{"id":949,"date":"2011-02-04T22:19:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T03:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=949"},"modified":"2014-10-07T12:53:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T17:53:41","slug":"ubb-update-4-kindergarten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=949","title":{"rendered":"UBB Update 4: Kindergarten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Close your eyes (<em>wait, text-based communication&#8230; scratch that part<\/em>) and imagine that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re standing in a kindergarten class. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s you, and me, the teacher, and maybe an assistant. Four tall people to a veritable sea of shorties. The majority of users of that room are less than 3 feet tall. Why, then are we building doors with 7\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2 clearances when clearly the majority of people could be served by a 4\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2 door, with room to spare? We shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make the regular people pay more for tall doors just to suit people who are heavy height users. If they can&#8217;t get by crawling through, then that minority should pay for bigger doors through usage fees, and not be subsidized by everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is silly: the incremental cost of making the doors taller is not very much compared to the fixed costs of putting in a door in the first place. And, the short people in the room won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always be short: they&#8217;re just children. They&#8217;ll grow up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close your eyes (wait, text-based communication&#8230; scratch that part) and imagine that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re standing in a kindergarten class. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s you, and me, the teacher, and maybe an assistant. Four tall people to a veritable sea of shorties. The majority of users of that room are less than 3 feet tall. Why, then are we building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}