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You could say the same about whether bridges to nowhere generate important economic robustness. The problem with this view is it ignores that such activity crowds out the ability to do something actually useful with the same resources, whil
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To me the focus on insulin for processed foods may be very incomplete. While refined carbs are bad, the problem is probably more related to the entire gastrointestinal pipeline and immune system. Processed foods are not just high in refined
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You cannot prove a negative.
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If these are a result of real preferences in the context of equal opportunity, then there is no particular reason to seek equal outcomes.
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Those supply issues you mention are true but ultimately not the key. Cities are expensive, but we have endless amounts of cheaper suburbs. Yet people still want to live in cities despite the price. Why is that? Because they get a value from
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This doesn't compare with unvaccinated people, and thus doesn't tell people much about vaccine safety.
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One of the things that comes to mind about why it is so hard to measure things in this industry is that almost nothing is commodified, and the commodities and specifications are all at the component level, which vary wildly over time. If yo
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We can't expect kids to win in a fight against trillion dollar conglomerates who want to create psychological addiction to their products, and we can't expect parents to effectively control their children at all waking moments. Th
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Which municipalities in the US actually allow you to construct these?
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If the purpose is money laundering then short selling is not possible.
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There is a ton of room to improve on the best existing cities. Innovation in terms of the tax structure, regulatory codes, transportation grid, policing, healthcare, pandemic preparedness, and many other areas. Poverty is still rampant in m
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Fantastic article! These simplified economies do follow similar constraints as real economies. A popular argument is that we are not all homo economicus... but video game players are real humans, not NPCs, and yet they reproduce most of the
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I agree. Rent control vests certain residents who for whatever reason have chosen to remain tenants in the same place for a long time, at the expense of newcomers and overall economic productivity. But for people who hate change, it works a
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Land value taxation and reduction of regulations which artificially limit supply are the obvious solutions. Taxing improvements to land makes it less likely that people will build or renovate, so all such taxes should be removed. Taxing lan
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Luckily, there's a lot of planets. And dematerializing one is difficult.
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Massive amounts of resource extraction still occurs in places like the US, Canada, and Australia. The US is the world's largest oil producer now. Canada and the US have huge logging operations, and are huge agricultural exporters. Aust
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He referenced the Environmental Kuznets Curve. This provides a mechanistic understanding of what is happening. It isn't that modern industrial civilization requires a certain amount of pollution per unit of production which can be offl
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I think Mozilla should build an alternative cloud infrastructure and phone platform by assembling the various pieces they already have or that others have already built. These pieces need to be assembled correctly by a trustworthy organizat
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This is actually really interesting. Bravo to the Edge team. And if I remember correctly, writeable memory pages were the main reason why iOS banned browsers like firefox from embedding their own rendering engines. Perhaps this kind of appr
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It was legitimately better than anything else at the time it was created. Linus did have the advantage that people listen to him, and not everything that is better succeeds. But it isn't just a case of his popularity. Technical excelle
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There's at least 16 hypotheses and none of them are that popular. In fact, most people are unlikely to even know that crime has been on a downward trend at all. The lead hypothesis has not been debunked, and if you read the article in
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In any event, even including the mine shafts, elevators are an order of magnitude less dangerous than stairs. And way less dangerous than cars.
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Land titles and patents both have similar characteristics and both could be taxed by value to discourage idle use. The key for both is that the government is providing exclusive security of tenure over some natural opportunity in order to f
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Fusion research on one hand is much like a ceremonial money pit where we light a mountain of cash on fire every year. Fusion power itself will likely not have much practical application anytime soon, because other power sources will be far
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Insulin is not produced by insulin fairies. Someone needs to do it. Even if the government foots the bill, it would be better if that bill were 75% cheaper.
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The proper comparison is whether their competitors like ULA can match them or not.
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Another way to spot a crypto scam is if it has a blockchain.
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Equally vulnerable?
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They are all shitcoins, and it is all gambling.
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This article obscures the truth, which will be obvious soon, that Ethereum will remain multiple orders of magnitude less efficient than traditional banks.

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