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New comment by pkul in "Poles of Inaccessibility in the San Gabriel Mountains (2015)"

pkul — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:40:33 +0000

Well Kansas has the benefit of being utterly flat and also quite homogenous biome wise. Even though it has no people I' assuming without looking at it that the entire state has been chopped up into square mile sized squares.

New comment by pkul in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

pkul — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:04:54 +0000

I'd love to see your method for this. How do you plan on publishing the information?

New comment by pkul in "The Rebirth of Pennsylvania's Infamous Burning Town"

pkul — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 14:30:36 +0000

Mildly related: In North Philadelphia there are a few blocks known as the Logan Triangle that were abandoned once it was discovered that the topsoil was not stable.

https://hiddencityphila.org/2022/06/in-limbo-logan-triangle-...

New comment by pkul in "Electric bill may be paying for big data centers' energy use"

pkul — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:40:00 +0000

One I'm particularly angry about is the deallocation of resources into keeping rail transport in favor of using trucks on nearly free highways.

New comment by pkul in "Burrito Now, Pay Later"

pkul — Sun, 11 May 2025 21:59:44 +0000

While I agree with your sentiment of the "old world", I'm not sure that I can entirely agree with your views here.

What I do notice and do agree on is the fact that our society has become too financialized, there are too many people working in the financial sector that spend their days studying and trading financial products that oftentimes stem from debt.

But I also can't imagine our society without debt, how will we give the chance for people to attempt to create enterprises and businesses without it? Where would you draw the middle ground here?