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Thanks.

Is there some distance from the caldera where crust disturbance would definitely not be a factor? 1 mile? 100 miles? Greater?

Good point. What about the drilling activity in the Dakota's and / or Alberta - Saskatchewan?

Has anyone heard of a study of how fracking and horizontal oil drilling in the states surrounding Colorado are affecting the caldera? I would imagine all of the seismic activity they cause would have an impact.

The problem in my mind, at least in the US, is that we give licenses to 16 year-olds without proper training and turn them loose on the roads.

This combined with the American machismo culture of driving like an entitled asshole make for situations where people think they are the skilled drivers, but in fact are out of control.

Additionally we have an armada of truck drivers whose incomes are increasingly pinched by competition and ever dwindling wages that are pushing the limits of safety in order to make a living.

This is how you end up with spun out SUV's and jackknifed semi's

Statements like this make me cringe:

> I’ve cost them time and money going down the hill. It’s a macho thing. Drive the hills as fast as you can and be damn sure to humiliate any sonofabitch who’s got brains enough to respect the mountains.

It's unfortunate that trucking is one of the last middle class industries left in the US. We need jobs like this, but at the same time I can't wait for automation to take the human factor out of this equation.

Hudson Canyon always fascinated me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Canyon

The listings project is not mine, but I've always admired Stefanie and her list:

https://www.listingsproject.com/

It lists artist studios, coworking and apartment sublets, mostly in NYC and probably does about $500k in revenue year.

Weekly newsletters have been averaging about 300-325 listings @ $30 per week. There are also sponsored emails that I'm sure are in the thousands of dollars per email.

This is how the Fox News of the internet is made.

I don't have specifics like that, but I've noticed drastic improvements in page load time when I moved a site from Apache to NGINX. This post was the motivation:

http://reviewsignal.com/blog/2014/06/25/40-million-hits-a-da...

This fails to mention the most dramatic fix, which is to host it on NGINX rather than Apache.

It seems like an iteration with a plastic coating could make this a product with a longer life.

Have a look at a map. Geographic boundaries surrounding an 8 million person population is why NYC real estate is so expensive.

For sure, they are very small places.

But they are old, dense cities and are very walkable / bikeable. You can even ride between the 2 on a nice path that runs next to the Hudson (they are about 6 miles apart).

Yes, RPI is in Troy. It would be one of the points on my list of assets. They have this amazing music venue called EMPAC...

For people looking for that 70s NYC like experience, with proximity to NYC, I HIGHLY suggest checking out the Albany / Troy area.

Both are gritty little cities with a bunch of interesting people living there doing interesting shit, all for next to nothing. You can rent a townhouse for under a thousand / month. Shit, you can BUY a gorgeous 19th century townhouse for under a 100k - the same thing that would be 3 million in the Brooklyn where Patti Smith and Robert Maplethorpe lived.

I'm not going to go on about how much there is to offer there, because I could do that for paragraphs. You should just go check it out for yourself.

They never mention the ones they lost ;)

Lot's of Flash developers got caught with their pants down. If you were good, you moved into iOS (or jumped on the ever morphing javascript train), but lots of them were not T shaped and struggled to transition their skillset.

Is this like Pied Piper?

I can't compare, but I can comment on Sendy. I use it to send about to a list of about 5k.

It has never sent to completion on its own, it always requires me to monitor the queue so I can hit the 'retry' button once it times out which usually happens after about 100-150 emails have been sent. I've actually scripted this action - so now when I send, I hit the send button as well as fire off a shell script that spoofs the 'refresh' request. It takes about 10 minutes to complete the campaign.

I'll echo the other complaints about the quality of the code - it seems to suffer from a copy / paste syndrome as the database connection logic is repeated in every file, but it could also be that the author has obfuscated it as well. It does do a phone home and some other stuff via some base 64 encoded code. I've unwound it in an attempt to fix another issue I thought it was causing (it wasn't). Here it is if you are curious:

https://gist.github.com/fowkswe/20a7c4c03835de183ff68fe5ab1a...

I'll give Sendy credit for getting me this far, though I would like to replace it someday with something I feel I have more control over. Not sure the OP or the other suggestions listed here offer exactly what I'm looking for.

I was always a big fan of https://twitter.com/hipsterhacker

He's for the most part inactive, but occasionally drips out something acerbically relevant.

Feel free to use the same UI trick - I 'borrowed' it from the guy who made

http://pitchify.com

I'd love it if you put a link! I'll do the same :).

Thanks!

I'm pulling the day's songs via the API:

http://tracklist-api.kcrw.com/Simulcast/date/2016/03/04?page...

etc, and creating a playlist out of those. I'm parsing the artist/ song names pretty crudely, so I think it drops some.

I thought they were folding all shows during the day into that list, but maybe I'm wrong?

Nice! I made this:

http://billyfowks.com/spotify/

which pretty much contains the full day's playlist

I've made some Rails ActiveRecord models that to talk to the Wordpress database.

Using them and the page caching gem / feature, you can get the static page effect you are looking for.

Additionally, you can have all the Rails goodies (Haml, Sass, Coffeescript, layouts/partials, etc) for use in your Wordpress development needs along with the Wordpress authoring tools.

I have it working in my project, and took a half assed attempt to turn it into a gem. This is waaay premature, and missing lots of the stuff I have flushed out in my project (post_content formatting, short code completion, categories, tags, etc):

https://github.com/fowkswe/pressar

If anyone is interested, I'd be willing to fold the other functionality in and get the 'gem install' working.

In the middle of a 'compulsion loop' I wound up on HN, leading me to read this article, only to stop halfway through to come back and check the comments - and post this one.

See ya. Off to Google Analytics.

If the assumption is that fried chicken places are a relic of a poorer past, then this metric does not work for New York City. Fried chicken is the food of the moment:

http://www.villagevoice.com/restaurants/the-ten-best-fried-c...

I'm suggesting closing the avenues during the daytime, especially rush hours. Deliveries and garbage pickup can happen early morning or in the evening (which is already the case for garbage pickup).

See my comment above, but I think the most obvious solution would be to contain deliveries to non rush hour times - ala garbage pickup.

This argument has the same line of reasoning that the businesses originally tried to use when the city did put in buffered bike lines - that removing unfettered automobile / truck access was the death knell to commerce

(Like these: http://gothamist.com/2011/07/14/post_blames_bike_lanes_for_b... http://www.villagevoice.com/news/new-east-village-bike-lanes...).

In the case of the bike lanes, this is the furthest from the truth (have a Google for lots of arguments about the merit of increased bike traffic).

I'm not sure what the solution is, but there certainly is one that would support a few car/truck free avenues.