About $10 per metric ton end customer price (wholesale, CFR), if anyone's interested.
Sand is heavy af. A ton is only like 20 cubic feet. Still… that’s not very much money.
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dkasper commented on The case for letting Malibu burn (1995) longreads.com/2018/12/04/... · Posted by u/pseudolus
There’s going to be lots of cleanup that will be paid for by city and state governments because it’s shared infrastructure and they don’t want to leave cleanup of toxic materials to homeowners that might skimp on it so it washes into the sewer system next time it rains.
It also depends on how many houses were insured by the state insurer CalFAIR. It’s over half a century old and has never been bailed out (funded entirely by premiums) but this is the most destructive fire in Calfironia history so we’ll see how well that holds up to this stress test.
Calfair will certainly need to be bailed out. The plans has over 5B in exposure in palisades alone, and only a few hundred million in reserves.
dkasper commented on The case for letting Malibu burn (1995) longreads.com/2018/12/04/... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Fire suppression and lack of controlled burns leads to big fires. However in an environment with hot Santa Ana Winds, even with good forest land fuel management, a city like Pacific Palisades as it stood could conceivably burn from an accidental fire within the city.
The real question is this: do we have the capability to build a house that would not burn down if the neighboring house caught fire? If so, a city could be build that would be impervious to wild fire, arson, and accidental fires.
How much would this cost?
Defensible housing exists, there have been some viral photos of a few houses that survived this wildfire. But the embers from large fires can fly for miles in high wind, so it would likely have to be the whole city
dkasper commented on Dell will no longer make XPS computers arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/MRPockets
Marketing things as "pro" is nothing new. I'm sure others could go back farther than this.
1980 Koga Miyata Pro https://www.speedbicycles.ch/velo/193/koga_miyata_pro_racer_...
1978 Centurion Pro Tour https://vintagecenturion.com/models/touring/protour.shtml
1969 Brooks Professional Saddle https://www.brooksengland.com/en_us/standard-professional.ht...
As for "rip-offs," the design language of every aluminum Macbook has basically been Leica rangefinder.
https://www.rustmag.com/gear/2020/12/16/4-reasons-to-buy-a-l...
Which is a double "rip-off," as the IBM Thinkpad goes back a lot farther and it was intentionally made black-with-red-accents to pay homage to Nikon while having the form factor of a bento box.
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/htmls/m...
If it were just pro that would be one thing, but when I saw “Pro Max” I instantly thought of Apple.
dkasper commented on Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals ft.com/content/1201f834-6... · Posted by u/kvee
Family needs to make $107,700 a year to own a home.
Apartment in a moderate-cost area is about $70,000-$100,000/year.
Median salary in the US is $59,300
What considered poverty level in the US for: 1 person: $15,060 2 people: $20,440 3 people: $25,820 4 people: $31,200
According to recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau, around 50% of Americans make $70,000 or more annually.
That means about 50% of the US can not afford a place to live.
You’re forgetting lots of people rent. Lots of people can’t afford to own, and almost all of them rent. The other factor is dual, or even 3+ incomes in families living together.
If you have a dynamic IP it was probably banned because of someone else who had it in the past.
Haunted IPs are a thing, same as the haunted domains article also on the front page right now! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41951131
dkasper commented on 1 in 6 Companies Are Hesitant to Hire Recent College Graduates intelligent.com/1-in-6-co... · Posted by u/Raed667
To me this sounds typical. I seem to remember people saying similar things about millennials 15 years ago. Would be curious to see a comparison.
dkasper commented on Nvidia Stock Rises. AMD's New AI Chip Is Not Competitive barrons.com/articles/nvid... · Posted by u/nabla9
is it naive to look at the market and just assume there's 500b of market cap screaming for amd to throw everythign at a competent cuda competitor and eventually see commoditization here? is this not possible (why hasnt this happened)?
Sure it’s possible, but it’s also incredibly difficult.
I don’t know what type of budget and expenses go into running this park in an ideal scenario, and what the revenue shortfall might be that would require additional taxpayer subsidies, but it seems like the obvious solution here is the ask people using the park to pay for the majority of its operations