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This doesn't account for land value. Much of this land might be worthless on a m2 basis.

I don't think a fossil fuel engine mechanic is a career with a long lifespan though...

The cause of this fire is unclear, but other churches in France have been targets of arson and vandalism:

https://www.rt.com/news/456629-french-catholic-churches-atta...

That still fails to address congestion. The problem is similar to the electricity sector - we spend a lot of money creating capacity to handle peak-loads. If we simply time-shifted some road demand, or generally reduced the peak levels of road use, it would have a non-linearly positive benefit.

A rough example: people often decide to buy lunch from cafe's at the arbitrary time of 12:00 midday onwards, forming large queues. If more people bought at 11:30am, the actual time difference is minor, but demand can be handled a lot more effectively. Same thing with people arbitrarily deciding to leave work and drive home simultaneously at an arbitrary 5:00pm. If using the road at that time cost $2, and 30 minutes earlier $0.50, you can very effectively shift demand and improve overall efficiency substantially.

This is speaking from the POV of road use in cities. Its also very transparent to road users how to best optimise their road usage, since travel times, congestion levels etc. can be monitored and forecast centrally and effectively, and then signalled with road pricing, instead of individual drivers needing to do all that themselves.

The other problem is that by simply restricting axle weight for highway use, we ignore potential economic efficiencies. For example, a single super-heavy truck might create $100 of road damage, but deliver $1000 on economic benefits (eg. replacing two trucks). The user should be able to pay for the damage that they cause. This could be integrated into a smart road-pricing system that considers vehicle axle weight.

Singapore has such a system which works very well - but it relies on a large box on the dashboard and AFAIK doesn't considered axle weight.

I hope that the situation improves in Sudan, but it would be difficult for anyone to deliver prosperity when an already poverty-stricken population is growing at these rates:

1950: 5.7m

2000: 28m

2019: 44m

2050: 80m

2100: 127m

If the population cannot prosper today, how will the country handle 3x as many people and growing, with the added problem of climate change?

The fertility rate (currently 4.53) is falling too slowly. The #1 priority of the country should be to provide contraception, education and abortion to women nationwide - with 100% of foreign aid directed towards this cause.

We need better road pricing mechanisms for electric vehicles. If roads can no longer be funded at least by fuel taxes, that leaves an immediate revenue shortfall. Simply increasing registration fees does not consider variable levels and times of car use.

Ideally we would have an open standard used by all vehicles to communicate position in real time to the Government. This could be used for road pricing and integrated into the display panel of the vehicle.

I find these clauses distasteful. What of a requirement that performers be all-white? If we are going to judge people on their merits and form an international community of humanity free of racist restrictions, we go all in.

This is not just a problem with pills - it could be a problem for processed food.

Look at the ingredients used in the 'Impossible Burger' to replicate the vitamins and minerals found in real meat:

Mixed Tocopherols (Vitamin E), Zinc Gluconate, Thiamine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B1), Sodium Ascorbate (Vitamin C), Niacin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Vitamin B12

Or the additives found in products like Soylent.

If these vitamins and minerals don't work with pills, do they work with processed food?

Its already clear that you should take supplement pills at the same time as eating - so these processed foods at least avoid that problem.

The problem is that city limits are not consistently defined internationally. According to Wikipedia the broader urban area of SF is 8 million people.

Immigration to Australia is mostly low-wage male workers from poor, non-European countries entering on student visas (the country is one of few to allow international students to work). They serve to drive down labour costs and increase cost of living pressures (water shortages in many cities for example - requiring expensive desalination).

The opposition to mass-immigration (the country is growing at about 1.6% annually, with the same annual level of immigration as the UK, a country with 3x the population) is completely justified and it is not in the long-term interests of the country or of individual Australians.

Its not only the formal mechanics - the whole system is rorted, with a lot of fraud. A Chinese businessman bribing federal politicians for citizenship is a current news item.

Finally Australia makes its way in the world by mining and selling off its fixed endowment of minerals. The rest of the economy is not particularly competitive, mostly just domestic services and real estate. More people means a smaller slice of natural resources per person. This is not theoretical - wages are flat and cost of living pressures are high in the country. Public healthcare, education and transportation are all overcrowded.

I wish the same energy currently being wasted on anti-vaxx was instead spent on the pollutants in our food, air, water and soil.

These pollutants are unavoidable and have a clinically proven negative impact on people, particularly children. DEHP in food containers and household products is very worrying.

'Mom anger' combined with Scientific validity could produce some great improvements.

Maybe the solution to the anti-vaxx issue is not to dismiss the rage, but to harness it and direct it to a worthy cause?

It also helps that Vienna's population has been basically flat for many years.

By contrast the prior #1 most liveable city - Melbourne - has grown from 2 million 30 years ago to 5 million currently, forecast to get to 8 million by 2050, all due to mass immigration. Livability has fallen directly in line with population growth.

I've lived in a lot of cities around the world and think there is a 'sweet spot' population number: big enough to allow the provision of niche services and the agglomeration of talent, yet not too big as to introduce costly dis-economies of scale (usually through very expensive housing and transportation.) That level seems to be about 1-3 million.

The problem isn't cost of power generated, its the ability to respond to rapid volatility - when clouds obscure solar panels, and when the wind stops blowing.

Nuclear cannot do this so it is useless. Batteries and gas power plants can which is why they are being rolled out.

Wind, Solar, Gas, Batteries and Electric Vehicles are existing solutions to the climate problem. The market will implement them slowly, since they are cheaper and superior to legacy solutions, but we need political effort to do it more quickly.

These conditions don't seem to be very different from many other American businesses. Unpaid overtime, minimal notification during layoffs.

Video games get a lot of attention because they are the ultimate consumer product. Workers being treated similarly at a glass factory or an accounting form wouldn't make the news.

Unionisation isn't going to solve fundamentally poor corporate performance or mismanagement. Ultimately people need to be willing to walk away from bad jobs.

The best thing that has actually happened recently for game developers is the creation of the Epic store on PC - giving 88% of revenue to developers, instead of the 70% of many others stores. Its odd so many people seem to oppose that store on one hand, and support unionisation on the other.