> low-e glass windows
> South-facing windows are backed by local stone floors that capture and radiate heat in winter.
Have you done any analysis or testing on low-e vs normal glass windows in the wintertime? In summer, obviously you want the low-e glass to block the radiant energy. But in the winter, you'd want to allow that radiant energy through, which the low-e glass is not doing.
It seems like low-e glass is only good for summer, and not winter. Have you put any thought into this? Maybe I am missing something crucial about the situation though.
And 100% of people will live much worse lives 100 years in the future, all because we're blind to see the somewhat obvious result of all this hockey stick growth...
If you're doing any kind of database / external network calls - won't you gain a huge amount of requests per second?
I ask partly because on one of my projects, we have a fastapi app, but it's not using async, and I have been toying with the idea of converting it to async. It will take some work though because it uses libs that don't support async.
I thought the advantages would be worth it because we hit postgres and/or redis on all requests.
I think the 1 easiest way to improve schools right now would be to differentiate kids by ability.
Right now, teachers have a handful of kids 1-2 grades above their peers, a handful of kids who are 1-2 grades below their peers, some ESL kids, some kids with behavioral problems who cause classroom disruptions, and then majority average students.
So, teachers have to figure out how to teach to all of those different groups. It's a recipe for disaster and none of the groups are being well served.
If an elementary/middle school typically has 3-4 classes per grade, why not differentiate and split those up so each class has a more homogeneous mix of students?
Now each teacher is designing curriculum specifically for their group of students and can teach to the class as a whole.
I realize there would be a lot of implications here, like the differentiation would naturally have a racial/demographic split. But why is that so bad? Each class would still be getting better educated than mixing everything up as it is done now.
This is the hard part. All the good contractors do this themselves, or they charge so much you don't make any money on the sale, or they're booked out 3 months in advance.
There is no "us" when we have this level of income inequality and workers are treated like dirt. You have to be a fool now to think your company actually cares about you.
I think the core issue is the younger generation sees that the American Dream is bullshit and they aren't putting up with it anymore.
We're told from a young age that if you get educated and work hard you will be successful. You will be able to buy a house.
So, Gen Z gets a degree and is released into the hellscape that is the current state of American society. 40+ hour work weeks that are incredibly stressful, with bosses and companies who do not care about you at all. Rent, health care, child care, student loans - impossible to afford all these things on their low salaries, and when the business they work for is probably making as much profit in the history of the company, they see it as extremely unfair.
Vacation days? Time off? Barely any, deal with it. Getting called in on your day off? Part of the job.
And the worst part is all around them they hear boomers and older people tell them that this is normal. "Oh you're just weak and complaining. I had it worse in my day. You have an iPhone, Netflix, and Starbucks, you're living in luxury!"
Gen Z looks around and says - wait, is this really it? Is this what I've been preparing for my entire childhood? To just be miserable all week and have 2 measly days off that is barely enough time to do all the non-work stuff that needs doing like cleaning, bills, shopping? I see my coworkers 100x more than my family and friends. I get 2 weeks of vacation EVERY YEAR. I can barely afford to share an apartment let alone buy a house.
And I'm supposed to do this for 40 more years??? This is Life?
Fuck that
Oh, and to top it all off, they're inheriting the mess that is climate change.
This will certainly get appealed and bogged down even more in the legal system, right? What are the chances this actually happens? And when?
Secondly, this is such an easy way to increase your take by 20+% that I would imagine almost every publisher is going to be offering their own payments platform, not just the biggest ones like Epic.
I could be wrong, but I think that "untouched" forest is not really going to be so nice unless you let natural wildfires come by every decade and clear out the undergrowth, or you have a lot of big animals naturally making trails, or you have forestry employees keeping up the forest.
So, if you have a few acres of forest yourself, none of the above things are going to be happening, you actually have to build trails through it and then maintain them. And, you will constantly have fallen branches and fallen trees that need to be cleared. It's a lot of work. I have a few acres of forest in the PNW.
US has the worst income inequality of all G7 nations and has been on the rise since 1980.