zoning is. So much land in cities is zoned for 2 to 3 story single family detached homes, and upzoning it after homes are built on that land is hard to do, and its even harder to find a block
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by trome 10y ago
The City of Portland is footing the bill for most of the roads you drive on, while missing out on essentially the only revenue they could receive from you, whether it be funding Tri-Met or paying for the other costs of running the city. Mos
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by trome 10y ago
It uses sphinx, which is open source: It first detects its wake word using pocketsphinx on around the last two seconds of audio. https://docs.mycroft.ai/overview
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by trome 10y ago
When it came out in 2013, the sum of the parts in the Mac Pro was worth much more than what they were charging for it, and in the most efficient form factor for those GPUs and that CPU compared to other desktops & server. Sadly Apple di
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by trome 10y ago
We do have rail currently, passenger rail is a thing all over the US, whether it be commuter rail, light rail, or Amtrak. Its a common misconception, I had to explain to a MS exec the other day that passenger rail service from Seattle to Po
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by trome 10y ago
It is part of the reason why it'd cost more, we also have much higher safety standards (our rail cars are only allowed to crush in 1 inch, as compared to over a foot of crush allowed in Europe), an expensive right of way acquisition pr
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by trome 10y ago
Uhh, you can't take a train very far off its tracks, unlike a car, truck or plane.
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by trome 10y ago
Worse yet, Hyperloop would move 1/20th the passengers, to the tune of only 1000 people an hour. Hyperloop is horribly inefficent, and has worse right of way needs & engineering costs compared to High Speed Rail, not to mention the
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by trome 10y ago
Needless to say when it comes to roads they're opposed to tolling, and aren't willing to staunch the bleeding when it comes to maintenance or roadway construction.
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by trome 10y ago
How is the farebox recovery rate on roadways in Oregon State? Wait, I forgot, those operate as a massive money bleed. In regards to headways, unless you are fully grade separated you can only go so tight with scheduling (fuckin' cars m
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by trome 10y ago
Freight is easy, a few hour delay while you repair some trackage, move another 100 car train, etc. is far from the end of the world. Comparatively, getting BNSF or UP to switch gears and be timely for passenger rail service is very expensiv
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by trome 10y ago
Yeah, in China they lease the land out to the developments, so there is a constant revenue stream. That is illegal to do in nearly any other country though, the US included.
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by trome 10y ago
We actually did this with the Chinese and Irish immigrants [1], and some rail lines would kill off workers to avoid paying them once a rail line was complete. That being said, American labor isn't the issue, Chinese already cost $4&#x2
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by trome 10y ago
Uhh, they cut corners on their train cars. Where we allow 1 inch of crush when an impact happens and limited twist, they allow a foot & change, with significantly more twist allowed. There are other safety standards they are not bound t
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by trome 10y ago
Sure, if we restricted eminent domain litigation and returned environmental impact statements to being under 75 pages (as they are legally required to be already) we could build rail much cheaper, but Trump has not said jack in regard to ge
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by trome 10y ago
Sooo crunchy there, jeez! Tunneling isn't as unpredictable as you suggest, rail lines are often completed on time and under budget[1]. When you do crazy stuff like try and build the largest tunnel ever built with cutting edge technolog
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by trome 10y ago
Yeah, infrastructure costs tons of money even when the land itself is free, unless you can get away with doing a substandard job.
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by trome 10y ago
Good luck with that, our safety standards for train cars in the US are head and shoulders above Europe, and in a whole different universe than India & China. Add to that that it is illegal to buy up all the land around rail lines and le
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by trome 10y ago
Damn, way to demean someone's work. Just cause a similarly impressive feat of engineering was recently completed doesn't mean building twice more in a much different environment, with multiple active fault lines and through varied
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by trome 10y ago
The right of way, design, and labor differences are the main differentiator, besides the fact that this is high speed rail over a few hundred miles, not a few dozen mile light rail alignment. That being said, here in Seattle we approved nea
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by trome 10y ago
Yeah, Google will survive this just fine. Signal users and activists are a higher priority than the risk to Google, since the risks in UAE aren't terribly high for them. Blocking Google would make Dubai really look like a red headed st
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by trome 10y ago
If they block Google.com sure, it won't work, but in that case Signal could just use a CDN they won't block, like Alicloud in China, or AWS or similar.
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by trome 10y ago
Ah shoot, that is right! Safeway and Albertsons merged, don't know why I thought they'd become part of Kroger. That being said, in the Puget Sound Region (where Amazon is trying to launch this) 90% of the market is controlled by t
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by trome 10y ago
How so? I live in Seattle, and Amazon's placement of their test stores has been quite poor (picking a roadway on the wrong side of a major bridge, where from 2pm to 6:30pm its a parking lot), they have set them up exclusively for peopl
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by trome 10y ago
I've seen the details of quite a few B2B SaaS and Govt SaaS deals as of late, and most dev orgs are just not supporting anything other than evergreen browsers. If you don't have the latest browser version, your ticket will be clos
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by trome 10y ago
Is his "new" machine using spinning rust for Win10? Cause that is what it sounds like, I don't get why people inflict non-SSD computers on themselves, its just a positively awful experience.
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by trome 10y ago
Yeah, returns from bus feeding commuter rail will be limited, need grade separated mass transit, or at the very least Bus Rapid Transit with dedicated lanes.
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by trome 10y ago
Eh, c in many cases includes govt built & maintained toll roads, cause as it turns out roadways can cost tens of billions to build. Makes rail look cheap in comparison!
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by trome 10y ago
Working over 80 hours in a 7 day period is just insane in and of itself, unless there is a major crisis you shouldn't be working more than 40hrs a week. People fought and died for an 8 hour workday, and here the AMA and hospitals are s

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