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Russians have just built a 400sq foot 3-d printed house in 24 hours for $10k. Why the fuck do we still have a housing crisis?

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I'm guessing that the gear to print it etc costs a little more than that?

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Yeah, but if you are building a house every 24 hours, economies of scale would bring that cost down very, very quickly.

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In a year, you could have built 150+ houses with it.

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I think we're about to see worsening tension between autocratic regulation to protect old order & tech disruption.

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Yeah... somehow I don't think Trump et al will side with (neo)liberal Silicon Valley over legacy sectors.