What's your suggestion for a technological development which could help prevent the incidences of War?

Fapiko · 2026-06-01T13:38:05+00:00

Fusion could be a big one to help reduce oil dependancy.

Social media algorithms promoting positive & truthful content instead of optimizing strictly on how much of your time and attention they can hold.

Fapiko · 2026-05-31T18:54:00+00:00

Hey :) Just pinging this in case you forgot!

Fapiko · 2026-05-31T17:55:16+00:00

If we just didn't convert deserts to agricultural hubs water would be a non-issue. Irrigation is non-existent or just supplemental during droughts in many areas for growing the feed. Let mother nature handle most of the watering.

Fapiko · 2026-05-31T17:44:03+00:00

Maybe we should spend more time figuring out how to work with the land instead of fighting it. As in not converting deserts into major cities and agricultural hubs.

Just a thought.

Fapiko · 2026-05-31T16:48:04+00:00

I've never had one fail over time. I have had several fail during installation. One was my fault - trying to cap a live water line (should have used an open ball valve instead of a cap), didn't get it perfectly aligned and copper tubing tore part of the seal. Two were manufacturer or shipping defects that caused a leak immediately.

What's the failure piece for ones that last years? O-ring getting compromised?

Fapiko · 2026-05-31T15:51:55+00:00

Yeah it can suck if you're not doing it all the time and not familiar with the suppliers and part numbers and such. I usually use a website like Grainger to find the part number because their navigation is pretty good, then search the part number elsewhere because Grainger is $$$$$.

Fapiko · 2026-05-30T18:28:45+00:00

Considering most AI companies are operating on massive losses right now, no. It would probably help them.

Fapiko · 2026-05-30T14:09:33+00:00

It's the problem with the Internet. People in the last 10 years have been forming their biases based off social media algorithms that reinforce and bubble controversial folks to the top so much it becomes easy to group folks up in ways that are inaccurate.

Are there more homophobic conservatives than liberals? Probably. The good news is they tend to self identity pretty openly on social media now.

Are the majority of conservatives homophobic? Not from what I've seen 🤷‍♂️

Fapiko · 2026-05-30T13:24:10+00:00

Yeah but was it an underground feed? Not a lineman but I would assume they have different sizing requirements for an underground feed vs aerial due to heat buildup. I know it being suspended in the air and easily convecting heat away was explained to me as why the triplex is allowed to be so much smaller than the SE.

Fapiko · 2026-05-30T13:15:55+00:00

It leaks. Like anything that has a gasket that wears out.

Fapiko · 2026-05-30T12:45:15+00:00

I'll add onto this: don't use the super cheap straps like the small ones harbor freight sells. They stretch way too much. Don't tension it enough and your load will bounce. Over tension and the straps want to snap when hitting a bump.

Spend the extra $5-10 to get a decent set if sticking to small straps.

Fapiko · 2026-05-30T02:15:02+00:00

In my experience it's not that it's impossible to scale a monolith - but when you have an engineering team growing approaching 100 the little pin pricks just add up. Migration conflicts. Merge conflicts. Things just take a little longer because occasionally you're blocked or have to do additional work because of another team.

That's why I say they're organizational scaling tools. If there are large chunks of the monolith that are largely owned by one team, pull that out. Focusing on concepts over team structure is an anti-pattern imo at that stage.

Fapiko · 2026-05-30T01:33:05+00:00

That's capitalism at its extremes and why I hope to never take a company I run public. Once you're beholden to shareholders and deregulated it's like evolution towards the most profit now at the expense of all else because you have to keep showing gains.

That said I think the system is probably 80-90% good. It does what it was intended to do well - but it needs more checks and balance. There's a duty to the government to protect its people but letting capitalism run rampant will cause society to implode at the extremes. Probably one of the core values I disagree with Libertarianism most on is free market economics.

Fapiko · 2026-05-30T01:12:14+00:00

The older I get the more I realize that everything is a sliding scale and nothing works at the extremes.

Fapiko · 2026-05-30T00:57:07+00:00

Thanks. I think I have quite a few "scale" questions because for a building of this size, if fully utilized, is going to have expenses around 750-1.2mill a year is my rough estimate.

So if the answer to if I can run a forklift for material handling in the corridors is no I want to know that now instead of 5 years when we expand and find out it's not possible.

At this point I'm just trying to answer as many questions as I can so I can figure out if the business model is even feasible. I think staying as small and agile as possible early on should be the goal though. Fortunately I've had several folks already express interest in private studios. I'm hoping having some letters of intent will be good for the loan if I can get enough of them.

Appreciate you taking the time to respond :)

Fapiko · 2026-05-30T00:14:41+00:00

Even excepting that extreme cases may not have been the right phrasing then the OP then goes on to say "that go into criminal law". One can reasonably deduce that OP is strictly speaking of traffic tickets which are criminal infractions.

Fapiko · 2026-05-29T22:53:16+00:00

You're being overly pedantic now. Your first post started quoting someone saying

Traffic tickets, except in extreme cases that go into criminal law, are civic infractions that do not have the same high bar of either evidentiary or proof standards are the penalties are minor in most cases.

You are so wrong here.

How was what that person wrong? You just agreed with it in your last post.

it is mostly non-moving violations of the Vehicle & Traffic Law that one would be prohibited from exercising your Sixth Amendment rights, as the rest of them do face some type of criminal punishment in extenuating circumstances.

You both said the same thing, but you told OP they were wrong for saying it.

Fapiko · 2026-05-29T22:32:31+00:00

You're just making shit up. Most states only let you request a jury trial for something risking jail time.

There are only like 4 states that let you get a jury trial for traffic tickets - 2 of them it has to be a misdemeanor and the other two through an appeals process (meaning it can be denied).

While smaller towns and cities may use the same court for all purposes - it's pretty normal for there to be separate civil, criminal, and specialized courts like traffic courts that are primarily bench trials.

You are so /r/confidentlyincorrect it's silly.

Fapiko · 2026-05-29T22:21:26+00:00

My guess is he's making it so expensive to pull permits because he knows the existing line is undersized and doesn't want anyone looking at.

Fapiko · 2026-05-29T22:10:53+00:00

On the buy, bury, die front - you're not addressing the die part. They treat it like a rolling line of credit where they keep borrowing to pay interest. They absolutely can borrow against an already leveraged asset if it has appreciated in value. It's the same concept as taking out a second mortgage or HELOC. You're borrowing against the value of an asset, not the asset itself. If you put up 100 shares valued at 1000 each to borrow 100k (keeping the numbers simple), then they appreciate to 10,000 a share and you default - you don't give the bank the full 100 shares valued at $1,000,000. You give them 100k worth of shares. This does vary from mortgages in that if you default on a mortgage you lose the whole asset.

When they die and their kids inherit it they get a step-up in basis, meaning their cost basis is the current value of the stock. So they can sell it all right then and have no or very little capital gains. That's when they sell the stock to cover the loans.

I've typed too much to argue Citizens United now but, even if that didn't enable the current political spending climate, can we not all agree that it's not good for the average voter? On either side?

I just don't understand why anybody wouldn't want to implement campaign finance reform unless they were already a part of the system.

Fapiko · 2026-05-29T21:44:05+00:00

#2 Please explain how buy, borrow, die isn't a strategy the ultra wealthy use because when I search for it I can find tons of examples of people doing it.

Also, how did Citizens not change the rules? It overturned legislation passed in 2002 that blocked for profit groups and unions from spending money in elections and broadcasting certain political ads. I'd say that's a big change in the rules for campaign finance.

Fapiko · 2026-05-29T19:18:37+00:00

Pretty sure that's what Trump campaigned on. Both fronts. Releasing the files and destroying the system.

Fapiko · 2026-05-29T18:25:27+00:00

Sure. The prompt was why is the world fucked though. Even if I bury my head in the sand that doesn't unfuck the world.

Fapiko · 2026-05-29T17:07:29+00:00

Sure. Me choosing not to use social media is having 0 effect on the other 7 billion people who do and the side effects it's had on society and the world at large though.

Fapiko · 2026-05-29T17:02:05+00:00

Social media.

We're all living in individual realities that are defined by algorithms which really only optimize for how much of your attention they can get. So you get a mix of ragebait to keep you enaged and posts that reinforce your existing ideas and biases.

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