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> They didn't say they were appalled at people disagreeing with them. They said they were appalled at the lambasting Whether you think something is legitimate criticism or not is s…

I don't think that is the point though so much as that Google has one standard for their internal findings and another for project zero, which also deals with other companies with …

How it is appalling that people disagree with you? You say yourself that it is a "net benefit" meaning there are things to disagree with. Your opinion isn't the one being hidden en…

Thankfully there are many ways to participate. But maybe I was a bit short. My point is that if you don't 'meet me half way' I can't do the subject justice in a forum where a signi…

> Power? I don't see much power being granted here. And I am not going try to convince you in a popularity based forum, but that is generally the objection.

I don't think it is much more complicated than that some of us don't want to grant even more power to companies like Google.

Not necessarily and not from an economic perspective. One can argue that, but it depends on how building affects the market. For example by shifting demographics. But even so rente…

I mostly agree, but I think (affordable) time and place is actually incredibly scares these days. To the point where people will travel half way across the world for it. Pretty muc…

> Sure basic economics tells us that increasing supply ought to drive down prices for everyone, but at the individual level it's tough for people to make the connection. Basic econ…

That is sort of the problem though. Climate change arguably wouldn't have been much of a challenge for western countries if we had continued to evolve our cities, infrastructure an…

> Now finally these new BART trains rolling out, some NYC trains were also modernizing some about a decade ago, but I haven't been to Sweden or much of the rest of Europe in a long…

There is of course also the opposite problem of having a lot of space but ending up in essentially a house size cubicle without connection to other people. But it seems like the la…

> I'd agree that not much can be done based on the current nature of both political and public/personal discourse, but can the quality of this discourse not be improved? Probably. …

Safety regulation might be a burden for aircraft manufacturers, but it is what enables competition among airlines. The reason we can have low cost airlines are because safety isn't…

Things don't take up much space in themselves, activities do. What you lose when living smaller aren't the things themselves, but a kitchen were it is easy to cook healthy food, a …

> completely ignorant to the fact that commute distance is one of the largest factors in one's happiness and well-being. Only to a point. Usually somewhere around 30-40 square mete…

I don't really see your point. Places were the government don't care about how people live aren't very nice. In fact they are often outright authoritarian, much more so than any "t…

Western movies about the future is almost less futuristic than China at this point.

> Your last sentence is very true - economists on the most "conservative" and "liberal" sides of the profession all agree that rent control is counter productive. No, I wouldn't sa…

I don't find it hard to be against free trade. All you have to want to do is protect your own model because you believe in it more than another. I don't believe in many foreign lab…

Honestly it doesn't really matter. The title is even factually incorrect, rent control worked in Sweden for much of the 20th century producing a better standard of living at a lowe…

That is sort of the thing. It isn't so much that people don't know as that it doesn't register as important. Hans Rosling ended up devoting much of his life promoting a fact based …