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Public housing construction typically has to follow the law as well, so how does it help in cities where increasing housing units is heavily restricted, and outright banned in 90%+…

This feels analogous to saying that static memory management might be superior, because if dynamic memory is available developers can trivially produce an OOM. It's possible we'll …

Effect typing can achieve capability security statically, but I've also frequently seen capabilities used to describe dynamic capability systems via various methods involving passi…

The main appeal of FTL is I think the ability to return to where you came from. If 1000 years pass before your return, it would only be superficially the same place. That being sai…

Well yeah, as I mentioned if it were convenient to use solar for engines people would have done so. My whole point is that we had the technology and didn't do it because it's funda…

Many engines, especially early on, can accept any external heat source as power. The most currently popular version of this is a Stirling engine, where you can find many toy engine…

Funnily enough, "a sufficiently fast horse can fly" sounds sort of like a decent way to convey the idea of planes to a pre-car world.

The original comment calls the people fabricating data "rats" and "cheaters", I'm not sure how you would construe that to be excusing them. The comment is describing that if a syst…

What makes you assume that urban infrastructure is net costlier per capita than suburban?

This is probably accurate for films and fabrics, but I wouldn't be surprised if thick solids would be at least as slow to rot as wood. I don't know what proportion of plastic mass …

It takes 1 or 2 hours to make a decent pratt parser for even somewhat unusual syntax.

I've never heard someone in woodworking call finished wood "treated". That would be really odd, given that treated wood is a specific term of art. Plainly oiled wood is pretty norm…

Treated wood isn't really used for indoor furniture. It's for wood that would be exposed to a lot of moisture, e.g. wooden decks.

In theory if you get just the right number of air exchangers such that the same amount of air moves through as it would with a 'loose' house, you get the same airflow with almost n…

It's a bit strange to give Japan's lower cars per capita as a rationale for this, when surely the reason there are fewer cars per capita is because people have access to their dail…

Likewise, why would you suppose that market forces are running their course?

This perspective has always confused me. Would you say that structured programming was a garbage marketing term, since even though the programming language didn't have goto the com…

Is there a more in depth description of the algorithm itself somewhere? I'm looking at the code, but it is sparsely commented with a lot of abbreviated variable names. Fascinating …

I think it's a fair analogy: most people don't have iPhones, but a huge portion of people have a smartphone. Tesla doesn't need to be the only source of electric cars, there are pl…

Ah, yeah. I think that's actually where I saw it. Thanks.

I know you're probably not implying regression to the mean is causational, but that was my initial reading so I want to clarify for those who may not be familiar with the concept. …

Native language is an almost perfectly heritable trait, but that does not imply it is genetic. (However, it is true that saying that genes contribute to intelligence isn't eugenics…

You must have an excellent alternative to this if it's cheaper than 7.5%. I'm curious, what is it?

I'm not totally familiar with this diagram, but I think that by "Temperature Anomaly" they mean the difference between the temperature and what we expected the temperature to be (o…

Given that the suit was about wage collusion, not about suppressing raises, calculating based on raises seems like an incorrect method. The reason prices were lower was not due to …