It's regulation in a great many countries about the globe that mining lease data is recorded and made available to "the public", eg: in the US this is largely handled by the BLM: https://www.doi.gov/ocl/blm-lands-leasing
As to the existantial nature of your question, you might try The Evolution of Resource Property Rights by Anthony Scott, perhaps look back to Roman Doctrine and how their laws carried forward in Western civilisation, look to Chinese history, etc.
The intent of the regulations is to record who is searching for what and where (ie. can be contacted and are responsible for property damage, spills, destruction, etc) to have one prospecter per parcel, etc.
Can you point out a country where it is explicit that the intent is that (say) Rio Tinto has to directly list head office on every lease in the country and cannot spin off a copper division, an iron subgroup, a rare earth exploration subsidiary, etc?
Is wood density correlated with how long a building will last?
In my experience, degradation of wood-framed buildings comes down to one thing: water ingress. And that is independent of how "dense" the studs are. Old growth timber will rot just as quickly as new timber if water gets in, and I suspect new-growth wood will last just as long as old-growth if water is kept out.
New growth is genetically engineered to grow quickly, in dense conditions, to have short branches & to drop branches quickly. Loggers have optimized for growing tree trunks, not trees. The wood quality is very different from these trees. They are sick. The wood from them is going to warp on you.
I suspect that wood density, tree health, warping of lumber, and the resulting new ingresses of water could all be correlated. I'd love to know more if anyone knows more details.
Your suspicion is incorrect. Warping happens as wood dries due to uneven drying and stresses in the wood. Old growth can be just as stressed as new wood - those stresses arise from winds, growing on a steep grade, etc. And old wood can be incorrectly dried just as new timber can be. The wood will not warp further after it is milled into a 2x4, kiln-dried and installed in a building. It may expand and contract due to humidity changes, but those changes will be minimal within a sealed wall. Timber found in a Home Depot is more warped than wood 50 years ago because of cost-cutting at the kiln and the use of much smaller trees for the mass market.
Water penetration into a building is 100% down to the exterior cladding and waterproofing system, it has absolutely nothing to do with the material used for the skeleton of the building. Cladding is done with traditional plywood, which is infinitely better than old-growth diagonal planking used a century ago. Waterproofing is via plastic wraps like HouseWrap or more recently the Zip system where the waterproofing is integral with the sheathing.
Houses today may be less durable than houses 100 years ago (although there's huge survivorship bias in that claim), but if they are it will come down to tract houses being built to a very low standard of workmanship. It has nothing to do with old-growth versus new-growth timber.
I live in a country where stone houses are the traditional norm and wood frame houses are still seen as flimsy despite becoming increasingly popular for new family homes.
The way I understand it, a major difference between the two construction styles is that stone is wet and wood is dry.
Stone shouldn't be sealed (hence the notion that stone walls can't be painted) because this traps the humidity and erods the stone. A major downside of this is that this means stone houses are more prone to trapping humidity, especially with better insulation, and grow mold.
Wood on the other hand must be sealed so you can use forms of insulation that are highly efficient but very susceptible to damage from humidity. A major downside of this is that the outer layers essentially act as a water barrier and even things like driving a dowel into an exterior wall can cause damage over time from water entering the wall via condensation on the screw.
Traditional wood frame construction in my country used wooden beams along with loam or stone. Because these buildings often expose wood to the elements and are generally wet because of the stone and loam there is an inherent risk of the wood decaying over time and I've seen restorations that removed almost everything but the wood frame to remove integral beams. There are many very old wood and loam/stone buildings left in my area but there are probably many more that had to be either torn down or stripped down to the bones for restoration.
Do you think women who have the personality and temperament to rise to the top in 2024 corporations will act substantially different than the men who are there today? Why?
This reads like a parody of American individualism that a Chinese government newspaper might write.
The ultimate goal of my parenting is for my kids to realize they're part of a community that gave them tremendous advantages, and to which they have a duty to give back.
Not sure what bubble you're describing, but the sense of community anywhere at any time in human history is ultimately an illusion.
I'm not saying the kids should grow up to be selfish, but that the more they can do for themselves the more they can also do for others. That is a leader. We really don't need another generation of guilt ridden cogs.
It's "rugged individualism" that is the bubble, both in time and in space. Community and duty exist everywhere and have at every time, despite what it is like in 2024 America.
In the west we can't even seem to hold on to the lessons from 1930s-40s Europe, despite an incredible amount of documentation and retrospection. What hope is there when the history of the cultural revolution is being actively suppressed?
Somehow, our ancestors built a free democratic world without having all our advantages. As what we've taken for granted as been assaulted and damaged, it would be good to remember what they acheived, and how they did it, from much worse positions - without even a prior example or history to build on.
They created democracy, women's rights, etc. despite almost an entire human history of doing otherwise. We only have to look back 10 years.
The lack of modern technology is an advantage, not a disadvantage.
It is harder to start any democratic revolution against authoritarianism now than in the past. The modern information age makes it harder, not easier. To search someone's papers, you used to have to get police officers to physically enter their home and break their locks, in front of all their neighbors.
You used to need to enlist 5-10 people to spy on a single potential dissident 24/7, and that surveillance is easier to detect. To effectively spy on a population, you used to need to enlist 10-30% of the population to spy on their neighbors and filter reports.
To get the people's attention, you didn't have to get your message through a chaotic attention economy powered by the platforms that filter the information overload. There was literally a public square where you could reach your audience by handing out hand produced pamphlets.
That's a distinction only relevant for research, not an actual product.
People can and do use AI detectors on any art style, often to justify harrassment of suspected AI use. In the anime community, it's especially very common to do so.
A bad AI detector is worse than no AI detection at all, so extra scrutiny is justified.
Wasn't aware of that context in the anime art community, that's good to know about, so thanks. Currently, artist drawn anime images weren't a primary stylistic focus, so the gap makes sense.
That's interesting. I wonder how the current population of HN splits between people who heard of HN because of YC (that describes me), and people who heard of YC because of HN.
I'm in the latter camp. I'm largely uninterested in startup culture etc., but HN is one of the better sources of "interesting tech and associated discussion". Given that, I'm not sure why I clicked on this article...
I'm definitely in the latter bucket, though I've been here a long time now. I found HN as technical subreddits started to no longer satisfy my curiosity about tech, and fell in love. I originally learned about the startup ecosystem from lurking around here.
I’ve had my account here since 2012 and I only know about YC because of HN. That also seemed to be in YC’s golden years as well as far as I can tell. At this point YC is a bit of a nothing burger best I can tell so HN is, I would imagine, far and away the bigger brand.
Companies from the 2010s cohort though, he's got a point. Stripe is a $100B chunk, Airbnb is another $100B chunk, Doordash is a $50B chunk, Instacart is a $10B chunk...
I only know of YC because of HN. I know nothing about YC except it seems to be one of the many incubators where you pay them handsomely one way or the other in the hopes they can get you off the ground. I guess like the self help section of an old bookstore.
>“Coke” is the generic word for all soda/pop, including Pepsi, in much of the US and world
I don't think this is even true for most of the USA, much less the world. I've never heard anyone refer to anything except a cola as "coke" although I heard that was the vernacular in some subset of the US... some southern US states?
It isn't that niche. Probably in second behind "soda" pop being in third place. Some areas have other names like "cold drink" that while seeming generic actually only refer to carbonated sweet beverages.
