Cycling to work through cavernous limestone mines turned into a business park
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Do you mean it's hard to find a single record out of many or that new insights can be discovered in aggregate?
The former is simply not true, databases exist for this purpose. The latter seems obvious.
I'm not saying we should go back to clay tablets or anything. I'm just saying in any rapid technology transition, we risk loosing the good with the bad.
How can we determine data is "useless" if we do not analyze the data?
New technology may have good and bad aspects but that doesn't mean it prevents us from doing what works.
There's a database somewhere of Do Not Fly suspicious people, but how was it compiled? Should we put any weight on these lists of names?
I think this is what OP was alluding to, when it is more painful to collect and organize data, you make sure the data is worth collecting and organizing.
See also "Worse is Better"
Probably not much -- I'd expect that single record lookups are relatively fast, but large scale analysis across large datasets is nearly impossible.
Probably more of a "feature" of a government database than a drawback - the government should be doing as little as possible with our data.
Has any employee read a document then relayed what they saw to a third party outside the facility? Or pocketed/copied a document? Or altered a document? Or destroyed a document?
How would you know? How can you assume they have not?
I used to explore the steam tunnels under my university. One of our favorite places to get into was this massive room full of forgotten athletic equipment beneath a basketball stadium scheduled to be torn down in a couple years. In the middle of that massive room was an unlocked filing cabinet full of about 3 decades worth of employee information. Addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, social security numbers, all sorts of goodies.
We obviously never did anything with it but like. Damn.
>The worker’s new job: setting off explosives.
>“I’m handling live ordnance on a daily basis, just to get out of there,” said the worker, whose company blasts holes in the ground for oil and gas wells. “One of the five worst jobs in the world was a great alternative to being down there.”
Since when is getting to blow shit up one of the worst jobs in the world? Sure it might be more dangerous than pushing papers but it's still every teenager's dream job along with astronaut and monster truck driver.
Edit: I forgot I'm on a board where the prevailing groupthink is that the slightest physical danger is to be avoided at all costs.
I know you're joking, but it's a scary dangerous job.
(Thanks, Space Shuttle. You never should have survived into the 21st century)
Since the guy that does that job agrees with that statement! I think he might be an authority on how he feels about it
Supposedly, it was one of the Tolkien's inspirations for the mines in the Lord of the Rings. And because it's a salt mine, the air is very clean. They used to send asthma sufferers into the mines as a form of therapy.
Also a yearly midnight ride through limestone caverns, though I have not done that one yet.
OT: Recently the fire department called me because the carbon monoxide detector in one of my buildings alarmed. That was mysterious since in the summer the furnaces are not used. Eventually we discovered that the cleaning crew was using propane-driven buffers on the floor! We're not going to allow that anymore. It's a 6000 sq ft office that is mostly carpeted; they certainly don't need to use dangerous equipment that was designed for large buildings like sports stadiums.
A common "standard" for mines/tunnelling is:
3 Cubic meters/minute per worker
4 cubic meters/minute per diesel HP (calculated on the max power output of the engines)
Electric vehicles (battery powered) are usually not considered as they normally represent a fraction of the power involved in the construction/digging.
The large machines that are electrically powered (via cable/wire) are not included as they do not produce exhaust fumes nor particles/vapours, but they may be considered in some cases for the amount of heat they produce.
Article says it's mostly warehouses but given that temp, looks like it would work well for Datacenters. Do datacenters in general use geothermal energy for cooling?
Given its central location in the middle of the country, you may have benefits for having low-ish average latency from both coasts, but I'm not sure how close the mine is to any long haul internet backbone.
https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/business/2015/03/16/s...
It's about 5 million square feet, or 115 acres. An even larger facility is in Kansas City:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-02-04/welcome-t...
I heard Louisville, KY's "Mega Cavern" added climbing walls, but I believe they are the usual sort of indoor "adventure park" climbing walls.