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by zbrozek 5y ago
You're forced to rent or sell at certain prices for a certain number of units as a condition for your permit to build. So you're not building what you want to build, nor are you pricing it at market rates.
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Sorry, I think I conflated "public" with "low-income" housing in reading the comment. They're clearly different, though often uttered together.
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Not the OP, but I'll guess that it's because both of them strongly erode property rights. Another, more freedom-preserving, approach is to make it easier to build build build. Planet Money had a decent introduction a couple years
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Looking back at my own school experience, I don't think I learned anything of value in the formal lessons of school until third grade. But being around other kids and maturing together was quite-worthwhile. I probably could have done t
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by zbrozek 5y ago
I have a metal roof and it's no louder than the shingle roof in my childhood home. I think the big difference vs your awning is that my roof is fully supported by the home's sheathing and is screwed down in many places. This limit
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Both, but only with usefully-detailed specification on albedo.
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Low sun angle in the winter vs summer means a bit more thought needs to go in to making the decision of whether net retention or net reflection is preferable. My strategy is to cover the entire roof in solar panels and to try to find useful
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by zbrozek 5y ago
My town put a limit on the reflectivity of structures, efficiency be damned.
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by zbrozek 5y ago
They're not out of space. There's a lot of yard and a lot of altitude to fill. There's empty fields all over the south bay. Luckily, some near my previous place in Sunnyvale recently-ish got turned into town houses. My curren
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by zbrozek 5y ago
I'm pretty excited about limiting side and rear setbacks to 4 feet.
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Which, to be clear, is still really hard in most places in CA.
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Discourse overrode ctrl-f, which made me instantly hate the experience. But the rest of the UI is generally overwrought and frustrating. Old fashioned phpbb or vbulletin is so much better.
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by zbrozek 5y ago
There's lots of things to do with extra electricity, it's just a question of whether or not it's economical. Here in California, for example, I could imagine the excess being used to opportunistically desalinate water and ref
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Certainly wasn't my first thought. Though there may be a better phrase.
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Ditto. It's a good indicator of being a sloppily-written pile of dependencies I don't want to touch. I also discriminate against Electron software, at least as much as I'm able.
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by zbrozek 5y ago
So... cost, basically? A condenser or heat exchanger will be more capex but consuming fresh water is more opex. And something like these water capture panels might be a way to pick an operating point somewhere in the middle: lose a bit of w
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Makes sense! I'm using wireguard on opnsense (but it's a newish feature) and so far it's been a great experience.
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Why did you choose x86 openwrt over opnsense? I chose opnsense because it never occurred to me to run openwrt on not-a-consumer-router and now I'm wondering if I screwed up. Like you, I run a single x86 box with a handful of guests for
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Oh sure, there's cases where the output is more valuable than the input. I agree that desalination is possibly quite worthwhile. Though I'd imagine that in the ocean water case that the flow rate is high enough that little water i
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by zbrozek 5y ago
This seems like a roundabout way to achieve a closed-loop cooling cycle. Why do this vs a water-to-air heat exchanger and never evaporate the water in the first place?
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by zbrozek 5y ago
I'm a little surprised by the downvotes of a straightforward and in-good-faith question. The answers are helpful - thanks to those who engaged!
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Is radar stealthiness still relevant? I would assume a combination of microphones&cameras everywhere, internet everywhere, ML everywhere, and satellites have made it obsolete.
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Any chance you could be more specific? It looks like most of the internet has decided that qemu is too scary to use directly and therefore folks tend to use libvirt and various helper utilities. I keep trying them and find them unpleasant a
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by zbrozek 5y ago
It's really annoying that smaller cars aren't sold in the US. There's always claims that there's no appetite for them, but how do the car companies actually know that if none are on sale and therefore there's no dat
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by zbrozek 5y ago
I've had a lot of hardware over ten years, including workstations issued by my employer that were engineered for first-class Linux support. The problem is never ubiquitous - sometimes it's just one browser and not another. Further
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Generally unpolished quirkiness that requires time and attention to resolve. For example, in ten years of using Linux at work I've never experienced tear-free browser scrolling despite hours of fussing with X11 and compositor settings
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by zbrozek 5y ago
I'd love to see an east-west transcontinental aqueduct from the southeast to the southwest. Cover it with solar panels and string an HVDC line alongside it to both increase grid transport capacity and to run pumping stations and connec
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by zbrozek 5y ago
I use qemu exclusively for my virtualization needs these days. I migrated away from virtualbox late in the 3.x era. Probably my biggest complaint is that the man page does not actually document all of the arguments to the emulator. For that
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by zbrozek 5y ago
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-the-u-s-can-learn-from-chi...
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by zbrozek 5y ago
I'd love to see an RTS explore single sovereignty multiplayer. One player might be the industrial minister and another the military minister. You could imagine letting the tree deepen to allow more players. Bob runs the navy, Alice doe

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