Th3 Core

BTW when I say "using" it, I mean mostly as a novelty, not as a tool.

If it had wider adoption, it could be a great tool. For our little quarter acre lot, there are at least ten locations. So unlike an address, you can use it to specify front door, back door, garage, etc. Aside from a survey, there are not that many things you need to describe to closer than 3 meters, but there are a lot of things you need to describe more precisely than 30 meters or 300 meters if you have a few acres at one address.

Still doesn't solve the problem that EMS deals with in cities where it only works in two dimensions. No way to specify altitude (i.e. what floor someone is on in a high rise)

>>mall and sports stadiums and stuff are a joke

Have you read David Cay Johnston's book (it might be called Free Lunch... title has that in it)?

He points out that almost every one of these mall/stadium projects results in a net loss to the community - loss of jobs (mom and pops go out of business), loss of tax revenue (sweetheart deals for the new merchant, loss of straight tax from old merchant), etc. Typically, the only beneficiary is the mall or stadium owner and most of these projects would never have been economically viable on their own merits.

They are often rent-seeking schemes where the model is to convert tax revenue into personal revenue.

I wonder how much expiring sweetheart deals plays into all this.

Yup. That pretty much describes it.

The thing is, the vast majority of these "influencers" have followers in their demographic. A luxury hotel, like the one I am sitting in at this moment, overwhelmingly has an older demographic who can afford to pay $500/night. So they say, "I have 200,000 followers," but they have 26 followers who would ever consider paying for a luxury hotel.

They always hit you with what a great value it is.

Now, some of them treat it like work. They have a lot of followers and they are good photographers/videographers and they will offer you exposure, plus full use of photos and vidoe they shoot. Sometimes we'll take them up on it. The thing about a hotel is that the inventory expires every night. If you are not going to sell out, the marginal cost of putting someone in a room is only about $50. So if they turn over even a couple of decent, usable photos, that can be worth it.

One rainy day with a half-empty hotel, we got a last-minute pitch from two couples and the man in one couple had a million followers on YouTube and the other had something like that on Instagram, and they treated it like a media site visit, meaning they endured a property tour, posted video of suites they toured, but did not get to stay in, and so forth. The true cost there was only a few hundred dollars since they didn't displace revenue.

[update: actually, I just looked him up - the YouTuber has 2,000,000 followers, but again, most of them are under 25 and will not be potential customers for another twenty years]

Some of them don't get this though - they will pitch you for a stay in high season when you're going to sell out. Then the cost of that stay can be $1000 in lost revenue. More if they insist on free meals too. Most of them are living in fantasy land and I can't believe that hotels will even consider this in most cases.

As a general rule, they are a plague. But the good ones can be worth it.

Now the travel bloggers... they're actually worse. No clue about value.

But the problem these farmers are having is not with demand, but with finding enough labor to meet the demand.

>>hydroponics

Quick question: what nation is the second largest ag exporter in the world in value, after the US?

The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by showing what the future of farming could look like.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-agriculture-sustainable-farming/

Which, perhaps, might serve as a model for what could be done with all these shopping malls in America. If you turned every closing shopping mall into a Dutch-style farm, what would that do for local produce? These farms require a fraction of the labor, pesticides, land and water as an American farm. More upfront investment. Possibly more energy, I don't recall about that (but if you have enough solar and wind, that doesn't matter).

Won't work well for wheat, but people keep telling me that stuff is poison anyway.

>>hydroponically just for Costco

I saw a video looping in Costco. It's impressive. Very similar to what the Dutch are doing at scale.

Glad to hear you have basically safe places to hunker down.

>>will keep moving for 15~30 minutes after a quake.

Wow. Do people get "building sick"? I think I would get woozy.

>>I take it you weren't here in 89?

1996-2003.

Sometimes RewriteRule and RewriteCond etc can drive me mad. I was having a problem with a rewrite rule and found this

https://htaccess.madewithlove.be/

Super handy

OK, so let's take an extreme hypothetical. Let's say I'm a local hardware store. One store. I send out mailings on upcoming sales. I have Europeans in my database, because I'm in a university town and lots come here for a post-doc and then head home.

I email them and it triggers a GDPR complaint. Where do they sue me? In a European court? Can I just refuse to go? In an American court? Under what law?

If I don't have a European presence, how do they enforce this?