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1. The phenomenon exists, but what is the problem? 2. Surely "municipality" does not mean the same thing in different countries.

Philanthropy reflects a failure of the state to realize it's most basic functions.

This is a case where the claim is clearly nonsense, and the interesting question is where is the error.

There are a number of bad premises in this article. For example, most people in the world (outside the USA in particular) have never mowed a lawn. I live in a city of 3.5 million a…

Europe has already pushed shorter PhDs with the excuse of facilitating development in technology/industry. It's been a huge failure in mathematics for various reasons among which a…

Without doing any serious thought, it is concerning that the statistic doesn't vary more temporally. It seems too consistent, and raises the suspicion that it reflects regulatory a…

In the USA as elsewhere golf courses are incredible wastes of water and false green spaces that would function better as green spaces were they actually parks open to the public th…

Sharing costs generates institutional incentives to keep costs down. Individualizing costs generates institutional incentives to charge more. Perverse incentives are the essence of…

It could be attacked easily via an alliance with Mexico or Canada. The premise that such a thing could never happen is not a good one for military planning.

Does this not violate European privacy laws?

The anecdote is meant to illustrate not to substitute a full data set. Universities and other similar large institutions usually err systematically in one direction - that which pr…

No one lives in rooms. Everyone in Madrid lives in apartment. The average salary refers to those who have a job. Most family units have some that don't.

Alternative approximate translation: while I urinate on you tell me it's raining.

In Madrid where the average monthly pretax salary is below 1500 a shared room with four strangers costs 400-709 a month and small aprtments in bad neighborhoods cost 3000-4000 a sq…

False. I live in Madrid and being near a metro station a. Has no issues (for almost all stations) and b. is considered highly desirable. 10 minute walk is considered a lot (mine is…

The very few cases that result in sanctions are generally horrendously flagrant. With another professor I caught a flagrant case in a student thesis and we faced attacks from the u…

Rephrasing is worse than literal copying from a procedural point of view because it demonstrates intent and obviates a defense of mere incompetence.

A time honored practice of dysfunctional institutions when confronted with a problem is to stop paying any attention to it. Problem gone. It's one of the derivatives of quality con…

Professors suddenly realized everyone was cheating and started paying attention, but the cheating isn't new ... A lot of faculty are happy when their students get good grades becau…

Absolutely inaccurate. I am nationalized Spaniard living here 2+ decades. Almost no one over 50 calls on the phone and when they do they almost always send a message first. The lar…

In Spain whatsapp is universal and necessary for everything personal and professional. Some hard core committed communists prefer telegram, but even they usually have to have whats…

Most comments are just older commenters confirming what everyone over 50 knows, which is that young people are slow and stupid and not as competent as we were back then nor as comp…

It's as recent as WWII was when Nixon got elected.

Irrelevant objection. Currently signalling support for Palestine is common online. In videogames in my country (Spain) every third player has some such signal (flag or phrase). It'…

A casino is by definition a house that takes rake and is not the government or one of its subsidiaries ...