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I'm pretty sure there's literally zero risk of structural demand changes for law enforcement. Defunding the police isn't going to happen and there's no plausible path toward automa…

Large merchant ships are extremely efficient in terms of CO2 and other pollutants released per ton of cargo. I agree with ordering less stuff when practical but most of the emissio…

The solution will have to come from growth and technical innovations, not personal sacrifice.

Nope. Very few defense contacts are still issued on a cost-plus basis. Especially not those for serial production of existing munitions.

Sure, but as a point of comparison the Roman Catholic Church has even more people worldwide and manages to make do with only 4 management layers. (I'm referring to those in religio…

I think you're directionally correct. But that BMW will likely turn into a maintenance nightmare in 10 years when electronics modules start failing and new replacement parts are no…

Wrong framing. Copyrights and patents have been around for far longer than 40 years. Eliminating IP enforcement rights would destroy economic growth. The media and entertainment in…

Lack of those metals is one of the key limiting factors holding back the electrification and re-industrialization of the US economy.

These corporate fads always run in cycles. Any large organization needs some resource managers but what is the optimal span of control? What tends to happen is that businesses lay …

And yet the Toyota RAV4 hybrid is selling so fast in the USA that customers can barely find one at a dealership.

Is that why those civilizations ultimately collapsed?

Have we tried adding bacon?

Tough to control for all the confounding variables, though.

We don't need cigarettes but metals are a necessity. How would you prefer we get them?

FWIW, one of the executives working on seafloor mining claims that they'll only suck up a limited pattern of manganese nodules from the seafloor and leave the rest undisturbed. If …

We don't even have reliable biomarkers for aging in general so what would the endpoints for such an experiment be?

Fortunately this is not an actual problem which needs to be solved.

Nah. There's not going to be a law which expropriates someone else's IP due to a third party's bankruptcy. Makes no sense at all.

Regardless of side effects there is no reliable evidence that rapamycin slows aging in humans.

This is just straight up false. Apparently you don't understand bankruptcy law. Courts will prioritize the interests of creditors first. And the notion of a law requiring source co…

Legal rights don't matter if the other party is ever liquidated, or otherwise unable to meet their obligations.

Roman emperors routinely issued statements about how they were working so hard on behalf of their subjects that they barely had time to sleep. Evaluating the veracity of those stat…

We should all listen to guys like your boss. Circumstances have changed a bit but their beliefs are generally directionally correct and they have some great lessons to teach.

I would be happy to pay to buy or rent a single show or movie. The problem is that a lot of that content is only available with a monthly subscription. Screw that, those monthly bi…