It’s a little hard to tease out how much of this is due to the demographics of Republicans and Democrats changing. There’s been a significant shift in education level between the two parties recently, and this may have offset some of what would otherwise be broad based decreases.

The broader decrease in faith in higher education is still quite clear signal though.

They might not be about to die, but they're not exactly healthy either.

This is true for anything that you buy. I’m not sure why being able to drive a car into the Manhattan CBD deserves special treatment. It also already has an excellent subway system that millions take daily.

You can’t means test virtually everything

It’s not 10,000x harder to patch that 10,000x more machines, but it’s not 1x either. Easily 10-20x harder, if not more.

We’ve had humans in orbit on the ISS continuously for decades, sent probes to the edge of the solar system, landed multiple robots on Mars, and revolutionized our understanding of space and physics with space telescopes.

The biggest obstacle to space exploration was a contracting that didn’t bring down costs, and the thing that makes space so exciting now is high cadence low cost launches

Tipping is only a thing because we’ve normalized it. If you pass a law against it, it’s no longer normal, and customers will mostly stop giving them, even without highly intrusive enforcement mechanisms.

The real challenge is getting a government to want to forbid it, because people who receive tips care about them a lot while those that don’t, don’t. Until you solve that nothing else matters. Maybe tipping will go so far that the balance shifts.

I’d be okay using someone else’s chromebook though, at least you know what data you’re giving it.

Sure, one page doesn’t matter, but thousands will.

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The mentality that housing is an investment good has created a lot of perverse incentives (buy as much house as you can, you'll make more money!), that we really need to curb so that we can lower the cost of housing for everyone. Housing needs to be a consumptive good, where much like cars there's incentives to drive prices down and keep overall spending on the sector low.

Even over thousands of years when an hour of drift is accumulated there won’t be a manual adjustment - people will have just gotten used to different times of day having sunlight, with generations having been born and died with mean solar time happening at 11am.

Eventually the rotation of the earth may change enough that drift accumulates too quickly and leap time needs to be added, but that’s only going to be true thousands to tens of thousands of years in the future.