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Uber already fixed that.

Speak for yourself, I went there and had a great time.

Your condescension almost makes me ashamed to be a Shinkansen fan.

Houston-Dallas and probably LA-Vegas are the ones most likely to happen because they aren’t begging for public funds to get the job done.

I love high speed rail more than most and know its merits in about 2/3rds of the projects proposed above but saying the US, a country of the sky, is in the past is fallacious.

I give the Dallas-Houston line my biggest vote of confidence followed by LA-Vegas. All the others are tied for 3rd with the exception of LA-San Francisco which is dead last.

Uber fixes the problem of needing rental cars and I feel is the key factor in making HSR viable in the US.

I know that is the point of neutron bombs but the article mentions “making extensive radioactive contamination” and then the article goes on to talk about neutron bombs.

It was my impression that Neutron bombs were not useful for making an area radioactive over the long term because the high levels of initial radiation mean that there is little fissile material left to keep an area radioactive.

The Ricardian advantage explains why a nation that is capable of producing a good might still import it from another country. In the early 1900s the US imported goods from England that could have been produced domestically for the same reason.

None the less, India still likely has the comparative advantage in producing man hole covers in which case it is more useful to to them to produce manhole covers than some other good.

Neutral:

One educated guess is that manhole covers are a labor intensive good as opposed to a capital intensive one and because India is a labor abundant country and America is a capital abundant country, it so follows that India is better suited to manufacture them.

I support it. Bernie relies too heavily on public dollars to line his pockets.

Did Michael Moore just walk out of IHOP after third lunch?

So you mean Japanese cars happened.

I thought it was triggered by lack of air pressure on the front of the car hence the car would need to be moving to turn the device off.

I will give you a day or two for the anger to subside and a dispassionate opinion to be formed.

I will not pretend that it is a simple issue with anything less than thousands of factors but I will go into a couple that have a large impact.