CydeWeys

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by CydeWeys 3y ago
It's not cost prohibitive, it's a technique that is widely used in US cities too. The cost of building the foundation is still small relative to the cost of acquiring the land and building the rest of the building.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
The line is defined by profitability. And it's simply not profitable to do most of these conversions, as the conversions are extensive and costly and still don't yield units that are as good as purpose-built residential apartment
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That knowledge is severely out of date, then. You don't need bedrock to build skyscrapers, and indeed the tallest skyscraper in the world, the Burj Khalifa, is built on top of sand with no connection to bedrock whatsoever. You just n
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
> posit circumstances in which it WOULD make more sense to convert. If office buildings had been built with conversion in mind in the first place. This would require smaller floorplates, more utility stacks, etc., and they wouldn't
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
That lifestyle will never go away, but it has no place to be required in big cities that would instead benefit from much more housing in total.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
> With the impending single zoned commercial building crash, I was hoping we could get a massive push at all levels (federal, state, local) to provide incentives for converting these to mixed zone properties. You had me up until this poi
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Ah yes, real estate prices are famously low in the most upzoned parts of the country (Manhattan). If you can build a 100 floor skyscraper on a piece of land, that land is insanely valuable!
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Yeah. I ended up with an eight letter @gmail.com because I dithered, but if I'd signed up by any means necessary when I'd first heard of it, I would've gotten a four letter one.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
It depends a lot on the value of your property too as that's where the high taxes in Texas are. So it's a two-dimensional comparison.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Oh man that's hilarious. Your tour group hornswoggled you into being the token Westerner, and you paid for the privilege!
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Texas has high property taxes. It's actually not a low tax state as measured by overall tax burden. Texas is also very proud of its massive, well-resourced public schools (and their football teams!), and pours a lot of tax revenue into
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
I knew what you meant, and I disagree. I don't think the word "bard" is out there in the sense of being a word people are exposed to.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
You're using an overly strict definition of the word and over-interpreting it to boot. Consider this definition: > something containing or consisting of two matching or corresponding parts.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
> it's something that I ask questions of because I don't know the answer I think you're reading too much into what a twin is. It's not a copy! Real-life twins ask each other questions all the time, because just becaus
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
I don't think it's that out there. You'd have to be quite uninformed to have never heard of it. It's no verderer or reeve (medieval positions that most people actually will not have heard of).
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
> It’s also associated to the Gemini killer and Joseph Testa and Anthony Senter who were famous as the mafia’s Gemini twins hitmen. I've never heard of any of these people and I doubt most others have either. Maybe you have to be a
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
I mean it makes sense to me. The AI is your digital assistant. It's a relationship between two minds, man and machine.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Freedom of speech is not freedom of consequences. You can't say whatever assholish thing you want and then claim freedom of speech as a shield when it inevitably pisses people off. This is not a freedom of speech issue, it's a &qu
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
So? Tesla is currently earning about 50% more profit than GM is, surely it should correspondingly be valued higher?
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
> I legit didn't realize that .io was a TLD for a country/state. All two-letter TLDs are. Now that you know the pattern, you'll be able to identify all the other ccTLDs as well.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
The licensing requirements for being a truck driver just aren't that onerous. It's way way harder to become a doctor, lawyer, hell, even hairdresser in many states.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Tesla clearly wasn't overvalued when it was only worth $55B though, at least not now with the benefit of hindsight.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
And fireproof walls between units. It takes a long time for a fire to penetrate two layers of drywall.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Oh I wouldn't put it past Apple to take away your blue bubbles (or whichever one is the "good" one) if you do install non-Apple, non-Apple-app-store software on your phone.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
This sentiment seems out of place on a site dedicated to startups. Targeted advertising is often an important part of growing a startup and acquiring new customers. You can't just ignore advertising if you want to create a billion do
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
My experience with RTO at Google is that the long-term Googlers are the ones who really love the old office experience and bemoan the loss of it since the pandemic, whereas it's the newer people that complain about having to come in an
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
The vast majority of biology majors do not end up becoming doctors. If you include all of healthcare then you're getting closer, but still not a majority.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
CS grads are the most likely to work in their field post-graduation. It's the other majors bringing STEM down, like biology.
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I know what rocket fuel mixed with coffee tastes like ... you can guess how that reference point was acquired.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
To make the person who wronged you feel extra guilty and disgraced in the eyes of the community.

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