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Yawgmoth posted:I can't imagine that being true, at least around here. These loving things sit 70-90% empty year round. How is it effective to charge one person $2200/mo for his 1Br and be surrounded by empty apartments when you could put up the exact same building, charge $600/mo and fill 30 apartments immediately? Is there some kind of bad developer subsidy? The accounting value of the building is likely based on the level of rent that you can theoretically extract from it. For the company that owns it, if they drop the rents, the imputed value of the property would also reduce and that would gently caress up their balance sheet. They'd rather keep apartments empty than reduce the rents, fill the apartments but have their ratio of debt to collateral shoot up and breach their banking covenants.
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We just introduced what people are calling a "ghost tax" - 1% of the property's capital-improved value, applying to homes that are vacant for more than 6 months of the year. That would put more money in the city's coffers, if nothing else.
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Memento posted:We just introduced what people are calling a "ghost tax" - 1% of the property's capital-improved value, applying to homes that are vacant for more than 6 months of the year. That would put more money in the city's coffers, if nothing else. Vancouver is doing that too I think. There are a ton of op'eds in the paper from Chinese developers and other rich assholes with multiple houses complaining how it is unfair and it punishes them for being successful and owning more than one house.
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ianmacdo posted:Vancouver is doing that too I think. Well, yes, it does. OTOH why the gently caress would anyone, successful or not, need multiple personal homes in a single city? You're either a property speculator or running an Airbnb unlicensed uninsured hotel. Those guys are trying to enrich themselves by making the city suck a little bit more for everyone else, gently caress 'em. If your cultural heritage measures success by property ownership you can still do that. Sell your extra Vancouver home(s) and buy a condo in Banff or something. Very famous location. Much prestige. What we really need is a campaign to convince foreign buyers that, say, Lethbridge Alberta is the place to be. Plenty of room to expand.
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Can they get some sort of reimbursement though if their property is near any retirement homes or convalescence units, known hangouts of ghosts and spirits? (this is a complaint that actually happened)
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Carbon dioxide posted:The article says it's not a deadly amount - but I want to know what that translates to in MSv, that's a more useful unit in comparing how bad it is. http://www.radioactivity.eu.com/site/pages/Dose_Factors.htm Inhaling Pu-239 is 140 mSv/kBq. so 22 kBq is 3,080 mSv aka 3 Sieverts. Feels around the area to get worried about (~17% chance of cancer)
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Yawgmoth posted:I can't imagine that being true, at least around here. These loving things sit 70-90% empty year round. How is it effective to charge one person $2200/mo for his 1Br and be surrounded by empty apartments when you could put up the exact same building, charge $600/mo and fill 30 apartments immediately? Is there some kind of bad developer subsidy? that's just a market miscalculation. vacancy rates will drop eventually, or rents will. big developers who throw up luxury buildings can afford to play chicken with the market for a while
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Nth Doctor posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIPMfHUIVvk Aren't you supposed to put up a buoy with a special flag on it when diving, specifically so that this doesn't happen? Also probably don't go diving in a shipping lane.
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Sagebrush posted:Aren't you supposed to put up a buoy with a special flag on it when diving, specifically so that this doesn't happen? You're not my supervisor.
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Maxwells Demon posted:http://www.radioactivity.eu.com/site/pages/Dose_Factors.htm Doesn't plutonium also cause heavy metal poisoning effects similar to lead and mercury? I wonder what PPE they were/weren't using.
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That time I went a little early to look at a used Ford Escape and the owner was pouring gasoline on the engine to "clean" it
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Maxwells Demon posted:http://www.radioactivity.eu.com/site/pages/Dose_Factors.htm Keep in mind that conversion is also a CEDE, committed effective dose equivalent, over a 50-year lifespan. It's the estimated worst case provided maximum retention. There could also be higher activity contaminants in their death dust. If it was all plutonium, that could work out to be between 5.8ng to 151mg of inhaled material.
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Memento posted:We just introduced what people are calling a "ghost tax" - 1% of the property's capital-improved value, applying to homes that are vacant for more than 6 months of the year. That would put more money in the city's coffers, if nothing else. I hope it doesn't apply to properties being actively renovated. A dilapidated mess can take a lot more than 6 months to fix right so now you're just encouraging half-assed flips.
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bzw posted:Keep in mind that conversion is also a CEDE, committed effective dose equivalent, over a 50-year lifespan. It's the estimated worst case provided maximum retention. There could also be higher activity contaminants in their death dust. Yeah and even if the worst-case happens, because it's spread out over such a long time it's nowhere near the same as getting blasted with it all at once.
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Saw this whilst out on a walk today. I can't decide if I'm the ladders holding that loving mess of a rope system in place or the catch netting at the bottom that the dude is not dangling over.
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Jun 8, 2017 13:48
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God bless my home town. Fewer Jakartans die from construction accidents than do from lung cancer. We know where to put our public safety and healthcare dollars!
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Sagebrush posted:Aren't you supposed to put up a buoy with a special flag on it when diving, specifically so that this doesn't happen? He has anchored himself to the bottom, so pretty sure he knew exactly what would happen.
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Caufman posted:God bless my home town. You should play this up for american libertarians. lots of investment potential!
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Carbon dioxide posted:The article says it's not a deadly amount - but I want to know what that translates to in MSv, that's a more useful unit in comparing how bad it is. That's a *really* tiny amount. It's only a couple times higher than the total amount of natural activity in their bodies from radiocarbon and radiopotassium. It's relatively bad because it's an inhaled dose, but these guys are probably going to die of something else before anything radiation-related happens to them. If it had been an ingested dose, it'd be basically harmless. For comparison, the US did some grossly immoral experiments in the mid 1940s where it secretly injected subjects with amounts of plutonium ranging from 5-95 milligrams. These patients were mostly suffering from existing diseases, 8 of the 18 lived for at least a decade, six lived until their 70s and four lived until their 80s. 10 of them died from the diseases they were initially being treated from, including the four who died of cancer. glynnenstein posted:Doesn't plutonium also cause heavy metal poisoning effects similar to lead and mercury? Pu239 has a specific activity of 2.3 GBq/gram, so 22kBq is 9.6 micrograms. Even dimethylmercury has an LD50 of ~50 ug/kg.
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Pistol_Pete posted:The accounting value of the building is likely based on the level of rent that you can theoretically extract from it. For the company that owns it, if they drop the rents, the imputed value of the property would also reduce and that would gently caress up their balance sheet. They'd rather keep apartments empty than reduce the rents, fill the apartments but have their ratio of debt to collateral shoot up and breach their banking covenants. 
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Phanatic posted:For comparison, the US did some grossly immoral experiments in the mid 1940s where it secretly injected subjects with amounts of plutonium ranging from 5-95 milligrams. These patients were mostly suffering from existing diseases, 8 of the 18 lived for at least a decade, six lived until their 70s and four lived until their 80s. 10 of them died from the diseases they were initially being treated from, including the four who died of cancer. Finding out about this type of business is horrifying and fascinating, considering that they were probably hoping for much more deterministic data. Phanatic posted:Pu239 has a specific activity of 2.3 GBq/gram, so 22kBq is 9.6 micrograms. Even dimethylmercury has an LD50 of ~50 ug/kg. Is there a good source for transuranic chemical toxicity?
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I keep looking at this and thinking; "What is their ultimate goal here?"
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Hah! Fill 'er up, move smaller truck, whatever falls out is fine, shut doors, probably dump in woods somewhere.
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Literally A Person posted:I keep looking at this and thinking; "What is their ultimate goal here?" Tires are piled up too high in the truck to get out from the bottom, so lower truck provides a work platform. I assume they'll get the highest tires out then move the lower truck and get the rest out. Or they're doing the opposite, filling the truck, in which case you want to be as high or higher than the things you're piling in.
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That honestly doesn't look unsafe to me, unless you're not supposed to be on top of a truck like that. They're not lifting anything dangerously and a truck is a pretty stable platform.
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Literally A Person posted:I keep looking at this and thinking; "What is their ultimate goal here?"
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bzw posted:
There's a surprising number of peer reviewed studies out there considering the elements in question don't exist in nature (at least, in measurable or expose-able quantity), but it's going to be really hard to develop a body of literature regarding elemental compounds that are only created in a laboratory setting. It's crazy expensive, hilarious ethical concerns, and not of much practical value beyond curiosity. You're never going to need to address the issue in the population at large.
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RyokoTK posted:That honestly doesn't look unsafe to me, unless you're not supposed to be on top of a truck like that. It doesn't look too bad in the grand scheme of this thread but here's the list I can see. 1) A-Frame ladders aren't supposed to be used that way, it should be opened all the way. 2) Standing on the second to top step of an A-Frame ladder. Second to top and top steps are a no-go for standing/climbing. 3) Assuming they used that ladder to scale the truck, ladder doesn't extend 3 feet past the surface you're climbing on to. 4) The Duty Rating for that ladder is probably around 225 lbs. So the guy + clothes + tires may be pushing that limit. Once again, pretty minor stuff compared to everything else we've seen here but still not OSHA approved.
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Iksander posted:Once again, pretty minor stuff compared to everything else we've seen here but still not OSHA approved. Don't you also need to be tied off if you're more than 4 feet off the ground, or am I confusing my regulations?
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ulmont posted:Don't you also need to be tied off if you're more than 4 feet off the ground, or am I confusing my regulations? Good catch. The limit is 6 feet tall but yes; They need guard rails, safety nets or personal fall arrest systems. And maybe hard hats for people who aren't on top, because something could fall off the top of the van.
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Power Bottom posted:
This seems like a pretty sweet place for teenage hoodlums to hang out.
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it's osha if he did it at work i guess?Goo P-Nut Sack posted:I've been printing fidget spinners for fun and practice with settings etc. Pro tip: don't chooch a PLA spinner up past ~4000 rpm with an air gun, I'm posting from the doc's office. The bearing on one of the legs absolutely exploded out and gave me a nice laceration.
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Mmm, there's someone who has never seen an apprentice mechanic twist his finger off by putting a bearing over it and spinning it up with an air gun until it seized. I was an idiot apprentice at the same time (1997) so I didn't know any better. Fun day at the workshop.
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Memento posted:Mmm, there's someone who has never seen an apprentice mechanic twist his finger off by putting a bearing over it and spinning it up with an air gun until it seized. pic of fingat?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhkcTt97I-0 How to cure a hangover.
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bzw posted:Is there a good source for transuranic chemical toxicity? At that point it's dangerous to children always or adults in chronic exposure circumstances. If you keep your kid away from the plutonium and avoid ripping a bag of plutonium open every other day you should be ok.
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Dillbag posted:pic of fingat? he went to hostpital
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Memento posted:he went to hostpital Will you post mote later?
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