ComradeTaco

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by ComradeTaco 7y ago
Generally bid that is not "technically complete" .i.e. does not demonstrate a real ability to undertake and complete the project can be rejected. There is some engineering discretion to this.
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by ComradeTaco 7y ago
Most large infrastructure projects have a large number of trades for a short amount of time Contractors have people,experience and equipment that would be cost prohibitive to maintain full time but can be relatively inexpensive when hired f
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
The block chain has fundamentally reinvented the way startups fleece investors.
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
There is a non-zero chance that May is replaced by a hard brexiter and they insist, by will of the referendum, that a hard brexit must occur. You can see UKIP bubbling back up in frustration. When you consider what a soft brexit is, it&#x27
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
I don't know if this is helpful to you, but Walmart pharmacies have inexpensive insulin if you ask for it.
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
As a random piece of trivia, in cab signaling was pioneered in the 1920's and implemented commercially by Pennsylvania Railroad the 1930's while upgrading their main line between New York City and Washington D.C. You can see in th
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
Okay, my bachelors was in civil engineering and I have worked in construction and engineering for just over two years now. Most public projects today have generous structured incentives that are given to companies for meeting goals for time
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
There is also the possibility that a poorly engineered or rushed tunnel could destablize the foundations of structures above.
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
To clarify, I was talking about traditional subway construction and why changes in boring costs would not change that.
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
A boring machine that could dig 10x as quickly (and hold all other desirable characteristics equal) would save tens of billion of dollars in infrastructure projects around the world and substantially increase the financial viability of tunn
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
If the Boring company could produce a reliable boring machine that dug at 10x speed, the boring machine would far far more valuable than these tunnels. It makes me think that the claims are exaggerated or misleading.
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
If you have the kind of nice geotechnical conditions that permit the use of tunnel boring machines then tunneling isn't actually very expensive. What's killer is the cost of subway stations, which need to be dug out manually.
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
If your goal was to cut costs and your largest single expense was boring, you would choose two 14' bores over a single 28' bore, because a 28' bore has a cross section twice as large as the combined cross section of two 14&#x
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
Building underground interchanges that include complete grade separation would entail building cloverleaf interchanges underground. Cloverleaf interchanges usually cost somewhere from 500 million USD to 2 billion USD above ground.
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
I don't think Musk's goal is to destroy public transit, but things like the hyperloop have been used as a bludgeon to attack high speed rail initiatives. [1] ( https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials&#x2F
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
Ahh, I appreciate the correction! I thought they were going to have a single track tunnel with passing sidings based on the 1.6 billion dollar construction costs, which would limit frequency. Does Musk seriously believe he get two ~20 mile
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
I feel like this this project will eventually morph into an undersized subway.
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
The article claims service every 15 minutes during most of the day, which means it will be extremely unprofitable to build. This isn't meant to return it's investment, it's meant as an operational testbed for musk's visi
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
> If I attempted to buy an ice cream cone with Bitcoin, will the money be transferred before the ice cream melts? It will not. >What costs more, the transaction fees or the ice cream cone? There have been times where the average trans
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
Bitcoin could go the way of any number of other cyptos; back to zero. In any case, nobody uses Bitcoin as a currency because it's logistically harder for 99.9% of people, and nobody uses it as a store of value because its insanely voli
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
Seem to work pretty okay in the rest of the developed world.
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
The words of leaders should always be taken literally, because the those words only become "jokes" when they are otherwise unexplainable in rational discussion.
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
Right, there is a real and serious problem with public infrastructure costs massively ballooning, worse than any other developed country. But on the other hand, if you don't build and replace infrastructure now, you're going to ha
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
Its possible to achieve substantially higher speeds, but that would require grade separation and electrification, which are much too expensive for a private company to take on.
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
Transit isn't really intended to solve traffic problems, transit is basically a work around to allow cities to scale in spite of traffic.
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
Unfortunately every odd administration is hostile to the concept of anything outside of a car being useful for transportation and reflects that accordingly in funding. If you're an advocate for transportation options, this is a good th
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
It's definitely a good option and it's just a conventional speed intercity service: A true high speed rail line would take about 14 minutes.
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
Generally, if you're serious about getting people were they need to be quickly, you use light rail technology and principles. Streetcars, in the sense that they're being implemented in North America are no faster than buses in mix
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
I'm curious what hour of her day the deck officer was on and how many hours of sleep she had the night previous. At some point, sleep deprivation can leave you essentially non-functional.
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
Would you be willing to compete wage wise? It's completely possible to find programmers that speak English for single digit hourly wages.

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