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by Mvhsz 3y ago
I would add that an architect’s job is to find the little details that make your big investment better. One thing I associate with off the rack house plans in big developments is having the shades drawn all day because otherwise the sun wil
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by Mvhsz 3y ago
In reference to the cmip model, the article says: > There are, however, model biases toward overestimated stability of the AMOC, both from tuning to the historic climate record, poor representation of the deep water formation, salinity a
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by Mvhsz 4y ago
Home prices are likely to go down over the course of the summer in the US, driven by the increasing costs of financing. But macro factors (demographics driving up demand for a limited and slow to expand housing supply) are still present so
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by Mvhsz 4y ago
A few friends of mine have bought houses in the gentrifying parts of port richmond over the years, and I've biked through several of the intersections in that video. Yeah parts of Kensington Ave are open air drug markets, you avoid tho
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by Mvhsz 5y ago
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics actually employees quite a few people to call stores across the country and get prices. Planet money interviewed one such person not long ago. https://www.npr.org/2021/07/13/1
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by Mvhsz 5y ago
Not a farmer, but alfalfa can be grown many places. I watched a gabe brown video where he mentioned growing it for cattle grazing in North Dakota, which is basically a cold desert. Presumably US farmers in wetter climates like the upper mid
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by Mvhsz 5y ago
Just guessing but I can't imagine they use as much salt as northern cities put on the road when it snows (dump trucks worth of salt). There's information for that at my local extension office [1]. The TL;DR is that plants don&#x27
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by Mvhsz 5y ago
Have you tried it? How was it?
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by Mvhsz 5y ago
If a drive down a highway cost as much as a train ticket, I think US cities would indeed be very different. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/9/10/think-buses-an... I'm definitely a city pers
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by Mvhsz 6y ago
That announcement excluded the mustang (and one trim of the focus). They will continue building the mustang as a gas-powered sport coupe, but will stop producing Fusion/Taurus/Fiesta. https://www.theverge.com/2018&
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by Mvhsz 6y ago
I think everyone is eager to escape poverty. But to your point, poverty and homelessness are the visible symptoms of a whole web of problems. There are those who were temporarily nudged into poverty by misfortune, and those that are bound t
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by Mvhsz 6y ago
Don't let plastic recycling get you down, recycling aluminum is a great way to help the environment. Paper and cardboard are also good. Glass is just ok. Reduce your consumption where possible, and make sure that non-recycleable materi
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by Mvhsz 6y ago
I prefer walmart for the same reason, I have a lot more trust in their supply chain. And the free delivery times are about the same, coupled with easy returns to the store. I would guess my Target and walmart online orders are 10x my Amazon
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by Mvhsz 6y ago
I tend to think that the outcome of removing zoning in the US would be very case-by-case. In a desirable urban neighborhood with height restrictions and a historical building commission, it might be possible to add a lot more density and st
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
Try to find a survey paper or review article [1] on the field you're interested in. They summarize the current state of the art in a field and link to the relevant papers. If the linked papers are behind a pay wall then you can use arX
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
EliottM is right, the delta in land and population between the city and county is significant. Over 900K people in the county and 241 square miles compared to 96 square miles in the city.
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
Some contextual data from US cities in 2018 City – City Population (Metro Area Population), City Density per Square Mile, City Traffic Fatalities Oslo [1]: 690,335 (1,588,457), 3,938, 1 Nashville [2][3]: 692,587 (1,930,961), 1,374, 82 Portl
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
> When a train is going 400kph, you can't share track. Correct, you would be traveling at normal train speed on shared track. This is workable in some systems because you can build cheap (relatively) rural segments of high speed rai
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
Not from the PNW, but it sounds like amtrak rents track from a freight line to run this route. So it works in the sense that they got something resembling inter-city rail service for a tiny fraction of the capital costs up front. Even so, I
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
High speed rail could share track with commuter lines in some cases, as acela does in the northeast corridor. And building through the rural parts of the state is generally easier, California essentially decided to only build the rural segm
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
> serious injury rate of 26 per 100 workers Do you know the time period for this stat, I couldn't find it in the linked article.
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
I just rewatched the battle scene from the movie, and the wraiths took out a few trebuchets and a decent number of soldiers on the wall. They weren't effective against soldiers under any sort of cover, but picking up and dropping soldi
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
What about pedestrians?
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
I think there's some value in hyping up a new technology, trying to apply it in a lot of places, and settling on a smaller number of logical applications. I think that's what happened with VR [1] and 3D printing [2]. Self-driving
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
> education is a mess, so smart critical people are rare, so it is hard to get them to teach I'm not sure I agree with this. If our schools were 10x as effective and we produced 10x as many smart people, I think we'd be having
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
Had the same question, the answer is yes BUT you would have to accomplish the following: - reflect every part of the spectrum that the laser can produce (idk if military lasers operate in the visible part of the spectrum) - keep the coating
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
can confirm that defense people are terrible about spilling a lot of details in public, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard an actual classified piece of info spoken in public
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
> convenience for family As a late-20s person living in the city, this is a thing I've been pondering. I grew up in typical suburban sprawl living "close" to school, soccer practice and friend's houses... but "cl
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
Part of the problem around light rail is that it's so broad. Just looking at the range of meanings of light rail in Philly, I have no idea how anyone talking about "light rail" could say that their argument applies to all of
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
The first four block 1 varients deployed to Afghanistan were pretty widely publicized. After that you can find public references to test events throughout the 2010s, the manufacturing of a few block 2 varients, and stated interest from more

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