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Could you please share this spreadsheet? I would really love to have my own version of this.

Very case dependent of course. There are loads of small towns that have stagnant or shrinking populations all across the US.

Shhhhh, it's way more fun to spout cynical and clever quips about a publication without backing it up with any reasoning.

Why?

Wow, I find economist to be one of the best publications to read about global events. Can you say more about what you think they lie about?

The blog actually spells it "Artic", not "Arctic". I wonder if the blog or the company misspelled it.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beauty

What is the difference between "beauty" and "elegance" of a proof?

The middle east is in Asia, no?

Reminds me of the doherty threshold. When will AI respond in less than 400 milliseconds?

By this logic all money is inherently worthless too, and every time you buy a sandwich at the local corner shop you're just passing off that worthless piece of paper to the next sc…

That ".125% is not much to matter" argument also cuts the other way, against the Matt Levine argument that the S&P is excluding trillion dollar companies and should adjust the rule…

Because for many people who pursue these fundamental truths, the reward is not necessarily personal fame, fortune, or even personal understanding. Advancing humanity's total knowle…

Legal has lots of institutional inertia behind it though. I think AI will be very very useful for lawyers..... at their desk in private. But I don't see it replacing them. The lega…

This is why a lot of my favorite shows/movie series are ones only a few episodes long, but which really give a good feel for the world they take place in. Bladerunner and HBO's Che…

I have a suspicion that, once self-driving cars make up the lion's share of driving, accidents caused by humans will actually increase on a per-mile driven basis. I think humans wi…

>I mean... That was exactly the point. Great. So we agree it is cherry picked. > Sure. It provides an even better illustration about how the runaway urbanism resulted in breaking t…

> Care to explain the cherry-picking? The average square footage was growing steadily (except for the 2008 crisis) and the inflection point happened around 2012 when the death spir…

That st louis fed link doesn't seem to show any clear trend to me. Looks like we're actually on a downturn after a peak. Regardless, I don't understand what your proposed solution …

That article has cherrypicked dates. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/COMPSFLAM1FQ Also, firm in a dense city can get better talent, but those negative externalities (and I would…

This is the first time I've heard of this locational jobs crisis. Where did you learn about this? I would like to read more about it

The same way you own anything. You buy it or make (breed) it.

>Because the global economy is one gigantic system of systems standing on top of the US financial system. When the US has a gigantic economic shock it ripples worldwide. But de-dol…

To be honest this comment kind of reads like anti-US fanfiction. >That diversification helps everyone else, but will hurt the US, which hurts financial markets, and thus everyone e…

In extreme scenarios it is certainly possible for the US to ban exports of certain fossil fuels, effectively making an internal US market that is isolated from the rest of the worl…