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This is a political disaster. Fracked crude is only profitable because the externalised costs of the catastrophic environmental damage are born by others. This is another direct we…

They do absolutely apply. And they work. Look at two incredible examples. Russia, post 1917, went from a third world feudal economy (albeit with incredible land resources and consi…

Top down state organisation is prone to corruption. It takes effort to keep that at bay. The public oversight required is an overhead that should only be used in select tasks. The …

The housing and urban development department puts out price indices for construction of various types per sqft. https://www.amazon.com/Construction-Cost-Indices-Supportive-... You …

citation? Also it's natural that public housing is at least somewhat more expensive. They have to follow code and not take shortcuts. Also there isn't the predatory, crushing, pres…

The general story, told by who exactly? Oh right, the corporate press. I live in the UK. For every careless ugly tower (there are some) there are solidly build, even solidly design…

The market can never provide housing as cheaply as a properly functioning local/state government. * The state can borrow money far cheaper than private developers. * The state has …

Don't hate the player hate the game :) The human genome is what's screwed up. Things well covered in recent years: Power increases hypocrisy and cognitive bias over-values our own …

I would rather look at 500 people for one year than 50 people for 10 years. It is really important to understand how people's lives are affected and whether the positive outcomes t…

I wonder if the following could be relevant. 1. In my experience, Europeans are less dominated by the "newer is better" desire to constantly get the latest gadget/technology. I won…

Note there is a typo in the def of the predecessor function "The following function generates from the pair (n, n − 1) (which is the argument p in the function) the pair (n + 1, n …

OK. Yes the framers of the constitution did create protections from the government for themselves, and shared that with the rest of the population. As you imply it is hard to know …

I agree with the main thrust of your comment but perpetuating the 'immaculate conception' myth of the US as a government of, for, and by the people is counterproductive. In particu…

Interesting. I like the idea, but I'm not fond of the chaotic layout. I'd prefer that the hype dimension be color or text size rather than x-dimension of text location. Also the wo…