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6d ago
I find that extremely hard to believe. The bathroom door and the shower door should never be open at the same time.
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6d ago
Just leave your doors closed or ajar rather than wide open, and there's no problem.
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7d ago
D&D is under a Creative Commons license now
This is not a very informative phrasing, because there are several different Creative Commons licenses and some of them are very restrictive. More specifically, D&D is under CC BY 4.0, the Creative Commons attribution-only license, whose restrictions are minimal.
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7d ago
Is this allowed by the fire code?
I see no prohibition in International Residential Code § R318. It does contravene International Building Code § 1010.1.7, but that doesn't apply to houses.
IMO, it's a terrible way to save space, too.
Maybe if you constantly leave doors wide open rather than ajar or closed. I personally do not do that.
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7d ago
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7d ago
My Texan mind simply can’t comprehend the prospect of hundreds of pounds of snow sitting on my roof.
Snow load at the northern edge of Texas reaches 19 lb/ft2, which is almost as much as the 20 lb/ft2 of live load for people walking on a flat roof.
As for controllers—do you actually like them lighter?
I don't care much about the weight (though, having removed the rumble motors from my Xbox One controller, I do think it now feels better to hold), but I hate rumble and disable it in every game I play, so why not remove rumble motors that I never use? (Some Internet searching indicates that people with arthritic or otherwise-unhealthy wrists also like lighter controllers.)
Remember the big dam failure that happened in Brazil ten years ago? A London judge has found some liability for it.
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7d ago
Court saga:
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A municipality has an ordinance requiring a towing company that operates in the municipality to have a storage lot within the municipality.
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2013: A towing company with a storage lot in an adjacent municipality sues, arguing that the ordinance violates a state law that requires municipal towing ordinances to be "non-discriminatory and non-exclusionary".
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2015: The municipality settles the lawsuit by agreeing to change the ordinance to require a towing company to have a storage facility within five miles (eight kilometers) of the center of the municipality, as the crow flies. (Unfortunately, this lawsuit is too old for any of its documents to be available in the state's online judicial database.)
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February 2020: A second towing company with a storage lot 5.6 miles (9 kilometers) from the center of the municipality sues, arguing that the new ordinance still violates the state law.
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October 2020: The trial judge dismisses the lawsuit, finding that the five-mile radius is a reasonable method of ensuring convenience for the municipality's residents.
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2022: The appeals panel vacates and remands for further proceedings. The municipality never actually stated on the record its rationale for the five-mile radius (other than that it included the first company), so the judge had no basis to infer a rationale.
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2024: The municipality states on the record that the five-mile radius was picked as a "reasonable distance" for the convenience of its residents and police officers. The trial judge rejects the second company's arguments that any radius not measured from the edge of the municipality (which is approximately an 8 mi × 3 mi (13 km × 5 km) rectangle) or along roads is unreasonable, finds the five-mile radius reasonable, and dismisses the lawsuit.
Here is an extra-detailed floor plan for a two-story house.
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Dashed lines: Footings, foundation walls
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Solid lines: Rooms, drywall, studs, sheathing, continuous insulation, portals, doors, door swings, windows
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Dotted lines: Roof overhang, gutters
The footings, insulation, and rafters are based on the harsh climate of Fairbanks, Alaska (snow load 67 lb/ft2), and can be reduced in size if the house is built in a warmer location. (The International Residential Code's prescriptive tables top out at 70 lb/ft2, so for anything higher than that an engineered design is required. The highest snow load listed in the International Building Code (for ASCE 7 risk category II, which applies to houses) is 432 lb/ft2 in Whittier, Alaska, which is warmer than Fairbanks but has a wetter climate.)
Fun fact: If you are nostalgic for the days when gamepads were as light as feathers, you may be able to drastically cut down on weight by simply removing the rumble motors! The linked guide instructs you to desolder the wires, but merely cutting them works just as well if you are removing the motors rather than replacing them.
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8d ago
I'll also compute square roots by hand from time to time, just to keep my skills sharp.
Based, but I personally don't find it very fun once the numerators and denominators of the approximating fractions start exceeding three digits.
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8d ago
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9d ago
No, I'm arguing that the term "oatmeal" includes flavored oatmeal, instant oatmeal, steel-cut oatmeal, and presumably other types of oatmeal with which I am not acquainted, rather than just ordinary oatmeal, and the law would need to differentiate between those types.
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9d ago
Sources: Hiring freeze, campus closure
However: This document indicates that each of the seven satellite campuses being closed had fewer than 800 students. The dire situation at those satellite campuses doesn't really reflect the university as a whole, whose main campus enrolls 49,000 students and has not seen its enrollment fall over the past ten years.
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9d ago
everything is more expensive here (due to shipping costs), and so the cost of living is something like 17% higher than the national average.
Is anything stopping you from moving to the contiguous US? Official numbers compiled by the Department of Justice (looking only at urban counties, not at rural counties):
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Anchorage, Alaska: 2367 $/mo for housing and utilities
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Fairbanks, Alaska: 2160
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Juneau, Alaska: 2345
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Soldotna, Alaska: 1902
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Lewiston, Idaho: 1702
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Emmett, Idaho: 1544
I'm not a lawyer, but it is my impression that punishing the manufacturer for actions taken by the consumer is unconstitutional.
If you want to talk about the manufacturer's purpose in making certain manufacturing decisions, then you are on firmer ground. But, even then: Taking the seat case as an example, the manufacturer actually won on the first level of appeal, since the flimsy temporary seats were functional and standards-compliant despite being uncomfortable to actually use and removed (by the manufacturer, not by the consumer) immediately after importation, and it was only on the second level of appeal that the tariff was enforced. So closing these loopholes may be more difficult than it appears at first glance.
Beer, vodka, and kombucha already have detailed dictionary definitions that need no further clarification in law or regulation. You possibly could argue the same for flour. But the terms "rice", "oatmeal", "bread", and "pasta" definitely encompass a wide variety of different products on grocery shelves.
The grocery store sells different kinds of rice, oatmeal, flour, bread, and pasta, which have different nutritional values. If you try to promulgate a simple definition, companies eager for government money will soon manufacture new products designed to fit within your simple definition while still being unhealthily delicious, forcing you to issue a more complicated definition.
For example: Chapter 19 of the US Harmonized Tariff Schedule lists 19 different types of bread. A government must pick which ones it wants to make eligible for government handouts, and it must define those types as well. (I don't see any definitions in this document, but I assume that they exist somewhere. You may be aware of tariff shenanigans like coating sneakers in a layer of felt so that they count as slippers, adding flimsy temporary seats to cargo vans so that they count as passenger vans, and calling X-Men action figures nonhuman so that they don't count as dolls.)
I will quote the learned lawyer once again:
The issue is that disentangling all of this would result in regulations so byzantine that you couldn't possibly expect the average person to have an intuitive sense for it.
The existing exemption for "food and food ingredients" in Washington's sales tax takes up three pages of law and seven pages of regulation. Exemptions for specific kinds of food would be much longer.
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10d ago
The issue is that disentangling all of this would result in regulations so byzantine that you couldn't possibly expect the average person to have an intuitive sense for it.
I can't wait to read the 50-page regulation in the Federal Register explaining exactly what kinds of "rice, oatmeal, flour", "bread, and pasta" are eligible.
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10d ago
It would be pretty funny if you were to submit a pull request to make such a change on this very website.
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10d ago
Do you deny that the DNC practices indirect messaging through proxies? That when certain people speak in public, despite not being the living embodiment of the DNC, they are speaking for the DNC?
I do not. But I deny that it is obvious that Whoopi Goldberg and especially Bernie Sanders are representatives of the DNC.
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10d ago
There is rarely such thing as "DNC messaging" in the manner you seem to be expecting. The DNC does not issue proclamations from heaven on DNC notarized stationary.
The DNC website literally has a webpage full of such proclamations.
Its constituent members directly, and frequently indirectly, launder their talking points through proxies.
In that case, linking to Chuck Schumer as I did, rather than to Whoopi Goldberg and Bernie Sanders, would have been much more convincing.
I tried keeping some friends between approximately 2012 and 2016, but found it not worth the effort.
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