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A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge

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Re: A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge

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Post by cyberlurker »

startupsfail wrote: post #12

Cars really should be put underground. Electric cars going in tunnels, not gasoline cars spewing the exhaust from the top of the bridge. … The mansion’s bright white siding is turning dull and black from car exhaust. …

If an electric car is in an accident and the battery catches fire, my understanding is it is very difficult to get under control.

Something I am curious about is what will happen when we have hundreds of electric cars going through the Lincoln Tunnel? Will battery fires be better or worse than gas fires?

Re: A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge

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Post by [deleted] »

jfoutz wrote: post #9

also, interesting they had to design it not to cast a shadow on that house """ But the decision to build an architectural icon didn't end problems - it started new ones. The most bizarre was with the U.S. Navy. In 1998, it refused to let Caltrans onto Yerba Buena Island to finish its engineering work. The Navy's issue was whether the Bridge would overshadow the one-time home of Admiral Chester Nimitz, a hero of World…

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Re: A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge

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Post by karaokeyoga »

CPLX wrote: post #32
jfoutz wrote: post #9

also, interesting they had to design it not to cast a shadow on that house """ But the decision to build an architectural icon didn't end problems - it started new ones. The most bizarre was with the U.S. Navy. In 1998, it refused to let Caltrans onto Yerba Buena Island to finish its engineering work. The Navy's issue was whether the Bridge would overshadow the one-time home of Admiral Chester Nimitz, a hero of World…

San Francisco is the only place I know with this bizarre obsession that things shouldn’t be allowed to cast shadows on other things, as a general rule. It’s just strange. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/SF-supervisors-...

It's a thing in Tokyo as well, leading to some interesting building shapes.

https://thetokyofilesurbandesign.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/ja...

Re: A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge

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Post by cowsandmilk »

startupsfail wrote: post #12

Cars really should be put underground. Electric cars going in tunnels, not gasoline cars spewing the exhaust from the top of the bridge. … The mansion’s bright white siding is turning dull and black from car exhaust. …

Turning black is almost certainly from tire dust, which electric cars also produce.

Re: A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge

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Post by mc32 »

ptudan wrote: post #41
r00fus wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's sad because AirBnB has also similarly shrunk the "suite" class of room that we as a 5 person family need. So we're forced into using AirBnB/VRBO because hotels only offer 2+2 (and most rental sites don't let you even look for 5 person rooms). Ugh.

Just search for 4. You're almost never going to get in trouble for sleeping 2 adults and 3 kids in a hotel room for 4.

Often you can find that they will charge $xx per additional person, if you go over the listed figure (if you choose to declare the overage).

Re: A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge

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Post by fsckboy »

smeej wrote: post #55
virtualwhys wrote: post #13

FTA, $500 per day to rent an historic mansion overlooking the bay (i.e. before the bridge obstruction) I have a family wedding to attend back east this autumn and we're looking at around that (before "service fees" and taxes) to sleep 5 out in the sticks of New Hampshire -- short-term housing has truly gotten out of hand, basically everywhere.

New Hampshirite here: Wherever you're trying to stay, it sounds like you're doing it wrong... Unless you're trying to be in, like, Lancaster during PorcFest or something.

you got me so excited!... till I could find no mention of pork and porcfest in the same sentence

tl;dr Porc refers to porcupines, which is their mascot for libertarians

Re: A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge

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Post by Aeolun »

themodelplumber wrote: post #8

Pretty neat that you can view the whole circumference of the house, and _almost_ read the plaque outside, in Street View: https://goo.gl/maps/8Xc6MUhmAdKQTXbHA It brings to mind good memories of family outings spent in former officer's housing, up in Officers Row at Fort Worden, WA. Hide & seek was a lot of fun.

They really did make that bridge as ugly as possible.

Re: A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge

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Post by mardifoufs »

manquer wrote: post #38
onychomys wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brave blocks ads natively in their mobile browser, you should give them a shot.

Many sites are using adblocker blockers (including this one) don’t know about Brave but μblock origin fails for this site on Firefox mobile on iOS

ublock works on kiwi browser on android for this website.

Re: A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge

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Post by ClimaxGravely »

virtualwhys wrote: post #13

FTA, $500 per day to rent an historic mansion overlooking the bay (i.e. before the bridge obstruction) I have a family wedding to attend back east this autumn and we're looking at around that (before "service fees" and taxes) to sleep 5 out in the sticks of New Hampshire -- short-term housing has truly gotten out of hand, basically everywhere.

Pardon the sidebar. What does FTA stand for? Googling the term doesn't seem to yield results that make sense to me.

Re: A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge

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Post by manquer »

KronisLV wrote: post #43
manquer wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many sites are using adblocker blockers (including this one) don’t know about Brave but μblock origin fails for this site on Firefox mobile on iOS

> don’t know about Brave but μblock origin fails for this site on Firefox mobile on iOS uBlock Origin with Firefox on the desktop seems to work for me, though there probably are a few differences between mobile and desktop.

A lot, Firefox ( and every other browser on iOS) are effectively skins on Safari. Apple will only allow third party browsers that use WebKit on the App Store.
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