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by hx87 10y ago
If you put enough mineral wood in the walls, floors, and ceilings, install triple-pane casement windows (seriously, sash windows are shit), and mount all the plasterboard on stand-offs instead of directly on surfaces, sound shouldn't e
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by hx87 10y ago
The great thing about Houston from a market urbanist perspective isn't that it's particularly dense or walkable, but that it's dirt cheap for the amenities it does offer.
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by hx87 10y ago
Insulation solves all of those problems. Mineral wood between the studs and (especially) the floor and ceiling joists goes a long way.
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by hx87 10y ago
Seoul and Tokyo scale pretty well.
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by hx87 10y ago
2x 35" screens for everyone!
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by hx87 10y ago
How loud do people turn their headphones at work?
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by hx87 10y ago
It's not headphones, it's loudness. Just don't crank the volume on your headphones and you'll be fine.
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by hx87 10y ago
Including the period?
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by hx87 10y ago
CTIS. Not enough air? Pump some air.
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by hx87 10y ago
I wished every Texas contractor who builds great rooms with 20 foot ceilings but still puts HVAC ducts in hot unconditioned attics did this.
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by hx87 10y ago
Please elaborate or hold your peace.
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by hx87 10y ago
Here's one paper. By southern African I do mean Khoisan as well as related peoples. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2953791/
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by hx87 10y ago
> But people are ignorant of Africa in general. Not population geneticists. Africa in those cases == sub-Saharan African people, not just Bantu.
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by hx87 10y ago
My body doesn't take much resources and effort to maintain, and in any case there is no alternative. My car on the other hand, consumes a significant portion of my resources, which constrains my freedom to spend its portion of my incom
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by hx87 10y ago
Then maybe you should update your belief instead of deluding yourself.
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by hx87 10y ago
> As in, deuteronomy-level lessons - things that will be (figuratively) carved into stone. Bad example--the majority of the lessons in Deuteronomy are shit, especially in a modern society, and were almost never taken literally through mo
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by hx87 10y ago
I would if the drive were limited to city streets, since a crash there has a much lower probability of injury and death compared to a highway.
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by hx87 10y ago
Can your buddy repair their windows instead and install low-e storm windows over them?
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by hx87 10y ago
Most real estate agents also have zero knowledge about the mechanical/engineering aspects of a property. Whenever I ask them about the insulation, electrical wiring, HVAC, or plumbing they just give me a blank face and try to redirect
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by hx87 10y ago
Concrete platform + steel framing isn't unusual for commercial or multi-family residential buildings, but it's pretty much nonexistent for single-family housing. If you want a concrete/steel house, you're better off goin
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by hx87 10y ago
Depending on the region, insulated concrete form houses are 5-20% premium over an equivalent wood-framed house. Foundations and basements are almost always made of concrete anyways, so it's not that difficult to find a contractor that
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by hx87 10y ago
Chandeliers, sconces, pendants, and wall-mounted smoke detectors take care of that problem.
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by hx87 10y ago
> It's just that an HPS can make it much more expensive, and constrain you not to do things you want. This is so true in Boston. A lot of HPSs specify that you can't change the exterior facing portion of a building, even if y
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by hx87 10y ago
If the US housing market has taught me anything, it's that ornament is cheap. Tasteful ornament, on the other hand...
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by hx87 10y ago
> There is no way to disagree with the groupthink, without expecting to be downvoted. Then expect to be downvoted without explicitly posting that expectation. Nothing good will come of it.
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by hx87 10y ago
Maybe I'm just American, but apologizing in advance is difficult to differentiate from preemptively and offensively playing the victim card.
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by hx87 10y ago
I have never understood the use of "I fully expect to be downvoted" as a form of virtue signalling.
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by hx87 10y ago
Biological populations certainly do exist, it's just that they don't correlate well with prevailing concepts of "race". The average western African is more similar to the average European than to the average southern A
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by hx87 10y ago
If you regularly drive long distances on highways, diesel >> gasoline-electric hybrid, since the electrical part of the drive train doesn't do much at constant speeds. > It should be taxed more than gasoline because of NOx, pa
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by hx87 10y ago
Not sure about the Jetta, but the diesel Cruze is so much more efficient than the gasoline version that diesel has to be 1.5x the price of gas for the latter to make sense. EPA cycles tend to underestimate the fuel economy of diesel TDIs an

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