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Ok so the UI or procedures sucked but what's really aggravating as a tax payer, at least to me, is the lack of foresight and proper funding where it matters. Th

by mshook 7y ago

Ok so the UI or procedures sucked but what's really aggravating as a tax payer, at least to me, is the lack of foresight and proper funding where it matters. Though to be honest it's not different from most work environments... Fire is not something new for historical monuments. I heard on the radio right after the collapse an architect saying at least half of fires starting on historical monuments happen during renovations. And quickly searching shows an insurance company saying it could be close to 3/4 of them (https://www.cahiers-techniques-batiment.fr/article/notre-dame-les-travaux-de-renovation-sont-la-cause-de-trois-quart-des-incendies-des-batiments-historiques-claude-delahaye-directeur-de-la-construction-chez-verspieren.40370 https://www.cahiers-techniques-batiment.fr/article/notre-dam...). Sure that wouldn't have fixed everything but now instead of adding a couple of dozens or hundred millions to fund the fire warning system, we're now most likely looking at a cost of multiple billions...

WalterBright 7y ago
> Fire is not something new for historical monuments. I worry about the great libraries being consumed by fire. I do not understand why there isn't a larger effort to digitize them.
- manwe150 7y ago
  Isn’t part of the problem here copyright, so Congress would need to make it legal? I thought that’s what killed the Google Books effort anyways. That said, I thought the Internet Archive is still engaged in an ambitious project to scan many books (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning).
  - WalterBright 7y ago
    Things like the Vatican Library, which are full of old manuscripts that are centuries out of copyright and nobody even really knows what's all there.
hn_throwaway_99 7y ago
> Sure that wouldn't have fixed everything but now instead of adding a couple of dozens or hundred millions to fund the fire warning system, we're now most likely looking at a cost of multiple billions... But was lack of funds really the root cause of the problem? If anything, the overcomplicated nature of the fire warning system seemed to have all the hallmarks of having too much money thrown at it and too many "cooks in the kitchen" designing it.

by mshook 7y ago

WalterBright 7y ago

> Fire is not something new for historical monuments. I worry about the great libraries being consumed by fire. I do not understand why there isn't a larger effort to digitize them.

manwe150 7y ago
Isn’t part of the problem here copyright, so Congress would need to make it legal? I thought that’s what killed the Google Books effort anyways. That said, I thought the Internet Archive is still engaged in an ambitious project to scan many books (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning).
- WalterBright 7y ago
  Things like the Vatican Library, which are full of old manuscripts that are centuries out of copyright and nobody even really knows what's all there.

hn_throwaway_99 7y ago

> Sure that wouldn't have fixed everything but now instead of adding a couple of dozens or hundred millions to fund the fire warning system, we're now most likely looking at a cost of multiple billions... But was lack of funds really the root cause of the problem? If anything, the overcomplicated nature of the fire warning system seemed to have all the hallmarks of having too much money thrown at it and too many "cooks in the kitchen" designing it.