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by medion 3y ago
They don’t care.
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by medion 3y ago
Meanwhile, in places like Australia - councils regulate roof colours and there are laws against light and reflective roofs - dark roofs are actually forced upon.
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by medion 3y ago
Like the army. It’s funny how military institutions with virtually unlimited funds are basically socialist institutions. They provide health, housing, stable employment and early retirement. What many dream of - minus the being in the army
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by medion 3y ago
Amen.
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by medion 3y ago
I believe it was originally exported because it is very good for train track sleepers - it’s a hard wood that grows very quickly.
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by medion 3y ago
Of course it was sold - by the means you mentioned, but also, those profits were then quickly deployed into decades long marketing strategies - which has led to a world addicted to low quality, cheap goods - an addiction we cannot be weaned
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by medion 3y ago
Sure. I guess also the worry in the hyper capitalist world we now live in, is that our very lives are optimized to shop. Every minute of life has become financialized. We are these hunks of meat walking around trying to optimize everything.
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by medion 3y ago
It’s also about driving everything to the bottom. Why does society need a cheap throwaway tool? What if only high quality, well made tools were available that truly reflected their production cost - both materially, environmentally and in t
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by medion 3y ago
It’s a long article lamenting that onshore manufacturing doesn’t work. But, maybe it’s just they weren’t good at it? Maybe their leadership was poor? Perhaps their technical automation solutions were poor? I refuse to believe that the only
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by medion 3y ago
While quality of life has improved percentage wise for a small percentage of the earth's inhabitants, it is also a completely unsustainable way of living - it's a quality of life built on fossil fuels and debt. It's all a com
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by medion 3y ago
Umm, I know you’re trying to joke, but your scenario is kind of exactly what has happened..
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by medion 3y ago
Someone should do a study to see how many of these are still standing versus how many are not, and how modern hyper housing regulation might have influenced the outcome. My guess is those Sears houses were more than good enough without all
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by medion 3y ago
How do you explain weird markets like the luxury sector then?
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by medion 3y ago
Kits abound, rather.
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by medion 3y ago
You could just convert a car from 20 years ago if you are that passionate about it? Kite abound.
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by medion 3y ago
This: “For all the talk you’ve made about changing things, your service remains an absolute nightmare of discovery. There is no meaningful way to grow an audience on this site - it has to come from outside.”
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by medion 3y ago
It’s a cultural thing, I don’t mean it literally. The web is cooked now, I have nothing to do with it except some comments on HN. I now work in arts and crafts and have all but rejected technology, I am glad I was there for the golden era!
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by medion 3y ago
Man, how much fun was it when it was just html, perl, or php and a db or txt file. It’s all a nightmare now… all the abstractions are lovely and all, but, have they really really improved anything that much? I’d take late 90s internet over
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by medion 3y ago
What other channels? Curious because I liked their zany micro documentaries and haven’t seen any similar which are released with any consistency.
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by medion 3y ago
Anecdotal, but it feels like there are less competitors. So…
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by medion 3y ago
It’s a shame a company like this can’t just remain small and profitable and well run.
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by medion 4y ago
I stopped asking people what they do, and instead ask ‘what are you about’ - always gets an interesting answer, after the initial perplexity of the question.
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by medion 4y ago
Indeed. I think western education is a lot like many jobs: Busy work. The coming LLM/AGI storm will blow all that up.
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by medion 4y ago
Have young kids, they won’t get a phone, tablet or whatever till well into their teens. Tablets are the new pacifier and it’s hard sometimes not to give in for a break.. we allow some limited tv sometimes but only select classic cartoons or
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by medion 4y ago
The answer is very simple - more construction - and to do so, we need deregulation, density, training and innovation.
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by medion 4y ago
I wish the mini DIY heat pump was more widely adopted by manufacturers! Mitsubishi and Mrcool make split systems that do not require installers. Having to hire trades to gas them etc is such a pain - small rooms, once you add up the unit an
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by medion 4y ago
What for more specifically and why? Just out of curiosity.
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by medion 4y ago
Would be interesting to see how different the costs and difficulties compare to the prior building boom. The red tape involved in building today is off the charts - prior generations had a much easier time building houses.
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by medion 4y ago
There has been a complete and confusing lack of deregulation talk in the inflation discussion and I don’t know why. Your example could also be taken with housing - why is construction not deregulated in smart ways to jump start residential
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by medion 4y ago
I think history shows those who seek a very high level of moral purity have had to forge their own paths, rather than get any old job/occupation which corrupts their beliefs. Rare, but inspiring. Such reaching also involves much sacrif

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