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The park is partially reopened last year and you can definitely bike or hike in without reservation (
https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=540). My friends and I were able to ride a lot of trails but the shade is mostly gone for sure.
Asteroids are indeed much more dangerous because no atmosphere exists to protect machines and human from space scraps and lights.
That said I think human need to be multi-planet to be able to survive big disasters. And asteroids as a small scale space station has its own benefits compared to planets or space crafts.
Guessing as a 21st century human of course :)
Worth mentioning that recent cars are big AF compared to their older generations. A small red 1990 BMW M3 and a big red 2020 M3 are visually very different. If my car is a large SUV I wouldn’t pick a green one, for example.
More space than the VW ID Buzz. Interesting…
Hope the battery won’t catch fire cuz someone will be sleeping in it
Fascinating. Being in a long drought in the southwestern US, we could learn so much from other civilizations like the Petra people
I feel that we are living through Les Misérables again
Palo Alto is famously anti-development. Far ahead in the digital world but stuck in the 20th century physically. And Stanford has so much open land for nothing but nature. I mean come on…
FWIW, Caltrain is being electrified and there are people fighting for more development and density.
https://www.caltrain.com/projects/electrification
https://cayimby.org/
Replicant number zero. This research is terrifying to me because life is never within our control.
What kind of life is it if a mouse or human is reproduced without parents.
I don’t think the point is turning communities into NY and LA. The world is full of places that are neither single family homes only or skyscrapers only. Yet America has a weird attachment to (exclusively) single family homes and car-dependent life.
I believe that communities and small cities could be a more vibrant and livable place when they are slightly denser and more walkable.
My smallish city is 20 miles south of SF and it’s becoming more and more walkable and bikeable unlike sprawling San Jose or mansion-only Atherton.
The areas with stable weather such as the OR and CA have been building too few homes to keep up with the population growth.
Take the medium sized town I lived in for example, average home price is well over $1M which is unreachable for most. The city is bounded by sea and mountains and the land is mostly built out. Even though all new constructions are multi-family homes, hundreds more needs to be built. Existing homes are privately owned and will hardly change even under SB9 (allowing duplex). Empty or vacant lots are few and take years to review/infill.
See the draft housing element:
https://www.cityofsanmateo.org/DocumentCenter/View/87532
Found this an unfortunate recurring theme when people talk about moving for jobs/weather/lifestyle. The life-changing things are often local and outside your news feed
What I found helpful is: Think ahead. What if I could afford it? What does acquiring this actually mean to me? Will it make me happier (however you define it). Be careful what you wished for.
Good read. People are social/tribal than factual.
Online comments, even non-political ones, can still get so heated. Etiquette seems to be better followed in the real world than in anonymous comment section.
Which issues are specific to “them”?
Yeah, Palo Alto is extraordinarily NIMBY.
A suburban area with single family houses + high paying jobs = exclusionary house prices
Yep I too err on the dry side by using
1. Planters with several holes that I drilled
2. Soil that I mixed for better drainage
A thirsty plant is better than rotten plant
Extreme examples. In reality you’ll see more service industry like bodega, accounting, cafe, etc
Feel bad about this too. Blue Bottle uses compostable cups which sets an example
As a cyclist and DAU I haven’t been a paying user for the past few years. Just subscribed today. This application costs a lot to run and it’s been mostly ads-free unlike Instagram. Pay if you can. Nothing comes free.
Misleading title. But I agree that the message that asks me to connect is more annoying than being useful
I couldn’t proof-read it but I appreciate your calculation and the spirit.
Life is irreversible. I’m curious to know what the plans are if lockdown ends asap.
On the other hand, I also feel that the commitments and policies in this society are more about protecting the elderly and their way of living (their wealth, single family homes, less sustainability, car-based city planning). Some may be debatable. But isn’t protecting each other part of humanity? I hope we are not in a stage where we have to decide which groups to sacrifice. If US is a still free country, is freedom-from-danger also a form of freedom as well?
I wonder how many AMD equipped Macs are there in Apple’s lab and how they perform. I know there are hackintosh out there too but Apple please do some validations and let there be choices.
> Under the Dilbert principle, employees who were never competent are promoted to management to limit the damage they can do.
Interesting but how does promoting such employee limit the damage (instead of causing more damage to the team)?
So they overestimated what Quora really could be and burned way more money? Or is Google suffocating smaller tech companies?
Content curation doesn’t scale as well as search algorithms. It reminds me of Yahoo and other portals who relies on editorial staffs (not meant it in a bad way).
Belmont at least has some density and Main Street. Atherton’s density is 1/4 of Belmont’s and it occupied the very center of SV.
Atherton
1,438.97/sq mi (555.53/km2)
Belmont
5,843.98/sq mi (2,256.45/km2)
San Mateo
8,570.40/sq mi (3,309.14/km2)
Not hard to see what their real intent was.
When some have the freedom of protecting their private land, others end up with the freedom of riding diesel only, underfunded trains. The liberty of some seems greater than others’.
> managed with laws
The OG Kowloon Walled City became itself because of lawlessness and self-sustaining. With law and regulation in place it’s hard to build anything close to it.
Call of Duty: Black Ops has an extensive session in Kowloon Walled City.
If they were simply a religion or practice with a mixed Taoism and Buddhism origin and a god-like figure. That’s nothing uncommon in the history of humanity.
It gets funnier to see when it protects its anti-China propaganda under the religious freedom in the West. There are plenty of people who consider Communist China evil. Again nothing wrong about that. But Falun Gong is a convenient political tool.
Maybe in practice it’s really hard to separate religions with politics. Mind control and story telling are the most powerful things that can be done to men.
This Bill could get unanimous consent this week again. S386 will boost fraud Indian IT outsourcing companies and give green cards to Indian workers. Green card applicants from other countries will be blocked for 10 years including British, Chinese, Iranian, Korean, Russian and etc. American workers will suffer too from lower wages and lack of workspace diversity. See #S386 on Twitter. Such a consequential bill should not be passed without public hearing.