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Post by kuschku »

snowwrestler wrote: post #345
kuschku wrote: post #335

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Yes it does. Make it so expensive that overall only 500 people (including those who live there) can afford to park there. Problem solved. And that’s how my city got $1/min parking spots.

Which also cuts in half the number of customers for the businesses. In urban planning, one has to be careful to solve the correct problem. The problem is not too many cars parked on a residential street. The problem is getting customers to businesses with minimal bad side effects. Any "parking solution" that kills the businesses to fix the parking is not actually a solution.

> In urban planning, one has to be careful to solve the correct problem. The problem is not too many cars parked on a residential street. The problem is getting customers to businesses with minimal bad side effects.

The problem is getting people to different places, without them using too much space within the city. This means as little car usage as possible.

The example I mentioned – combined with cheap public transit – is very effective.

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Post by fuzzythinker »

abakker wrote: post #260
gist wrote: post #240

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What did you charge for the work? How long did it take for you to do this? Was the price higher or lower because it was for Apple?

I charge around $70/hour for that kind of work, which tends to be a mix of CAD, CAM, Setup, Lifting/moving crap, packaging, and cleanup. Usually 1 hour minimum. I charge more for work in MDF because of the mess and because the dust is harder to clean up/get rid of and it is heavier. More again for aluminum. If I need to make whole assemblies with glue, finishing, etc, I tend to just go fixed bid. It's not super scien…

Your rate sounds a bit low for such short and somewhat specialized gig in the bay area.

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Post by pinot »

Keyframe wrote: post #356
jumpkickhit wrote: post #261

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This is great! Too many companies are in the 1920's, where they want an open plan so bosses can stare at people while they work.

Preferably from a raised platform of sorts.

Standing desk and an apple box.

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Post by DannyBee »

abakker wrote: post #286
vidanay wrote: post #277

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Try switching from woodworking bits to metal working bits. An end mill will be 0.2500 with probably a minus tolerance of a tenth or two. The wood bits might be undersized to accommodate tearing of the grain and sanding.

Thanks! The issue with metal working bits is # of flutes/flute geometry - the chips need to be too small to get a good finish, or the feed rate needs to be too high. The "woodworking" bits I use are already pure carbide, high quality bits. my method these days has been to bore a small test hole into a piece of delrin with each new bit, and test that hole with a set of .001" increment pin gauges. Using that number has…

FWIW: I've ordered 0.25 and 0.5 inch wood bits from onsrud, harvey, vortex, etc,and the bits are right to my ability to measure them.

(IE i can measure them to be within 0.0005 of correct size easily, and better than that better tools on the uncoated bits i have).

I'm not sure who you are ordering from.

(as for feed rate too high to use other geometries not sure what IPM you can drive that thing at. I would expect you could easily do 300-400ipm, which seems more than enough. I can get a very smooth finish from metalworking bits with no problem)

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Post by DannyBee »

fuzzythinker wrote: post #372
abakker wrote: post #260

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I charge around $70/hour for that kind of work, which tends to be a mix of CAD, CAM, Setup, Lifting/moving crap, packaging, and cleanup. Usually 1 hour minimum. I charge more for work in MDF because of the mess and because the dust is harder to clean up/get rid of and it is heavier. More again for aluminum. If I need to make whole assemblies with glue, finishing, etc, I tend to just go fixed bid. It's not super scien…

Your rate sounds a bit low for such short and somewhat specialized gig in the bay area.

It's about right for what you'd pay to get something machined :)

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Post by germanier »

jt2190 wrote: post #200

Anyone here work at one of Foster's other buildings? (Berlin Reichstag, the Hong Kong airport, and London’s infamous “Gherkin” tower, etc.). How about Steve's Pixar HQ? What's the day to day experience like?

Not many people work directly in the Reichstag (almost all offices and meeting rooms are located in adjacent buildings by different architects) but maybe I can give some insight as I visited it often at my former job. It's the main building of the German federal parliament and a huge portion of the volume is just the plenary hall.

The new Reichstag is one of the nicest buildings I now. It was originally constructed in the 19th century, burned down (the fire was used by Hitler as an excuse to consolidate power) and was left unused for many decades. Foster essentially fitted a modern building into the old one, something which I never saw anywhere else done so successfully. You feel the importance and history of the building at every corner no matter how often you have been there. On the other hand, it is very functional with short ways (if you know which turn to take which is not that obvious for the first few times).

The building has rough edges here and there as a result of a too low public budget and a short-cut everybody uses goes through a service passage behind an uninviting door with naked walls and large visible pipes but that is all really minor (or rather part of the charm). Ten thousand members of the public visit the building daily and they are very present in many parts of the building without disturbing day-to-day work at all (as you usually don't cross their path while still seeing them – it's quite nicely done). The transparency just embodies the self-concept of the newly unified country.

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Post by pinot »

visakanv wrote: post #50
poslathian wrote: post #33

5B for 13k employees - that's ~$384,000 in construction costs per head, operating and maintenance expenses are perhaps 5% of that annually (maybe more!) - taken together this is an office building that's costing apple ~$3500/head/mo . It's a beautiful office, but seriously? Avg apple cash comp is what, 12500/mo? 3500 is almost 30% of that!

5%? $250,000,000 a year to maintain a building? I don't know anything about building maintenance costs, but a quarter of a billion dollars a year seems a little excessive. How do you arrive at that figure?

Maintenance and operating. It's not far off.

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Post by valuearb »

Thrymr wrote: post #323
valuearb wrote: post #284

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730,000 people die in the US every year. Only 35,000 are killed in car accidents. Individually it wouldn't rank in the top ten causes of death. Auto fatalities per million miles driven have dropped by 95% since the 1920s, 86% since 1950, and over 50% since the 1980s. If people don't drive, all those million miles of transport will be taken up by Buses, Trains, Bikes, Walking, etc, all of which have their own death ra…

Depending on how you bin it, motor vehicle accidents are one of the largest causes of death, particularly of younger adults [0]. > we are on the verge of eliminating the vast majority of accidents That is purely speculative; in fact motor vehicle accident deaths are going up, not down, in the past couple years [1]. [0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/busin…

Less than 1 out of every 20 deaths are from traffic accidents. It's higher for young adults mainly because young adults have a near zero death rate.

We had a spike in 2015 & 2016, and one in 2012, and every other year over the last decade the death rate has declined. The article you linked to emphasized the increase in deaths, and downplayed the increased number of miles driven, which is misleading. Deaths per mile only increased 3%.

And we've seen these spikes before, about one or two per decade and they don't change long term trends. In 1961-63 they spiked 6% per mile driven and 4% in 1965-66, since then death rates have declined 80%.

2015 was the 5th safest year ever for US auto travel. It's death per million miles was 1.12, in the 2000-2009 the death rate averaged 1.41 per million miles, meaning they've still declined 20% over the last decade, even with the recent spike.

Self driving cars aren't very speculative any more, it's not a question of if, just when. But automatic braking systems and lane safety systems exist today. Honda offers "Collision Mitigation Braking System (CMBS™)" as an option on most of it's cars already.

https://techinfo.honda.com/rjanisis/pubs/om/JA0606/JA0606O00...

Honda also offers a collision warning feature, lane keeping assist system, road departure mitigation, lane departure warning, and adaptive cruise control with low speed follow. All of these systems exist today, and are offered by most manufacturers as options. They haven't had a big impact yet because they are options, and haven't been offered for very long so they are on a minuscule portion of the cars on the road.

But as their costs drop, just like ABS and other safety features, they will become standard equipment and after another decade or so it will be difficult to find a car that doesn't have them.

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