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by brc 10y ago
I do multiple 12/13 hour flights per year. It's not a big deal once you get used to it. The hardest part is just preparing yourself to be able to shut down properly. We spend too much time constantly stimulated that sitting sti
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by brc 10y ago
I think there is only one case, and that was because if a hijacking. The plane broke apart on landing. It was caught on video by someone on the beach. Of course, we don't know what happened to mh17, which might have also glided into
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by brc 10y ago
Engines turn or passengers swim. You have an extra word in there.
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by brc 10y ago
The true answer involves looking at the basic inputs of an economy and seeing which are being regulated heavily, and how that flows through as price increases. Land, labour and energy are the basic inputs. You could argue capital as well.
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by brc 10y ago
Seriously? Ferrari impromptu infernos is an Internet meme. Those things self immolate all the time. New ones too, not old ones with leaky hoses. Google it, it's a thing.
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by brc 10y ago
Generally construction of luxury-only housing indicates high regulatory barriers. Because it is hard to make a building, then demand is high, and the costs of meeting the regulations is also high. The rational response to that is to make
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by brc 10y ago
You could actually do that. If you sold options in an approved development with a five years delay in start time, you'd probably get in plenty of cash and not actually have any new residents. You could get a healthy market going in j
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by brc 10y ago
I actually think it would be very hard to soak up demand at this point. I think adding high rise is the right choice, as long as it is accompanied with increases in transport links. It's all very well to add in a couple of thousand pe
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by brc 10y ago
It actually describes Australia, which for the most part is uninhabited and undeveloped, and has massive amounts of mostly untouched wilderness. Take a land mass the size of the lower 48 states, and take out all the people except for Oregon
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by brc 10y ago
You can negotiate plenty of labor movement just with some simple qualifications, like not having a criminal history, being an eu citizen for 5+ years, no access to welfare for 3 years, things like that. I think most brexit supporters would
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by brc 10y ago
Your second point is incorrect. There are plenty of trade agreements without free movement included. Indeed the EC (forerunner to the EU) was precisely free trade without free movement. The first point is debatable. There is a lot of po
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by brc 10y ago
That might be your specific interests but I'd wager you didn't come from a family with anyone in jail, your parents sent you to school and stressed its importance, and were well read for their education level. Of course outliers e
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by brc 10y ago
I would say it is less than that. Leaving aside heritability, the environment in which the child will grow up is more or less set in concrete by the time they are born. This includes the parents socio-economic level, but more importantly t
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by brc 10y ago
I might just move to Poland then!
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by brc 10y ago
Don't forget the extra taxes paid to provide the schooling and hospitals! It's a good thing for these to be spread out - otherwise those who don't have kids are free riders on those that do. A healthy educated child not only
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by brc 10y ago
A combination of rarity, utility and sunk costs. The article seems to be wandering down the tangled nest of errors called the labor theory of value, or one of its offshoots. This bedevilled people for a long time who could not explain why
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by brc 10y ago
I agree that people should be more connected to their food supply, even if for no other reason than to be able to select better produce for themselves. I was witness to a cattle being slaughtered while staying on a beef property. It is con
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by brc 10y ago
I think this is truer than most people realise. We often modify our speech for the audience - put someone in a party situation where they are the odd one out and it will be harder for them to follow along.
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by brc 10y ago
Sorry, but no. Creative destruction is the end state of capitalism as has been proven time and time again. There are no examples of monopolies lasting more than a few years unless they have overt support from the state. Large governments
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by brc 10y ago
You can't use terms like 'useful' when measuring jobs or output. It's in the eye of the observer. Apparently nail painting businesses are a viable industry, in my eyes they are totally useless. Most of the businesses we
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by brc 10y ago
The consumer surplus created by cheaper and faster goods will lead to people purchasing other products and services, which will create new types of jobs provided that nobody does anything stupid with regulation. It's always been this w
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by brc 10y ago
A monopoly is a specific thing, not just an insult to a company you don't like. Most monopolies can only be sustained through state intervention, which is why large government is more of a problem than large companies like Amazon. This
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by brc 10y ago
I find all calls to use the power of the state to destroy commerce unsettling. Seems to me the system, imperfect as it is, is functioning well enough in this case. Certainly there should always be a constant review of regulation in light o
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by brc 10y ago
I am constantly amazed at what gets written in the comments section of a site ostensibly focussed on startup companies and the tech industry. Quite frankly it can often be scary to see what people come up with in their outrageous outrage.
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by brc 10y ago
Not to mention the car transporter ships which pump out bunker oil soot and Nox while idling at port while the VWs get unloaded. An extra 30 minutes of that is probably worse than all the extra emissions combined.
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by brc 10y ago
My point is immigration is not an on/off scenario. The U.K. could easily negotiate a visa for Shenghen area countries with reciprocal rights, at different levels for work or travel or retirement. And yes, where I think he UK could thri
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by brc 10y ago
It seems many on the remain side are concerned about being able to seek opportunity in other countries, and to have immigrants in their own country. Yet this article reveals that the two most popular destinations for UK families leaving ar
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by brc 10y ago
I would say that women have a bias towards socially dominant/powerful men which probably goes back to favouring the chief of a tribe in paleoithic time. As humans tend to reduce the problem down with stereotyping people probably associ
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by brc 10y ago
Rich countries with efficient and abundant energy have the lowest population growth rates and the cleanest and best preserved environments. The solution for environment degradation is the same as for poverty - the two are obviously linked.
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by brc 10y ago
No, you're not ignorant. Yes, if the earth were an unstable system it would have destabilised in the past. Yes, it is a combination of factors poorly understood, like the work only now coming out of CERN. Yes, the ROI of the various tr

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