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In order to function well, markets have to be correctly regulated. In particular, externalities must be accounted for. Energy markets fail to do that (CO2 emissions is a large exte…

I like your point about incentivizing high turnout (and the resulting inter-state race for turnout). I wouldn't necessarily equate it with lax election laws though. Oregon (where I…

Wyoming gets 3 votes in the electoral college, California gets 55 - I am not sure what point you are making. The net effect of the electoral college is that the president is effect…

That's exactly the goal. The point is not to pick a different winner, it is to re-enfranchise voters in states that are strongly 'red' or strongly 'blue'

Are you thinking of the US Senate? The electoral college is not meant to give a proportionally larger weight to small states.

Are you implying that Microsoft is smaller than Google, Facebook or Amazon? Using market capitalization as a measure, Microsoft is currently the larger company.

From these links -- revenues of $7.2b in 2015, $8.9b in 2018; money inflow sure isn't pinched.

At 7 meters, much of Florida is gone. Regardless, global warming will impact poorer (and tropical) countries disproportionately. I live in the Pacific Northwest, and I know it is a…