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It's more that construction has been incredibly short-termist for too long.

A huge amount of housing was built post the second world war. Very quick and not of high quality. We needed a lot of it and we needed it cheap because we were pretty close to broke.

High rise social housing came along and was again, prefabricated concrete with a short design life. Expected to be used for at most 50 years then replaced. After all, the 60s expected tomorrows home to be better, why build to last 100 years when it will be advantageous to build again.

Public sector building existed up until the 70s but it was about volume and designed to get us to the next point where we upgraded that stock.

Then the 80s happened and we never upgraded the stock. It was instead sold off to the private sector and when they rebuilt it, they were also deregulated.

Any house today has a design life of 25 years, the length of the average first mortgage.

We're even echos with austerity starting in 2010. Schools built as a quick fix in the 60s, with a 30 year design life, slated late for replacement in 2010, then the funding removed due to cuts by our current government.

Turns out they've got RAAC roofs which cave in without warning when they're more than twice their design life.

Grenfell is a disaster caused by taking a building built to the lowest bidder as a quick way to provide housing. Then tacking on insulation to the outside. Our construction sector is so deregulated this insulation was highly flammable and hundreds died as a result.

The result is we choose older buildings because survivorship bias means the crap built in the 1930s and before has already gone. If we buy old enough we get well built homes designed to be heated by fires and stoves.

Fires generally kick out more heat than is needed to heat a room, so insulation to keep that in just made the house too hot to have a lit fire in the UK. Originally they were insulated enough to leak the correct amount of heat.

Retrofitting these old houses with more controllable heating and insulation is difficult.

But buy a newer house designed with a newer heating system in mind and you'll find it's trash quality. Possibly even dangerous and completely worthless when a revelation about building materials comes out.

TLDR: British people aren't stupid. Houses from the 1700s, 1800s and up to the 1930s were built to last as long as possible. Newer property wasn't.

Left wing governments built cheap and got voted out before renewing stock. That's all end of design life now built 1945-1979

Right wing governments from 1980 deregulated construction so very little built since then is of good quality. Some of it simply dangerous and now worthless.

STLDR: We understand insulation. Our governments don't.

For context.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/if-vlc-can-ship-a-free-dvd-player-why-cant-microsoft/

Under French law DVD and Blu-ray codecs aren't patentable and VLC is based in France. The organisation isn't breaking any laws.

Whether using VLC in the US is the legal grey area.

So it's not VideoLAN who might be breaking a law, it's you by circumventing the anti piracy keys in DVDs and Blurays. Millennium copyright act and anywhere that signs up to a treaty containing reciprocal copyright law might have an issue.

Patent infringements might also be possible in the US if you edited that open source code in that country, but US to EU patent treaties don't cover software France deems unpatentable so distributing the codec is probably fine as long as it's of French origin (and non-commercial use as per the GPL licence)

In the UK, the codec might be patentable now after Brexit interestingly but we haven't yet diverged on patent treaties with the EU yet as far as I know and we're part of the US patent treaty still.

Similar things happened with MP3 codecs in Linux before it was also made free. You'd either be prompted to make the choice to install yourself during or after the install. Or perhaps 2 downloads offered, one with and one without.

All to show you as an individual made the choice to use those codecs. If there were any possible damages from an individual download is would be less than $40 in licencing. So a lawyer would have to submit a case for each individual for that as a possible settlement, not even guaranteed.

As long as a large organisation isn't liable for the codec install, it falls into "de minimis" legal territory.

I remember a Live CD install of Ubuntu required some hoops to get codecs at one point in the distant past. I looked it up then out of curiosity.

If you want to assume you'll double your money somewhere else, sell up and do it.

The fact is you've borrowed against an asset, the bank took the initial risk on your ability to pay but it's secured against the asset.

The tenant is in a position they pay more per month than your mortgage payment simply based on a deposit around 20% of the property value.

You get to take on 20% of the risk of buying a house, the bank 80% of the risk, and the tenant pays you both for it.

I'm going to assume the average landlord, just as you assume average returns. Sod all work and maintenance done, no time spent. A property initially bought in good condition coasting on for 10 years with little input required.

Then sold on at a profit after the tenant has paid rent, paid into the landlords mortgage and their equity. Just before the rental value starts to reflect poor condition.

It's bought by a house flipper in poor cosmetic condition, tenants kicked out, renovations done to the lowest standard to last about 10 years. House sold on for a small additional premium as ready to rent to a buy to let landlord.

I really hope the buy to let landlords end up at a wash or worse. The tenant pays into equity, the house flipper adds value by actually working on the property.

The landlord in between just acts as an easy risk for the bank to charge their interest against while taking the tenants money. The bank makes a healthy profit and the landlord gets a cut of the tenants earnings too, simply for reducing the banks net risk to near zero by putting in their 20%.

Without the landlords banks would have to lend to the tenant directly or not at all. The lower number of actual buyers would lower the price, so they'd actually probably end up lending the same amount against the asset. But they'd have to do more work to ensure the value of the property.

Economically a passive landlord's main function is to assess value and bet on the right property for the bank. Without landlords the postcode algorithm would be all that's left as home owners tend to overvalue their potential home. And it's not enough information.

Landlords could be replaced by banks employing decent surveyors allowing them to offer that 100% mortgage without crashing the market. But they don't because landlords give them an out.

You lose backwards compatibility with web browsers if you do that.

It also doesn't help reader apps or plugins, SEO or various other things to have the site stream the text instead of just loading it.

Basically it moves you from standard thing everything understands to non-standard thing which might break. It's just not worth it.

Based on the US defense spending, all of them?

It's obviously not a good Idea to do it, but the US is unquestionably prepared.

The patient Nintendo gamer has to wait for an emulator and raise the Jolly Roger.

In all seriousness Nintendo games for previous gen (Wii U) are roughly half current gen. In the current gens store. Go back further and they just don't support it.

The real problem now is all console companies just close the store on their old consoles so physical media is the only purchase route that lasts if you want to stay legal and that has scarcity value in the end.

It's because the 737 MAX went through significant changes and lobbies the FAA to avoid recertification.

Essentially we have a record which planes have gone through a rigorous certification process in their current configuration and which haven't because looking back it's plain as day.

The design of most planes has been checked properly because the FAA and Boeing have usually done their job properly. In the case of this change to the 737 they haven't.

I'd still recommend requesting a flight on another companies airplane when possible and never accepting a ticket on a 737 max even if it's allowed back in the air.

But there's no need to cause a mass grounding of safe aircraft that don't have any problems. That would be incredibly wasteful and more importantly bring older aircraft into service as an alternative. Older aircraft which would be less safe than the ones on the ground.

That would be roughly 340 kB/s

High quality mp3 or low quality wav.

Culturally I can see it.

Economically I can't.

The silent generation and greatest generation didn't track that way in the UK.

The similar studies I've seen show the boomers lurching to the right and older generations being basically consistent post war.

This also tracks with the "post war consensus" between parties in the UK and essentially identical Keynesian economic policy until Thatcher and Regan in the US.

Being part of the post war rebuild and remembering the new deal that generation remained essentially Keynesian.

Boomers went full on Ayn Rand and hand of the market trickle-down economics. Gen X get to hide in the noise, millennials are consistently against trickle-down economics having come of age in cut backs and austerity. Even favouring full on socialists. Gen Z basically track with millennials economically.

The culture war might make it seem like we all track right over time and the millennials are different to zennials. If anything Gen Z being clearly more outspoken on environmental issues is making some millennials I know more liberal rather than tracking to the right.

While some millennials don't like being told the homophobic jokes they grew up with in sitcoms are wrong. Most seem to accept that and move with the times still.

There were 2 types of baby boomer. The culturally freeing, drug taking, sexual revolution, playboy buying type.

And the type who hated those free people and thought they were morally wrong. If they were invited they wouldn't have turned up to any of that stuff anyway.

I'd love to see a study on if the free living cohort died early or not. Because they aren't in the majority of that generation now. Voting wise they swung the US towards the Republicans, the "greatest" generation and the "silent" generation leaned democrat.

Lots of what was seen as progressive could be framed as no-one should face an oppressive culture. Or it could be framed as I shouldn't face an oppressive culture.

It will take a hundred years before the bizarre social coincidence of such a large generation gets understood. Once they, and maybe their children, aren't around to write the history books an objective viewing might not show them in a positive light overall.

Coasted on the success of the generation before, taken from the generation after. Held back social progress as soon as they had wealth.

An iron curtain of the internet is serving who exactly?

If we "Cut Russia off" the state will definitely be able to circumvent the block, ordinary people won't.

At the moment ordinary Russians can and do circumvent the Russian states censorship and that's a very good thing. We don't want to enforce that from our side too.

It's quite simple. Don't take up more space than provided.

If you want more space, park somewhere else.

You'll quickly find out how little people care about a minority of people with stupid vehicles, making stupid decisions by buying them, not being able to park conveniently.

Those people can take their business and nuisance elsewhere and the town will probably be better off as a result.

I've got nothing to rebut from you.

I've stated my case simply and you can't find a relevant rebuttal.

I don't think you understand, different places have different prices for parking. Where I live bikes get charged less.

Ok. If I take 100 dollars off you each month until the police stop me. Stopping me is punishment enough because I lose revenue.

Talking money off you and taking your data and selling it on is different, but both are wrong and both should come with a punishment. Not just an order to stop.

In the EU they wouldn't have tried this in the first place, because they'd get fined.

You can state irrelevant facts only true for a city or two if you like. You just end up wrong.

Sorry you live in a silly place. Doesn't change the argument.

I'm not lying at all.

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Motorcycles are charged less.

Human rights don't apply to parking.

And I'd be interested if the Human Rights were ruling against oversized passengers on airlines being charged extra for taking up more space.

Actually it's right.

https://images.app.goo.gl/EuwNCZJ9dTomShf57

The bass and the tune are separate although you might be hearing them together.