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It's obviously true that some people try to use Covid to further their political agenda, as many people (including high profile politicians) openly say so. Nevertheless it seems mo…

There is no way that China has achieved Zero Covid. How would that be possible? Have they denied any trvel for the last 1.5 years? I would suspect a "Report Zero Covid" strategy in…

Wind and solar don't provide unlimited free energy.

"Funding sources" are usually the government.

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Why not? Suppose you have to choose between two dog walkers for hire, one who is will to write essays about Russian history and one who is not. You happen to be very interested in …

You are totally in your rights to fire your dog walker if they refuse to write you an essay about Russian political history.

Germany

Vancouver is famous all over the world as an attractive city (for example I live in Berlin, Germany, and many people I know would like to visit Vancouver). I've never been there, b…

But isn't that also a factor of what people prepared to pay? Like if some people are prepared to pay 50% or more of their income to live in an attractive location, prices will rise…

In my country, there are cheap houses in the countryside, and housing in attractive locations is very expensive. Perhaps the factor of demand is underrated in the discussion of hou…

People can only ask for as much money for houses as people are prepared to pay. It isn't true that speculators can simply drive the price up as high as they want. If investing in h…

Why not? It seems obvious that cheap credit would drive up prices. For example people could just be bidding up to what they can pay off in about 30 years. If they simply do that, c…

Instead of fretting about people who became successful, we should think about how we can help more people become successful. Which incidentally seems to be a huge part of what PG d…

Climate always changes, the question then is, is it extraordinary change because of CO2. I don't think merely counting record events is a good way to determine that 40 years is als…

Local records are normal. There is variation in weather, and there are many "local" spots on earth. There are also coldness records every year, but there is less reporting on it.

Well the most important factor of economic mobility has historically been women marrying up. So you might be on to something - it seems doubtful that wives who were able to marry u…

You have just become lucky because you stumbled upon the article and can act on it. So it is not necessary to mention luck, because the readership of the article is already selecte…

Yeah because their parents are better educated and pass on their values to their kids. So what? I am frankly tired of this modern idea that is is somehow unfair if parents pass on …

PG talks about that in other essays, on how you should probably move to the right location. He compares Milano to Florence - it is unlikely people in Milano were less intelligent, …

Your story doesn't actually demonstrate that you have to know Warren Buffet as a child and attend an expensive school to become successful. I don't think anybody here claims that w…

A lot of censorship is mandated by governments. Here in the EU companies have to pay huge fines if they don't comply with censoring laws. The problem might not be venture capital, …

But maybe no government is better. It only says all other forms of government are worse.