I can see the only weak part of this concept is pricing.
Also, Modal should have gone bolder with the "income-earning" part. It's not the prefab home, but the scheme that's interesting here. I can't believe people still don't see this.
In 2014, Rory Aronson launched FarmBot, a scalable, precision farming machine, built on open-source principles. It wasn’t long before they were noticed by NASA engineers:
“The Kennedy Space center actually got one of our very first units so they have it in one of their labs and what they’re looking at is how can this type of technology be combined with a smart greenhouse and other environmental control systems to be able to grow food in space, on the moon, Mars and who knows where else NASA wants to go.”
A few years later, NASA engineers invited Aronson and his core FarmBot team to the Kennedy Space Center to brainstorm innovative open-source approaches to food production. The FarmBot Genesis v1.2 continues to inspire NASA scientists as they design the systems that will ultimately grow food off-world.
What I find in total disarray is the anglosphere. Both epistemologically and socially. Britain and US are not the places to look up to anymore, nor even in pop culture.
We'll see in 10 years time, but I think continental Europe looks better than the anglosphere.
Because of the nature of my work, I use the liquid layout of Google Docs (web version, no "print" version).
Hence my astonishment when I realized you have discontinued that option from Google Docs. Very surprising.
Google Docs was created (Writely before it) as a simple text editor for the web. I can understand new users came and you may want to fit us all in your product, but erasing the liquid layout ("Web" view or version) is a complete blind move.
I'm sure that a significant percentage of users are in my same situation.
What's your point? Not interested? This may be the last one from them. I've also submitted some of their stuff, so you can police me as well. HN encouraging one-sided content. Good luck, mainstreamers.
You have too much time. By the way, define "vacuous". My first "+1" was frugal, never "vacuous". HN doesn't deserve me to share my nuclear knowledge anymore, after all this "superuser rage".
My comment was "frugal". But good. Definition of frugal: "Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, materials, time, etc.; characterised by frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal housekeeper; frugal of time."