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by iguy 6y ago
Where are these regulations from? As in, which country? > must have at least 2 stairwells, or emergency stairs The tower in question did not: https://www.google.com/search?q=grenfell+tower+floor+plan So it was designed a
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by iguy 6y ago
There are new wooden buildings in Europe too. I wonder if these are built to stricter codes, I mean to withstand fires for longer? I agree the US focus seems to be on fast exit, multiple options (from buildings that seem to be made of match
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by iguy 6y ago
Sure, I agree. The temperance / prohibition movement wasn't made up of crazy people who just wanted to ban good clean fun between consenting adults. The problems they saw & wished to fix were very real. I'm just surprised
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by iguy 6y ago
There was also a strong connection to the woman's suffrage movement. Since support for temperance skewed female, one of the main consequential arguments about extending the vote was precisely whether it would lead to prohibition.
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by iguy 6y ago
This seems a little like arguing that I know several people who died in car accidents, and none in spaceships. One of these is much more dangerous, but almost everyone I know drives places, and has a drink or two, every week. Maybe that&#x2
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by iguy 6y ago
> Prohibition in the US is when people started drinking a lot more liquor and less beer or wine Here's a graph I found, it looks like prohibition happened at the end of a huge swing from 90% liquor in 1850 to majority beer in 1915 (
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by iguy 6y ago
> Alcohol wrecks plenty of people's lives for sure even today, and yet... What alcohol does have is widespread social understanding, it's deep in our culture. Your grandmother had a pretty decent idea of how this could go wrong
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by iguy 6y ago
For sure, I don't mean to suggest it's cheap research. But whether you charge a lot or nothing for the first few doses out of the lab, it seems like this won't really make a dent in the research cost. (I don't know if th
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by iguy 6y ago
Back-of-envelope numbers: US GDP per capita * US life expectancy is about 5 million dollars. Healthcare is maybe 18% of GPD and climbing, call it a million a person and rising. A majority (but not a huge one) is government spending. I don&#
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by iguy 6y ago
What is this money spent on? Is it a real cost per dose, or just a made-up number for something made in a research lab? Maybe another way to ask is: On the scale from 400k of white-shoe lawyer-hours, to 400k of custom 7nm silicon-etching, w
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by iguy 6y ago
Having things available right now, in small quantities, near to you, is precisely the service local hardware stores have always provided. For a small fee. Of course they can be had cheaper, and in a wider variety, from some huge warehouse
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by iguy 6y ago
But it seems like this is in addition to a seat, not instead: > “The concept is designed as a pod you go to during the flight,” she said. “You will still have your economy seat separately for the other portion of the flight.” Which of co
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by iguy 6y ago
I think it's more the reverse. It's important to the wealthy Parisians that the traditional regional produce continue to be made. If the people in the village all gave up & got factory jobs, then hundreds of specific cheeses (
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by iguy 6y ago
The articles don't make it very clear what sort of statistics are involved. Are they talking about simple things anyone could scribble down while watching TV, like it's 1980? I thought that, for many sports, they now collected muc
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by iguy 6y ago
I guess people into hot-rodding, especially for games, have never been Apple's target. (Even if they are numerous, and I actually have no idea how large this segment is.) Besides price-sensitivity, wouldn't they be bored if there
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by iguy 6y ago
Seeds are half of it, but wouldn't you'd also want to grow them in the same soil? Maybe manure & bone-meal were providing a different balance of nutrients to modern fertilisers, or just slower growth.
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by iguy 6y ago
Urban land is 69 M acres, cropland 391 (according to some quick googling) and pasture 654. So urban is 17% of cropland, or 7% of all farmland. I'm surprised it's that high to be honest, compared to plane-window impressions. Surely
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by iguy 6y ago
The area farmed in the US has declined slowly since the 1950s, maybe down 20%? Am eyeballing graphs as google is failing me: https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/charts/58267/farms_fig01_45... It would decline fa
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by iguy 6y ago
> let alone any type of machinery. Any 20th C machine. If we do get good enough at robotics that we can switch from herbicides to weeding by AI, that might allow all sorts of interesting things.
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by iguy 6y ago
Yes, I think they view the basic mid-range tower box as a nearly-extinct form. Like corded telephones & CRTs. They choose to make the mac pro as some kind of halo product, I guess. But really the slice of people who need more power than
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by iguy 6y ago
> Maybe true in glorious future where the industrialized farm can support increased biodiversity While it certainly reduces on-farm biodiversity, higher yields also let us leave more land completely un-farmed. For example I think maybe 1
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by iguy 6y ago
> Historically agricultural workers were slaves or at best serfs. This was certainly common, but e.g. England hasn't really had serfdom for 5 centuries (after a gradual decline). Quite a lot of the labor was hired servants, perhaps
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by iguy 6y ago
If they accepted slightly below market rent, they could have the pick of NYU's writing instructors, or sabbatical visitors, or whatever. That is, don't rent them on the open market, but hook up with one of the many institutes with
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by iguy 6y ago
Sure, I agree. The part I question is " more energy later". Or at least, this is not obvious from a first-principles no-perpetual-motion argument. It's a technology question.
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by iguy 6y ago
> but we will need to expend more energy later to put the extra carbon back where it belongs Is this actually a given? I mean trying to make gasoline from the atmosphere would certainly require more energy than you get by burning it, a l
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by iguy 6y ago
> The idea that you could do this belies total ignorance of chemistry, fossil fuel genesis and the laws of thermodynamics. This was many people's reaction to hearing about carbon capture. And one that TFA does nothing to dispel. But
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by iguy 6y ago
Oh I see. Sorry I took "This free money" to mean the money flowing into finance, largely as a result of regulatory changes IIRC, rather than direct govt. spending. But it's possible I've lost the thread of what's be
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by iguy 6y ago
We did? I mean salaries in finance from the 80s on were much higher than in the 60s. They went from being some kind of accountants to being masters of the universe. And incomes of people near the top, in all fields, increased relative to
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by iguy 6y ago
> The OPEC oil crisis was only 6 months No, prices were super-high for more than a decade, before returning to let's say roughly double the pre-crisis price for the 90s, then spiking again. Or regarding recent decades as normal, 192
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by iguy 6y ago
Looks like many of these occupy less saleable space than business-class seats would. If the plane has space in the roof/cellar, you get 6 beds for the space of a ladder.

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