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fyi people do sometimes overrate how much capacity they need to plug in at home, you usually don't need the full 50 amps unless your commute is super long!

unclear to me how massive the costs actually are? if it's just low interest loans and low to breakeven profit margins that doesn't seem catastrophic

how unionized is the oil/gas industry?

sounds like a good time to have 'overcapacity' of batteries and solar..

the disconnect between planning and development/finance is bizarre considering they're all supposedly working on the same buildings

lebron is 41. you have time

we do have an EV industry now, not just for passenger cars but increasingly heavy trucks as well. that wasn't a thing in 1973 or 2008..

45mpg diesel? when did you move to europe?

how do you describe what you do? to friends, reporters, etc?

how on earth was that profitable??

cartoonish how this is apparently fine but a 6 story single stair brownstone is just too darn dangerous

so what's happening with the elevated section between east and west jc?

do you also find it weird how passive the multifamily industry seems to be?

most other industries seem more resistant to new restrictions and requirements than them, afaict, what do you think?

they already made a movie with some real life people and some artificial characters, it's called space jam.

not sure how this is that different, besides the character being more lifelike.

also, most of these buildings would be pretty small, with only a few units per floor, and probably fire walls between neighbor buildings

single stair seems to be going just fine in nyc, seattle, and dozens of other cities globally

a block with dozens of point access blocks has many *more* stairwells than a block-sized 5 over 1 building, i don't know why they can't get to that framing

so often these seem to start off envisioning a big 5 over 1 building, and interpret the question as 'what if that building lost a stairwell', instead of envisioning or looking at actual point access blocks

having that stat in writing could at least be worth something.

it doesn’t actually seem that settled though, considering there are still active discussions about it!

and besides, sometimes it’s worth reviewing a decision made over a decade ago if it can save billions of dollars and potentially help save the whole project.

how about mass timber? sometimes assembled by steel workers i think

i'd expect the sf trades to want the nyc rules then, wouldn't they want more projects?

there seems to be an odd amount of things leading to nothing being built over something without the maximum bells and whistles

isn't the new mayor supposed be fixing that? how's that going?

yeah they're already doing some rethinking of the merced and burbank stations, palmdale should also be revisited with those numbers in mind

yeah and that article is 14 years old now too, it would make sense to at least re-evaluate it seriously.

what was the issue?

I know it has come up with subway costs but that's mostly separate from the mayor, more specialized, and hard to compare to more typical local government stuff. schools should be brought up specifically imo.

has anyone asked mamdani about this publicly?

they're working on improving it, why not mention it?

you can just replace the gas boilers with giant heat pumps afaik