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lancemantis posted:well, even that would be kind of dumb, because afaik nobody really needs to go between kansas city and st louis on a regular commuter-style basis one of the problems developing rail routes is that you don't necessarily know what demand exists until the route is already built and people get to experiment with it lots of things that would be practical with a $10 ticket to a train that leaves every hour don't work at all with a $200 commuter jet that leaves twice a day
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i think the reason we keep having urban planning and train derails is that tech billionaires are loving nerds sooner or later every tech multi-billionaire wants to wreck somebody's downtown or build a train. it's just inevitable. and then we talk about it
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flakeloaf posted:
ottowa <=> toronto is saturated and they can charge premium rates
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Xaris posted:i just learned that light rail is illegal in Indiana lmfao midwest a quick google suggests the state legislature was trying to force a federally funded rail project in indianapolis to use an existing heavy rail RoW being indiana, i'm sure their goal was to receive kickbacks from whoever owns the RoW. remember, kids: it's not corruption if it's not illegal.
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most of EBay is just alibaba resellers nowadays and many of them will mark goods as “used” so you can’t filter them out lol
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atomicthumbs posted:sounds like a good way to get early starters slamming into late red runners and this would be different from the current situation how
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I think there might be a problem with your car if the tank is under the rear seats and if fuel is pumped anywhere but to the engine. Did you piss off someone at your dealership or something? vw used to sell cars with gasoline-fired heaters in the front
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Jonny 290 posted:
the most frightening things in this picture
whyyyy the correct method of restoration is to remove the thing and patch all the holes
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Feb 3, 2018 21:10
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Jonny 290 posted:yah corvair notion wasnt bad on the face, they just didnt have suspension modeling back then rly. couple of tweaks and it woulda been fine the problem wasn't a lack of modeling. it was that once they realized the design was problematic, they didn't do anything. no one blames GM for failing to foresee the then-unforseeable. we blame them for not immediately recalling a known-dangerous design, even after fixing it for new-production vehicles.
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Feb 4, 2018 18:53
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:everywhere likes to try and brag about how good their local tapwater is but i don’t wanna hear a drat thing until you’ve actually spent time in an area that has really really soft water hard water is awesome
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Feb 5, 2018 17:04
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PineappleGod posted:Up here in the frozen north of Finland, I have Webasto fuel operated heater in my car. this mostly sounds rad because it works as a block heater in the u.s. most block heaters are electric so you have to find a plug 
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Feb 5, 2018 17:05
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wide stance posted:I just want to know what space water taste like with zero bacteria. go buy a jug of distilled water. it doesn't taste good. it doesn't taste bad, either, just not good like a glass of tap water should.
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Feb 5, 2018 17:34
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:i know people hate uber as a company but i was able to get home saturday night after the bar with zero recollection of it happening, except the fact that i had a charge from uber on my credit card. still makes me feel like im in the future. if you were a woman the story might have gone a little differently
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:which while true is too broad a societal problem to be used as an argument against uber specifically, risks just diminishing it to "a few bad a actors" regulated taxi services ban known rapists and criminals from driving for hire uber, being a gypsy cab, does not
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eschaton posted:the shuttle was basically the Bradley but space, except imagine if work on the Bradley halted all other military ground vehicle development so no tanks, hum-vees, etc. if only they had yes the Bradley was a mess but so was every contemporary. humvees are almost impossibly fragile and their frames rust out even in desert conditions. m1 Abrams have to be deployed with 2 or 3 spare turbine engines because they fail constantly and are not field repairable. ironically the revised Bradleys have proven to be a godsend because the m1is so useless as a tank. its exhaust is so hot it cannot be used in infantry support. it’s too heavy to cross bridges. it’s too wide to enter urban areas. it has so little fuel range that it cannot pursue other tanks in short just about every dollar spent on military development programs is a dollar wasted maybe the jsf/f35 fiasco saved us from having three or four individual fiascos — Edit: it’s not just ground vehicles, or planes. it’s boats, subs, tanks, satellites, ships, jets, guns, spaceships. we cannot seem to develop ANY new weapons system successfully and it is getting really expensive to fail in new and hilarious ways Notorious b.s.d. fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:those hairplugs look nice tho that particular photo looks like a weave or a toupee
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google image search picks up other photos of musky where it does look more real so maybe it is a hair transplant after all idk
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fishmech posted:the sr-71 was explicitly designed to reduce radar cross-section, why would they have not thought about it??? they spent a lot of time thinking about it, but they did not have the benefit of modern computer modeling in design some things were learned the hard way
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Jabor posted:anyone know where to buy 5-year out-of-the-money puts? call goldman sachs they will be very happy to take your money
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Xaris posted:Josephine, the home-cooked meal startup where you can buy homecooked meals from local neighbors closed up late last week. http://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/02/02/josephine-announces-it-will-close/ source your quotes
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Chris Knight posted:if you use this phrase to refer to "the internet," you are a huge loving dipshit are you surprised by a post from "GreatBacon" ?
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Shifty Pony posted:wait... is this an option? where? the tool is called google verbatim it disables stemming and poo poo
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:use the better school on your resume/bio and if anyone calls you on it, blame autocorrect harfurt medical scool
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:i would be very not depressed to find out 70% of people are against this 30% in favor, 30% opposed, 40% no opinion 
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hobbesmaster posted:iirc when they polled Louisiana if they approved or disapproved of their governor or senator or whoever’s use of prostitutes “approved” got 5% so that gives a data point for the “loves loving with polls” part of the voter base more like 5% love fuckin prostitutes
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Schadenboner posted:Yeah, but my point is a regional one: at least the Pittsburgh area has a complete lack of development besides Pittsburgh, so it can act as a regional eds/meds attractor. The Lehigh Valley is Allentown–Bethlehem–Easton, it's halfway between Philadelphia and New York. No one is going to be attracted there because New York is like 100 miles down the road. I know guys who commute from the lehigh valley to new york.
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qirex posted:rent control is pretty much the only reason I might be able to actually retire, because gently caress taking on a 700 grand mortgage in my 40s don't worry about that the minute rent control benefits you instead of hurting you, because you are too old to consider moving, it will be repealed
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:have a chat to your sales bros about this one day. we have guys on 90k base who take home somewhere between 150k and 500k depending on how they do that year (any lower they probably didn’t hit target and lost their jobs anyway), and they still have to make a budget and buy houses etc. also, when you ask any sales guy his salary, the answer you get is an annualized figure for his best. quarter. ever. if jim-bob got a quarterly bonus of $80k once, five years ago, he makes "$500k" a year
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mrmcd posted:My RSUs autosell so it's like getting 1-2 extra paychecks each month. Always sign up for an autosale program if you can. Take your comp in cash and just buy the stock yourself if you want to make a non-tax advantaged investment directly in your employer. don't invest in your employer even if your employer is a good investment, it's the opposite of a diversified portfolio -- you already have a lot at risk, in the form of your fuckin job
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Rex-Goliath posted:i have a bunch of options but they don't mean poo poo until we ipo so i'm still sitting here waiting don't worry -- if the ipo actually happens, and the options are actually worth something, you won't have a choice. you will be forced to sell them on the spot to pay your income tax if you are paid in stock options, the difference between the strike price and the stock price at exercise time is taxable income, at your normal tax rate. as an extra fun wrinkle, you will end up paying AMT on that year's taxes, so you won't have any deductions, either
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where it gets super lovely is if you have a lockout period. you may be forced to exercise your options to participate in the ipo, socking you with a huge tax due, but then you may be unable to sell due to lockouts. then, you get double-hosed: you can owe a bunch of money in tax on gains that were never realized, because the stock plunges after ipo lol $3 strike price, $12 ipo: $9 of taxable income on the spot -- 12 months of lockout ensue -- you sell your stock for $6, and you owe interest to whoever financed your tax bill up front 
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there are lots and lots and lots and lots of ways to get screwed badly by private company stock grants there are dudes working full time at your startup, at their venture capital firms, and at all potential acquirers whose only job is to figure out how to gently caress you over on this
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infernal machines posted:noted bloodsucker peter theil is taking his ball and heading to LA, because evidently the bay is too progressive for him i'm surprised he's not hanging out in the o.c. or inland empire proto-fascist vampires are kind of the core constituencies there
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FMguru posted:energy news! it's a no-brainer that renewables would replace peak plants. it's just obvious. peak demand spikes when it's sunny out. which just happens to be when your solar capacity is working at its best. where renewables are making no dent whatsoever is base power generation coal usage is plunging because natural gas prices have made natural gas generation sane for base loads, which has never happened before. it is a new thing under the sun. most natural gas capacity coming online isn't peak plants -- it's gigantic fuckin coal-replacing base generators solar and wind are awful for bearing the base load
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Sapozhnik posted:how much is actual legitimate advances in technology and how much is advances in miner exploitation / chinese dumping fracking, my man the united states is back to being a leading natural gas producer, at rock-bottom prices natural gas always dominated the peak plant market because natural gas generators are easy to turn on and off, spin up/down on demand. coal plants take hours and hours to turn on or turn off. nuclear plants can take days. the price of the gas itself made sure it never challenged coal or nuclear for base generation. it just wasn't cost-effective to consider natural gas for your base loads. now gas is cheap, and looks to remain cheap for decades to come. so people are turning down coal plants and firing up permanent, always-on gas generation.
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also this is not a bad thing yeah natural gas is still co2 output, but it's a lot less co2 per watt of output than coal was. and it doesn't belch millions of tons of horrible garbage into the air to poison human beings natural gas energy production is cleaner in every way and a huge step forward in public health, even if it won't save us from rising seas -- even the environmental damage from fracking is probably less than the cumulative damage from burning coal. you can belch toxic, radioactive garbage into the air, or you can keep it in surface ponds. either way, coal poisons the world.
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President Beep posted:yeah but that’s just regular coal. im more interested in clean coal. "clean" coal means keeping all of the disgusting toxic radioactive horrors in retention ponds instead of belching it into the air. it is a step forwards, of a sort. it's good not to be spraying pollutants into the air by the ton. but we don't really have great ways to dispose of the concentrated waste, either. it's just sitting there, waiting for future generations to think of something clever the coal slurry problem is like nuclear waste but 10,000x more voluminous and 10x as dangerous to human health. -- edit: also there are two kinds of clean coal with horrible tradeoffs the first stage is just to have scrubbers collecting as much pollutant material from exhaust as possible, and dump it into retention ponds. the second stage is to avoid burning the coal entirely: you cook the coal and burn the much cleaner vapor rather than burn the coal directly. unfortunately this makes coal even less efficient and produces even more co2 per watt. and you still have to deal with the fuckin waste output! Notorious b.s.d. fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Feb 15, 2018 |
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FMguru posted:coal is the enemy of all living things
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Jonny 290 posted:the aftermath whoever took this shot was probably wearing a full hazmat suit. just being in the presence of coal ash is a significant threat to your health this land will be uninhabitable for hundreds or thousands of years the damage to the underlying water table is incalculable
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goddamnedtwisto posted:wait isn't that just town gas production? that's the big 'murica-saving innovation? the technology so filthy that there are still literal hundred-feet-high mounds of extravagantly-toxic waste dotted around every city in the uk? ah but it's slightly more efficient than town gas, for just a few billion dollars per installation! and we don't have mounds anymore. now we have ponds!
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