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They are already doing that, this is presumably part of what the entire conflict is about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025

I don't see the point of just not addressing the article. It quite specifically argues that as technology isn't emerging any more so startups can't commercialize those emerging tec…

Having that work is specific to Japan. If there is a single example of someone managing to do that successfully, especially with multiple companies, I would like to hear about it. …

Right, but similar interventions are also completely unthinkable today. Which is why Stockholm have some of the most expensive property in Europe.

They are reconstructed. https://blog.gaijinpot.com/problem-with-wooden-buildings-in-...

It is also meaningless. Yes, if you get to choose what to do, you can do whatever you want. But you don't, so affordable housing remains an unsolved issue in most places. Things ha…

They are private in ways specific to Japan that, what I know, you pretty much won't find anywhere else.

I never understood this argument. Japan is one of the most different places relative to everywhere else. That you can't find a more familiar example almost becomes a counter argume…

Honestly I don't really follow your point. "Where there is a will, there's a way" means that if you are motivated enough you will find a way to succeed. Which as I understood was y…

As far as I remember that is what he has said. The idea from the beginning was just to fund a launch. Here is someone else retelling the story: https://medium.com/@toledoalbert/sta…

I think systems have become increasingly unpragmatic, but not necessarily people's behaviour. In 2010, which the article refers to, youth unemployment in Sweden was ~25%, the housi…

Behaviour, especially widespread behaviour, is rarely irrational. Despite its reputation Sweden has become surprisingly unpragmatic in recent years. It is very easy to end up in a …

Chances are inspiration is overvalued today. Remember when Elon Musk was going to put a plant on Mars with an ICBM? Instead he managed to leverage the fact that the US has a space …

Building public infrastructure just isn't a priority in the US. We can analyze the differences all we want but at the end of the day it just isn't that important. US society and po…

Things like this absolutely isn't intuitive to people. Partly because the industry have done a "good" job downplaying it to make a lot of money. Many industries, like banking, does…

> Because the Internet has enabled clusters like Silicon Valley or Hollywood to be even more prominent. And bigger cities in general. But I also think people tend to underestimate …

I am not sure the situation is the same. Code used to be somewhat valuable, like in for example a game engine. Today code is to some extent free, and programming is a service. You …

> Much of Europe still has a strong middle-class. Debatable if we factor in the cost of living in many places.

You simply shouldn't believe the talk about automation. Most people don't even know what they are talking about. What do people think Chinese workers do? Mr. Marsh is right, it is …

In Sweden, where taxes pay tuition, it costs about $4500 per year to educate a student in humanities and twice that in STEM. The salaries are of course lower though.

I wouldn't really see it like that. The limits of physics are with us every day. That is why cars are impractical at speed and why there is latency to other continents. For all the…

It isn't an uncommon thought. Unfortunately this isn't very popular, partly because it is actual socialism (which is even less popular than social systems). In general I think it i…