The safest roads will be when ALL cars are autonomous.
Agreed, but having only autonomous cars on the road will not happen for decades to come. First there will need to be a viable autonomous car which has not happened yet and may not for up to 20 years. Then there will need to be at least ten years of testing. Then all manual cars will need to age off the road which will not happen for decades as people will want to keep classic cars on the road. Notice that there are cars built in the 30's that are still on the road. So your utopia of all autonomous cars will not happen for many decades to come. Also, autonomous motorcycles are not even on the drawing board.
There's plenty of brick and mortar stores that don't have any parking.
They are in commercial areas and adjacent residential areas usually have "residents only" parking or short term parking limits. Most patrons of "brick and mortar stores" do not park overnight. The problem is that commercial parking is very different than residential parking.
If people want a hotel with parking they'll verify that it has parking before they book a room there.
When the poster states there is parking on the street and causes parking issues in a residential area there is an issue.
One major difference is that long term tenants know the building and can get out faster. Second long term tenants have the choice of installing alarms and sprinklers. Do you think the lack of sprinklers would be advertised on the Airbnb listing?
If you are renting out your apartment short term like a hotel, you must maintain it. If you rent it out long term, like a flat, the tenant maintains it. But this is a separate issue, and in no instance is someone allowed an exception to the fire code.
If the short term rental is not licensed and regulated then what is there to guarantee that this maintenance is done? Also, many apartments are not required to have a sprinklers while almost all hotels are required to have them.
There are some who rent out a room in their home occasionally. With proper regulation that should be allowed. There are others who rent apartments specifically to rent out as a short term rental. These are the ones that need to comply with the complete hotel rules. Registered bed and breakfasts have to comply with ruled why shouldn't Airbnb poster have to comply with those regulations as well?
You're saying that if I make arrangements with someone to allow them to stay in a spare room and they give me $30 a night, I need to adhere to all regulations a full fledged hotel would have to.
Are you paying taxes on the income? Do you have adequate parking for that tenant? Will you say a different story when someone is burned to death because there was no fire alarm system which a hotel is required to have but a private residence is not?
There are two different scenarios we are talking about; spare room rental and short term apartment sublet. The former should be allowed with minimal regulation. The latter needs to be watched very closely.
Do you think that a private arrangement between two individuals to allow someone to stay in a room or apartment or whatever belonging to another in exchange for some cash means that the room/apartment or whatever needs to abide by the same heavy regulations as a hotel?
As soon as money changes hands it is no longer a "private arrangement". When you charge for a place to stay you are now a hotel unless it is on a month to month basis then you have a roommate. If you are providing the same service as a hotel you are operating a hotel. It is not a "public safety" issue.
For example, someone renting an apartment but never living there and only renting short term through Airbnb is a bad actor. First, they are running a one room hotel with lower regulatory costs than a hotel. Second they are probably doing it against the lease. Third, they have little incentive to ensure that their tenants are following noise restrictions. Fourth, they are removing a rental apartment from a probably already tight rental market.
Just because you think a law is "silly" does not mean that it is. All you are doing is giving a newcomer a financial advantage over established businesses. So when the new business harms the old business and can not handle the additional taxes and regulations when they are imposed you have less supply not more.
It all depends on the numbers which we don't have. The problem is the use of relative terms like "wide range" and "higher humidity". For example, High humidity in the tropic is much different than high humidity in the desert. If BR media can handle a wider range of temperature and a higher humidity level there will be savings in HVAC.
So in five years, you may be able to get 20GB for what a 4GB HDD costs today.
That is an assumption and I bet that Facebook has looked at what is coming down the pipe. It is quite possible that these price decreases will slow. By the way HD prices have not come down as fast as you seem to think. In 2010 a 2TB Seagate drive sold for 0.0000550 $/MB. In 2014 a 3TB Seagate sold for 0.0000367 $/MB That is a 38% drop in four years. If it followed Moore's law (cut in half every 2 years) it should be 0.00001375 $/MB or a 75% drop.
If the HD needs to be replaced much more frequently than the Blu-Ray media the advantage switches quite quickly. For example, if the HD is replaced every 5 years and the Blu-Ray media is replaced every 20 years the HD would have to cost 1/4 of the Blu-Ray to match the hardware price.
The concerns about moisture and big temperature swings seems odd.
Temperature and humidity control are very expensive as it takes a lot of electricity. If the media can handle higher temperature and humidity swings then operation costs will be much lower.
If you are going to slag someone about their use of the English language you could at least tell them the correct word. In this case "whose" is the correct word.
The funny thing is that when self organizing takes place and organization is formed. When that organization get complex enough it looks very much like a government.
Since there are few birds around it is OK to kill most of them and cause species to go extinct? I doubt that. You also forget that the next plant is along a migratory bird path. While most of the year there are few birds, during migratory times there are many more.
most featureless, unpopulated, wildlife-free area in the US
I see a flaw in your logic. If it is a wildlife free area then there would be no birds to kill. Since there are birds being killed the area, while unpopulated by people, is not "wildlife free". A better description is "wildlife sparse" which makes killing a relatively small number of birds even more significant.
What I was trying to point out about airports was that the techniques target a different issue and may not work at the solar sites.
None of which are in desert conditions. The fact that there are more eagles in the North West does not mitigate the fact the there are fewer other raptors of other species in the desert. By your logic because there are millions of Spring Salmon we should be able to catch as many King Salmon (an endanger species) we want. Sorry but different species and populations.
Take a look at the plans. Notice that everything is "printed" in strips. That does not look very flexible to me. It looks like it is constructed with cargo containers. Then there is the installation of things such as electrical, hvac, and plumbing. That may be difficult.
How many airports do you know that cover 1,416 hectares? Also most airport programs are concerned with large flocks of birds and not individual birds. It takes quite a few birds to bring down an aircraft. Also individual birds have a tendency to avoid aircraft as they can see and hear them. Birds can not see or hear the beams. When they get into flocks that maneuver as a group and sometimes the group intersects the aircraft.
1. Killing 10,000 birds from a population of 10,000,000 is very different than killing 100 from a population of 1,000. In the former that is 0.1% the latter is 10%. See the difference. 2. Scaling may not be linear. For example the next plant they want to build is along a bird migration path. Many more birds come by that spot and therefore are vulnerable. 3. Getting rid of feral cats may decrease the overall bird kill but desert populations are much lower. Feral cats do not live n the desert. Again, raw numbers mean nothing. Proportions of populations have much more meaning. All birds are not equally endangered.
Most glazed windows are in areas of high bird populations. Birds and people like similar environments. Deserts where these plants are located have much lower bird populations and much rarer birds. Raw numbers are meaningless. It is proportion of population that matters.
Decreasing the number of birds killed in high population areas does not compensate for killing birds in a low population desert area. For example, raptors are attracted and killed because prey birds are attracted to the bugs which are attracted to the light. Very few raptors are killed by cats. Raptors are much more endangered than the song birds generally killed by cats. All birds are not equal.
I question the logic a bit. 1. We are talking about the desert where birds are more scarce that forested areas. 2. This is only one plant. What happens when there are 100 or 1,000 such plants? 3. Just because there are worse problem does not mean that we should ignore lesser problem.
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The safest roads will be when ALL cars are autonomous.
Agreed, but having only autonomous cars on the road will not happen for decades to come. First there will need to be a viable autonomous car which has not happened yet and may not for up to 20 years. Then there will need to be at least ten years of testing. Then all manual cars will need to age off the road which will not happen for decades as people will want to keep classic cars on the road. Notice that there are cars built in the 30's that are still on the road. So your utopia of all autonomous cars will not happen for many decades to come. Also, autonomous motorcycles are not even on the drawing board.
So lets add to an already overcrowded situation by adding an unlicensed small hotel without parking to a residential area.
That is a Red Herring. Considering the State knows about most abortions already how does this change things?
There's plenty of brick and mortar stores that don't have any parking.
They are in commercial areas and adjacent residential areas usually have "residents only" parking or short term parking limits. Most patrons of "brick and mortar stores" do not park overnight. The problem is that commercial parking is very different than residential parking.
If people want a hotel with parking they'll verify that it has parking before they book a room there.
When the poster states there is parking on the street and causes parking issues in a residential area there is an issue.
I'm pretty sure this is based on building size not the fact that you're a hotel.
Building age also makes a big difference. It may be impossible to bring older buildings up to code without destroying them.
Different jurisdictions also have different rules. An historic building in London may have different rules than a modern building in New York.
It doesn't matter how they run their business..
I have a small craft business and I am required to have a local license to sell in some craft shows. I think that room renters need to as well.
If they want to limit their selection of tenants by not having parking then that's their business.
Who makes sure that they "limit their selection of tenants" if they are not licensed or regulated.
But hotels shouldn't be required to have parking for tenants, especially in a place like New York city, where nobody drives anyway.
Many tourists from the North East try to. They drive in and park their vehicles.
One major difference is that long term tenants know the building and can get out faster. Second long term tenants have the choice of installing alarms and sprinklers. Do you think the lack of sprinklers would be advertised on the Airbnb listing?
If you are renting out your apartment short term like a hotel, you must maintain it. If you rent it out long term, like a flat, the tenant maintains it. But this is a separate issue, and in no instance is someone allowed an exception to the fire code.
If the short term rental is not licensed and regulated then what is there to guarantee that this maintenance is done? Also, many apartments are not required to have a sprinklers while almost all hotels are required to have them.
There are some who rent out a room in their home occasionally. With proper regulation that should be allowed. There are others who rent apartments specifically to rent out as a short term rental. These are the ones that need to comply with the complete hotel rules. Registered bed and breakfasts have to comply with ruled why shouldn't Airbnb poster have to comply with those regulations as well?
You're saying that if I make arrangements with someone to allow them to stay in a spare room and they give me $30 a night, I need to adhere to all regulations a full fledged hotel would have to.
Are you paying taxes on the income? Do you have adequate parking for that tenant?
Will you say a different story when someone is burned to death because there was no fire alarm system which a hotel is required to have but a private residence is not?
There are two different scenarios we are talking about; spare room rental and short term apartment sublet. The former should be allowed with minimal regulation. The latter needs to be watched very closely.
Do you think that a private arrangement between two individuals to allow someone to stay in a room or apartment or whatever belonging to another in exchange for some cash means that the room/apartment or whatever needs to abide by the same heavy regulations as a hotel?
As soon as money changes hands it is no longer a "private arrangement". When you charge for a place to stay you are now a hotel unless it is on a month to month basis then you have a roommate. If you are providing the same service as a hotel you are operating a hotel. It is not a "public safety" issue.
For example, someone renting an apartment but never living there and only renting short term through Airbnb is a bad actor. First, they are running a one room hotel with lower regulatory costs than a hotel. Second they are probably doing it against the lease. Third, they have little incentive to ensure that their tenants are following noise restrictions. Fourth, they are removing a rental apartment from a probably already tight rental market.
Just because you think a law is "silly" does not mean that it is. All you are doing is giving a newcomer a financial advantage over established businesses. So when the new business harms the old business and can not handle the additional taxes and regulations when they are imposed you have less supply not more.
It all depends on the numbers which we don't have. The problem is the use of relative terms like "wide range" and "higher humidity". For example, High humidity in the tropic is much different than high humidity in the desert. If BR media can handle a wider range of temperature and a higher humidity level there will be savings in HVAC.
So in five years, you may be able to get 20GB for what a 4GB HDD costs today.
That is an assumption and I bet that Facebook has looked at what is coming down the pipe. It is quite possible that these price decreases will slow. By the way HD prices have not come down as fast as you seem to think. In 2010 a 2TB Seagate drive sold for 0.0000550 $/MB. In 2014 a 3TB Seagate sold for 0.0000367 $/MB That is a 38% drop in four years. If it followed Moore's law (cut in half every 2 years) it should be 0.00001375 $/MB or a 75% drop.
PS. You probably meant TB not GB.
Since they are disk packs I bet they will be RAIDed which will help protect from bitrot.
So HDD is actually cheaper per byte of storage.
If the HD needs to be replaced much more frequently than the Blu-Ray media the advantage switches quite quickly. For example, if the HD is replaced every 5 years and the Blu-Ray media is replaced every 20 years the HD would have to cost 1/4 of the Blu-Ray to match the hardware price.
The concerns about moisture and big temperature swings seems odd.
Temperature and humidity control are very expensive as it takes a lot of electricity. If the media can handle higher temperature and humidity swings then operation costs will be much lower.
If you are going to slag someone about their use of the English language you could at least tell them the correct word. In this case "whose" is the correct word.
The funny thing is that when self organizing takes place and organization is formed. When that organization get complex enough it looks very much like a government.
Since there are few birds around it is OK to kill most of them and cause species to go extinct? I doubt that. You also forget that the next plant is along a migratory bird path. While most of the year there are few birds, during migratory times there are many more.
most featureless, unpopulated, wildlife-free area in the US
I see a flaw in your logic. If it is a wildlife free area then there would be no birds to kill. Since there are birds being killed the area, while unpopulated by people, is not "wildlife free". A better description is "wildlife sparse" which makes killing a relatively small number of birds even more significant.
What I was trying to point out about airports was that the techniques target a different issue and may not work at the solar sites.
None of which are in desert conditions. The fact that there are more eagles in the North West does not mitigate the fact the there are fewer other raptors of other species in the desert. By your logic because there are millions of Spring Salmon we should be able to catch as many King Salmon (an endanger species) we want. Sorry but different species and populations.
Take a look at the plans. Notice that everything is "printed" in strips. That does not look very flexible to me. It looks like it is constructed with cargo containers. Then there is the installation of things such as electrical, hvac, and plumbing. That may be difficult.
How many airports do you know that cover 1,416 hectares? Also most airport programs are concerned with large flocks of birds and not individual birds. It takes quite a few birds to bring down an aircraft. Also individual birds have a tendency to avoid aircraft as they can see and hear them. Birds can not see or hear the beams. When they get into flocks that maneuver as a group and sometimes the group intersects the aircraft.
Airports are very different that these plants.
1. Killing 10,000 birds from a population of 10,000,000 is very different than killing 100 from a population of 1,000. In the former that is 0.1% the latter is 10%. See the difference.
2. Scaling may not be linear. For example the next plant they want to build is along a bird migration path. Many more birds come by that spot and therefore are vulnerable.
3. Getting rid of feral cats may decrease the overall bird kill but desert populations are much lower. Feral cats do not live n the desert. Again, raw numbers mean nothing. Proportions of populations have much more meaning. All birds are not equally endangered.
Most glazed windows are in areas of high bird populations. Birds and people like similar environments. Deserts where these plants are located have much lower bird populations and much rarer birds. Raw numbers are meaningless. It is proportion of population that matters.
Decreasing the number of birds killed in high population areas does not compensate for killing birds in a low population desert area. For example, raptors are attracted and killed because prey birds are attracted to the bugs which are attracted to the light. Very few raptors are killed by cats. Raptors are much more endangered than the song birds generally killed by cats. All birds are not equal.
I question the logic a bit.
1. We are talking about the desert where birds are more scarce that forested areas.
2. This is only one plant. What happens when there are 100 or 1,000 such plants?
3. Just because there are worse problem does not mean that we should ignore lesser problem.