#2 is already happening, that's what the Internal Revenue Service *does*.

50% revision from a survey is not consistent or predictable.

But we do know the answers- just use the information reported to the IRS from every employer doing business in the United States instead.

Maybe we shouldn't need to report the same data to multiple agencies? Estimated taxes, 1099s, and W2 information is already available from the IRS. You don't need to "survey" anybody, you can get down to the penny reads on the entire economy.

You're forgetting the big one: that the system is designed to fail and create an uneducated unskilled worker class for the wealthy elite.

Mediterranean resorts do quite well, as I remember

Is there some racist reason in South Carolina that poor people can't move to Appalachia on the other side of the fall line?

Or, gasp, abandoning non-viable coastal cities.

Wouldn't it be better to relocate the people rather than build the sea wall, and just depopulate Charleston which is no longer viable as a city?

There is no privacy, and privacy apps are only used by scammers and criminals anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection SAI certainly does have more promise than most I've seen. Thank you for the link..

I'm all for replacing coal with nuclear, deep water siphons, tidal generators, wind, solar, and ground loop air conditioning.

All the better if it's done for the right reasons- and in a way that takes advantage of the ambient energy of the earth, rather than fossil fuels.

I just don't think you're going to stop global warming that way- at all. We've done too much damage, and it's out of our hands now.

There are sound distributist economic reasons for switching to ambient energy, not the least of which is that the grid is based in fraud.

Why does it matter if it's fake if it looks good? It's like mp3... If you can't hear the difference (and you can't, despite any claims you may make to the contrary - it's physically and biologically impossible), why does it matter if it's compressed?

Intel makes a lot more than CPUs. Intel makes them itself.

AMD only makes CPUs. AMD pays someone else to make them.

nVidia only makes GPUs. nVidia pays someone else to make them.

So of course Intel spends a lot more on R&D. They are developing a much wider portfolio and they are making it all themselves.

Sitting on the toilet doesn't give you hemorrhoids. Straining, having a poor diet, and trying to "hurry it up" gives you hemorrhoids.

If you're on the toilet for a long time because you have a low fiber diet and have to strain to eliminate, you're probably going to have hemorrhoids. The phone you're using to pass the time more pleasantly is not what's causing them.

I swear to God, when did so-called "smart people" get so stupid?