How about instead of bitching at experts you bitch at the idiots that pump up and propagandize the results of one study that vaguely adheres to their predetermined outcome?
Kind of thought that this site would attract a slightly more intelligent group of people than that.
There's nothing "predatory" about assuring that your business partner actually has enough capital to operate a business. The startup costs may be significantly lower for a freestanding restaurant but you also have to shoulder the burden of marketing and establishing a customer base. A national chain doesn't just sit on its ass and collect money from franchisees. The costs of marketing and R&D are enormous but in the franchise model these things are offloaded from the individual restaurant to the parent company.
The parent company has no interest in that location ever closing. They're not house flippers or day traders. They rely on stable long-term income, not random tiny spikes a few times a year. Franchise fees are barely even a blip on the radar of a company like McDonald's.
That is not money laundering. If you want money laundering go have a look at what goes on with Trump properties. Real estate changing hands with massive variances in value, well out of step with market influence.
The entire concept of money laundering requires the money be illegally obtained. Simply moving money that you legally acquired around is not money laundering. Stop using words you do not know the meaning of.
Yes, that's a problem. Nobody that bought a home on the vague notion that they HAVE to make money off of it when they sell it will ever vote to have a homeless shelter built across the road.
Anyone using Japan as an example of housing prices does not understand Japanese housing.
Zoning in Japan is done at a national level, not local. Once an area is designated for housing, housing goes there. Because of this there is a constant flow of new housing, which drives the price of old houses down.
This is not possible anywhere zoning is done at a local level. Anytime one person has the ability to stop another from building you immediately create NIMBYdom and where the NIMBY exists, more housing does not because the NIMBY cares about nothing but their own property value. But that also feeds into the insane American idea of housing as an investment rather than a place to keep birds from crapping on you.
Until the NIMBY is eliminated, and housing is no longer sold as an investment, housing costs will not go down.
Said skeptics are blissfully unaware of the contributions that working on string theory has made to other branches of physics and mathematics. To say it's produced nothing is to admit ignorance.
In the context of this article - physics progression - what specific theoretical discoveries or predictions has it produced that can be verified or disproven via experiment in the forseeable future?
The mantle is solid. You would have to drill way deep into the mantle before you encountered liquid rock.
Volcanoes don't work like that. Even if you drilled directly into a magma chamber, not much would happen. This has been done inadvertently a handful of times. https://phys.org/news/2009-06-scientists-drill-magma.html Basically volcanoes only happen when there's an extreme amount of pressure from below.
Kind of thought that this site would attract a slightly more intelligent group of people than that.