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Concrete will be better for both long term and safety, especially when major cities in US are in direct contact with hurricanes/tornadoes. P.S. no clue why my

Concrete will be better for both long term and safety, especially when major cities in US are in direct contact with hurricanes/tornadoes. P.S. no clue why my previous comment was deleted.. is HN run by house developer/contractors that the use of anything than wood will threaten their profit!? It’s no brainer to use something stronger, better, safer, and definitely environmentally friendly cutting trees for wood, it’s hypocritical to say “save a tree” when printing an email but you don’t mind to destroy a whole forest to build houses or even to make toilet papers.. it would make sense to have these houses built primarily using wood in the 50s where everything was simpler and definitely not as costly, but paying ~$800k for a paper house that will literally fly away in the next tornado, is a state-sponsored scam.

gus_massa 3y ago
Your previous comment is not deleted, it's only marked as [dead] and hidden. Anyone can see it if they go to their profile[1] and enable "showdead". I think your comment got too many flags and downvotes, and it got automatically killed by the system. You can email the mods to get an official explanation. I guess people flagged/downvoted it for the tone A similar comment is still alive https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37195133 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37195133 . The replies say that apparently wood is better than concrete for earthquakes (but I'm not sure[2]). [1] Your profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tamimio https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tamimio [2] Disclaimer: Happy from my concrete house in a non-seismic non-hurricane zone.