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Right now adult Americans can freely chose to live with their parents, and overwhelmingly chose not to. The article links ownership to costs. Attributing diminishing ownership as "…

Generally agreed. Though, Daniel Tiger and Paw Patrol should be judged differently. Paw Patrol is mindless and addictive. If you desperately need a distraction, PBS shows are less …

In FL, a speed camera can give a car's owner can a ticket without needing to know he was the driver. Your perspective is not true nation wide. "The registered owner of the motor ve…

>The other option is to let MBAs run Intel even further into the ground or worse, the government runs Intel into the ground while constantly taking more taxes to prop it back up. I…

yes, "This final rule, among other things, prohibits [...] certain review suppression practices[...]" https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/federal-register-no... Further down t…

>electric bikes Its not safe to cycle for practical purposes in my city. The city make gestures like painting a few road shoulders green and nature trails for exercise. This does n…

>limited supply is an unintended outcome. I have been to many city council meetings. Stymieing population growth is an explicit goal. The speakers tend to perceive harms from more …

Crystal errors tend to be around 20 ppm (parts per million) After a week, 20 ppm would drift 12 * 10^-6 * 7 * 24 * 60 *60 = 12 seconds. Your motherboard probably has a cr2032 keepi…

Yes and no. Lithium metal is the highly reactive element in batteries. Similar to Hydrogen and Sodium, elements in the first column of the periodic table are highly reactive (flamm…

The point is: >Medicare should restructure hospice reimbursement to cover more of the hands-on caregiving, thus decreasing the financial burden of dying at home. The main pitch is …

>more skeptical and nuanced Than what? The Economist is UK based too. The Economist tends to favor the US because the Economist supports liberal democracy and free trade worldwide.…

>some of the design, planning and early engineering is within the realm of what a professional civil servant could do. There's nuance to consulting costs. The government GS pay sca…

I'm more likely to visit chip manufacture's forum with problems. TI and Microchip have paid experts who will answer my question. C itself is simple compared to other languages. The…

Fuel cost is down in part due to releasing oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The release will stop in October. https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-issues-fifth-emergency…

Corn makes up more than 10% of global food production. A significant fraction of the world would not 'survive' if those fields of corn suddenly disappeared. A better example would …

The past 40 has seen an increase in housing regulation. NIMBYs create restrictive zoning rules. Developers can only build after attending dozens of meetings. City council must gran…

Coping with inflation creates extra taxes. There is no perfect mitigation. Use your existing dollars to buy non-volatile assets like real estate or gold requires you to pay long te…

Yes. Holding gold in the US was illegal due to executive order 6102. There's no need for mental gymnastics of blaming energy. Just one powerful guy says "no" and poof, its illegal.…

No. What you say seems true, but this is a comparison. I would expect other nations to also have pipe etc underground for a hundred years too (probably longer).

We can restrict cars and build public transit. Cars are the #1 killer of Americans under the age of 25. It only falls to #2 at the next age range because of overdose deaths. Cars a…

The cost should be measured in part by death. Car accidents are the leading cause of death of Americans under the age of 25: https://www.cdc.gov/injury/images/lc-charts/leading_cau…

It doesn't seem correct at all. Money is very much a factor. To prove, How many people here would show up tomorrow if their company stopped paying them? How many people would join …

Loss of life impacts the dollar amount. Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death for young people. Of which, motor vehicle accident is the leading cause. It takes second …

Your suggestion is not in opposition to repealing zoning restrictions. You can do both, but one should happen first. Zoning laws restrict what builders can build. Subsidies take fu…

Coming into your house isn't even almost the same thing as walking through someone's yard. Walking through someone's yard isn't a good comparison wither because a medium plot of la…