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Huge Commercial Cave in the Ozarks for Sale

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Re: Huge Commercial Cave in the Ozarks for Sale

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The caves look cool but the Prepper links on that page make me very wary of the kinds of neighbors you'd have there!

Why? Prepping is a common hobby among the rich: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-...

How does the fact that the preppers are rich argue against being wary of them?

Re: Huge Commercial Cave in the Ozarks for Sale

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? Prepping is a common hobby among the rich: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-...

How does the fact that the preppers are rich argue against being wary of them?

Well there's a general perception of preppers as being paranoid, gun-toting, aggressive hillbillies, and the fact that it's often done by the top 1% shows that it's kind of an inaccurate stereotype.

Re: Huge Commercial Cave in the Ozarks for Sale

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post #2

Genuinly nice and efficient (fast to load and scroll) website design. Of course looking at the HTML code removes the illusion of sleek hand coding, instead a now dated proprietery program seems to have been used. But still better than a slow page involving 100 JS frameworks to display a single article :)

The page weighs in at almost 9 megabytes. How is that efficient and fast to load? Lazy loading images would be a small and needed improvement - but of course it would require the horrible jaava skript to be used, which must be avoided at all costs.

Re: Huge Commercial Cave in the Ozarks for Sale

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post #5

The caves look cool but the Prepper links on that page make me very wary of the kinds of neighbors you'd have there!

You're way out in the middle of the most rugged portion of the ozarks on a 170 acre plot. If you don't want to encounter neighbors you don't need to.

Re: Huge Commercial Cave in the Ozarks for Sale

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post #2

Genuinly nice and efficient (fast to load and scroll) website design. Of course looking at the HTML code removes the illusion of sleek hand coding, instead a now dated proprietery program seems to have been used. But still better than a slow page involving 100 JS frameworks to display a single article :)

Baffled by the ugly=better trend on HN and elsewhere. The linked site scores low in readability and overall UX, this "still better than a ReactJS site" mentality has to die.

Re: Huge Commercial Cave in the Ozarks for Sale

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I wonder if using the caves could be used to hold a small datacenter with minimal cooling costs. (Maybe a geothermal cooling loop?)

Data centers have plenty of options for where they could be built without having to trash a unique natural space.
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