Vance thinks that "Scientific method" means skipping all the steps in the method between the first step, "Ask a question", and last step, "Make a conclusion".

You'll get over it. It takes a few years. Though I still get excited about going down a long steep hill.

My current house I bought 12 years ago for 145k in a different part of the country. Zillow says it is 254k now (that's better than inflation ... Yay! ... 145k in 2013 is like 202k now).

Anyway. Still pretty affordable.

My first house I bought in '07 (was 29 then) for 125k (that's 195k in today's money). Sold it 3 years later for 118k. It is now valued at 168k on Zillow.

People forget that there are large parts of the country where housing is still cheap and hasn't really gone up.

We could probably save money by removing the "testicular torsion" from covered surgeries. Only 1 out of 4000 men ever use that "benefit". If the insurance didn't cover it, premiums would be slightly cheaper and only 1 out of 4000 men would ever get effected.

There ... I solved healthcare.

I look forward to some redistribution from comrade Trump. Down with capitalism!

And you could build something like 3000 overpriced White House ballrooms instead of one Musk. That is, we could build a White House ballroom in every city with population above something like 10k and still probably have money to spare.

Another way to think about it is that the cost of California's high speed rail (with all the cost overruns) is estimated at 135 billion. It is considered way overpriced. But instead of one Musk, one can build 7.5 high speed rail systems like California's.

BTW, 25 billion a year is the GDP of Guyana. Or slightly less than the GDP of Malta. Or a bit more than the GDP of Jamaica.

Fortunately, the only way he gets the trillion is if this bubble that is about to pop never pops. This might be the event that convinces investors that "oh shit, we're in a bubble, I'm selling all my TSLA stock". BTW, NASDAQ just had the worst week in months.

Though it is possible that this way it may backfire. The president having a lot of unchecked power sounds good if you have a reasonable president. It sounds dangerous to people if they have the experience of seeing that scenario with an unreasonable president.

If it's not clear from that, I'm not at all a fan of twice yearly changing our schedules by pretending it is a different time than it is.

What I find funny is that people seem to think that by moving a clock the sun actually rises or sets at a different time. :)