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“Hubris and self hatred?” Can’t disagree on our hubris, but self-hatred? I can’t think of any time more narcisist than ourselves!

I want it rebuilt as close to the original because we are incapable of self-reflection.

Surely nothing we build can be devoid of ourselves, but why not leave behind subtlety?

The question is obviously rhetorical: Notre Dame is too big, too important an opportunity for some mediocre president and architect to leave their name in posterity.

Yeah, and a some of us are still annoyed that Mussolini razed a neighborhood and destroyed Rome just to build a modern boulevard.

Far more faithful to the original than a glass roof.

The guy who did the spire did add his own touch (like any cathedral that took several centuries to build). But with subtlety!

There is nothing subtle about another steel and glass monstrosity which litters modern architecture.

Instead of looking like a place of worship it will look like a fusion of a high rise condo and a nightclub.

There is no more humility. Nothing is holy anymore.

Why can we rebuild it the way it was (as much as possible) and make the fire (and therefore ourselves) an asterisk in the Cathedral’s history? Why must we etch ourselves into everything?

Want a glass cathedral? Go build one. Elsewhere.

So? Better a far away government w/ little ability to harm me reading my txt than my local government.

Agreed. I don’t want to buy an iPhone. But I really don’t want to buy Google.

Now I’m looking for a dumb phone.

Guys, thanks for all the refrences!

DSSP, what’s so special about it? I sense LISPers and Forthers sense of “enlightenment” (which I have not obtained). But what is so special about DSSP that it’s considered a generalization of Forth?

Setun:

just about everything! I read it failed lately because bureaucrats stymied engineer’s creativity to do things the “Western” way (it seems this slowed the Soviet’s bomb since their scientists figures a better way to do something)

How were logic gates defined ? (Ie what type of ternary logic was used)

What were the voltage levels to represent the states?

What were the performance specs?

What did it do well? What did it do poorly?

Can it be re-implemented in CMOS?

What I wish the Russian speaking HN readers would provide some history or documentation on is:

- Setun, a ternary (as opposed to binary) computer

- DSSP, a Forth like language that users seem to gush about in the same manner Lispers gush about LISP.

Info/history on both those systems are increadibly difficult to obtain in English!

I wasn’t making a value judgement; just stating that my land vale does affect my taxes

Hence the “de jure”

Anyway it’s complicated. Some in ROC want independence. Some don’t. Some would like to join Beijing (many investors from ROC). Most probably want the whole thing to be on the low and the ROC ignored lest the dragon is awakened.

But regardless what civilians want, being part of China affects the actions of Taipei more than any other issue.

Well I don’t think they should be down voted, but it is wrong.

Taiwan is de-jure a part of China. China just happens to be in the curious state of having two competing entities claiming to be the legitimate government.

Both ROC and Beijing agree Taiwan is China. The “C” in ROC is China!

No but the assessor can - and in every place I’ve owned property, does - give you a breakdown.

Heck, the breakdown is required information in your federal taxes if you want the depreciation expense.

And for all of us who don’t live in crazy-land CA, we have to get assessed since my purchase price (I.e. market value) ten years ago is meaningless today.

“The difference matters” I don’t see how, but I don’t fully understand how your assessment works. My city’s assessment is close to the market value [1] for the whole property, so it’s a mute point.

Either way, they do give me a breakdown, which I agree is right (land about 33% of overall value).

Again, for rental properties, there is a disincentive to having low density housing (my condo value in a 20 story building is assessed as 20% land)

[1] close to what I believe I can sell the house for

Parents are hard to cut off.

My parents are as paranoid as I am (grew up in a US enabled dictatorship) so it was easy to get them to use Signal. If they weren’t so cool, I’d use FB or WhatsApp

But my aunts and uncles and cousins (who, ironically also grew up in this dictatorship) laugh and use Facebook.

That’s cool. I don’t talk to them often. They know I love them. And they know I won’t use FB.

It is. In my city at least. And at the federal level for landlords as well.

My local taxes depend on my land value + my house value.

Larger land, (or more desirable) more taxes.

In federal taxes, for a rental unit, you get a depreciation expense only on the value of the structure. Not on the land. So more valuable land vs. structure, less federal discount.

What’s the problem with Christian or comic bookstores?

Do the same problems apply to the Muslim or Jewish bookstore in my neighborhood? Should I be concerned with them - there’s funny symbols! (I don’t think there’s a Christian bookstore)?

Does St. Thomas Aquinas, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky belong in “Christian” bookstore, or in a “normal” bookstore?

If in a “Christian” bookstore, do you have a problem with Tolstoy?

If in a “normal” bookstore, is Tolstoy’s work no longer Christian?

Is “Persepolis” bad literature for being a comic book?

For the property owner they are

“Coal” plants burn carbon, making carbon dioxide. It’s colorless and pretty much harmless, excepting it’s inpact as a GHG.

However, coal contains (depending on the source), mercury, sulfur, radioactive elements, tars, rare earth elements.

Some of these are volatile when burned. Some become ash.

A plant running anthracite is naturally very clean.

The plant has to have scrubbers to remove the volatile ones.

Especially the yellow smoke (likely sulfur)

However, a one time emission of sulfur is likely insignificant.

Finally you mentioned it could be natural gas. Natural gas, mostly methane, is also colorless except it releases water vapor. Given the right conditions, you might see plumes of white smoke coming out - that’s harmless water vapor.

He’s not a troll (I.e. OP is sincere, not just trying to provoke) he’s probably a libertarian that forgot that HT usually refers to forced prostitution. (As opposed to coyotes moving ppl across borders)

While the OP’s point was not well articulated (assuming I’m right about his political leanings), this illustrates the importance of the principle of charity; I.e he’s not mental and/or unredeemable. He just has quirky a worldview

For the record, I disagree with OP on eliminating borders.

“Fortunately, EFF is an organization that definitely knows its rights and how to exercise them.”

Exactly. Of all the orgs to send a BS take down notice to, the EFF would be the last I’d pick a fight with.

First they were made mostly to defend against the Yugoslavians and the Greeks.

Also, the vast majority of them are the size of a small igloo barely big enough for two, with foot thick reinforced concrete - and they’re everywhere in an onion like structure.

The idea then is that the infantry man retreats to the next layer (some 100 yards or less).

Sure an aircraft an destroy anyone of them. But there are more bunkers than any Air Force can blow up.

Meanwhile the invader has hundreds of kilometers of layers of bunkers to walk through.

Most of the igloos are for rifle men. Every third igloo is open in the back - that’s the RPG guy for the tanks.

Those big bunkers in the photos are quite rare.

Finally, the “commissioning” of the igloo bunker was done by having their designer sit in one of them while the artillary hit it - they’re tough little things.

- You can use catalysts - you can pump outside air and exhaust the ozone to the outside (creates smog though)

A black friend of mine lived in Savanah, ATL, NYC and in the Midwest.

She said that you find just as many racists everywhere, but she “appreciates” the (urban) Southern racists ones more because they don’t try to hide, so she knows where she stands.

10% of Americans do not eat their own food exclusively.

I think it’s more likely that 10% buy exclusively organic, and that the organic label is more honest than I thought. But that stretches the imagination too (do these high income individuals not eat out???)

Disclaimer: I find this super cool. I love analog solutions to engineering problems.

This is about optical wavelength length scales -> feature sizes << 1500nm for infrared

3D printers’ feature sizes work for giga hertz waves (as a guestimate) assuming:

- The features can be printed - 3D have limitations after all.

- the materials that can be 3D printed are optically suitable.

For a 2D structure, maybe. What is the depth of the feature though? I saw those pictures as light shining along the plane, not across it (am I wrong?). If it’s across it’s not obvious that CDRW’s features are deep enough and the “empty” space transparent enough.

How about 3D micro-structures? It’s hard enough to make a one off 3D structure reproducible, never mind a changeable one.

Only 90?? What does the other 10 do to avoid pesticides????

Assuming these structures can be changed like an FPGA.

It’s not obvious how you can change the microstructure of a material to something you like in minutes.

I don’t know much about analog computing, but how well can analog computers solve PDE’s in 3 spatial dimensions?

I know that until digital computers came along, structural analysis was done with strains lacquer techniques, so the circuit way seems limited