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by dahfizz 4y ago
Does it scale down? I can see two floors of an office building making a (very expensive) apartment but what about a cheap 1 bedroom? In "office mode", the office unit would be < 50% office, with most of the floor plan as bathro
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I'm sure there are buildings which are built to both codes. In the general case, there is significant costs in time and money to convert an office to a legal apartment unit.
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You can't just rent out an office as an apartment. There are large costs associated with retrofitting the office space to be up to code for a residential unit. These retrofits would also likely lower the properties value as an office s
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Subsidies.... to the landlords who own the buildings? Or are you saying this will be owned and operated by the government?
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> Is there a specific song/album/statement he made that shows support for the LGBT community? The comment you replied to has a YouTube link to a 2005 interview where Kanye says on national TV to stop discriminating against gay
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No argument there. They were definitely not going after the "luxury" market segment (and still don't)
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It's interesting Europe is willing to spend billions of tax dollars on human rights like food, housing, medical care, and all sorts of social programs. But not electricity. Any power plant not profitable will be shut down. No level of
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by dahfizz 4y ago
Wouldn't you know it, the mercedes door handles from 1985 used slotted holes[1]. As much as you like them, Mercedes cannot transcend the technical abilities of the time. [1] https://www.ebay.com/itm/174693656016
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by dahfizz 4y ago
Interesting how quickly we moved from "Pot should be legalized" to "smoking in other people's face is a universal right". Smoking anything should be illegal in public. We already have cigar bars, and I know places l
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VC money is drying up, and many of these startups are going to fail because they don't have any sort of foundation as a business. They don't have a product people are willing to pay for.
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Covid assistance also increased unemployment benefits and increased how long you could claim unemployment.
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The emphasis on "persistent union membership" makes me skeptical. If they are excluding anyone who spent time unemployed, or switched industry (to one not unionized), that massively skews the data. The study could just as easily p
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by dahfizz 4y ago
There's really no benefit to lithium batteries in a car. They perform much worse in the cold, and they are more expensive. You don't cycle your car battery 100-0-100 so the fact that the useable capacity of lead batteries is lower
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by dahfizz 4y ago
TLDR: > ... rich countries would contribute between 1.6% (in the best case) and 11% (in the worst case) of ocean plastics through shipping waste overseas. So, even in the most generous case, 89% of plastic waste comes domestically from A
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by dahfizz 4y ago
95% efficient gas furnaces are the norm for newer houses[1]. Getting electricity out of gas is fundamentally harder than getting heat out of it. [1] https://iwae.com/resources/articles/95-afue-gas-furnace-work...
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by dahfizz 4y ago
"high efficiency" turbines are not all that efficient. Burning gas releases 100% of the available energy as heat. Converting that gas to electricity is << 50% efficient. You also lose ~5% just transmitting the electricity to
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by dahfizz 4y ago
A top comment on that video puts it into perspective well. That whole setup can store the energy of a single AA battery. He would be so much better off just charging a cheap battery. All the money wasted on pumps, wood, barrel, pipes....
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by dahfizz 4y ago
That strikes me as genuinely insane. I don't understand why anyone would care what journalists have to say anymore.
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The internet was very different 30 years ago. What works for a niche, small community often does not scale.
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> Why there are no water storages on the roof. Quick math - 100 gallons of water 15 meters up off the ground has enough potential energy to run a microwave for 30 seconds. Gravitational storage is pathetically weak. It only makes sense o
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There's a big difference between studying the API and not having an API . It's ridiculous that you have to call an unexported symbol for something as basic and fast locking.
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> However, as I dug into Apple’s libraries and kernel, I noticed that some spin locks were indeed available, and they did the spinning in kernel-space where they could make a more informed choice with regards to load and scheduling. Thos
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This may be a factor for brand new devs, but everyone who uses vim already has it setup, by definition. One time setup cost is a small factor in choosing an editor. Stability and ubiquity are more important IMO.
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> Those are by far the most important features for a text editor to have To you, maybe. The most important features of an editor for me, and for many people, is that it is stable, dependable, and ubiquitous. There is no way I am going to
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It becomes a question of negligence / due diligence. If a bank has zero physical security measures and leaves the money out in the open, that is negligent. But, even if a bank has all the state of the art, "best practices" ph
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I think it's strange HN sees cyber crime in the opposite way as real crime. It's not my fault if my house gets broken in. I have no obligation to meticulously lock all my doors and windows when I leave. But if I get hacked, it&#x2
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by dahfizz 4y ago
The easy solution is a single, general deduction. Everyone's first $25k or so is tax free. Everyone pays 10% on every subsequent dollar. Mathematically, this is equivalent to a small UBI.
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Yeah, I wish taxes were only 10% of my income as well
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Yeah, that's why I said > Just use parentheses Not sure what that has to do with memory usage..?
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I think you have the causality backwards. In both cases, the publishers are trying to maximize profit. A movie full of violence won't sell as well in Germany. It isn't want Germans want to go see. Vice versa for Americans and sex.

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