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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
I didn't buy it until I figured out the (very convoluted and possible) way to build on it while ag. Because rezoning is a long, expensive process that can trivially be blocked by a single neighbor that doesn't want to rezone with
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
Unfortunately, the health district won't issue a permit because of the existence of the "will serve" letter from the city. So this is turning into quite the ordeal to get sorted out. I'm really hoping to keep things ou
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
I've been trying to build a house for myself. Going through all the hoops is not only cumbersome and expensive - but nearly impossible. I've run into legal tiff's between the county and nearby city. The city wants me to pa
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
Regulations require all nuclear reactor containment domes to be able to withstand the impact of a fully loaded passenger jet. It is literally a requirement - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment_building . Yo
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
It was, but now it's actually a very significant component. In many regions, the cost paid for lumber went from like 5% of the cost to ~20%!
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
In many places cabinet grade hardwood plywood is cheaper! I could sheath my roof and house with 3/4" cabinet grade maple for the same price as "cheap" ugly OSB.
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
Necessity is the mother of invention. [edit] - downvotes because I used the word "mother" maybe? I don't understand this community.
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
When they provide an interior that isn't inferior to ICE cars (e.g. physical buttons and readings/dials in front of the driver) - and don't lose half their battery life for me in the winter heating the vehicle - then I'
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
Yeah 2x4's are literally 4x what they were just over a year ago. And I couldn't find an architect to help me with my house this spring at any price.
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
Eating breakfast isn't bad just because Hitler also ate breakfast.
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
Again - I wasn't talking about how we evaluate/measure the person/politician. I was talking about how our views of the politician affect our evaluation of the things that take place under their stewardship. And a large frac
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
I wasn't commenting on evaluating politicians. I was commenting on evaluating things they are involved with and do.
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
Despite the sarcasm, I think your comment makes a really good point. People have lenses and biases that really make it difficult to objectively evaluate the actions of politicians/administrations independent of their like for the indi
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by rwcarlsen 6y ago
This isn't just a matter of richness. It is also a matter of how much parents are willing to invest in their children's education. I know many "poor" parents that invest a great deal in their kids' eduction (time
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by rwcarlsen 6y ago
Solving the automated driving problem will require these systems to behave in ways that regular human drivers consider acceptable - at least for a transition period of time where both live on the road together. Sudden hard breaking in situ
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by rwcarlsen 6y ago
More egalitarian funding will just make the wealthier classes just put their money and students somewhere else. I live in an area with a lot of private and charter schools. This is the mechanism that the community members have evolved to
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by rwcarlsen 6y ago
Right. I'm not saying the intent of GDPR was to provoke them. But empirically, they are an effect of the GDPR. An undesirable one - that does not fulfill its intent. I'd say we are in agreement here.
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by rwcarlsen 6y ago
For me personally - all these popup banners and modal walls for websites about cookies and stuff just really make the internet a worse place. I suspect that empirically, they don't accomplish what the GDPR intended to - and they make
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by rwcarlsen 6y ago
I feel like plywood is a really common thing that a lot of people know to have alternating/anisotropic layers of wood grain
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by rwcarlsen 6y ago
I read somewhere that parler actually did have a contingency plan, but their backup host pulled out on them too.
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by rwcarlsen 6y ago
Northern Idaho actually has quite a lot of left-leaning politics/culture. Southern idaho is where all the conservatives live (and the vast majority of people generally).
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by rwcarlsen 6y ago
> And, heaven forbid, the government telling you who you must do business with. You mean like that whole Colorado cake baker fiasco?
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by rwcarlsen 6y ago
Here's an article that goes over some of the issues: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/imessage-weak-encryption-m...
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by rwcarlsen 6y ago
That's a fair point. However, it's a matter of how angry each side gets. There is some critical level of anger that provokes unrest and strong reaction.
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by rwcarlsen 6y ago
No - I recognized what you were saying by your last non-quote bit at the bottom. I was just pointing out that this quote really supports (IMO) the "trump-side" of this whole issue.
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by rwcarlsen 6y ago
Trump is a symptom - not the disease. Often if you just try to treat symptoms the disease gets worse. We have a large fraction of the U.S. population that is disenfranchised/unhappy with things. It is various things. It might be th
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by rwcarlsen 6y ago
They have money. And children. And grandchildren. Those things equal influence. They also have votes.
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by rwcarlsen 6y ago
This is a great quote and I think is very relevant to what's been happening over the last few weeks. I'm no Trump fan - nor a fan of the actions of people at the capitol. But trump never asked for anyone to be violent or occupy
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by rwcarlsen 6y ago
Yeah, but when someone's "preferred" side (even if they didn't really like them) is being steam-rolled like this many of those people are not going to be okay with it - not the least of which is because of the authoritar
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by rwcarlsen 6y ago
They're going to hear about how big tech is conspiring to censor and take down their man though. This stampede is going to tick off a lot of moderate, "incredibly nice" people that would have otherwise been fine.

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