Why rural houses die alone, and the brutal economic logic behind it

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1. Great post!

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2. Adding people to the community increases potential connections quadratically, not exponentially.

   Specifically, the number of pairwise interactions between n people is n*(n-1)/2

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4. Impressed to see the accurate reference of Hokkaido, especially National Route 232 (between Rumoi and Wakkanai, the northern end of Japan), and the word 「都会の人込み」 (croweded people in big cities) as the newspaper headline.

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