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I used Ipe as an alternative to TikZ package for LaTeX. Ipe is a great tool that allows some manual moving of chart's components but can also be edited through code. You can insert…

Short answer: it's complicated. Longer answer: what you are interested in is called the “transmission mechanism”, and the reduced workforce (and also investment by businesses) is o…

> It is said to prove a point about the globalization of tea: words for tea that sound like chai reflect a historical spread via overland routes, the argument goes, while words lik…

A paper on incentive incompatibility of multiple round-robin and knockout tournaments: https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchicago.edu/dist/1/274...

A paper on a similar topic but with much better execution: The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015, https://economics.harvard.edu/files/economics/files/ms28533.... . Among othe…

Interesting how the 1920s seem to be an era of social management experiments everywhere, with basic things like calendar being questioned all over the world. Just a few years later…

I don't think there is a single answer to "why the US built railroads", but both the railroads and the Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System certainly had something to do with the…

I am not that familiar with the history of railroads, but I will speculate: - take the railroad as far west as possible, then a stagecoach (expensive, slow, uncomfortable). The lan…

US economic historian here. The idea that the US government funded the construction of the first Transcontinental Railroad and Panama Canal to trade with China is very, very weird.…

As an economist, I strongly believe this is a strawman argument. Economists have studied cooperation for decades. Methodological individualism that the article mentions is not an a…

Agapitov later gave a long interview to Meduza explaining the decision. It's surprisingly honest. Here is an interesting quote: In America, in recent years, both in our company and…

A similar tool: https://github.com/eihli/image-table-ocr

Does the autofill work well? I was considering trying it out, but, unlike 1Password and Lastpass, there are really no reviews of Dropbox Passwords anywhere.

I really like the paper that shows that higher density of associations (the way Putnam measures "social capital") was associated with higher support for the Nazi party in Germany[^…

POWs and civilians who lived in the occupied lands were often charged with treason and sent to labor camps. Many (but not all) were released in 1953 when Stalin finally died.

If you are using the Russian keyboard, it's the new default (since iOS 11). Before that, you had to long-press the " to get it (along with ˝, „ and all these other marks. Interesti…