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No fuel-economy measurement is given on the for-sale page. But it seems obvious that reducing the car's weight in this manner will improve its fuel economy by reducing its rolling resistance. (I admit that the worsened aerodynamics may cut into that improvement somewhat.)
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There has been some discussion (1 2) of how the lawsuit recently lost/settled by the US's National Association of Realtors may affect real-estate transactions in that country. But what about the rest of the world? It would be nice if some of the goshdarned furriner varmints that frequent this forum could relate their own experiences with buyer's-agent-free real-estate transactions, so that we uncultured USAians know what to expect in the coming years. For example, are these articles from Britain (1 2) and Australia (1 2) accurate?
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If you download the full spreadsheet and reduce the weight of incarceration rate to zero in the calculations, Texas still ends up at a pitiful #46 on personal freedom.
Gambling: #39
Marriage: #44
Education: #35
Marijuana: #50
Asset forfeiture: #42
Travel: #50
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realtor
The word "realtor" is a trademark of a specific organization. In order to avoid encouraging that organization's market dominance, one should instead say "real-estate agent".
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This seems like a slightly inflammatory claim, so here's some evidence that at least some other people hold it.
But when are we to say that this parental trustee jurisdiction over children shall come to an end? Surely any particular age (21,18, or whatever) can only be completely arbitrary. The clue to the solution of this thorny question lies in the parental property rights in their home. For the child has his full rights of self-ownership when he demonstrates that he has them in nature—in short, when he leaves or "runs away" from home. Regardless of his age, we must grant to every child the absolute right to run away and to find new foster parents who will voluntarily adopt him, or to try to exist on his own. Parents may try to persuade the runaway child to return, but it is totally impermissible enslavement and an aggression upon his right of self-ownership for them to use force to compel him to return. The absolute right to run away is the child's ultimate expression of his right of self-ownership, regardless of age.
Single-family suburbs wouldn't dominate a libertarian economy even if people really wanted it.. because they are grossly economically inefficient
Mr. O'Toole specifically asserts that that claim has been debunked. In the article linked above, he cites this presentation (made by a California developer) as basis for the claim that housing taller than two stories is much more expensive on a per-square-foot basis than single-story or two-story housing. (That's just a random presentation, so I wouldn't put too much weight on it, but that's the basis that he uses.)
In a different article, he suggests that, if indeed low-density housing results in inefficiencies—alleged by detractors of low-density housing to be equivalent to a lump sum of 11 k$ when a low-density house is built—when the city government is forced to extend services to the fringe of the city, then those inefficiencies can be levied as a special tax specifically on the low-density housing, rather than being spread across the entire city. (That article is sixteen years old, so it may be out of date.)
But, most importantly, in this article he claims that single-family housing and multi-family housing simply are not considered close substitutes for each other by most consumers of housing—building more apartments (or even condominiums) will not satisfy demand for single-family houses.
I am assuming, not a grid of grocery stores, but a uniform distribution of grocery stores (or, alternatively, of all the myriad establishments that count toward the house's ASTM E2843 walkability score). The average distance (of approximately 72 % of 1/2 mile) is measured to all points (on the road network) that are within 1/2 mile of the house (as measured on the road network), not just the ones that I explicitly marked with big black dots on the edge of the 1/2-mile catchment area.
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Fun with HTML and CSS: Magic symbols and half-size artless cards
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even Mitsubishi discontinued the Mirage
It's only a rumor that Mitsubishi plans to discontinue the Mirage in the US by 2025. Mitsubishi has not actually confirmed the news reports.
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This website doesn't keep track of each user's total Internet points, though.
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A telecom company wants to build a 150-foot cellular tower in a municipality of 6,500 people. Three of its permit applications to build a cell tower on govt. land have already been rejected, so now it's trying to build on privately-owned land—in a commercial zone, but adjacent to a residential zone.
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February 2018: The municipal govt. rejects the application because of the negative impact on the value of nearby residential properties.
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August 2019: A judge vacates and remands because the govt. did not properly assess the factors underlying its decision.
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November 2019: The govt.'s expert says that the cell tower would cause the value of nearby residential property to fall by 10 to 20 percent. The govt. accepts this testimony, and on that basis rejects the application.
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February 2021: The judge vacates and remands because the govt.'s expert did not base his estimate of 10 to 20 percent on any actual data.
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Unspecified date: The telecom company's expert testifies that, though it's anecdotally true that higher-end house buyers are "more discerning" and less likely to buy houses near cell towers, the data show that any drop in house prices near the cell tower would be less than one percent. The govt. rejects the expert's evidence-based testimony because the dataset is not representative of the site in question, but accepts his non-evidence-based anecdote about higher-end buyers, and on that basis denies the application.
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June 2022: The judge reverses the govt.'s decision and approves the application outright, with no remand. The govt.'s treatment of the testimony of the plaintiff's expert was arbitrary and capricious.
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February 2024: The appeals panel affirms the trial judge's decision in all respects.
Six years later, maybe the cellular tower can finally be built!
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>linking directly to 4chan webms that will disappear in a few days
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There are legitimate reasons to deny personhood to infants. Some scientists have determined that babies do not achieve sapience until several months after birth; and some moral frameworks attribute little or no moral value to beings that have never achieved sapience, regardless of their status as humans or as probable future sapients.
I think someone else in these threads recently mentioned that, for most people, sapience is not the only factor in personhood, and humanness is a major factor as well. Those moral frameworks are reasonable as well. Holders of frameworks in that second set should not denigrate holders of moral frameworks in the first set as "crazy" or "monstrous" ( @ChickenOverlord )—at least in the view of this forum's censors.
That isn't how the survey was worded.
Imagine that {State} passes a law to ensure that suburban homes may be developed on farmland and open space near cities. The new law overrides local zoning restrictions. It causes a building boom. In five years, the number of homes and apartments in your metropolitan region is 10 % larger than it otherwise would have been. For example, a region that would have had 1,000,000 residential units in five years without any change to development restrictions will instead have 1,100,000 units. This is three times the rate of housing growth in the nation as a whole.
How would this affect the market value of typical {Home Type} in {City}? It would...
- substantially increase their market value
- somewhat increase their market value
- have no effect on their market value
- somewhat decrease their market value
- substantially decrease their market value
Literally 60 to 70 percent of respondents chose "substantially increase", "somewhat increase", or "have no effect on".
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I was thinking of building a desktop, but I'm about to move into a small apartment with my girlfriend and I don't think we'll have the floor space to spare, so it'll have to be a laptop.
There's a third option: miniature desktops.
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The second format is big-endian rather than middle-endian, though. I hope you aren't one of those people who prefer 9/30/2023 to 2023-09-30.
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It’s a simulationist approach which is largely absent from the modern game.
There's always GURPS. Third Edition Basic Set:
Roll three [six-sided] dice for each of the four basic attributes—ST, DX, IQ, and HT. If you wish, you may discard any one of the four rolls and try again—but you must keep the new roll, whatever it is!
(This rule technically is missing from the Fourth Edition Basic Set, but it obviously works just as well in Fourth Edition.)
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 16: Wilderness Adventures can be used for hexcrawls. GURPS Boardroom and Curia has rules for creating an organization, such as a troop of bandits seeking to set you up as a new baron. GURPS Low-Tech Companions 2 and 3 have (rough) rules for building fortifications. GURPS Low-Tech Companion 3 and articles in Pyramid vol. 3 issues 33 and 52 have (rough) rules for handling the economics of farming. GURPS Mass Combat has rules for large-scale war. Et cetera.
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You're making this discussion more difficult by mixing up (1) adjectives and adverbs and (2) Akpu and Babulal.
In the sentence "I heard Akpu exhorting Babulal to use ChatGPT", "exhorting" is (1) an adjective that modifies "Akpu" and (2) a verb that takes "Akpu" as its subject and "Babulal" as its object, simultaneously. That's the definition of what a participle is.
In exactly the same fashion, in the sentence "I heard Akpu's exhorting Babulal to use ChatGPT", "exhorting" is (1) a noun that is (a) the object of "heard" and (b) modified by "Akpu's" and (2) a verb that takes Babulal as its object, simultaneously. That's the definition of what a gerund is.
I fail to see how this doesn't make sense to you.
(In the phrase "the racing car looks fast but isn't going anywhere", I'm tempted to think that "racing" actually is a gerund, not a participle—i. e., "the car made for racing", similar to "the cake icing" = "the icing made for cake".)
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Do you really think that if Fruck's father came out of his coma and found out that his son had kissed him on the forehead during his coma, he'd be outraged and feel that his son had violated his personal boundaries?
"Outraged" is a strong word. I would expect him to be somewhat uncomfortable with his child's touching his unconscious body, but I would also expect him to consider this violation of personal boundaries to be extremely minor and easily forgiven, given the obvious depths of the child's love and grief from which it sprang.
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Unverified secondhand quote seen on /r/kotakuinaction2:
So how did he lose? Looks like he won 4 out of 6, or 67%.
Ngo sued six people. One settled, three refused to put on a case and will have default judgements entered against them, and two were found not liable.
I hope that the three that refused to put on a case have the sense to stay out of the State of Oregon, since they will owe Ngo a lot of money.
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