Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations

Post by dangrossman » Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 10:38 PM UTC

irrational wrote: post #207

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G/O media is particularly terrible with illustrations. They once had an article abut the ISS with a picture of Mir as an illustration. I think they have a contract with a stock image provider, no photographer, and no one to seek out and license original pictures. Writer are probably asked to select an illustration in their stock image library. I think it is a disgrace to journalism. The front picture is, with the tit…

What is G/O media?

Post by lotsofpulp » Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 10:40 PM UTC

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That's neat, but isn't this whole thing about stacking restrictions on empty containers? My understanding of what the Flexport CEO said in their twitter thread was that the best example of the problem is the haulage company that's keeping its driver count * 3 empty containers around on-chassis (which I think means on wheels), just sitting in their parking lot, because they have nowhere to put their empties, because t…

If they are getting paid per delivery, it seems they could find a quarry or an unused airstrip to dump empties on for a small price. When Tesla needs space urgently, they put up a tent. When the military needs to start a war they manage somehow to unload their tanks. Come on, USA, we still know how to do stuff...

Post by jfk13 » Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 10:49 PM UTC

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Unless it's a black neighborhood, in which case it's cheap enough to bring in big polluters? A default assumption that industrial processes are safe unless specifically regulated to say they're dangerous sounds like a shell game. The industry will chge between dangerous pollutants fast enough to be one step ahead of regulators, or pay regulators off to allow their pollutants. It's right to assume all industrial work…

i work in a light industrial area...there is a place next door that burns the crap off of commercial restaurant pans and recoats them with teflon. their smokestack blew over last year, and now i get headaches all the time since they haven't bothered to rebuild it. even in san francisco, purported leftie paradise - there really isn't anything i can do about it. assume that _every_ shop is cutting corners

Post by throwaway984393 » Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 10:56 PM UTC

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I think you might be missing the point, which is that the entire scenario should not be happening. If people are getting priced out of their houses, or people are building high-rises that inconvenience people, that needs to be solved, not ignored "because GDP". Making people's lives worse or uprooting them in service of general economic gain isn't a good strategy. I mean, we certainly have used that rationale in the…

I think you are missing the point. When you say "priced out of their home" what you actually mean is that they have become so fabulously wealthy that they can no longer "afford" a 1% tax on that massive wealth. And even that is just a made up fabricated story, because nearly everywhere has abatement programs to delay taxes or decrease taxes for those who can't afford to pay their property taxes. Further, they unjustl…

Post by lxgr » Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 10:57 PM UTC

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How is bufferbloat related to the situation at hand?

The metaphor is that a container is data. “Bufferbloat is the undesirable latency that comes from a router or other network equipment buffering too much data. It is a huge drag on Internet performance created, ironically, by previous attempts to make it work better. The one-sentence summary is ‘Bloated buffers lead to network-crippling latency spikes.’”. Increasing buffer sizes (increasing the number of containers st…