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by lhopki01 10y ago
> You mention the failure of private builders to meet demand for new houses. Why do you think that is? No I don't think that's true. If you look at the number of privately built units of housing it has been remarkably consiste
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> My gut feeling is that the #1 problem is excessive lending on housing and way too much tolerance for housing as a speculative investment. Does this mean you think that supply is adequate and the only issue is that? We have been runnin
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by lhopki01 10y ago
No I'm just realistic about what the private sector will do. If you look at the long running trend in house building since the second world war private companies have built roughly 200,000 units a year varying by about 50,000 units a
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Europe has significantly higher taxes on fuel yet still needs to subsidise roads from general taxes so I think if roads were properly funded it would be higher than fuel prices a few years ago. Also if both rail and roads were funded only b
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The utility of building on the green belt is questionable. The London green belt is so far away from the city center that you'd be better of living in Birmigham and taking the train than trying to get in from there. The UK's big
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Steps like this are important for the EU to achieve the market scale that the US currently has. It's baby steps but then remember that not that long ago the US had roaming fees for mobile phones.
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I think the ultimate success of the reaction to Trump is dependent on the Left positing a new, viable economic alternative. There is an viable economic alternative already. Look at countries like Sweden and Denmark. They are very rich d
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How much of the advancement in SoL is the responsibility of capitalism and how much is because of technological development? The two are not necessarily linked. Personally, I don't consider a certain measure of inequality to be a pro
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If you take out areas with high crime in any country then of course the statistics look better. Similarly of course it's possible to find areas in one country that are safer than areas in another country if you want to.
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Crime is England is a lot worse than Japan or the US?
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I stand corrected. They inherited membership via GATT. My information was based on the founding of the WTO in 1995 after the UK had joined the EU.
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I stand corrected. The inherited membership via GATT.
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The comparison to level 4 or 5 trains doesn't make sense to me. For a train you've got millions of dollars worth of hardware and track so the driver is only a tiny component in the overall cost. For trucks and taxis the driver i
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by lhopki01 10y ago
The UK won't be a member of the WTO since it never joined. It'll have to apply after it leaves the EU.
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And if the buy out is just of the voting rights stocks? There's no need to buy out non voting rights stocks if you want control. Give out dividends out of the goodness of their hearts?
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One is a statement by an individual - an anecdote the other is what data from studies have shown us. Which do you think it is?
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They expanded after car ownership became widespread. The older the city the more compact it is generally.
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No people type google.com into the address bar and then enter facebook in search page.
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If you adjust GDP for population growth Japan is actually doing quite well. The fact that it has a growing economy and a shrinking population shows that productivity is going up. Countries like the US have historically had high population
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Why do you assume that you have to use the screen or the touchpad exclusively? Surely if you're going to be fliting back and froth between keyboard and scrolling you'll use the touchpad but if you're reading a longer form ar
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by lhopki01 10y ago
Lift your arm up? I can rest my arm on the desk and have my thumb in the lower right corner of the screen. It's actually much nicer than having my hand in front of me slightly raised to have two fingers to scroll with. Try it now.
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by lhopki01 10y ago
You're comparing a 4 lane highway to a 2 track rail? Crossrail in London will have a train every 2.5 minutes with a capacity of 1500 people per train. Trains also do not slow down to a crawl at high capacity.
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In the UK all product placement needs to be declared at the beginning. Lots of Youtube stars get in trouble for this in the UK.
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Shouldn't that be the "science" of economics?
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So on aggregate you're saying that it'll use less energy? Or are you say on average people go to Michelin 3-star in cities?
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Wait you chose a few locations that happened to be richer that voted for Clinton and used that as proof? Look here: http://edition.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls All four different exit polls clearly show Tru
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You do realise that lots of people all eating out at a restaurant is much more efficient than all those people cooking and eating at home right?
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Trump's supporters were on average better off than Hillary's supporters.
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Honestly a city with a well designed public transport system doesn't really need cars for the last mile. Walking and cycling covers almost everyone. Rural areas will always need cars but well cities shouldn't.
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A self driving bus still faces that capacity issue and is significantly slower. Even BRT is much slower than light rail. Sewer systems have pipes that get wider the further they go. Road systems have to do the same. The problem is that t

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