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by zip1234 4y ago
They don’t even need high rises—change the 1 story 800sq foot bungalow into a 2 story 4 plex and all the units can have more living space than the original and 4x more people can live somewhere—-but that is banned in most places even
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by zip1234 4y ago
Part of the reason for this is that paid support has been needed for awhile. Prioritizing support for billions of people is very difficult. It's a lot easier if people want to pay that they can priority support.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Do you like air conditioning? If so, you like heat pumps. An air conditioner is a heat pump that pumps heat from inside to outside.
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by zip1234 4y ago
The spread out housing means doing things like overhead power wires to save cost and reach further away places. Easily disrupted by fallen trees.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Isn't propane expensive? Distributing it alone is costly as it has to be trucked to someone's house.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Yellowstone is essentially a loop. Have busses going each direction every 5 minutes and no more traffic jams.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Cars are a classic "tragedy of the commons" due to how much space they take up and the infrastructure they take up. The places where it might've been 'nice to go for a drive' are not that way anymore because they ha
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by zip1234 4y ago
Sports have become way too important in high school. In addition to bad ideas about start times, site selection for schools based on having huge amounts of land for sports fields means far away schools instead of being centrally located nea
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by zip1234 4y ago
> $10.4 million to address roadway departure crashes along approximately 50 miles of roadway through shoulder widening, rumble strips and other low-cost treatments. They including a road widening as 'street safety'. Very genero
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by zip1234 4y ago
"Excessive speed" in the statistics is purely based on posted speed limit. The way posted speed limits are set in the US is not based on safety.
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by zip1234 4y ago
EF core makes it simple to test against a real sqlite db. It is super fast to run the tests and gives a reasonably realistic outcome.
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by zip1234 4y ago
You have to get all parties to agree to remove the restriction. I've heard of it happening.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Even electrified, tires shed loads of nasty particulates.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Houston also had minimum parking requirements. Also, TXDOT literally built highways through the city. It's not JUST zoning, but zoning is a large part of it. Houston does have way lower housing costs than other places though.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Munich: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.1074216,11.5821497,9196m/dat...
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by zip1234 4y ago
Cities are not loud. Cars are loud!
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by zip1234 4y ago
Buying a house and expecting nothing to change in one's neighborhood is completely unreasonable. Places change constantly.
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by zip1234 4y ago
There already are fire trucks for that: https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/Meet-Kiri-the-tiny...
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by zip1234 4y ago
Sure children can be trained, but children will still go in the road because they are children. Based on current laws, this is acceptable collateral damage so that cars can go fast.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Every state/local already continually asks for federal handouts to maintain their overbuilt 8 lane roads. The fact that people still want to add lanes to roads is mind boggling.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Truly, micromobility like E-bikes are cheap, require much less space, healthier and are more social. Governments do not know how to build for micromobility yet it seems.
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by zip1234 4y ago
The whole thread reads as CYA and trying to pass blame somewhere else. Looked it up and yes, guess who also has legal action headed their way?
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by zip1234 4y ago
In the US have started seeing them for heating water but mainly for household use (showers, general water heating) and not for a boiler replacement.
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by zip1234 4y ago
What does the amount of fuel compared to a car matter at all in regards to indoor air quality?
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by zip1234 4y ago
Just curious--what did your national forest look like 200 years ago? In many cases, we are on 2nd or 3rd growth forests in the eastern part of the US, with much of it clear cut multiple times.
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by zip1234 4y ago
It's all about framing--one could say that adding a new format is a new feature and not maintenance just as easily as saying it is maintenance. The problem with calling it maintenance as the author points out, is that people don't
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by zip1234 4y ago
I was specifically responding to the actual effects of LVT in practice. I'm not sure what you mean by sinister and also 'neighborhood ruined'?
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by zip1234 4y ago
My understanding is that in most places taxes would go down for homes. They would go up massively for those with vacant lots or a lot of land in prime areas that is being underutilized, which is why LVT is great.
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by zip1234 4y ago
A mini split is usually a heat pump system although some of them use resistive heating. They have been getting much better in recent years.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Even if you do need to make thicker pipes, strength in a metal generally increases with the square of the thickness, so it doesn't cost twice as much in materials to double the strength.

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