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The San Andreas Fault is tearing this winery apart

pastureofplenty — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 01:02:12 +0000

Article URL: https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2011/11/hey-its-not-my-fault-its-san-andreas.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50147154

Points: 2

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New comment by pastureofplenty in "X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced"

pastureofplenty — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:37:38 +0000

I can see this becoming a culture war thing like vaccines. Conservatives will become pro-CSAM because it triggers the overly sensitive crybaby Liberals.

New comment by pastureofplenty in "Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix"

pastureofplenty — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:29:38 +0000

Waymo may be currently safer than human drivers, but this right here is why I don't believe for a second they'll stay that way. People will complain it took to long to get somewhere because "stupid car was following all the rules!" and they'll be programmed to become more aggressive and dangerous (and due to regulatory capture they'll get away with this of course). I've already noticed this in San Francisco.

New comment by pastureofplenty in "Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix"

pastureofplenty — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:26:10 +0000

Americans are increasingly adopting the kind of mindset Israelis have, where following the rules makes you a sucker. https://www.thejc.com/judaism/jewish-words/freier-fa15k306

Why does BART use such a wide gauge?

pastureofplenty — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 01:19:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2022/news20220708-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794993

Points: 4

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New comment by pastureofplenty in "Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k"

pastureofplenty — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:51:17 +0000

Many Americans desperately want to believe that other countries' healthcare systems are "just as bad" as a form of coping.

New comment by pastureofplenty in "Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k"

pastureofplenty — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:48:06 +0000

Look at when all the "No Kings" protests are happening: on the weekend. Because there is no way the vast majority of Americans can go on strike, because healthcare is tied to employment. This is why healthcare is never getting "fixed" in America--it's doing its job quite well.

Bay Area chief of police allegedly commutes from Idaho

pastureofplenty — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:59:21 +0000

Article URL: https://abc7news.com/post/exclusive-millbrae-police-chief-facing-questions-allegedly-commuting-work-idaho/18068137/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708222

Points: 13

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Engineering Report to the SF Bay Area Rapid Transit District (1961) [pdf]

pastureofplenty — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 18:35:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/50-years/1961-parsons-engineering-report-to-sf-bart-district%20WSP.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706020

Points: 4

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New comment by pastureofplenty in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"

pastureofplenty — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:45:59 +0000

Kinda ironic that a post about attention to detail was so hard to read. Why is the font size so small?

New comment by pastureofplenty in "Wall Street is worried the private credit bubble will burst"

pastureofplenty — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 01:32:21 +0000

Someone I used to work for was borrowing all kinds of money with seemingly little scrutiny and when she couldn't pay it back the worst possible thing happened. https://sfstandard.com/2025/10/09/family-four-murder-suicide...

New comment by pastureofplenty in "Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO"

pastureofplenty — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:20:07 +0000

Hope you like traffic!

New comment by pastureofplenty in "I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers"

pastureofplenty — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:19:38 +0000

Sounds like you'd be better off living in a less remote area.

New comment by pastureofplenty in "Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes"

pastureofplenty — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 01:38:35 +0000

One of the houses across the street from me had its driveway dug up, all the way from the street to inside the garage, for what I first thought was for putting a bathroom or something in the downstairs level. When I walked past the old pipes they took out they were full of roots.

New comment by pastureofplenty in "How to safely escape JSON inside HTML SCRIPT elements"

pastureofplenty — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:02:09 +0000

This reminded me of how in the early 2000s I was taught to enclose the content of SCRIPT tags in HTML comments, e.g.

New comment by pastureofplenty in "AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API"

pastureofplenty — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:34:43 +0000

I'll just keep scraping

New comment by pastureofplenty in "Stop Killing Games"

pastureofplenty — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:53:19 +0000

Stop killing games, and also stop making websites where all you see is a blank page if you don't have JavaScript enabled.

New comment by pastureofplenty in "First methane-powered sea spiders found crawling on the ocean floor"

pastureofplenty — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:21:49 +0000

How do they breathe? That's what I'm wondering.

Photos of secret Caltrain station apartment show $40k in illicit renovations

pastureofplenty — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 05:01:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/06/12/secret-caltrain-apartment-photos-peninsula-station/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44280650

Points: 6

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New comment by pastureofplenty in "Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI"

pastureofplenty — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 17:42:24 +0000

Seems like the opposite could be true though. AI models now have all been trained on real human-generated texts but as more of the web gets flooded with slop the models will be increasingly trained on their own outputs.