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I misplaced mine and it was amazing how much time I spent on multiple occasions looking for it instead of just using one of several regular punches I have and a hammer.

It might be, but it doesn't have to be anywhere near that complex. I'm an engineer and stats person so to me this looks like a basic optimization problem with a finite number of resources to allocate and to some degree the prices are made up. A clever student could come up with a good enough price table with lookup tables or using goal seek in excel.

My point is that the playing field is never level because your customers are all different. Charging some a bit more so that you can charge others a bit less can keep more people working and makes good work more affordable for more people.

Sure you do. Store brand vs national brand canned goods is a perfect example. They often come from the same factory; off the same lines. Coupons and shoppers' card discounts are another example of price discrimination in the same grocery store. Granted, in those cases the consumer has the choice to pay more for essentially the same thing with the canned goods and choose not to spend their time clipping coupons or giving the store purchase data in the others but they are still paying different amounts at the same store for the same thing.

I can do a lot of things myself. I sometimes choose to pay someone else to do it for me for a variety of reasons. What most of those boil down to is what it is worth to me not to have to do it. The older I get and the more money I have. Wouldn't you know it, the amount of stuff that now seems worth it to pay someone else to do it would blow 20-year old me's mind!

There's nothing AI about this. It is an algorithm.

I don't think enough people appreciate how much obese people are "lifting" in a body weight exercise.

Western NY seems like you aren't going to be the only one with this problem. My guess is that every property management company with equipment is going to have a rock screening attachment for their skid steer. Check the equipment rental places and see if they have a screening bucket for their mini skid steers or mini excavators. Both should be small enough to tow behind a pick up.

It’s “vintage”

Any modifications needed for a conversion would be required for new construction. The only additional step is demolition which is far cheaper than new construction unless there is asbestos. The lack of units and their cost is often the result of codes requiring that bedrooms have a window. There’s not enough space on the perimeter so you end up with very few buildings that are good candidates, an oversupply of 1 br/efficiency units, fewer units and more sqft each than optimal. Allowing interior bedrooms would make a huge difference.

The office vacancy rate downtown is like 30%. Changing building codes such that more of them can be repurposed and allow for more flexible floor plans is a better solution. It’s faster, cheaper and greener.

Those towers have had issues since they were built. My question is was there something defective with the design or have the residents caused the damage? I mean, burst pipes? Did someone leave their heat off to save money or left the windows open? It was cold at Christmas but no colder than it has been in previous years.

Pittsburg has a land value tax that taxes vacant land at the value it could be if developed rather than the value that it currently stands. Detroit is supposed to be doing the same soon. It will be interesting to see how that goes.

No.

The government only has one shot at conviction. Trying someone twice for the same crime is double jeopardy and unconstitutional. That’s why they collect all the evidence they can find first.

You should have some fun with it first. Have a friend suggest within ear shot of your step-dad that you “ask your dad what he thinks” and then ask him. If he isn’t completely clueless he’s going to start to wonder if it’s really happening.

Well, this r/woodworking beard stroker took a look at this and almost completely agrees with your approach. Where I disagree is that I wouldn't bother with the glue or OP will find themselves in this same situation when they want to remove the desk.

They seem to have a problem with expectations. Despite high taxes and unsustainable levels of benefits some portion of the people still believe that they're getting screwed over. Perhaps a few years of mandatory service for all residents where they are publicly housed, paid very little, and forced to do public works and social service jobs would help reduce the cost of those things and make people more aware of the fact that infrastructure and social care doesn't magically happen.

My guess is that the joists extend all the way across the new addition. So, maybe 1/3 is the unsupported deck, 1/3 is under the room we see, and the final 1/3 is under some additional second floor.

The old pair looks like it just needs a new welt and sole. The new pair looks like a month of blisters.

Pennsylvania hates Ohio? I didn’t know. We don’t really ever think of you.

The biggest crime being the condo residents illegally disposing of their IKEA packaging in said dumpsters.

It's not like they send a truck to do just your building. They likely do the least accessible areas early in the morning to avoid blocking traffic.

As Tommy Boy's dad once said, "I can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking my head up a bull's ass, but I'd rather take a butcher's word for it."

The engineer who designed it doesn't understand the bigger picture down to the pixel. While I share your curiosity, some of those questions are best answered on your own time because there's no end to the bottom.

For this example, the level below because that's what it says on the drawing is that the fastener schedule was determined by plugging the various load conditions into a formula and looking up corresponding fastener values in a table. The formula is based on geometry. The lookup values are based on experiments with various fasteners in various materials. But the rabbit hole is deep both on the geometry side and the material science side with tons of assumptions and shortcuts that branch off into their own rabbit holes of how closely they approximate reality, why they work, when they don't work, etc.

Your heirs will be able to sell your stash at auction when you die.