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> If you can buy the building cheap enough, conventional wisdom can be thrown out the window. Conventional wisdom is that there won't be too many windows avail
by elevatedastalt 2y ago
> If you can buy the building cheap enough, conventional wisdom can be thrown out the window.
Conventional wisdom is that there won't be too many windows available to throw conventional wisdom out of :-)
- rgblambda 2y agoEspecially if the windows don't open.
- chii 2y agoThis is where you unconventionally put an LCD screen where a window should be, and put in HVAC systems to blow fresh air.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoYou jest, but if someone makes a decent enough full-spectrum daylight simulator, and then get a stamp of approval from FDA (or whichever the authority is relevant here), they stand to make a lot of money by enabling residential use of windowless spaces. (Cue arguments on how dystopian this is. But hey, if the daylight simulator was to-spec, it wouldn't be the worst of things.)
- askl 2y agoThere was Munger Hall [1] but they didn't actually build it thankfully. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munger_Hall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munger_Hall
- underlipton 2y agoThey already have fake skylights that simulate Rayleigh scattering, but the main issue of not having window access is fire safety.