Because to be a listing agent they don't have to do shit except put it up on MLS and take phone calls.

A buyer's agent has to find houses, look for neighborhood comps, schedule showing times (often evenings and weekends), write offers, negotiate, etc.

All the work is on the buyer's end, but it pays the same commission as the seller's.

Probably quicker, even.

Yes, but what I'm saying is that per the building code, you need insulation. You also need electrical (but obviously that can be face-mounted). Perhaps some of the interior walls can be painted concrete, but the exterior walls will all have to be studded and drywalled (in most areas). Those studs can also be structural. So you are basically installing 2 structural walls instead of one.

All of the "savings" that these houses claim to have can easily be done with standard, current construction practices; you just need the lead time and planning to do it. Which is exactly why no one does it.

No, those spaces have rebar in them and will be filled with concrete. Otherwise the structure would have no lateral strength at all.

Why would this be cheaper? From what I understand, they 3d print the walls, then you have to go back in and fur out and drywall all the interior walls so you can install insulation, plumbing and electrical.

So where's the savings? You are just replacing the exterior siding and finish, the rest of the house is the same as building it traditionally. Seems like this would be more expensive.

People are fear mongering. Goodreads is fine, but algorithm output is only as strong as the input. You aren't going to get good recommendations unless you are curating your shelves to your tastes. Sure, Amazon is trying to sell books, but they really don't give a shit if you buy Colleen Hoover or if you buy Philip K Dick.

The recommendations don't count ratings, just books. So create shelves based on your favorites or genres and they will recommend better books. It's not perfect, but you'll find some interesting stuff.

That doesn't mean it's random. It just means that it's not accounting for the stars. It's giving equal weight to 1 star books and 5 star and recommending based on the simple fact that you are (or were) interested in those titles.

If you curate your shelves it will recommend based on each shelf and be more relevant.

That's not my experience. I have a mix of sci fi, horror, science non fiction, and modern lit and my personalized recommendations are pretty relevant. Uninteresting and mostly useless, but still relevant.

Ironically, I have a DNF shelf that they have recommendations for that are probably more interesting than my other shelves.

How many books have you shelved? That might be the problem. I've been on there for 8 years, so I have 350 books on my read shelf and 150+ on my "want to read" shelf.

Which would be why they changed the title to "Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" for the US publication, which doesn't really make sense in context of the book, but does make the title more intriguing.

Not OP, but thanks for the rec! You should check out "The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" by Stuart Turton. Similar themes as recursion, but a different setup.

The US title is "7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" for some reason, FYI.

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