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It is in fact a good idea, and it would probably generate a lot of insight. But it would be very politically dicey.

>Because the root cause isn't a sudden increase in appetite. It seems plausible that the introduction of evolutionarily novel ultraprocessed foods, designed by scientists in labs t…

The main cause of the problem is probably the widespread availability of cheap processed food in the US and, increasingly, other rich countries. I would support regulating these fo…

"It's just one additional requirement; it won't break the bank"....this logic, applied over and over by building construction regulators for the past few decades, is an underapprec…

Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy. Every hour that a Boeing employee spends trying to design or build a good airplane is one less hour that he can spend angling for power within …

Came here to write the same thing. Bizarre that there is literally nothing about his death on their website or social media accounts.

What's interesting is that this huge change in design technology has produced no similarly huge change in the physical product being designed. Buildings are designed and built at a…

1-10 per 10,000 seems like a fairly high number if it's "associated with high mortality".

See my other comment. Modular is somewhat better in some cases, but not dramatically better, which is why it has gained a certain share of the market but not the majority of it. Mo…

PlanGrid is typical of the successful construction tech startups in that it addresses the way that information is transmitted during projects without impacting the actual way that …

That is true of "manufactured homes", a.k.a. "trailers", but not of "prefab" or "modular" homes, which are built using the same components as conventional homes.

Typically these are called "modular homes" in the US. They've been around for quite a while and do make up a certain portion of the new home construction, though not the majority. …

There's a long list of construction startups who thought the industry was low-tech simply because everyone in it was dumb, and that they would be the smartest guys in the room who'…

Yeah, there should be maps of the boundaries of Waters of the United States just like there are FEMA maps of flood plains.

In my job, I’ve gotten some pretty detailed experience with this part of the Clean Water Act. Not mentioned in this article is the fact that the “substantial nexus” standard just r…

I think you overstate how much the lab leak and the bioweapon stories were being conflated. I recall that most people were able to distinguish between them, and that the most promi…