>In the US, new houses are much larger than houses built in previous generations

If they sold those house to people of childbearing age, preferably earlier childbearing age, they would drastically increase the birth rate, but they don't. They only sell such house to people later in their careers who are out of, or at the very end of their child bearing years.

Of the people I know who have kids many of them are raising them in one-bedroom apartments the way our grandparents grew up. Talk about ways to ensure one and done.

>Plus we've allowed homeowners to restrict the building of density to protect their equity value.

This is highly effective way to suppress the birth rate. Don't create new living space, and people won't reproduce.

It's likely that the birth rate will stabilize in the future as we figure out how to create a society that supports families.

Do you have any clue how much kids cost? There are massive economic incentives to stay child free and have very few children, yet the birth rate is still 1.5 in wealthy countries.

A big part of the reason the birth rate is so low is that affordable family housing doesn't exist in many places. Effectively people are rationally responding to resource constraints. If the next generation is much smaller, that will free up a lot of housing and other resources that will make it easier for them to have more kids.

Population change may look exponential, either up or down, but it really isn't. There are a lot of constraints people respond to that affect population growth, like availability of resources, pathogens, and biological desires that we affect this.

There's a difference between wanting to do it, and needing to do it. Yes some people will want to. Will a computer effectively translate when speaking to someone so you don't have to you if you don't want to? That would be great.

>Crypto will create big problems.

Crypto is stock in the black market.

Using AI find deadly biological agents, even if you don't actually create them.

The point is you shouldn't have to actually create the deadly agent for it to be illegal.

Even attempting this should be highly illegal, and AI should be written with safeguards to prevent people from trying. Anyone who gets caught attempting this should go to prison for a long time.

Yes, on one level it is just a computer. However, on some level our brains are just big organic computers too. Just like the human player it learns, creates memories and makes calculations based on those memories.

There are many forms of microwave popcorn.

Women don't need programming to be gamified to learn it. No matter how much you gamify it, learning to do it well enough to be useful is still a lot of work.

You've just described a thin client, and they've been around forever and haven't taken off. ChromeOS is closest to this in the consumer space.

False. Bus lanes are for local public transit busses. Some cities might allow some other busses to use them, but a travel bus can't just assume the right to such a lane.

Newer apartments don't have a hot water system in the house at all, hot water systems are often centralized for apartment complexes, blocks, or even neighborhoods, and residents just get a bill for their hot water usage. That will make switching over to renewables easier because you can switch thousands of houses seamlessly by making a change in one place, but that isn't what the UK is doing here.

Many older individual apartments that were built before hot water usage was normal use a gas or electric instantaneous water heaters for each appliance or room that needs hot water. Instantaneous hot water systems are a lot more efficient than typical large tank American hot water systems because they don't need to keep water hot when it isn't in use.

First of all, this is the municipal hot water line, that's used hot water from the tap and heating radiators. This doesn't affect electricity or gas service (though most homes using municipal hot water don't have a gas hook up). You cook on an electric stove, like you always do, and light your house the same way you always do. You could even run and electric heater if you need to, or install an electric hot water heater.

Thick blankets are great at night. Contrary to many people's belief, sleeping in the cold is good for you. Being warm under a thick warm blanket in a colder room will help you fall asleep faster and sleep sounder. Cold increases your metabolism, meaning you can eat more without gaining weight, and central heat may be a contributing factor in the obesity epidemic.

I doubt many current appliances could work with hydrogen, you'd have to replace every gas appliance in existance to change the gas lines to hydrogen.

I think we just don't know how to use if for that yet, but think we'll figure out a way at some point in the distant future.

Amtrak, just buy your tickets well in advance.

I'd guess they use robotic surgeons all the time, but with human guidance. I think that's a lot of what happens under the cover of the bio bed.

Where did you move from? The really sad part is that it's one of the best public transit systems in the US.