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Yeah. It's a remarkable problem. There is a clear solution that is happily used for men. You tell people what to measure then have the clothes sized for the various dimensions.

Charles Tyrwhitt have this guide where they tell you what to measure for shirts :

https://www.charlestyrwhitt.com/au/size-guides/szg-formal-sh...

and for trousers :

https://www.charlestyrwhitt.com/au/szg-trousers-4-2021.html

Presumably some online shops for women have something similar?


I always enjoy the color you add to these conversations in your newsletter.

It's provided many a chuckle.

Thanks!


France, Sweden and Ontario exist.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/12mo/monthly

It literally has been done.


Past performance does not guarantee future results.

Building out nuclear requires political will and deregulation which today is not attainable in the west. China is the only one actually building reactors, but that isn't enough.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_rea...

Under construction :

Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Hungary, Japan, South Korea and more.

Poland is going to start building soon too.


That's very true.

Singapore has done extremely well economically.

But it's not cool. That's something else.

Tokyo, for example, is cool, fashion, music, films and computer games come out of Tokyo.

But that's very hard to say of Singapore.

Perhaps it's like Luxembourg and Lisbon.

Admittedly the link at the top is from Marginal Revolution where 'cool' may mean economically successful and interesting for policy makers.


SeiscomP could perhaps be used :

https://www.seiscomp.de/

It's mentioned here by the CTBTO

https://www.ctbto.org/node/9348


Federal Receipts as Percent of Gross Domestic Product has been roughly stable for more than half a century.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S

The top quintile of income earners in the US pay 34% of all taxes. The next quintile 26% .

https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/who-pays-taxe...

US Federal spending was 7 Trn in 2025. This is surely enough to fund things.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

That is more than the total GDP of any country except China and the US itself.


I think that’s a fair point, and it highlights part of the tension here. Total receipts as a share of GDP may be relatively stable, but the structure of taxation and where the burden falls has changed over time.

My point wasn’t that government lacked revenue in aggregate, but that many of the periods people point to as examples of large national projects coincided with higher marginal tax rates on top earners.

The interesting question isn’t just how much is collected, but how the burden is distributed and what tradeoffs people are willing to accept going forward.


> The top quintile of income earners in the US pay 34% of all taxes. The next quintile 26% .

And what percentages of all income & wealth do those quintiles have...?


One of the biggest things though is housing.

The US, Australia and probably most developed countries have declining productivity in construction.

(1985) https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w1555/w1555...

(2025) https://www.nber.org/digest/202502/stagnation-us-constructio...

That shouldn't be tied to China. Indeed arguably China might help with cheaper materials potentially.


To explain this for anyone else like me who hadn't heard the term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_citation_advantage

Full Text On the Net = FUTON.


Not according to wikipedia :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis

In 1998, when Chávez was first elected, the number of Venezuelans granted asylum in the United States increased between 1998 and 1999.[30] Chávez's promise to allocate more funds to the impoverished caused concern among wealthy and middle-class Venezuelans, triggering the first wave of emigrants fleeing the Bolivarian government.[31]

Additional waves of emigration occurred following the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt[32] and after Chávez's re-election in 2006.[32][33] In 2009, it was estimated that more than one million Venezuelans had emigrated in the ten years since Hugo Chávez became president.[2] According to the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), an estimated 1.5 million Venezuelans (four to six percent of the country's total population) emigrated between 1999 and 2014.[15]

The Venezuelan refugee crisis has a lot to do with Chavismo.


The graph just after the paragraph you quoted contradicts it :)

It says the number of Venezuelans living abroad was 700,000 in 2015, and it skyrocketed from that point onward.

What happened around that time? - December 2014: Obama signed the first set of unilateral US sanctions on Venezuela - March 2015: Obama issued an executive order classifying Venezuela as an "unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security of the United States"

Sure, there may have been slow migration before the sanctions, but it could have been explained by a multitude of reasons, not necessarily Chavismo. For example, the frequent U.S.-backed riots and coups are surely a factor that encourages migration. People value security and stability.


Yeah. Absolutely. Access and Visual Basic was the one low code platform that really worked.

The Apache foundation or someone ought to target that as a proper Open Source setup.


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