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So this happened overnight in LA: Block-sized apartment building burns down in the middle of the night for what I'm assuming is insurance fraud purposes. It happens to have burnt down at the intersection of two big freeways, the 110 and the 101. Considering it was hot enough to melt signs and crack windows in buildings hundreds of feet away, what sort of damage can this do to the highway infrastructure there? Is that intersection going to be hosed with surveying and repair work now? How do you determine whether something that large needs remediation after an event like this?
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294 has limited access by design. You can't get on going north up at 176. Granted, it still sucks and can be confusing, but then again this is the metro area that brings us PALATINE ROAD
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Jan 18, 2015 05:52
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The one posted in the Russia.jpg thread where they've got the dude stopped on the sidewalk and someone gets out of a different car driving correctly on the road casually carrying an AK-74 is amazing.
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Feb 5, 2015 18:25
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Makes me wonder if any of those numbers account for the actual extraction/refinement/transportation of the gasoline. Or for that matter for extraction / transportation of the coal to the plant. I know coal is durty as hell but internally combusting liquid fossil fuels is just poo poo for efficiency, granted we've made some pretty big MPG improvements in the last 15 years.
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Mar 13, 2015 21:21
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However did anyone make business happen before cell phones?? Can't just loving turn the drat thing off while in the car!
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Apr 2, 2015 02:42
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Cichlidae posted:That chart is a bit like the ones that show "there's been no global warming over the past 15 years." It doesn't cover the last three years, and it only covers a relatively short time. Look at the 1980-2015 numbers. I don't think we're ever going to recover to pre-recession levels (it looks like we took an 8% hit), but we're definitely going right back up. I guess but if that's the scope of data presented, if I saw those "projections" in either my academic or professional capacity I would chuckle and not take whoever made them seriously any more. After a good ten years of a non-linear, in either first derivative or second derivative, trend, and knowing what was happening in 2008, the 2008 projections are still just straight line unvarying growth. At least assume that there'll be a downturn every 6-10 years like there has been since 1960-whatever. Now I'm sure those projections are gonna help determine what your budget looks like so there's another layer of political complexity there, but dang. edit: bedtime for bonzo 
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May 29, 2015 19:03
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I live in NYC and they're doing some crazy loud work on my street, do y'all know if there's like a central database for MTA projects at all? Some sort of public-interest announcement function with even some spare details on what exactly they're doing? Is this something that cities do for more mundane transit projects? I'm mainly just curious. They've painted two two-foot wide channels down the street basically trisecting it and are in the process of cutting them out of the pavement with those big ol' fuckoff water cooled concrete saws. I'm guessing it's infrastructure (like water, steam or gas pipe) maintenance but yeah. lovely fire escape picture: you can see the two channels painted out at the bottom 
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Aug 27, 2015 15:17
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Stop arguing with Fishmech, god.
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Nov 5, 2015 18:01
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Qwijib0 posted:Owns Also quoting this as a post that was great and super interesting thank you. You also have a very good username.
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Dec 12, 2015 00:55
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Just make sure you steer clear of Illinois nazis in them.
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Feb 5, 2016 05:54
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John Dough posted:Didn't know pigeons could do 100km/h This is great, haha. Way to adapt, lil guy 
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RaffyTaffy posted:You must obey the grid. *carefully places a police and fire station at intersection of F and 33*
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