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I do multiple 12/13 hour flights per year. It's not a big deal once you get used to it. The hardest part is just preparing yourself to be able to shut down properly. We spend too m…

I think there is only one case, and that was because if a hijacking. The plane broke apart on landing. It was caught on video by someone on the beach. Of course, we don't know what…

Engines turn or passengers swim. You have an extra word in there.

The true answer involves looking at the basic inputs of an economy and seeing which are being regulated heavily, and how that flows through as price increases. Land, labour and ene…

Seriously? Ferrari impromptu infernos is an Internet meme. Those things self immolate all the time. New ones too, not old ones with leaky hoses. Google it, it's a thing.

Generally construction of luxury-only housing indicates high regulatory barriers. Because it is hard to make a building, then demand is high, and the costs of meeting the regulatio…

You could actually do that. If you sold options in an approved development with a five years delay in start time, you'd probably get in plenty of cash and not actually have any new…

I actually think it would be very hard to soak up demand at this point. I think adding high rise is the right choice, as long as it is accompanied with increases in transport links…

It actually describes Australia, which for the most part is uninhabited and undeveloped, and has massive amounts of mostly untouched wilderness. Take a land mass the size of the lo…

You can negotiate plenty of labor movement just with some simple qualifications, like not having a criminal history, being an eu citizen for 5+ years, no access to welfare for 3 ye…

Your second point is incorrect. There are plenty of trade agreements without free movement included. Indeed the EC (forerunner to the EU) was precisely free trade without free move…

That might be your specific interests but I'd wager you didn't come from a family with anyone in jail, your parents sent you to school and stressed its importance, and were well re…

I would say it is less than that. Leaving aside heritability, the environment in which the child will grow up is more or less set in concrete by the time they are born. This includ…

I might just move to Poland then!

Don't forget the extra taxes paid to provide the schooling and hospitals! It's a good thing for these to be spread out - otherwise those who don't have kids are free riders on thos…

A combination of rarity, utility and sunk costs. The article seems to be wandering down the tangled nest of errors called the labor theory of value, or one of its offshoots. This b…

I agree that people should be more connected to their food supply, even if for no other reason than to be able to select better produce for themselves. I was witness to a cattle be…

I think this is truer than most people realise. We often modify our speech for the audience - put someone in a party situation where they are the odd one out and it will be harder …

Sorry, but no. Creative destruction is the end state of capitalism as has been proven time and time again. There are no examples of monopolies lasting more than a few years unless …

You can't use terms like 'useful' when measuring jobs or output. It's in the eye of the observer. Apparently nail painting businesses are a viable industry, in my eyes they are tot…

The consumer surplus created by cheaper and faster goods will lead to people purchasing other products and services, which will create new types of jobs provided that nobody does a…

A monopoly is a specific thing, not just an insult to a company you don't like. Most monopolies can only be sustained through state intervention, which is why large government is m…

I find all calls to use the power of the state to destroy commerce unsettling. Seems to me the system, imperfect as it is, is functioning well enough in this case. Certainly there …

I am constantly amazed at what gets written in the comments section of a site ostensibly focussed on startup companies and the tech industry. Quite frankly it can often be scary to…

Not to mention the car transporter ships which pump out bunker oil soot and Nox while idling at port while the VWs get unloaded. An extra 30 minutes of that is probably worse than …