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the link doesn't work for me.

I think it's /his/ company..

"because the population growth rates or even the populations are already declining."

The population of both the us and w.europe is growing. (Immigration)

It wasn't the housing that was regarded as ghetto, but the people who used to live there.

Lubos Motl has written a pretty harsh takedown:

http://motls.blogspot.no/2014/05/constructor-theory-deutsch-...

This was covered on qi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Ktn7YXoJQ

The claim was that the crime rate was 50 times lower than today. 156/50 ~= 3.

No, we don't :(

GHK published their paper later in the year (although they apparently arrived at the result independently..), which might be why they were left out.

In 1962 P.W. Anderson worked out that Nambu–Goldstone massless mode can combine with the massless gauge field modes to produce a massive vector field (e.g. the so-called "higgs-mechanism", but in a non-relativistic context). In 1964 E&B,H,GHK showed that this is also possible in a relativistically invariant theory.

Here's a twitter comment from John Preskill (caltech): "The emphasis on finding a relativistic model may be misplaced, though. Anderson understood the mechanism well." https://twitter.com/preskill/status/387580651664191488

So maybe Anderson is more deserving of the last spot than GHK.

Norway doesn't really have a permanent criminal class, and the main aim of the criminal justice system is to keep it that way. Whereas the US (and many others) have an enormous criminal social class, firmly-rooted criminal organizations seemingly in a prepetual state of war with law enforcement, and so on. That stuff isn't going away even if you did liberal prison reform. The circumstances are very different, maybe it's appropriate that the aims and methods of law enforcement are too?