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961.
by hx87 10y ago
That wouldn't be a problem if one of those developments is a 20-story parking garage.
962.
by hx87 10y ago
> Are you happy? Well, maybe you can handle it because you're rich. I'm happy, because for me housing is consumption, not an investment.
963.
by hx87 10y ago
Landlords already have an incentive to make their units more energy efficient--they can capture the revenue stream that currently goes to the gas, electric, and oil companies. I'm not sure why more landlords don't do this though.
964.
by hx87 10y ago
If you're taking shingles, chances are you don't have a true flat roof (or just a terribly built one), since those are supposed to continuous roofing in order to withstand water puddles. Back in the day the only material available
965.
by hx87 10y ago
A triple decker that has its stud bays dense packed with cellulose, 3 inches of continuous exterior rock wool insulation, and fiber cement siding is pretty damn fire resistant, even with <6 foot separation. Getting rid of exterior-facing
966.
by hx87 10y ago
> it takes 15 minutes to go 10 miles Said no one who lives in suburban Boston, ever.
967.
by hx87 10y ago
> No, the dream of car culture is that regular people can afford to live in their own detached house on a nice-sized plot of land. Implicit in that dream is a reasonable (<1 hr) commute, which is increasingly out of reach.
968.
by hx87 10y ago
For me, crammed into a bus/train isn't that bad, provided that A/C is run at full blast and the direction of airflow is top->down. This means that winter commutes by public transit in the northeast is absolutely miserable,
969.
by hx87 10y ago
Timewise, cities aren't that much further from the wilderness than suburbs are. There are certainly advantages to living in suburbs, space being the primary one, but time isn't one of them.
970.
by hx87 10y ago
It costs nothing to display shipping costs in the cart, given an address, instead of behind a registration/login wall.
971.
by hx87 10y ago
I do, but I expect the shipping and tax to be displayed upfront, before I enter any personal information (aside from address) or sign in/sign up for an account.
972.
by hx87 10y ago
Now if they'd only make kid's meals smaller versions of their regular meals, instead of being blander, more tasteless versions.
973.
by hx87 10y ago
Prescriptively or descriptively? Because how it's done isn't always right, and what's right isn't always how it's done.
974.
by hx87 10y ago
Pre-operational transsexual people and transgendered people who decide against surgery but live as a gender different from their birth one anyway are two edge cases where genitalia are a poor indicator of what their legal status should be.
975.
by hx87 10y ago
IMHO if you're going to segregate prison populations in order to reduce violence, segregate prisoners by aggressiveness and violent tendencies, not by sex. Putting dominant, aggressive men together with passive men just because of thei
976.
by hx87 10y ago
It functions at least as well as it did 50 years ago.
977.
by hx87 10y ago
Genetic tests are unnecessary for emergency responders, as physiological sex is what matters to them, and if physiological sex is easily verified, then they can verify it on the spot.
978.
by hx87 10y ago
It fails to account for edge cases, and much like software engineering, in law edge cases are 90% of the work.
979.
by hx87 10y ago
Humans are sexually multimorphic, although a two-component principal component analysis takes care of most of the variance.
980.
by hx87 10y ago
Agreed for the most part, but if sex is something that can be verified, why would having sex on your ID be all that useful to emergency responders and doctors? Can't they...verify it?
981.
by hx87 10y ago
Apartment units addresses will probably be based on the 3x3 square the most closely matches its outline, so door location will be irrelevant. Vertical stacks can be simply dealt with by assuming a standard 3 or 4 meter story, so unless you
982.
by hx87 10y ago
> Will we really be any less wrong than our ancestors? Absolutely. 1966 was terrible in many ways compared to today, but it was a much better world to live in than 1916.
983.
by hx87 10y ago
Your legal sex (gender is a much more appropriate term) is whatever your legal documents say you are, regardless of whatever sexual indicators (anatomical and genetic) you have.
984.
by hx87 10y ago
In terms of regulation, wouldn't it make more economic and comfort sense to enable sleeper-only flights where everyone lies down, ala Japanese capsule hotels? Tight spaces are much more comfortable when I'm lying down than when I&
985.
by hx87 10y ago
Only if speed actually pays off. With fuel as expensive as it is (and if it's too cheap, just tax it some more), that won't necessarily be the case. And if it is, then getting people to fly less on economy flights is a better and
986.
by hx87 10y ago
The government equivalent would be loss of citizenship or residency rights (exile), not jail or death.
987.
by hx87 10y ago
No need to give more raises--just make them independent of promotion. If you get promoted and do an satisfactory job in your new role, /then/ you get a raise. Otherwise you go back to your old role with no change in compensation.
988.
by hx87 10y ago
Voice commands on car entertainment systems was available all the way back in 2008, albeit in a $120k car (Lexus LS600h L).
989.
by hx87 10y ago
Hmm...Why are there no privately funded residency slots?
990.
by hx87 10y ago
Most of these short-term life extending efforts basically amounts to putting people on chemical and mechanical life support, which isn't going to be a source of significant improvements in life quality.

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