try Alberta

the Vancouver bubble is mostly due to people preparing to flee from China, or move assets out for the next inevitable crackdown.

Homes are a subsidized tax break for the top 10 percent of our society, paid for by the renter class and those who pay taxes (usually the bottom 95 percent).

They do limit your moving options, since your cost out is higher than cost in for the first 2-3 years, or 10 years if you buy high and sell low (approx 7 year cycle) like most people do.

That said, for most people aren't in the bottom 10 percent, they make sense. Until they seize the house on a made up pretext.

Sigh.

Look, if you do win, you'll burn through it very fast and end up no better, and with fewer friends and upset relatives than if you didn't bother at all.

That's what happens.

Raffles on the other hand, since they return 100-400 percent of the expected value, tend to do a lot better.

(caveat - I have won raffles, lotteries, and many forms of gambling myself, but that has nothing to do with your odds)

They'll enable them next year.

Fairly easy to do that already, though. Problem is people try to take the whole bottle in one unit, which shows up as a vacuum area on the scans. If you switch to flat or tubular bladders, you can use shoes or purse handles or briefcase handles or backpack parts to move the same amount of liquid.

You're thinking of the single stage versions that go from the surface to earth orbit. Multi-stage (platform) is currently possible, and viable for lunar at the moment, and we're almost at the point where we could do a Mars version. Depends on how you lift and the speed and wind profiles. Switch to a balloon method - hydrogen gets you high enough that the air resistance drops so that you can go higher.

You confuse "difficult" "non-elegant" engineering problems with "impossible" problems. It's not impossible. Just not elegant or simple.

The first part of the lift cycle uses the most energy, after all.

Depends on the feed protocols. Would be far easier to change the text and color displays, and have the headset send back an "override: incorrect identification" message back to the system. This "clears" the subject long enough for them to proceed and confuses, due to high levels of mismatch. Any system without such overrides would be non-functional, due to real world constraints.

Basic application of social engineering - find the most common override that shuts or delays the security and use that. Don't upgrade from BAD GUY to VIP, upgrade from BAD GUY to NORMAL or from NORMAL to VIP. Play the numbers.

(caveat: none of this will impact real world risks, which are already set up for failure)

Not that hard either, just use the NSA backdoors in the protocol and hijack the streams

Then their GGs would show a nice little old lady going thru security instead of the actual person.

Or maybe show they have credentials for pass thru.

For every solution, their is a workaround.

Doubt it, without massive governmental subsidies or cloaked subsidies.

It's all a choice. You can run monofilament cables to orbital satellites, but we don't, due to perceived and actual risks.

I'm a bit concerned about the fusion source materials. Would have to cost them out cradle to grave as well, including their processing before and after. Since it's still in test phase, am not going to weigh in on a process that's only partially complete.

The problem is the "they" you refer to. Different "they" groups exist. Isolated spaceships or military bases with difficult logisitics for fuel supply might find the cost/benefit ratios different. Places dependent on coal with no ready supply of wind or solar PV or solar passive might have different values.

All inputs must be measured, including cleanups for their processes. Not including them makes fission appear artificially carbon-neutral.

Face it, you live in 1984.

The problem is that any real measurement of global warming impact has to be done using the Cradle-to-Grave methodology to be true. The mining process is fairly bad in impacts, and the 10,000 year storage and movement and cleanup dilemma makes it a non-starter.

Now, don't get me wrong, I've owned nuclear fission utilities in the past. But it's highly subsidized and not a good choice at all.

On the upside, nuclear fusion research is promising here at the UW, so if your heart is set on nuclear, maybe fusion will pencil out.