Using a variation of this:

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}

```

actually got me a pretty linear upward win line for thousands of simulated clicks

they've raised 250m, assuming they lose money at the current rate of 111m in H1, wouldn't they run out of money before then?

That loss if for Rolls Royce ...

YC '16 https://www.ycombinator.com/library/5Q-on-starting-and-scali...

Is CLT/NLT/glulam less weather resistant (eg. against excessive humidity/moisture) than traditional buildings though?

All modern homes require active humidity management as they're sheathed with plywood externally and drywall[1] inside. Even if you use concrete or brick you still need active humidity management if you don't want mold growing on all your furniture, etc.

There's no more old growth timber to build (and furnish) homes the way they were built 100+ years ago. All the alternatives require active systems to prevent rapid degradation.

This is even true of modern towers--the types of steel, the techniques, the tolerances, the use of reinforced concrete, etc, require active systems. Towers built 100+ years ago were in some ways more resilient than today, having used materials and techniques--knowingly and unknowingly--that could hold up to the elements better with active management.

[1] Even in high-end builds, nobody except perhaps a die-hard DIY'er with money to burn uses more moisture resistant drywall variants or alternatives throughout an entire home. I once toured a 100+ year old house supposedly renovated and lived-in by an architect. They basically rebuilt the entire structure, including replacing much of the timber with steel. Everything _looked_ high-end, except the walls if you paid attention. They just used regular drywall--not the cheapest, but definitely not the nice stuff (e.g. what you might find in a class A commercial office). IIRC, the internal doors were solid core, but that hardly mattered given you could hear everything through the cheap walls.

To add, humans emit a lot of moisture just by breathing. Also, modern code limits how much air can leak out of a house. It’s those leaks in old homes that let them survive without moisture control, because that leaked air would carry the moisture away.

Would one be able to achieve a similar effect by simply opening the windows on a regular basis? (Assuming all the other principles around good air-flow and ventilation were following in the building layout.)

Yes, but modern humidity controls are able to regulate moisture levels while also reclaiming heat. That is, if you open all the windows your warm/cool air will flow out while fresh air flows in; an energy recovery ventilator will partially precondition the fresh air as it flows into the house, using the outgoing air as the source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_recovery_ventilation

It actually doesn't, mass timber is extremely hard to ignite, see https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/1/15/2105805... (advantages section)

5-over-1 buildings have been known to burn pretty well while under construction, when the building is bare timber with no fire suppression. But once the walls and sprinkler system go in, they resist fire well.

5/1 buildings in the US don’t usually use Mass Timber. They use traditional light framing techniques for the 5 wooden floors.

absolutely, i3 and i5 Alder Lake is incredible value already and Raptor Lake will improve that even more

and instant grocery startups

I'm not sure who these are for, but it definitely isn't me.

According to some back-of-the-napkin math I did:

- Most items are marked up 16%

- There's a ~$5-15 service fee (that's WITH Instacart+)

- And most of the sources I saw showed that you should tip between 10-20% (which they deserve, given what I've seen of how they're paid).

While I could absolutely see using the service if I was having a party and couldn't leave to pick up some forgotten items, paying $60-80 extra on top of my $200 grocery bill is too rich for my blood.

Yeah, when I used it the first time I was in awe, but over time I removed their apps and I just walk to the supermarket.

Their prices are quite high, delivery time is unpredictable (even though their app says 10-15min, sometimes I had to wait 30-40min), and their inventory is limited. I still use them once every 2 months or so, but on a weekly basis I'd just rather go to a local supermarket myself.

My biggest issue is the high rate of failure with fresh produce. I remember when one of my orders came in with a bag of organic sweet potatoes, with the claim that the organic Russet I had ordered were "out of stock." I was doing a specific recipe, so ended up having to go to the same supermarket from which I had just had my groceries delivered (thinking, perhaps I could get singles or non-organic).

The bags of organic Russet were right there, right next to the organic sweet potatoes.

On that same order, the bananas that came were so green that they wouldn't ripen for three weeks. When I've had groceries delivered, issues like this are the rule, not the exception.

Popcorn has been quite good. They’re clearly burning a ton of VC cash. Use it up while it lasts!

At this point the emergence (or re-emergence) of the instant grocery startup in is like the apocryphal story of Joseph Kennedy getting stock tips from his shoe-shine boy - a sign that the market is about to crash.

I got a referral from a friend that was also an early employee at the startup. I joined mostly because the people seemed smart and I thought I'd learn a lot from them and have fun building a cool product.

To be honest, most of it is just luck. My two cents is to just find really smart and hungry people, look for evidence of incredibly fast product velocity and some semblance of product market fit. For first 50, there's a decent number of post series A startups that should have those indicators.

I think GP was being humorous

not really news given they have 1400 employees according to LinkedIn