Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to fix water system
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#2I realize there's near zero probability, but the mention of mysterious Japanese gold made my mind immediately go to this:
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#3That is a bad idea. Hydrocarbon polymers like PEX, ferrous alloys, and concrete would be much more practical.
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#4And that's Osaka. Osaka's population peaked around 2017.[1] The only major city in Japan not on a downtrend is Yokohama, which is in the Greater Tokyo area.
Keeping up all the infrastructure as the population declines is tough. That's one of the challenges of this century for the developed world.
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#5That is a bad idea. Hydrocarbon polymers like PEX, ferrous alloys, and concrete would be much more practical.
I think people are missing the joke, but gold sewer pipes is amusing to consider.
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#6That is a bad idea. Hydrocarbon polymers like PEX, ferrous alloys, and concrete would be much more practical.
Well played.
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#7More than 20% of Japan's water pipes have passed their legal service life of 40 years, according to local media
That is rather low. The US still has some wooden(!) water pipes in use, as well as other plumbing installed in the late 19th/early 20th century.
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#8I realize there's near zero probability, but the mention of mysterious Japanese gold made my mind immediately go to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamashita%27s_gold
My mind went to the founder of Bitcoin.
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#9More than 20% of Japan's water pipes have passed their legal service life of 40 years, according to local media That is rather low. The US still has some wooden(!) water pipes in use, as well as other plumbing installed in the late 19th/early 20th century.
wood is better than lead
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#10I realize there's near zero probability, but the mention of mysterious Japanese gold made my mind immediately go to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamashita%27s_gold
My mind went to the founder of Bitcoin.
The actual founder of Bitcoin cannot touch their money without causing a lot of panic in the market. I believe Coinbase's 2021 S-1 prospectus explicitly listed "the identification of Satoshi Nakamoto... or the transfer of Satoshi’s Bitcoins" as a business risk factor.