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yep, and that's what we see a lot of round here. this is still not driving pre-fab adoption. ie, a single family dwelling selling for $3m, knocked down and replaced with 8x apartments sold for $750k. no interest doing a prefab single family dwelling at any price.
Lots of interest comments on the efficiency of building homes.
The bigger issue is the cost of land. The differential for land to build is often 10:1.
So even if the prefab shave 10-20% the price for a custom build, it's still not making much of a difference for the normal buyer.
unless a develop or government was opening up mutiple parcels of land well below the costs to build a house, prefab is not really going to be worth it.
The AI images were deliberate and part of the narrative. Ie, you can generate slop with zero effort.
from TFA: "All of the images in this post were generated by an ai in response to the simple two-word prompt “lovely knitting”
Edit: ps: Kate Davies is an actual creator who has been creating knitting patterns for years.
Miro.com is one of the few SaaS products that our team's collaboration could not live without.
Perfect for a distributed team to replace the DO NOT ERASE white boards of yore.
Single best thing I've done to get control over my public email:
* add a filter that moves all email with "unsubscribe" into an "unsubscribe" folder
combined with fastmail spam filtering, my inbox actually became usable again instantly...
US automakers typically spend more per car on advertising than they spend on labor to build. Labor costs are often under 15% of total cost depending on the model. So even if they paid workers 50% more than today's wages, the cost of the car would "balloon" less than dealer markup.
Unions are not making American cars uncompetitive.
We are in agreement with the burden. Perhaps my point was not well made:
At the time farmers were being made destitute by industrialization we also invented the modern education system. This was a massive societal investment to compensate for the reduced number of farmers needed.
There needs to be a similar level of commitment to establishing a viable future for those displaced by AI. So see no indication that this investment will happen.
At a national and global scale, farmers moved to the cities to get work in factories operating the new machinery of industrialisation. And some were, or their children were, educated to become clerks based on a systemic development of education, ie RWr+aR. These clerks were critical to help account for all the widgets being created by industrialisation.
Point being, it was not accidental what happened to farmers during industrialisation of food production. they had a path. they were not left with nothing. so back to you. what next for out of work drivers or their children?
Very calming as it mimics slow, relaxed breathing. Patented by Apple in 2002. https://patents.google.com/patent/US6658577