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They make them that big because they try to justify the price.

I'm all for it - I want it to happen, but I'm driving a used EV right now living the good life. The age of EV hype is gone, now we need real products.

Oh look at this nuclear power ... no stop looking at solar and batteries! That would actually solve the problem!

You can have a pretty good simulacrum of a forest using only two tennis courts worth of land (a pittance in most US cities that have 30% reserved for parking). Look up Miyawaki met…

1. People have lower tolerance for jerks. 2. A few bad apples can spoil a group. 3. Maintaining a group is a thankless job. 4. Third places are money making establishments now rath…

Flight is a luxury of the current times that will likely not last another 100 years except for the very rich.

1) You have to walk in Europe. 2) People eat better.

I wonder if there's a D&D setting like this.

The Normans strike again!

I'm quite ambivalent about nuclear power. On the one hand it's been proven that nuclear power isn't the answer to the energy transition question ( https://sppga.ubc.ca/nuclear-is-n…

I hope they fix the issues with the controllers dying.

Older structures cost more because they lasted longer and were more maintainable. Growth was given priority over tradition - and we've had to deal with the tradeoffs.

support pick your own orchards

I wonder if you could test for crispness using ultrasonic tech. Just make sauce out of the mealy ones.

Duh - sell the parks to a golf resort developer!

Right here - network is expensive. Another issue is cost estimation. Servers have prices, rack space has prices, engineers have salaries. You now literally have people hired now to…

Its weird they didn't switch to C# - that would have been a much smoother transition to a memory managed brackety language.

> I could build something superior to this with an ancient laptop, an internet connection, and spreadsheets. It would take me a month tops. ^^^ Then do it... and then strangler fig…

> because we don't have any tests,... Right there ^^^

Yeah - that was my mistake.

There are benefits to both systems. Western readers have a hard time reading older writing - while eastern readers have no problem with very old texts. On the other hand - western …

Don't CEOs care about their legacy when they play the "big boy" game with all the other oligarchs?

Hahahaha, wait you're serious? Let me laugh even harder HAHAHAHAAHAH. In all seriousness - Boeing should be called McDonnell Douglas - the merger was encouraged by the Pentagon aft…

I don't think free markets in land constrained areas is possible for real estate.

Yay that there's research into adding nuance to results. Science should sharpen science. Deep down we know how we should eat and live. Society and the economy, though has different…