CapitalistCartr

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by CapitalistCartr 3y ago
Society would be better served, but the whole system is stacked against it. Zoning, banking, and buyers. When a developer builds a luxury single-family suburban development, they make good money for less complexity, less risk. Marketing is
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Here in Florida they're not "seen in large numbers", they're dwarfed by the ordinary suburban single-family dwellings, both already built, and new developments going up like wildfire. Every other form of housing combined
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"Tiny homes reduce housing density and effectively necessitate car usage . . . " Compared to what? Most of the USA, and ESPECIALLY Texas, is full of single-family homes at 4-7 per acre. Tiny homes can easily be 20-24 per acre. Zon
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So 2-1/2 acres plus roads, instead of 5 acres, and you address how long, which OP didn't mention, in no way disputing him. Not a basis for leading with "incredibly false."
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I volunteer at the Florida Railroad Museum. We have a couple speeders.
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In the railroading business, the little cars that run on the tracks are called speeders.
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Ha! Nine women can have that baby in one month; management says so.
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Western Europe, EU/NATO countries, have the wealth and technology to lead the World without USA help.
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Also using AI (ChatGPT) to write briefs, appeals, etc. Just edit. Saves a lot of time, which reduces the number of paralegals needed. This ship has already sailed. But it does not eliminate the need for a well-trained person to edit and r
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Make a canister out of 10mm 316 stainless, and it will outlast time itself. Put it in an Alpine glacier; they're not long for this World.
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So it has a payback period of over 3 decades. Lots of talk of all the resources spent building it, only the carbon savings of usage. I wonder how long the carbon payback is. In an era of rapidly improving renewables, this doesn't seem
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Sixty feet in dia. x 9 feet thick is about 950 yards.
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I still have my Mom's sewing machine she bought circa 1958; it still works.
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The Libertarian view is that children are property, in that the gov't. should not interfere in child-rearing.
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For passive, air-cooled copper, it would take a cross-section of 22 sq. inches (142 sq. cm) to carry that at 75°C. Must be impressive cooling.
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Yes, they are, but most single family homes here have either a 150 or 200 amp main. Most families rarely exceed 120 amps, so adding 20-35 amps of intermittent load isn't a problem. On the other hand, tankless electrics often cause a se
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by CapitalistCartr 3y ago
"I do, however, question the use of the label "ethnic background" because everyone is of some ethnic group." That's why he wrote "ethnic background X". The X is a relevant part of the quote.
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If you're in USA or Canada, your house is probably over-wired and can handle some extra load. Plugging into the electric dryer outlet is good for 5760 continuous watts. The stove outlet is 9600 continuous watts. An electrician could ea
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Martyrdom is a "true act of bravery" that can benefit us all. Socrates Joan of Arc John Brown Maximilian Kolbe Folke Bernadotte Malcolm X Martin Luther King Jr. Each made the World a better place; each placed their work above th
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I had estimated 10^11.
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They could put the capacity of every 3.5" floppy ever made in a suitcase full of microSD cards.
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"It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. Yo
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People buy Teslas because they like them. Although chargers are necessary, they aren't sufficient. Walmart has had 25 years to outcompete Amazon, and is still clueless. Phone makers have had 15 years to beat Apple, and the competition
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My mom grew up in Appalachia, in the same time as Johnny Cash, dirt farmers in a "holler". No indoor electric, plumbing, or phone. Wood stove cooking and heat. A spring house for water. Baths every Saturday night. Their livelihood
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More than one in five young Americans doesn't know when WWI & WWII were, what countries were on which side, why they started, or what's imortant about them. But these kids will get better, same as we did. This headline isn&#x2
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Have an exit plan? Just in case . . .
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The job absolutely can be done from India. The location isn't the question; the right person is, and the sort of people who say that are the sort who suck at hiring, and don't care. "Hire cheap labor."
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We'll need a welfare program for serial killers, and have to find new (menial) jobs for apprentices.
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Typically in the USA, there's 3-4 houses per transformer, but depending on the layout of houses, it can be from 1-6. Still a lot less than a big apt. complex. I know X-10 can pass up and down through a shared transformer. Luckily, the
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It's still odd what the new AI models are good at, or not. Strangely to me, AI still struggles with hands. Faces are mostly good, and all sorts of odd details, such as musculature, are usually decent, but hand, of all things, seem to b

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