Well if we make building an already solidly profitable lot half a percent more profitable then suddenly all the developers will start selling units for far under market rate, obviously. It’s not like developers will continue to sit on land instead of risking completely supplying the market and thus causing unit prices and profit margins to fall, after all they can now add another closet to each floor instead of an interwoven staircase./s
Same reason people convicted of raping children here in the US heavily push for the limiting of school sex education, its statistically proven to significantly limit the number of children who report being raped.
While most children are sexually abused by their family, and as such giving the abusers the option to opt out of sex education for their children has proven useful, you still have to worry about their classmates catching it, and so the more of them you can keep from knowing what rape is and how to report it, the better your odds of getting away with it are.
But have you considered how much money would have been lost out on by not carving it up for scrap under a program of self described ‘managed decline’?
From the title I assumed a false alarm went off, but instead it was just the system was installed in BC.
As a Fedora user I can confirm that this seems about right.
In my experience you can typically just pull the fuse for the cell transmitter is you don’t want the vehicle phoning home, though they annoying tend to rely on the radio module for things like carplay and radio so it’s not a perfect solution.
Some manufacturers rely on the same module for the key fob though, so some research is required.
Definitely wish it was just an option in settings, but i’m not sure I would trust it if it was.
Why do you think that? The whole article was on how the only barrier to long trips in rural Canada was being overcome and on how heavily the First Nations and other inhabitants of the far north have been pushing for access.
I mean despite the oil companies whining about how important they are oil represents what, 3.5 percent of Canada’s GDP?
Personally I tend to be hesitant on relaxing the duel means of egres rule completely when i’ve seen buildings in Vancouver use two sets of stairs interwoven in the same stairwell to achieve the same effect with only a 30% or so increase in floor space. Even if it’s statistically not much help knowing there are two ways out of the building in an emergency does have an advantage, and i’m not convinced that it’s actually as much of a factor into the proliferation of double stacked corridors as them just being the cheapest way build.
Otherwise i’m definitely a big fan of the suggestions, especially more interconnections between buildings.
Those little electric Pipistrels have been getting more common for instruction and pattern work down here for a bit too. I’m told they’re great fun if you just need to do a lot of sub hour flights every day.
I’m curious as to what that boat was trying to do there. The seaplane can’t really turn when moving that fast, but the boat should have been easily able to turn around, slow down, or get out of the way. Were they just not paying any attention to their surroundings dispite being in a part of the harbor with a lot of boats and where seaplanes are constantly landing and taking off?
I regret that I have to be the one to inform everyone of this, but I fear MajorHavoc suffered an unfortunate accident caused by a computer glitch in an elevator control system three hours ago. They will be missed.
Crontab dnf update -y and trust that if anything breaks uptime monitoing/ someone will let me know sooner or later.
From the title I assumed it was a positive story, given driving foreign real state investment out of Canada so regular people can actually buy has been an explicit goal for some time now.
Interesting how often they try and bring up solar and wind forecasts, dispite both being a small portion of Alberta’s generation capacity, for the second large outage that’s been caused by their ‘reliable’ natural gas plants that make up three quarters of Alberta’s current generation failing. I feel like they should probably be taking some lessons from the provinces that not only manage to keep the lights on, but strangely do it with far, far less gas.
And no, it’s not just a lack of hydro.
But outsourcing them to an collection of independent bureaucracies(companies) is so much more ‘efficient’ than one bureaucracy just building what it needs to.
Besides, the government owning and developing housing would just be a huge cost to the taxpayers given how unprofitable it is to own or sell real-estate. Why the government might even build enough to actually house all the people waiting on public housing and then rent out the surplus out at below market rates but above cost in order to help fund the service, and that sounds like it could cut into the profit margins of the poor landlords.
Nope, far better to make a deal where the government assumes the risk for the project if a project fails, and the corporations get to take all the extra profit if a project succeeds./s