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It seems this discussion comes up fairly often, and the solution is almost always some variation of "make driving too expensive and/or too inconvenient... Driving is subsidised in …

The phrase "economic health" looks odder to me the longer I ponder it. "The economy" isn't a living creature, so the phrase is a metaphor, and different people are likely to have v…

The stock market is not the economy.

Any study like this will have the interesting caveat that the presence of smartphones at a formal, traditional family gathering might itself produce effects. That is: maybe family …

Will the new signals work when all the track is underwater, I wonder.

"The decline in the rate from 2016 to 2017 was the largest single-year decline since 2010," the CDC said ... Historically, the number of babies born in the U.S. has gradually risen…

...estimates that the annualized cost of land, construction, maintenance, and operations per parking space in the U.S. comes out to $600 [PDF]. I've heard it said, although I can't…

Just using newegg.com is borderline impossible with just a few tabs open unless you have 4 non-SMT threads. I have four Newegg tabs, one Amazon tab, one Verge tab, and one Engadget…

This has never happened. You know he's been a public loudmouth for ~30 years, right? Consider the encyclopedic familiarity with his massive corpus of blabbering you claim when you …

I don't often see this sort of pride in America. Normally the flavors I do observe are hyper-nationalistic and filled with bravado... I'd go even further: our current presidential …

I clearly said that some speech will be denied a platform... What does it mean to you when you say that something has been "denied a platform?" It seems to me that the very notion …

When you accept this, you accept that "censorship" is unavoidable. Your scare quotes indicate that when you say "censorship" you mean "the right to choose which points of view I/we…

Imagine if all those IP cameras, routers, NAT boxes and what-have-you had been designed with one simple policy: the internet port doesn't work until the user sets a password. Even …

I don't think asking the question is silly, but bear in mind that the internal heat of the planet is escaping whether we tap into some of it or not.

He's actually pointing out that, technical considerations aside, there is a set of market conditions currently prevailing that looks unsustainable on its face, and at some point, l…