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Mainstream economics reads like a flat earth Facebook group when you see how many times it's failed to predict booms and busts despite being considered acceptable as such.

I think we spend too much time trying to ascribe an internal consistency to famous people. Finding internal consistency with somebody doesn't change the destructive trajectory of t…

The value of your labor is how much the company is able to leverage it for a return. It has next to nothing to do with where you live. It's on the company to answer this question, …

Structural impediments keep people poor. Not internal monologues.

I'd posit that adding a bunch of parking to a city center is also "meddling" in the lives of people who live in the city center.

Loading zones.

China is where the west hides its dirty manufacturing.

Might be the training data?

Let's be realistic, while you can see denialism of science across the spectrum, there's only one side of it that denies it in the face of extinction-level events. Scientists can't …

China's population is concentrated in one part of the country. That makes it easier to serve them more efficiently with mass transit. This isn't true for the United States. The pop…

The shortcoming with that line of reasoning is that it's still not wholly satisfying. Falsifiability is probably necessary but not sufficient for what most people consider to be sc…

The image aesthetic is emulating the appearance of a dot-matrix printer. It's just a low-tech motif to go with the publication.

Calling farmers professionals as it relates to the conscious application of dangerous pesticides is a serious stretch. We're approving new pesticides at an unreal rate. These guys …

FWIW nobody's been a native Latin speaker for a thousand-plus years. You're in the same boat as everybody else! ;-)

I've lived in Portland OR, Mid MO, and the Kansas City area. In mid-Missouri, the brown recluse is the standard house spider. Pretty much every spider in my house there was a brown…

If you're going to put the time into a research MS degree, you shouldn't be paying for it. Period.

He's right about one thing. You will die of boredom in Lincoln. There are plenty of other nearby Midwestern cities with character and interesting stuff to do (and people to see). O…

If you wear clothes and/or aren't near the equator it's not gonna make a big enough of a difference. Also you're gonna have to balance that with negative sun exposure. Salmon is pr…

If by "the left" you also mean every prominent suburban area in America, then yes! It's right to bring up the military and the trades as viable options, but let's not oversell that…

FWIW: It's probably easier to become a software engineer than it is to become a master plumber.

I never experienced the "only option" talk, either. My high school put forth alternative vocational tracks pretty often. Also the military, among other things. This was in the earl…

Sweden's population is also a lot older than it was in the 1980's. Drives up costs substantially.

Yes but in this case the government's own estimation on doing the work itself sets a bar. Also sufficiently bidding out work drives prices down by competition if the contractors ar…

You aren't going to get R1 research done when you have a 3/3 teaching load with no graduate support, that's just life. Amen. Should also add that the R1 school I did my graduate wo…