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by halffaday 4y ago
Having lived in both areas, cities make people crazy. Everyone spends so much time trying to stand out. Look at my fashionable clothing. Look at my exotic sexual identity. Nobody is comfortable in their own skin. There are no consequences t
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by halffaday 4y ago
Writing an insult and punctuating it with “cheers” is so insincere and sanctimonious that your argument is it’s own counter-argument. If you think civilian gun violence is unique to the US, you should really r check in on any country south
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by halffaday 4y ago
This article could have been written about any industry at all, like healthcare, aerospace, or fast food, and have made essentially the same points, on the same timeline, and with the same conclusions. Maybe something happened in the 1960s…
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by halffaday 4y ago
The Australian government also put its citizens in concentration camps with total impunity last year. That sort of outrageous mistreatment of lower and middle class people is not feasible outside of a few cities in the United States. Cheran
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by halffaday 4y ago
Seemed like an OK article, but punctuating your essay with a cheerful reference to a violent counter-intelligence operation by the Chinese Communist Party that crushed free-thought for generations is so tone deaf it makes me doubt the autho
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by halffaday 4y ago
Precious metals. Of course financial institutions often falsify their reserves. The real problem isn’t that no solution exists. The problem is that market makers only want to deal with exchange media that they can use for their own fraud.
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by halffaday 4y ago
It's...I don't know what to call it except intriguing, the way you conclude anything I wrote means the US is a totalitarian monolith.
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by halffaday 4y ago
The tone of the article is a little hard to take seriously given that the legacy media are mostly now admitting that a Ukrainian surrender is necessary and that all Russian territorial objectives are likely to be met. The more interesting q
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by halffaday 4y ago
I wasn’t under the impression that solar panels actually generate more revenue in their service life than their production and installation costs. Has this changed in the last few years?
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by halffaday 4y ago
It is limited by state and federal law, and ambiguous language means that the law is whatever the bureaucrat reviewing your site plan thinks it means at that moment.
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by halffaday 4y ago
An empty bus weighs 20,000lb or more. That’s around 80X the wear the trucks this bill targets causes, and you probably can’t put 80x more people on the bus. Why not axe the public transportation nobody with a choice actually uses?
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by halffaday 4y ago
There are trade organizations, metropolitan planning organizations, and quasi-government entities that write model development codes that several communities may adopt as-is, but cities and counties are all able to adopt, modify, and repeal
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by halffaday 4y ago
Chuck Marohn is an ideas-guy that pivoted his career from engineer to paid speaker. It’s a lot of TED-talks kind of stuff that resonates with certain donors, and it includes a lot of “guys, you’re doing it wrong!” statements and trashing tr
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by halffaday 4y ago
My feelings are mixed. The licensing processing is pretty lenient, and NCEES testing just weeds out the bottom 1/3 of applicants. Keeping a license is basically a matter of paying your dues. Sure, people get disciplined by the board, b
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by halffaday 4y ago
If you’re designing a pavement structure based on the AASHTO Guide For the Design of Pavement Structures (1993), then you wouldn’t include anything other than trucks (semi-trailers, single-units, and buses) because passenger vehicles produc
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by halffaday 4y ago
Paint = safety is a horribly misguided heuristic. Playing traffic engineer is just as bad an idea as playing dentist or attorney. Just don’t.
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by halffaday 4y ago
Typical compressive strengths in concrete mixes for construction applications is often around 3000psi, which is actually about the same as HDPE. “Flowable fill” might be closer to 800-1000psi, which is close to end-grain compressive strengt
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by halffaday 4y ago
Use sharrows. Changing the meaning of stripes for one special type of road is a terrible idea. There also really needs to be more aggressive standards for participation in transportation planning. I see way too many “ideas guys” playing eng
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by halffaday 4y ago
Not that long ago, California paid $2B in fraudulent benefits. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-07/bank-of-... That’s a single program. Forget it, Jack. It’s China Town.
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by halffaday 4y ago
>2024: autonomous machinery takes over Mass-grading is the only part of construction anywhere close to this that I’m aware of. Manufacturing processes for building materials are really impressive, but it’s a different story on the job si