The US provides excellent examples of the end stage of this - state mandated monopoly companies that don't even do stuff when bribed with more government money. (View Post)

For those who are interested. The Blue Origin rocket exploded on the pad during a static fire https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cvgz0n93jzro Taylor–von Neumann–Sedov blast wave theory suggests a yi… (View Post)

In the case of OpenReach, a lot of people started lobbying the government to light a fire under the regulator and get something done. Once again, ownership doesn't solve everything by itself. We… (View Post)

Another case of "horrible but with the inevitability of gravity"? (View Post)

A The problem is that the PSA test is asymmetric - very very low false negative, high false positive. So it’s very very unlikely to tell you that you don’t have cancer if you do have it. But it’s muc… (View Post)