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yep, and that's what we see a lot of round here. this is still not driving pre-fab adoption. ie, a single family dwelling selling for $3m, knocked down and replaced with 8x apartme…

Lots of interest comments on the efficiency of building homes. The bigger issue is the cost of land. The differential for land to build is often 10:1. So even if the prefab shave 1…

The AI images were deliberate and part of the narrative. Ie, you can generate slop with zero effort. from TFA: "All of the images in this post were generated by an ai in response t…

Miro.com is one of the few SaaS products that our team's collaboration could not live without. Perfect for a distributed team to replace the DO NOT ERASE white boards of yore.

Single best thing I've done to get control over my public email: * add a filter that moves all email with "unsubscribe" into an "unsubscribe" folder combined with fastmail spam fil…

US automakers typically spend more per car on advertising than they spend on labor to build. Labor costs are often under 15% of total cost depending on the model. So even if they p…

We are in agreement with the burden. Perhaps my point was not well made: At the time farmers were being made destitute by industrialization we also invented the modern education sy…

At a national and global scale, farmers moved to the cities to get work in factories operating the new machinery of industrialisation. And some were, or their children were, educat…

Very calming as it mimics slow, relaxed breathing. Patented by Apple in 2002. https://patents.google.com/patent/US6658577