akadruid1

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Comment · 3 months ago

This is ultimately a failing of democracy itself. This stuff was legal, and it's hard to make a law that reaches back decades to impose costs on manufacturers or real estate developers without drastic economic side effects. Leaseholders in theory were one of the beneficiaries of the cheap building techniques, but a lot (maybe most?) of the burden of remediation has actually fallen to the taxpayer - typical politicians, winning votes in the 1980s and paying the tax in the 2020s.

Known unsafe building methods should not have been legal, but we know that politicians have been avoiding legislating this specific issue for more 50 years[1]. Politicians need votes or kickbacks in months or a few years at most. Fire safety is a long term investment against a rare problem. Long term investments against even common problems are basically impossible in modern democracies. For example, if you legislate cycle path networks everywhere people will eventually love them and fight to keep them, in addition to delivering economic and health benefits, but outside the Netherlands very few places do it - because it took 40 years in the Netherlands.

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Comment · 6 months ago

https://archive.is/mAcWG

Comment · 9 months ago

You're right, and the article is wrong. 3 pane layouts similar to desktop mail readers and Usenet clients appeared well before 2002. For example, if you look at the history of feedreader.com, there is a screenshot of a 3 pane layout on the front page archived in 2001: https://archive.ph/U9ZAo

Comment · 11 months ago

By themselves even targeted tariffs don't work. Argentina did not become a mobile phone manufacturing hub.

https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/milei-is-scrapping...

Comment · 1 year ago

https://archive.is/9jWxq

Comment · 1 year ago

Red Hat would be smart to get in on this

Comment · 1 year ago

This isn't true:

> Our results indicate that today's electrified bus fleets are roughly cost comparable to their traditional diesel counterparts

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967070X2...

Comment · 1 year ago

I believe at least some of it is LEGO Technic

Comment · 1 year ago

Wordpress is clunky but it never broke backwards compatibility.

HN grumbles about Drupal because many got burnt by picking the wrong horse. Drupal was the biggest CMS in the world and like a safe bet until they told their users they would have to rewrite their 7 code to go to 8 and their users decided they would rewrite to WordPress[1]. Drupal never regained the trust they lost. They extended the life of d7 over and over but never made a compelling replacement. To this day, 7 is still more widely deployed than 8,9 or 10 ever were[2].

I think it's interesting to observe the fate that Python 3 narrowly avoided. Python 3 wasn't a compelling replacement until at least 3.5. In a nearly parallel universe they're all using torch.rb instead of pytorch.

[1]https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/did-breaking-backward...

[2]https://www.drupal.org/project/usage/drupal

Comment · 1 year ago

5% of a transit authority's budget would be a lot of money! Advertising made £158 million for Transport for London in 2019, much less than 5% of their budget.

Comment · 2 years ago

It looked like the plants are normally shielded by collapsible curtains which were open for the benefit of the video.

Comment · 2 years ago

This article from earlier this year covers much of the same ground:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/03/1090603/how-to-r...

Comment · 2 years ago

https://archive.is/0tSqf

Comment · 2 years ago

https://archive.is/rvoK5

Comment · 2 years ago

These exist and have been saving lives for at least 6 years: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/lifegua...