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It doesn't help much to over engineer. Suppose we design the buildings to last 200 years. After 200 years, they start collapsing at the same rate as the rate of construction. If we built a new one every day, then after 200 years we'd have a new collapse every day.

This is way off target: "the kinds of neighborhoods that permanently reduce total driving"

People change jobs without changing where they live. It won't matter what kind of neighborhood a person lives in if the person still commutes a long distance.

Transaction costs are high. For a dense city, moving to a different apartment means losing rent control. Elsewhere, the process of selling and buying a house will eat up about 10% the value of the house. Switching kids to different school districts is often unacceptable.

The typical modern two-income household makes this far worse. Moving close to one employer just means moving away from the other employer. Cutting one person's commute just lengthens the other person's commute. Why bother?

My situation is far worse. The instructor assigns video that is on YouTube, but the kid would rather watch a different video. The assigned video is boring. It's more fun to watch a normal popular video.

So blocking YouTube won't work, yet most of YouTube needs to be blocked.

So it blocks "Malware and Adult Content", but that has never caused trouble in my family. What about the online games that distract from schoolwork, chores, and sleep? YouTube is full of stupid videos. You can even find games on Khan Academy!

It seems like you're not really starting adult life, and you're running out of years to do so. I started my 30's with 3 kids already, and ended my 30's with 9 kids. I bought a house. That house is my responsibility, without even an HOA. I don't have to ask mom for anything. I don't need parental permission. I got to pick the car I wanted to buy. If I feel like painting the house cyan or parking my car on the lawn, I can do so.

I'm trying to stomp out my son's video game addiction right now. The trouble is that online classes require a web browser, and there are lots of web games.

I knew a real dentist named Rex Pain. Rex means King. He was the king of pain.

The error here: it's not problems arising from capitalism

You complained that "only so many are built in any given geographic area", and I pointed out that this is for a very non-capitalist reason. Regulation prohibits opening new hospitals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need

I have those tools, and I rarely bother with the C they can generate. Plain disassembly isn't so great either. Usually IDA's graph view is the most productive. (it looks like a flow chart made from chunks of assembly code) I really wish Ghidra had a usable graph view; the graph view in Ghidra is just awful.

I know somebody else who sticks to the plain assembly listing view. People have their preferences.

Places that provide childcare seem to have fewer children. There is a reasonable mechanism of action: without that childcare, families with children quickly give up on having two incomes, and thus the extra children are less of a burden. Once you entirely give up on a career, the problem of career impact for an additional child is gone.

It's not as expensive as you think. I'm no 1%er, yet I have a dozen kids. Dual enrollment provides a nearly-free AA degree, knocking 2 years of a BS degree and eliminating all the general education requirements. With a spacing of 2 years from kid to kid, it's usually only one kid in college at a time. That assumes no scholarships.

You can find your own meaning, but you should be honest about the fact that it is your own meaning.

English teachers are demanding "correct" interpretation that has nothing to do with what the author intended. It's bullshit, and they need to admit that. It's also squeezing very important topics out of the schedule, such as the teaching of proper grammar and other things needed for non-literary writing in a professional career.

As a kid I rode around in a bigger station wagon, the Mercury Montego, which was 223.1 in (5,667 mm).

Now I drive a Ford E350 that is 236.7 in (6,012 mm). It's 3.45 feet longer than your Outback. I think it's the smallest car that will hold my family. It looks like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ford_E-Series_wagon.jpg

I bought a $40k Ascent with 8 seats. It's decent.

I'm not a fan of the driver assist nonsense. That stuff is dangerous. It actually yanks on the steering wheel, but of course it has no clue about the real world (no strong AI here) and obviously impedes safe control of the vehicle. Fortunately there is a way to turn that nonsense off. It probably still phones home with photos, GPS, and more.

It does have decent performance, particularly on slippery surfaces. To beat the Ascent you'd probably have to pay more or give up that 8th seat.

We now have proof that it really is "going far beyond the author's intention". Texas licensed a poem for a standardized test. The poem's author was still alive, and was unable to "correctly" answer test questions about the meaning of the poem.

So yes, the English teachers really are spouting nonsense, and we have proof.

It varies. I've seen software engineering with a security clearance that didn't require a drug test. Of course, all the friends of your friends were going to be interviewed in person, and they'd be asked about your behavior regarding drugs and more.

The way to beat your fence restriction is to make a fence-like installation of solar panels. There are laws to stop HOAs from blocking solar panels. This is also a great trick to get past zoning restrictions on fence height. It's not a fence, it's solar.

You can't do that kind of thing with a will. If we ban that for wills, it seems equally proper to ban it for pieces of property.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities

25C is something you set your thermostat to at home. Well, it would be 77F, which is the same.

(note: Florida Man Sets Thermostat)

It really is high school 2.0, as you can tell by the classes offered. There are classes that are below what is traditional for high school, but college credit is given. You can get college credit for the very first introductory algebra class. That's honors 7th grade, or regular 9th grade. About the same applies for English composition and science.

It's not just older people who wish to avoid being in classes with immature young people. The mature young people are also trying to get away from the awfulness.

I sent two of my kids to community college at 13. The only immaturity problem was that one of the two was a slacker about getting assignments done, but older people at the school also had that issue often enough. The other kid now has a 4.0 GPA on 48 credits, and you'd have never guessed she wasn't an adult.

The reason why "only so many are built in any given geographic area" is because we aren't being very capitalist or free market. One must obtain a "certificate of need" before opening a new facility, and that will be opposed in court by all possible competitors.

We could give capitalism and free market a try.

Your study does not address all types of injury.

I have seen more than a childbirth. I have 12 kids.

The most miserable and painful birth was in a hospital. That birth featured pain medication, fetal heart rate monitoring, beeping machines, and a prison-like situation with doors that locked us in. My wife was in pain for months afterward. We learned our lesson and didn't do another hospital birth.

The other 11 births were definitely not "so much pain", but pain did guide my wife to be careful. She was always up and about right afterward, without pain. One time she walked around town doing errands the next day.

"I seen a tree" is less ambiguous than "I saw a tree"

I probably wouldn't have most of my family if I'd gone to a hospital. My twins would have been a C-section, and then the scar would have led to another C-section and to troubles with the placenta invading the scar. Before long the uterus just plain wouldn't work OK, and would endanger the lives of future babies. Avoiding a C-section is really important for having a large family. My 13th is due in 6 weeks.

It's not just about injury after the birth. It's about injury during the birth.

As soon as the baby and placenta are out, it's too late to avoid injury during childbirth. It is no longer possible to let pain be guidance for minimization of injury. The chance was missed.

No, don't get an epidural. Pain has a purpose. It guides you to minimize injury. Be thankful you can feel pain.

There are people with genetic defects that prevent feeling pain. These people constantly injure themselves.

The members of congress will receive lots of gifts from family members who get strangely wealthy for no reason at all.

I'd say "costs more than the median income" is closer. Adjust for legitimate training costs that are incurred by the workers, and it might be a pretty good definition.

Yes? There is a decent chance that the people running your company like to golf. It can be advantageous to golf with them.

For a small non-public company getting acquired by a huge public company:

Days before the acquisition, the acquiring company gave us all interest-free loans to purchase the stock that we had options for. (we just signed the paperwork, and did not need to directly deal with the stock or money) At the moment of acquisition, that stock was all purchased by the acquiring company. We then got the money for that pretty quickly.