Comments by "Philip B" (@philipb2134) on "Wendover Productions" channel.

02:55 Panama does not have such an unusually high number of ships in her registry because, ahem, the costs of "taxes and labor" are low. There are quite very few Panamanians serving aboard the vessels she flags. The Panamanian labor pool - at whatever wage level - is not a significant factor in the costs administered by shipping lines. Panama is popular among ship owners because the laws are complaisant - some might argue, complicit.
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Trump has buy-polar disorder.
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P.R. China destroyed the option to "regain" Taiwan peacefully. Why would anyone willingly want to join such a such a repressive regime? P.R.C. had promised Britain to maintain HK's way of life for 50 years from 1997; that did not last.
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As I had pointed out to the editors of the Economist: a problem with the Big Mac Index as a proxy of purchasing power parity, is that this global standardization is... well, not necessarily global. The Big Mac excludes tomatoes in Japan because this ingredient is too expensive. The omission of this item - particularly on cost grounds - will distort the implied value of the yen.
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00:25 = your hypothetical conundrum regarding the nationality of a baby born on a cruise ship. We can begin to breathe a sigh of relief that this baby had not been born stateless, if s/he had been the bundle of joy of at least one parent holding nationality from a country which accepts parenthood as a sufficient qualification. As I have been guided to understand, both Italy and Ireland recognize nationality unto the 3rd generation; in the case of Israel, the 3 generations limitation does not apply. Place of birth is not always relevant. In the US, the XIVth Amendment guarantees citizenship on the basis of place of birth; this however is not any universal legal construct.
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11:34 Fresno is bIsected by a major highway similar to I-5, but doesn't have an ""interstate" designation. What's your point? Much of US101 between LA and SF is built to Interstate standards, but doesn't carry the label. Lile many maps itillustrated a POV, but hides other truths.
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13:00 the South and West "received the greatest impact". Not so. In many communities, the Interstate plowed through and destroyed communities, with consequent severe dislocation and social pathologies.
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@bucket6386 did you?
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@bucket6386 you have indicated your assessment. You are free to hold your opinions, as I am to regret the social pathologies created by the destruction of neighborhoods. I also am not an immense fan of the overemphasis of relying on private motor vehicles, which has been exacerbated by the interstate system. The attendant ecological harm is terrible. You have your values, but these are not necessarily universal.
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@bucket6386 my home community defeated the heartless ambition of Robert Moses. Go fish.
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@ripred42 Priorities must be set somehow. Cost/benefit ratios can't be calculated if a key component is a question mark.
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@1MinuteMovies42 were it outside similar adjudicated decisions in other courts of Law?
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Sadly, lives are lost in construction work. When you move heavy loads, when you work with strong and sharp tools... men die. Happens. Having accepted that such loss needs to be compensated... how then do you work out an appropriate settlement? A grieving widow might deserve every penny ever coined; or you might call "next!" and move on. We generally understand that an appropriate solution shall be found between the above two extremes. What say you?
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@MarkThomasPorter no society ever had limitless resources.
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It would be sensible only to make what you can't - on the open market - buy cheaper, or which need to comply with unusual stringent performance tolerances. Any component you make should command an internal ROI - which can be higher than an outside supplier's profit margin if you bought acceptable components off the shelf. Does any viewer sincerely believe that Elon Musk's production prowess supplies the paper used in his offices, and the trees grown to pulp for that paper, and the chainsaws needed to fell the trees, and the steel needed to make those chainsaws, and the excavators needed to mine the iron ore to make that steel? And so on.
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China's energy intensity was due to fall because of sharp falls in demand for concrete and steel, as it's frantic deployment of infrastructure has abated and real estate construction has collapsed.
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 @My_name-is_Skylar_White_yo it takes 42'ed to understand that answer.
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@jobic4207 Russian airline maintenance staff are not by nature murderous. They will maintain the schedules and cannibalize parts where they can, or refuse to certify the maintenance.. Losing a plane outright because of an equipment failure is more expensive than not letting the craft fly - not to mention that the airline would become a pariah if things should return to the recent normal.
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WV has much stunning natural beauty, and might otherwise be attractive to a tech remote worker. On balance, they tend to be socially liberal, but the WV community won't be. A buddy who tried, felt like he was not welcome. He earned about 8x more than the county's median income, pumped money into a dying local economy... but the locals made him feel unwelcome. He, and his income, and his tax base, left.
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About 1:47 Cal not being connected to an interstate pipeline system is largely irrelevant: the State itself is a significant producer of oil,oil production bein the top money spinner in Kern County. You won,' see themin many cases, but LA is dotted with oil wells. The La Brea tar pits should give you an inkling that the State is not necessarily devoid of hydrocarbon resources. It is also a prime recipient of crude from Alaska's Pruhhoe Bay.. By the way, attractive places such as Paris or Amsterdam experience climbing homelessness rates because apps like airbnb remove homes from the housing market.
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Many military contracts are run on a cost-plus basis. Would it be a surprise that when costs go up, profits go up? It might be purely coincidental that there is a significant defense contractor in just about every Congressional district.
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