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This is true. If you live near an airport the disclosure is required by law if you buy a house in the are.

However, it doesn’t preclude expansion and changes. If for example your airport moves from 12 hour a day to round-the-clock flights... nothing you can do.

It’s a sticky wicket.

How? Homeowners associations. I planted milkweed in an empty side yard and was cited for the same thing.

Also I was cited for having a browning lawn. My neighbors brought me a bag of weed-and-feed (basically lawn seed with pesticide) because he thought I did not know how to “do the lawn.” Very sweet, but all I wanted was not to kill everything. Wasn’t allowed.

I really think the US should require all college grads to spend a year overseas in a country that speaks a different language.

I got an education and then I got a real education from travel myself.

With all respect I don’t see how this changes anything but shifting who pays.

How is it better to pool risks to the group rather than the individual paying a for that risk? The US already has a huge problem with coastal real estate and federal insurance of coastal developments. Why would we introduce that at scale?

Why should the collective pay for individual choices? It’s not like the society got together and made people move into fire prone areas.

I am not trying to draw parallels to health insurance which has many ethical questions that drive deep consideration, but I don’t understand why asking for the group to insure individual risk that is fundamentally founded in individual choice is in any way necessarily better?

No that’s exactly what we want. We want the free market to create efficiency without entrenched regulation, which could lead to some short-term increase in risk. But what you really want is to price in the risk, and the only way to do that is to remove government protections of individual corporations so that the free market can operate. Little companies increasing the risks of fire is a misnomer because competition and a truly free market would crush those companies and eliminate that problem faster than you could think of a solution. It’s only when you entrench a bureaucracy that you end up with problems like PG&E - a company that doesn’t have to deal with real consequences because it’s political connections will protect it.

What your describing sounds fantastic and is politically expeditious because there is less risk in backing the prevailing methodology, but it is not improvement.

Competition in transmission is good, because alternatives like alternative energy would completely displace these systems and technology advancements would be available and legal - unlike the current insanity.

You know how you can’t put in an oversized solar system and sell power back to the grid, even if you can afford to? Did you notice that the grid is super inefficient because it’s got a limited number of highly centralized generation sources? No? Well that’s the consequence of ownership of the transmission lines. If you own the last mile you own the network. And if you also own the politicians who can protect your last mile interests, why would you invest in change?

Mozilla seems to have integrity. It’s great to see.

They should take the momentum of these values and launch an alternative to gmail.

None of this moves the needle on anything that matters to me. I don’t want to pay another subscription for yet another business that doesn’t offer material benefit. I love the long form, but I want specific benefits that matter more than as a matter of discourse.

News is now asking for subscribers to pay for what advertisers no longer will. Ok. Why should I?

And you consider that different from the current generation of sites how?

All kidding aside I think the overall level of USABILITY of websites is much higher than it ever has been today. But in large part that’s because they are all following the same foundations.

Man, all of those models look like flash websites. That’s the problem. The unconstrained mess of deconstructed html, the Skeuomorph movement and reconstruction of architecture in the browser,

Man, all of those models look like flash websites. That’s the problem. The unconstrained mess of deconstructed html, the Skeuomorph movement and reconstruction of architecture in the browser, the relationship diagram... these are the same explorations of early flash and dhtml websites.

It’s challenging to rebel against the dominant paradigm because everyone ends up with tattoos and blue hair and alternative becomes mainstream all over again.

How will I ever execute my plan to explore the eroding atmospheres of exoplanets when apple can’t even be bothered to handle a little helium. Jeez...