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Singapore is an IQ meat grinder. High IQ people move there and have 0.5 children per woman. IQ is the single best predictor of longevity. This is because IQ is a product of high fu…

Americans live the same as Cubans and Mexicans. Health care is irrelevant as best I can tell. The issue is diet and lifestyle. This leads to important realizations, such as that Am…

The question is Does it make money? Every high speed rail system in the world I'm aware of loses money hand over fist. Buses and airplanes have obviated most of these systems.

This whole current moment rhymes too well with 2000 and 2008. Who are the Ken Lays, the Bernie Ebbers's, and the Madoffs? I suspect Bezos and Musk are going to fall hard.

The key variable is Trump's total failure to implement his stated policies on immigration. https://www.numbersusa.com/news/more-400000-asylum-seekers-o... Wages would be going way …

A tariff or tax regime indexed on real wages and also environmental protection is necessary. Selling things in the USA profitably on the basis of cheap labor in countries with weak…

> Government massively subsidizes the oil industry all the time. Not true. Even if it were true most of the oil industry is losing money hand over fist. But not as fast as the phon…

Which is fundamentally stupid because the beta-carotene to vitamin A pathway is highly limited. The whole idea is wrong. Vitamin A deficient people need vitamin A. Stuffing extra b…

> US is one of the least densely populated developed countries None of the other developed countries have vast interior deserts. The east and west coasts and some parts of the Miss…

Your comparison illustrates my point. Oklahoma is not crisscrossed with efficient water transport and reliable annual fresh water. Oklahoma is probably overpopulated as it is. The …

> There is a LOT of room in the country for growth No there isn't. All the places with viable logistics and water supply are pretty much full up. Urban areas need barge transport, …

It's not reinvested capital. It's highly leveraged funny money from a decade of ZIRP. And this isn't really a "tech" problem at this point. The "real" economy is full of huge compa…

Amazon makes weird non-GAAP claims. In terms of GAAP, Amazon had negative free cash flow of $4.2 billion in Q1.

Both German and Russian war production increased throughout the war under command economies and massive bombing. They key factor was fuel.

Well look how communism in Asia played out over the ensuing 40 years. Would it have been such a horrible idea to let Japanese boys die fighting off communists? And why are 50+K Ame…

> US (not invaded, economy grew during the war GDP grew during the war due to federal debt. The standard of living markedly declined and didn't recover until much later.

Japan and Germany fought WWII because they wanted to secure oil supplies. The USSR and USA defeated them because they had massive amounts of oil at their disposal. The USA was #1 p…

Well then why is the water in your city pumped by diesel engines, and why are all the goods delivered by diesel locomotives, barges, and trucks? The entire logistics industry is ju…

Not really. You are underestimating the massive energy efficiency advantages of modern diesel engines, across many contexts. It's the same reason why water pumps and freight locomo…

http://energyskeptic.com/2016/why-is-passenger-rail-so-damne...

Diesel buses are very energy efficient. Electrified rail is surprisingly inefficient. Building bus rapid transit lanes makes more sense than spinning up a light rail infrastructure…

I don't really see any ads just by running NoScript. I don't see the need for an ad blocker. If a site won't render with javascript disabled, then I just close the tab.

Python and JS are both equally awful. The sad reality is that Perl 5 still remains the only viable scripting language aside from scheme (lol) with sane scoping and lexical closures…

> There is no safe amount of ethanol. When Ethanol enters the body, it is metabolized into Acetaldehyde Just wait until you look up how beans are metabolized. All food except pure …

These garbage studies confuse the impacts of crappy fried food and oils with alcohol itself. Heavy drinkers also eat more PUFA. The PUFA itself is very damaging. The alcohol just m…