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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.
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.
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.
Now I’m looking for a dumb phone.
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?
- 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!
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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???)
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.
How about 3D micro-structures? It’s hard enough to make a one off 3D structure reproducible, never mind a changeable one.
It’s not obvious how you can change the microstructure of a material to something you like in minutes.
I know that until digital computers came along, structural analysis was done with strains lacquer techniques, so the circuit way seems limited