I'm trialing a NAS with Immich, and then backing up the media and Immich DB dump daily to AWS S3 Deep Archive. It has Android and iOS apps, and enough of the feature set of Google Photos to keep me happy.
You can also store photos/scans on desktops in the same NAS and make sure Immich is picking them up (and then the backup script will catch them if they get imported to Immich). For an HN user it's pretty straight-forward to set up.
The three are a Venn diagram with much more overlap than any of the three officially pretend. A Japanese friend of mine passes for a (Chinese) local across China and SE Asia.
Clothing and makeup is a better giveaway than facial features or skin tone, but even that is becoming harder with K-pop creating a pan-Asian style to aspire to.
Maybe formal spoken Cantonese/Mandarin, but colloquial spoken Cantonese for example is very different from formal written Cantonese. It would sound odd to speak the way things are formally written, if that makes sense.
Perhaps you could say there's a subset of the languages which can be mostly written in a mutually intelligible way. That sounds more like the similarities between, say, Portuguese and Spanish, though, where you can probably write a subset of the languages that is pretty comprehensible by both language speakers, yet the languages are distinct.
Batteries aren't unrepairable; you wouldn't open one up in the middle of the road to try fix it but at the bus depot with enough volume of battery electric vehicles, they'll have reason to hire repair technicians that can refurbish and repair batteries.
Obviously anything has a bunch of single points of failure, or catastrophic means of failure, but a battery isn't like "one engine". It's basically hundreds of little power modules wired in parallel, so an individual battery cell loss shouldn't bring down the whole pack.
So a battery pack should actually be heavily redundant ... assuming the pack has enough modules for a loss of vehicle to get to some charging station.
The sale value won't stay flat unless you tax land (or use leasehold like Singapore), because typically incomes rise, and in most places the rate of building new housing has an equilibrium lower than the rate of demand, because profit is needed for private developments to go ahead.
This results in a) higher incomes, and b) higher rents, because landlords can extract some of the increase in income, because tenants don't have enough alternatives to keep the rents low.
Capital value of property is a function of rents, so increases in rents result in increases in sale value of the property.
> The sale value won't stay flat unless you tax land (or use leasehold like Singapore), because typically incomes rise, and in most places the rate of building new housing has an equilibrium lower than the rate of demand, because profit is needed for private developments to go ahead.
Developments can be profitable without the price per unit significantly increasing.
Suppose that an existing unit is $50,000 and it costs $150,000 in construction costs including profit to replace one unit with four. Then you have a stable equilibrium; a construction company could buy one unit for $50,000, convert it into four, sell them for $50,000 each and net $150,000 which covers their costs and profit. They'll stop doing this if the price per unit falls to $45,000. They'll start doing it again if the price per unit rises to $60,000 and keep doing it until it gets back down below $50,000. Therefore, the price per unit remains stable at ~$50,000, even if demand increases, because that just triggers more construction as the price temporarily gets slightly above the breakeven point.
This is why zoning restrictions cause housing costs to increase. If you declare that 95% of the land is zoned exclusively for single-family homes, you can't replace one unit with four or even two in any of those areas. Then the remaining 5% of the land already has a 20-unit complex on it and in order to add units, you have to replace it with a 30-unit complex. Taller buildings require more expensive materials, you've had to demolish 20 units instead of one and only increased the number of units by 50% instead of 300% and land on which you can even do this at all is now more scarce so you're paying even more per unit for the ones you're going to demolish. Now the breakeven price for new construction is $500,000/unit and if growth continues it has to rise to the level that can cover the cost of demolishing a 30-unit building to build a 40-unit one, even though 95% of the local land is still single family homes.
It's good practice to separate out your control plane and data plane, so in this kind of scenario you can use the control plane freely to manage and scale up the data plane without worrying about the data plane underresourcing affecting your control plane operations.
The reverse also applies; by separating them you can have issues with your control plane but not have the database go down.
As a non-American, Hispanic, white, and black American people in the USA are all "American, American, American", and not really a melting pot if that's the only ethnic groups you're counting.
It's for workers' rights. Even ole' John Calvin (who probably started it in Switzerland) wanted Sunday as a day off because it protected workers rights against overwork, not because he saw it as mandated by the Bible.
Hi, Swiss person here. This does not address why it should be Sunday for everyone. Nobody's saying you should work 7 days a week. We could have different off days for different people.
I don't know about clean, I saw hardly any (men) wash their hands after using the bathroom. Sometimes they'd wave their hands under the tap. Without turning it on.
Seemed more like obsession with being tidy than hygeinic.
> Cultures that value kids will have more. My parents did the same for us
Last I checked, cultures that have access to contraception and female education have fewer kids, independent of religion or tradition or practice of valuing kids.
Indian culture is no exception; total fertility rate has declined in the last ~50 years from ~6 children per woman to ~2, and continues to decline.
You can also store photos/scans on desktops in the same NAS and make sure Immich is picking them up (and then the backup script will catch them if they get imported to Immich). For an HN user it's pretty straight-forward to set up.