From the article:
This 900-square-foot home will cost roughly $300,000 - about $100,000 less than a similar custom-built home...
It will rent for $2,000 a month.
I understand that this is a Proof of Concept, but I have to wonder if anyone involved has an idea as to what "affordable" means.
There's no way in hell that over a quarter-million bucks for a pre-fab home is reasonable. This experiment is gonna fall on its face.
The real problem is over-crowding. Everyone is forced to live in the same place, which is driving land prices up and up. Instead force jobs to move elsewhere, that will bring down the demand for the same piece of land.
No one is forced to live in expensive areas. Those areas are expensive because of the sheer number of people that WANT to live there. They could, in most cases, live and work in cheaper areas, and have a nice house and job. But New York is New York Expensive because legions of twentysomethings have a romantic itch to live that "New York Experience", and so the city is constantly stuffed with people trying to get in.
Everyone can't have a pony. And everyone can't live in the most expensive areas.
This reminds me of the sentencing of the "January 6 insurrection" guilty pleas. As I (a non-lawyer) understand it...
Regardless of whether you consider it an insurrection or a protest march petitioning the government for redress of grievances...
In the wake of the events, the fed busted a bunch of the participants and left them rotting in prison for months (over a year), with no end in sight. In many cases this left families with no breadwinner, enormous legal costs, and expectations of losing all their property as part of some eventual conviction.
Then the prosecutors offered some of the defendants a plea deal; Plead guilty to a misdemeanor or short-sentence felony and we'll drop any other charges.
Rule of thumb: a misdemeanor generally is a crime with a max sentence of no more than a year in prison, a felony more than a year - which is why you see "year and a day" max sentences on some crimes. An accused person already in prison for over the max sentence would expect that accepting the deal would result in immediate release with "credit for time served" (and others near the max might expect release much sooner). So some of them went for it.
Came the sentencing some judges applied a two-year sentence enhancements for "substantial interference with the 'administration of justice.'" OOPS! No release for you.
I'd expect them to pull the same sort of thing on Assange if he were foolish enough to plead guilty to anything, no matter how minor.
(By the way: This particular form of the practice, as used on the Jan6 participants, was just recently struck down. But the decision was based on Congress' certification of the presidential election not qualifying as "administration of justice.'" So this wouldn't apply to whatever enhancement trick they might pull on Julian.
I don't know what you heard, but baby cells can only stay baby cells, they can't become mommy cells,
Sez who?
There's been evidence for some time that post-pregnancy mothers often have clones of stem cells derived from the previous foetus. Sure such a clone would likely start out with its epigenitc programming set for whatever function it had in the baby's development (unless, say, some error in its differentiation is what led to it migrating to the woman's body to set up shop). But once established on the mother's side of the placental barrier, and especially after the birth, the stem cell clone can be expected to continue to run its program under direction of the growth factors in the mother's blood.
That amounts to a transplant of younger stem cells which could be expected to produce differentiated cells for tissue growth and replacemtnt,, with the aging clock set farther back and with some genes from the father to provide "hybrid vigor", filling in for defective genes in the mother's genome or adding variant versions of molecular pathways.
With all problems at the border, in public education, debt and so on they chose to take on porn sites? Why?
Your state government can't do more than one thing at a time?
And speaking of the Border, Texas IS trying to do something about it, all while the Biden Administration sues them, trying to prevent them from doing anything about the border.
Do not look down on trades. If you're motivated and smart you can do as good if not better there than in most other career paths you can mention, and their job security moving forward is absolutely guaranteed.
I am in no way looking down on the trades. I'm an admirer of men that do such jobs, and I consider those jobs both highly important, and well-deserving of high compensation. My point is that some people are not cut out for various fields, and while people doing trades are in no way "dumb" (in addition to skill, many trades require a lot of knowledge and more than a good bit of practical math that average people would probably struggle with), they're still not cut out to do things like software development, which takes different mental talents.
Bottom line.... just as that, contrary to what we tell our kids, not everyone can be an astronaut or President, not everyone is cut out for CS or high-knowledge white collar jobs. And that's the larger problem: the media, politicians, high schools, etc, seem to think that CS and software development IS something that anyone can do, that it IS a field where any coal miner can learn to be a programmer with a few weeks of classes.
Learn what in trade school? IT? Then maybe. In California, a plumber's median income is 50k. A construction worker
A software engineer... not just a basic programmer, but a real, full-stack software developer... isn't comparable to a plumber or concrete tech, though. So the comparison is a bit unfair. Those are skilled jobs, but a full-stack developer with a CS degree is more like a CPA, a white collar professional. One of the reasons that CPA and devs make the kind of money they do is that most people don't have the cranial firepower to do them... or there'd be more devs and CPA's. Which is also another reason why it's batshit silly to require CS to graduate high school. It's part of the same mindset that said "every child is an undiscovered math prodigy" that we saw in the 80's and 90's. Again, it's just not the case.
We have a LOT of people in IT that shouldn't be (just like college), and to a great extent they're in the field because guidance counselors and parents seem to think that anyone can be a network admin, or sysadmin, or dev, etc. And many would be better suited learning welding, plumbing, or some other skill.
How on earth would it pay out more than it takes in? That's impossible. You don't actually want a payout. Do you not understand the point of insurance?
Some insurance sectors don't make their profits on premiums. They make money by investing premium income somewhere else, and that money puts them in the black. This is especially the case in the reinsurance market.
Ariane's main purpose is to ensure that the EU always has its own launch capability, for security reasons.
LOL, Ariane's main purpose is to ensure French domination of European space launch.
Ugh. Don't give this stuff exposure. "Tired light" has a similar status in physics as "Electric universe"and other cranky theories.
"Cranky" and "Brilliant" are a thin line in physics. Remember, we have people that swear the universe is made up of a bunch of vibrating strings. They can't prove it, but they're held in high esteem anyway.
Dark matter is also a new explanation to make observations fit theory. You can't claim "we know" how things work. We don't know anything, we can only check if a model fits with data or not.
The whole notion of Dark Matter struck me as a kludge because cosmologists had what they thought was a beautiful model, and just couldn't quite deal with the numbers not adding up.
Essentially, "the math doesn't work, so we'll insert X here, and hey look, now it works" without having to actually prove X exists.
On what are you basing that statement?
The first meme of the two here explains it.
The ideal is a seedbox somewhere, where one can have all that stuff done offshore, then fetch your goodies via SFTP.
I was doing that for a bit, but then I mashed Transmission and a VPN client together in one container and started using that. Files land directly on my home server, while the VPN endpoint is in a country that takes a more relaxed view of "sailing the high seas." Keeping this URL in your BitTorrent client allows you to quickly verify that the VPN is doing its job.
Exactly. You don't want a pic like that floating around on the internet. What if you run for public office one day?
If we're talking American politics, that isn't exactly the career killer it once was. I don't think we're too far off from politicians including links to their OnlyFans.
We'll have a stripper, prostitute (real, not metaphorical), or porn star in a federal or major state office in the next decade. I'll guarantee it. Probably out of Vegas or Southern California. And yes, OnlyFans will be involved.
... and with all that time on his hands maybe he can stay out of trouble.
Now that he's in jail, he'll get his, in the end.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
