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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
#22I wonder if using the caves could be used to hold a small datacenter with minimal cooling costs. (Maybe a geothermal cooling loop?)
There's some precedent for this. Kansas City, MO has a large network of man-made caves[1]. I remember back in the '90s at least one ISP (Tyrell?) had a data center there. A quick search shows that some companies still host there[2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubTropolis
[2] https://stckc.com/Re: Huge Commercial Cave in the Ozarks for Sale
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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#24The caves look cool but the Prepper links on that page make me very wary of the kinds of neighbors you'd have there!
The rest of that arkhaven.org site makes me think that highlighting the cave listing is a bit of lede-burying.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
<$1M for 186 acres plus a massive cave with tons of commercial infrastructure within it? No, it's almost surely over a million, especially if a good chunk of that 186 acres is farmable.
Here's a lead on it: http://marionrecord.com/direct/this_man_cave_is_not_metaphor... Here we go, recently listed at $400,000: http://www.mossyoakproperties.com/land/23324 So unless a lot of work was put into it, probably still around there. The website is still up: http://www.hurricanerivercaverns.com/
A lot of work has been put into it. The owners facebook page shows 18 months of he and his family rebuilding stairs, walkways, improving the exterior, re-doing lights, etc.
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#26Genuinly 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.
Elaborate on the "low in readability and overall UX". It loaded fast, and didn't use a cpu intensive client side animation that doesn't add to readability. It's not a paragon of design, but it was refreshing to have a single page of text that didn't download a few mbs in libraries and css, have constant tracking requests, or have animations or visualization that didn't add to my understanding of the content.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Elaborate on the "low in readability and overall UX". It loaded fast, and didn't use a cpu intensive client side animation that doesn't add to readability. It's not a paragon of design, but it was refreshing to have a single page of text that didn't download a few mbs in libraries and css, have constant tracking requests, or have animations or visualization that didn't add to my understanding of the content.
> Elaborate...
- Arbitrarily changing text effects/color/padding.
- Not responsive. On my laptop, I have to scroll left/right to see all pics
- Nav is below the fold, I have to scroll down to see it.
- Broken text hover effects
Sure, it doesn't track you or download 100 js files, but you can't score a site based on what it doesn't have.
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#28If you're Lex Luther, this would be ideal for your HQ2.
Would suit a range of supervillains or brooding hero's, really.
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#29As a roadside attraction, it's not likely to be worth the trouble as a business Someone rich will buy this as a vacation retreat / emergency shelter.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Elaborate on the "low in readability and overall UX". It loaded fast, and didn't use a cpu intensive client side animation that doesn't add to readability. It's not a paragon of design, but it was refreshing to have a single page of text that didn't download a few mbs in libraries and css, have constant tracking requests, or have animations or visualization that didn't add to my understanding of the content.
> Elaborate... - Arbitrarily changing text effects/color/padding. - Not responsive. On my laptop, I have to scroll left/right to see all pics - Nav is below the fold, I have to scroll down to see it. - Broken text hover effects Sure, it doesn't track you or download 100 js files, but you can't score a site based on what it doesn't have.
> it doesn't track you or download 100 js files, but you can't score a site based on what it doesn't have.
Well judging by the positive reaction by a non-negligible number of people, the lack of javascript bloat may be something valued by many on this site.