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by waterphone 8y ago
It's a fairly firmly established fact and widely understood as a major cause within firefighting and forest management circles, including the Forest Service, who is largely responsible for such practices over the past century. The natu
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by waterphone 8y ago
Commercial logging is not the answer, though mechanical thinning might be to get things back to a natural state before reintroducing a properly balanced fire regime with natural and if necessary prescribed fire.
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by waterphone 8y ago
It's not very complicated at all, the issue is more a lack of education. Online personal finance resources and communities help a lot, but people still have to know to seek out that information.
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by waterphone 8y ago
Bulldozers are used in fireline construction, but not in designated Wilderness areas. Wilderness restrictions were one example of why this is a bad idea, but they are not the only reason.
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by waterphone 8y ago
Just because another country does something stupid doesn't make it a good idea. Also, as noted in another comment, the one time this was done in Sweden, it was a fire on a military base . In the U.S., cultural resource protection is o
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by waterphone 8y ago
As I replied to another comment, there's a lot more to object to than just wildlife. Natural and cultural/archaeological resources can be destroyed by explosions while fire may not destroy or damage them. (Think rock formations, r
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by waterphone 8y ago
There's a lot more to object to than just wildlife. Natural and cultural/archaeological resources can be destroyed by explosions while fire may not destroy or damage them. (Think rock formations, rock shelters/caves, rock art
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by waterphone 8y ago
Low quality fund options in employer provided retirement account are a problem, but in the U.S. you can roll it over into a self-controlled IRA at whatever provider you like once you change employers, so for most people the number of years
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by waterphone 8y ago
Some see it as a cultural arms race. A "the other cultures aren't stopping having children, so we need to out-populate them!" sort of deal. What the fuck is with the idiotic voting going on here lately? Every single comment I
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by waterphone 8y ago
If you're losing much of that to fees, you're investing in the wrong funds with the wrong firms. Vanguard, Fidelity, Schwab: no fee, low-expense ratio total market index funds. In my target retirement fund, I'm paying $16 per
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by waterphone 8y ago
That wasn't my intended implication, I was suggesting just that in the long term there's a far greater track record of positive growth in the traditional stock market compared to Bitcoin.
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by waterphone 8y ago
This is a pretty ridiculous argument to throw your weight behind given that there is a significant difference in timescale: 61 years vs. 9 years.
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by waterphone 8y ago
Throughout this conversation I've been referring to index funds and the S&P 500.
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by waterphone 8y ago
One is investing, one is speculation/gambling. Some people got very lucky. Some people lost their life savings. In the stock market with diversified investments, even if the market crashes, historically you would have always recovere
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by waterphone 8y ago
The S&P 500 has a ~10% annual return (7% adjusted for inflation) as a historical average. 2% is what you can get in a savings account with no risk at this point. Index funds/ETFs allow anyone to invest in the stock market starting
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by waterphone 8y ago
Unfortunately, he's been pretty well known for well over a decade, and he's just grown significantly in popularity in that time.
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by waterphone 8y ago
$10,000
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by waterphone 8y ago
"Except in all these situations…" —Courts
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by waterphone 8y ago
The same happened to me, right around the end of February/beginning of March. A website of mine which was consistently in the top 2 results for certain queries for the past 4+ years and is the most relevant result for that query abrupt
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by waterphone 8y ago
They're doing this sort of thing a lot more often, it seems like, whether through manual actions targeting specific sites or algorithm changes that suddenly take a high quality top ranked page and disappear it from results entirely. It
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by waterphone 8y ago
Fire crews have discussed the possibility of carrying shotguns to take them down. I don't know whether that idea has gone anywhere or got shut down for liability reasons.
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by waterphone 8y ago
This is already standard procedure, wildfires with air operations put temporary flight restrictions in place as a matter of course, which apply to drones as well. People still fly drones and shut down operations regularly.
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by waterphone 8y ago
Just as with a bird strike, a drone can cause harm to any low flying firefighting aircraft. Sighting any drone in the airspace of a wildfire causes all air operations to be suspended until it is gone.
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by waterphone 8y ago
When you walk out and get in the way of a vehicle, it's easy to get out of the way or be told to move. There's a direct interaction. When someone flies a drone over a wildfire, they often don't even think they're doing a
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by waterphone 8y ago
I'm a "Social Media Never", and an increasing number of people I know are the same. We might sometimes use some forums or news/comment aggregators like HN or Reddit at some level, but none of the big social media platfor
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by waterphone 8y ago
It was likely not founded with that intent, but it appears to have been compromised or manipulated by Russian intelligence in the months/year leading up to the 2016 election.
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by waterphone 8y ago
Citi offers 2% cash back on everything with their DoubleCash card. It's the highest general purpose/non-category-specific card as far as I know.
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by waterphone 8y ago
…but they will still be selling individual non-subscription licenses through their own website, so anyone who wants to avoid a subscription can still do so.
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by waterphone 8y ago
I think we can all agree that a positive ideological statement and goal to strive towards is a little bit different than an immature insult.
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by waterphone 9y ago
Puerto Rico voted overwhelmingly for statehood in 2017, with 97.18% of those voting choosing statehood.

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