Re: strategies for high voltage on PCB, wire terminals

On Fri, 13 May 2005 15:44:38 GMT, the renowned Rich Grise
<richgrise@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Thu, 12 May 2005 19:52:34 -0400, Spehro Pefhany wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 May 2005 16:34:50 -0700, the renowned John Larkin
>>>On Thu, 12 May 2005 17:18:35 -0400, Spehro Pefhany
>>>>On Thu, 12 May 2005 20:38:15 GMT, the renowned Rich Grise
>>>>
>>>>>$1000 is a "grand." ;-)
>>>>
>>>>We use mils for money too. As in "they just bought a fixer-upper in
>>>>Rosedale for one-point-four mil".
>>>
>>>There's a nicely restored Victorian in my neighborhood, 3 small
>>>bedrooms, on the standard 24-foot-wide lot. It has a two-car garage
>>>courtesy of a hydraulic lift system that stacks the cars. Asking 1.7
>>>megabucks.
>>
>> If you consider the uH (micro-house) as a unit of value, it has some
>> interesting results. Most things are getting cheaper, including all
>> the major currencies.
>
>The other day it occurred to me - when my Granddad built a house,
>everybody built their own house - it cost mainly labor, maybe about
>a month's wages worth. Around the time my folks were buying a house,
>a house could be had for about a year's wages. When I bought a house,
>they were going for about three years' wages. Nowadays, they're about
>ten years' wages.
>
>I wonder if that's merely exponential, or asymptotic, like taxes/
>inflation?
>
>Thanks,
>Rich

So, you're saying wages have dropped from 0.3H to 0.1H from when you
bought a house to now. If you could sell it now, you wouldn't have to
work for the next decade or so. ;-)

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