We're entering a new era of abundant housing.
Japan. Much of Europe. China. All of them with more homes than they can use. I used to wonder what the fall of Rome felt like, or the middle ages in Greece. Now I know, because I've been to rural Japan. A great civilisation living quietly among its own ruins.
You know what's going to be hot property later this century? Not property. Migrants.
AI proponents might tell us that people are devalued, I rather think the opposite. A few big expensive cities will be automatic drawcards (Tokyo, notably, is still very exp...
I am in an internet forum with an Alice. It's a science forum. There's scientists there, well-meaning ones. And people who are, I suppose, clients of that science. Patients. Of doctors who depend on science to treat patients.
I've been watching Alice engage with Bob (not his real name, which is Chris). Bob's got a new paper coming out, and Alice is extremely concerned that Bob has screwed up the method by which he has selected his control group.
Bob's colleagues are apparently cool with the process. But Bob is pretty senior so maybe his colleagues just don... (read more)