Cities’ Offers for Amazon Base Are Secrets Even to Many City Leaders

Post by wbl » Tue, Aug 07, 2018, 5:39 PM UTC

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How I wish we could build European block housing (is this the correct term?) in this country. The buildings are shoulder to shoulder and take up the whole block. visual example: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Prague,+Czechia/@50.079818...

I grew up in terraced housing in the biggest social housing scheme outside the Warsaw Pact, under the Northern Ireland Housing Executive. You never have privacy. I could hear my neighbour having sex. Party music vibrated through the floors regardless of dampening in the walls ( we tried cork sheets ). The back gardens were all overlooked. Everything you did was known. It was like growing up in a commune. When I see n…

Post by oneshot908 » Tue, Aug 07, 2018, 8:09 PM UTC

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Yeah, high-ish salaries. Everyone works until 10pm. Get off work and get drunk. Complain about how Amazon took away your life and cost you your marriage, but hey they offer free marriage counseling now as a result (true story). Rinse and repeat. That's what I see around SLU. Amazon is incredibly efficient, and that's good. But please don't let them take over a city with their work life culture.

If anyone wants Amazon to take over any sort of public space they should come experience the local vitriol towards all things Amazon here in Seattle. I was interviewing at AWS just last year and one of the interviewers(in a Virginia/remote work setup) went so far as to admit he doesn't wear any amazon branded shirts or swag when he is in town.

Post by oneshot908 » Tue, Aug 07, 2018, 8:15 PM UTC

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I grew up in terraced housing in the biggest social housing scheme outside the Warsaw Pact, under the Northern Ireland Housing Executive. You never have privacy. I could hear my neighbour having sex. Party music vibrated through the floors regardless of dampening in the walls ( we tried cork sheets ). The back gardens were all overlooked. Everything you did was known. It was like growing up in a commune. When I see n…

Modern construction methods have largely solved these acoustic/privacy issues. Building codes throughout the United States require a measure of sound insulation between floors of multi-family dwellings. They specify a minimum architectural design standard of privacy of 50 STC (Sound Transmission Class) and a 50 IIC (Impact Isolation Class). The codes also state that validation of the minimum noise criteria can be fie…

Post by dang » Thu, Aug 09, 2018, 6:11 AM UTC

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This comment violates the HN guidelines. We don't want ideological battle here (not to mention low-rent rants). That's not because we're capitalist pigs or socialist moochers; it's because it's all repetitive and therefore boring, and it leads directly to flamewar. All scorched earth is the same. You've been posting a lot of this for a long time. We ban accounts that do that, so I've banned this one. If you don't wan…

I don’t have a bone to pick in this back and forth, however there’s something I don’t fully understand from dang’s comment: what does “low-rent rant” mean? Never heard the expression before and I don’t know if it’s a pun to the subject of the article or something else entirely referencing the tone of the OP’s comment.