Fortunately we have made the multi-trillion-dollar tech industry highly resilient to earthquakes by splitting it pretty evenly across a subduction fault in Cascadia and a transverse fault system in California.
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Here's the quake to worry about for true hipsters: https://idlewords.com/2015/07/confronting_new_madrid.htm …
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I'm sure the great minds of Hacker News are already half way to working out a solution
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But what about- ONCE AND FOR ALL
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This kind of thing seems to exist to a peculiar extent at multiple levels of the world... See Fig 2 of http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Richerson/AgOrigins_2_12_01.pdf ….
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It seems natural to me that stuff on timescales much longer than a human life is hard for us to see, particularly in the New World, where we haven't been recording things for very long. It seems that multidecade long megadroughts in the American west are a thing, for example.
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