You know that there's no actual private investment in nuclear in the US.

The nuclear industry is indemnified by the taxpayers. Without thar insurance backstop, there would be no nuclear energy industry.

We're approaching that point but are not there yet

Forever is a long time.

Once FSD, we will make rules about the software that will have the effect of excluding Chinese companies. I seriously doubt that I'll see Chinese cars here in my lifetime.

I've been closing my tags for 30 years and I assume that I will for the rest of my days. I like that it validates as XML. Historically I used XSLT a LOT.

It triggers the linters so often. I shall keep my <input> tag open.

>Personally, I think unoccupied homes in general ought to be penalized

As is done in the UK

That sounds like the "empty home premium" - which only kicks in after a year:

https://www.gov.uk/council-tax/second-homes-and-empty-proper...

Which is fair compromise as it can take that long to find a tenant.

Can't help but thinking of hotdog fingers scene in "Everything Everywhere All At Once"

A very functional sofa joke as it's the optimal shape for moving.

Not really, because it's only optimal in 2d.

Not a problem, we can just shape it like the space covered by rotating the whole thing and make the sofa kind of "bone shaped", then we should be set for 3 dimensions. The only remaining issue would be, where to put the actual sitting area on the bone, but that problem I leave for homework.

3dimensions still allows for more freedom than that though since the couch can stand on end.

I would contend that it's still useful since you'd be able to turn the corner without over-complicating it by getting it into some weird tilt position.

> Not a problem, we can just shape it like the space covered by rotating the whole thing and make the sofa kind of "bone shaped", then we should be set for 3 dimensions.

That might give you a feasible solution, but I doubt it's optimal.

If you've ever moved any furniture at all, you'll notice that it's often much easier to get around corners (or through doorways), if you can turn them sideways.

That's especially easy to imagine with tables, but sofas also count.

There are also sofas that can be easily taken apart. Eg one of our sofas at home, an L-shaped sofa, comes apart into two pieces.

You don’t have to move house many times to realise that yes, we do.

Used to work. No longer. What does work is archive.today. But even that is at risk. Some sites now presented encoded text when you view the archive.

In an idealized market economy that would be the case. But it is far from ideal. Your individual incentive as a SWE is to write more code.