Reminds me of the old Asimov multivac story, where computer prediction of election results becomes so perfect that they move to a system where the computer selects a single Voter, asks them a battery… (View Post)

If the future is "we built a ton of houses in the areas where the local economies are strongest, and the result was they did so amazingly well we still couldn't keep up with their housing r… (View Post)

I do think there's something to the age theory. I was born in 1979 (with British parents and grandparents, if that matters), and although I can clearly see intellectually that this was a bad unf… (View Post)

I imagine "we're home and dry, we should start thinking strategically" is what May's advisors were thinking when they came up with that social care policy. It's not over til … (View Post)

I would peg the motivation here more as being that "big thing may happen!" is news and sells papers, whereas "thing everybody expects to happen will probably happen" does not. (View Post)