In fairness to her 2016 campaign she did spend loads of time and money in PA which she nevertheless lost. If her team had realized that the WI and MI polling was wonky they'd obviously have spen… (View Post)

On the national service thing, what are the implications on inflation of taking several percent of the workforce out of employment and reassigning them to government-mandated busywork? (View Post)

Same problem Putin had with his surprise invasion of Ukraine, the only way you can keep the secret is if it's secret from your own side as well as the opposition. But your side wasn't expec… (View Post)

Tokyo has a similar trick where you're allowed a bigger floor-area-to-land-area ratio (which is the measurement that constrains how high you can build) if you put some public green space in fron… (View Post)

It's impossible to say how the system could have been designed without knowing what the requirements are. How does the data get into the database in the first place, what kind of maintenance doe… (View Post)