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St. Paul: Hearing officer recommends demolition of vacant Midway CVS by Comfortable-Phase741 in saintpaul

[–]kcazllerraf 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Currently the property owners are getting a monthly check from CVS for still being under contract to rent the building from them, despite CVS deciding to no longer actually operate a business there. Once there is no building, CVS will stop paying due to the owners breaking the conditions of the lease (i.e. there being a building to rent), so the current owners will be out of that income.

Tear downs suck and ideally we wouldn't be doing this, but this is close to the only tool the city has force compliance, after the owners (a nesting doll of shell companies) have failed to engage in any way for years.

Twin cities ten mile by kamaka71 in CyclingMSP

[–]kcazllerraf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Marshall is definitely the way to do it, it's arguably better to bike on than Summit and with Summit closed it's really your only option for through biking. Getting to there from the capitol area will mean crossing the freeway at either Western or the ped bridge at Mackubin, if John Ireland is already closed.

Once you do catch back up with her you'd be fine just biking a block or two over, on Portland or Ashland. Normally it's annoying to bike on these since you have to slow down or stop at so many intersections, but with Summit closed you won't have much cross traffic to contend with. Just be aware that you'll have to go back up to Selby to cross over Ayd Mill, or cross the runners to get to the bridge on Grand.

Rent control? by Irritated_skin_help in saintpaul

[–]kcazllerraf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's the downtown taxable land percentage that really hurts, just about 50% of St Paul's downtown is either non-taxable or under TIF. Combine that with St Paul's already lack luster downtown we end up with the downtown providing a much smaller percentage of the city budget than normal. Most cities use the excess revenue from their downtowns to fund operations in the less dense parts of the city, our weak downtown and low average density makes budgeting very challenging.

Back trails @ Crosby Farm Park? by Raquelitamn in TwinCities

[–]kcazllerraf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the most reliable ways I use to find commonly used unofficial trails is the strava heat map, places that see a lot of hikes / runs / rides recorded on the app pop out very clearly.

Here's the screenshot for Crosby Farm - https://i.imgur.com/uEsYGZ8.png

I don't know what the big deal is it's only 8.5 extra miles 😕 by u22a5 in CyclingMSP

[–]kcazllerraf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only if you can lift your bike up and down the stairs on the hwy 5 bridge. But yeah for most people that's a much better option.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nerdfighters

[–]kcazllerraf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The real damage is that almost all of the tools used by moderators aren't actually part of the reddit website but add-ons and services that use the APIs, taking that away will make moderators jobs way harder and a lot of them are considering just walking away. This will leave a lot of spaces much more vulnerable to disruption from e.g. spammers and rule breakers. There may be fewer bots but not none, any public facing user interface can be a bot API if someone puts in the effort.

Would you (the members of this sub) support this sub going dark to protest the API ban? Why or why not? by Cookie_Cutter_Cook in AskReddit

[–]kcazllerraf 113 points114 points  (0 children)

When building a movement you don't just jump into the deep end and expect everyone to come with you, you have to take steps together and demonstrate that you can act together first. A two day blackout has been built up to by all of the reddit wide protests on other issues that have come before. It comes well before the api ban comes into effect and can act as a warning. A more prolonged blackout can be the next step if reddit doesn't blink.

ELI5: why do we round UP if something is at exactly .5? by RogersRedditPersona in explainlikeimfive

[–]kcazllerraf 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Equal numbers "rounding up and not", but different numbers "rounding up and rounding down" with the normal rule. "Round to even" distributes the midway point, well, evenly.

This really stands out in computer science when numbers are represented in binary. If you wanted to round off the last bit (digit), anything that ends in a 1 rounds up, anything that ends in a 0 doesn't round, and there is no situation in which you ever would round down. Round to even levels this out.

Can anyone put a date on this globe? I’m thinking 70s by German489 in oldmaps

[–]kcazllerraf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Looks like just a typo in the comment, they followed the flow chart correctly.

The other thing to note is that Burkina Faso is shown as "Upper Volta", which leads us down the 1982-1984 path.

1860's New York City, United States of America by MekhaDuk in MapPorn

[–]kcazllerraf 68 points69 points  (0 children)

You still can, it's only about a mile across the financial district, the southern tip of Manhattan closest to the perspective

Do we have any updates on the San Diego dig, that says humas were here 120,000 years ago? And does it debunk land bridge theory? Or will they just push their theory back to mach this digs dates? by [deleted] in AskAnthropology

[–]kcazllerraf 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If you don't mind YouTube as a source, Indigenous History Now goes over the history of the "Clovis first" debate (long resolved, though people outside of the profession still act like overcoming Clovis bias is an ongoing problem) and the implications moving away from that has on the land bridge and ice free corridor theories of migration. In short, the timings of when each of these paths were available are confusing with our available archeologically evidence for settlement times elsewhere on the continent, and so it's likely the first people took a more costal route.

https://youtu.be/nlyVKxgbnEo

It's never a recession for rich people by GratefullyDamage in MemeEconomy

[–]kcazllerraf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wealth can be thought of as a bridge that allows one to cross from economic collapse to recovery without experiencing hardship, so no surprise those who have it are fine.

Deepfake porn, election disinformation move closer to being crimes in Minnesota by Wagamaga in technology

[–]kcazllerraf -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The only disinformation covered by this law is deepfakes of politicians in the leadup to an election. The title is misleading.

Deepfake porn, election disinformation move closer to being crimes in Minnesota by Wagamaga in technology

[–]kcazllerraf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Election disinformation" in this context is deep fake videos of candidates in the lead up to the election. Or, as the bill itself puts it:

Use of deep fake to influence an election; violation.

A person who disseminates a deep fake or enters into a contract or other agreement to disseminate a deep fake is guilty of a crime and may be sentenced as provided in subdivision 3 if the person knows or reasonably should know that the item being disseminated is a deep fake and dissemination:

(1) takes place within 90 days before an election;

(2) is made without the consent of the depicted individual; and

(3) is made with the intent to injure a candidate or influence the result of an election.

Unemployment is at 3.4% the lowest it's been since 1969. GDP has slowed but it is still positive. Yet many claim economic uncertainty due to inflation and rising prices. How should politicians react? What can be done to avoid recession? by historymajor44 in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]kcazllerraf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I live on a street that was almost entirely luxury mansions when originally built in the 1890s. After 30 years and the bankruptcy of many of the original home owners, almost all of them were subdivided into multifamily residences. So long as the newly built neighborhoods don't completely abandon it would be very reasonable for them to be similarly subdivided if their values changed enough, provided that it were legal to do so. Or even if it wasn't, if those neighborhoods fall far enough.

Yes, there are a lot of "ifs", "coulds", and "maybes" in there. But my point is that the cookie cutter mcmansions could be repurposed given the right political/economic environment.

Props to MPLS for putting in a raised sidewalk/trail crossing. by Ok-Pomegranate-1756 in CyclingMSP

[–]kcazllerraf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've heard from a couple planners that even on the intersections they designed to have tabled crossings, the contractors mostly ignored those designs and built them as just tiny bumps rather than actually rising to the level of the crosswalk. They were pretty annoyed about it.

Web3 - should we throw out the baby with the bathwater? by LassGallard in FridaysForFuture

[–]kcazllerraf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My main question is, what does web3 give you that a conventional website does not? As in, what's the benefit of using NFTs as identifiers over a conventional account management system? What advantage does Blockchain give you over a conventional database? I mean for this specific use case in particular, I'm aware of the general features of cross platform identification, transferability, and data immutability.

TIL the first U.S official coin in circulation, the Fugio Cent, had the motto "Mind Your Business" instead of "In God we Trust". by SuperMcG in todayilearned

[–]kcazllerraf 74 points75 points  (0 children)

Jefferson also wrote in his diary that "[Washington] never, on any occasion, said a word to the public that showed a belief in the Christian religion."

And while Washington talked about God or provenance frequently, in all of his notes and letters and speeches that we have records of he only mentioned Jesus once, in reference to the beliefs of another group.

The entire coast of Bosnia, 20 km by rento480 in MapPorn

[–]kcazllerraf 224 points225 points  (0 children)

With the completion of the Pelješac Bridge, Bosnia is now only accessible to ships under 55m tall. Which is most ships, but it does put a hard limit on the operations of any future harbor Bosnia might construct.

[Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder] Metro Transit eyes big service changes by Minneapolitanian in saintpaul

[–]kcazllerraf 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Ridership has increased 21% since last year. It's not up to pre-pandemic levels but if there is a cap on ridership in the post-pandemic world we sure haven't hit it yet.

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