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I am certainly no expert on the subject but I would suggest the following points as answers to your question.

1) Most (that I have heard of) plans for Land Value Tax do still include a smaller portion of property taxes. This does not completely solve the problem you pose but does ameliorate it a little.

2) Some of those infrastructure things are paid for via utility payments on utilities used. The 100 families in the apartment building will use much more water than a single family home. Some part of that money should be budgeted and used for improving the utilities available. That doesn't account for things like parks, fire department, etc. but does take up some of the slack.

3) lastly and most importantly those homes will be paying more than their fair share on purpose! If they live in a neighborhood where it is economical to build 100 unit apartment buildings then a lot with just a single-family home is being wildly underutilized. The higher tax costs will encourage owners to redevelop those properties into apartments or other higher value uses to make efficient use of that land. This is the entire point of Land Value Tax! It makes it in the interest of land owners to upgrade and improve their property (whereas traditional property taxes have a negative incentive because building a new building will increase your taxes).

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That's incorrect. Simple was checking only until recently. (been a simple customer for about 7 years)
This article claims that higher threadcounts (as high as 680) improves the filtering of 2-layer 100% cotton masks. However, it seems that threadcounts this high are primarily a marketing gimmick by sheet makers that don't really make practical sense. Furthermore, because it's marketing gimmick, you can't really go out and buy so-called "680 threadcount cotton fabric" you can get sheets labeled that way but not a bolt of fabric from a craft store. I wan't to know what fabric they actually used to make this theoretical mask, without that this seems pretty specious.
The Schwarzschild radius for the mass of the observable universe is about 13.7 Billion Light Years while the observable universe is about 93 Billion Light Years across (radius ~46 Billion Light Years). So the universe is not itself a black hole (until you take expansion rates into account)
Aside from the useless limit of "all the mass in the universe"
Theoretically Apple could probably outbid Nvidia, but realistically regulators would never let Apple make that purchase so it's irrelevant that they have the cash to do so.
Re:Heat Pump Water Heaters on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @09:19AM (#23006649)
Here is some information on this concept. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/02/heat-your-house-wi...