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Urgent: Make college tuition gratis

lundi 10 février 2014 à 13:00

US citizens: call on the government to make college tuition gratis.

(I try to avoid using the word "free" to mean "zero price" even when we're not talking about software.)

We must build, build, build

lundi 10 février 2014 à 13:00

To prevent all but the rich from being squeezed out of major cities, we must build, build, build.

The obstacle is zoning that was designed to prevent the sort of density that we need in order to accommodate everyone.

Unprecedented speed-up of the trade winds

lundi 10 février 2014 à 13:00

An unprecedented speed-up of the trade winds is driving the Earth's heat gain into the ocean instead of letting it accumulate in the atmosphere.

Aside from the point that the speed-up is cyclical, there's also the point that the reason it causes heat to go into the ocean is that the air is hotter than the ocean. Once the ocean gets sufficiently hotter, heat will start to remain in the air.

Today's extreme weather is just a foretaste of what we have already made inevitable in a few decades. The question is whether we will take steps now to prevent it from getting even worse.

The way most Internet users use the net is bad

lundi 10 février 2014 à 13:00

If you are like most Internet users, the way you use the net is bad for you directly, in addition to snooping on you.

UK's privatization of its post office

lundi 10 février 2014 à 13:00

The UK's privatization of its post office was a giant give-away to the investors.