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This has essentially been done for the government already, and still these numbers are treated as sensitive.

I'd buy the argument made in the article more if they could explain what harm the scammers are avoiding by weeding those of us who can spot a misspelling as early as possible. Do t…

Most people are terrible at pricing an item over its full lifetime. A smaller cash outlay almost always attracts a sale, even if the item has a much shorter expected lifespan than …

> The only difference here is that there’s now the option to change the program over the air. The mutability is the part that bothers me. Remotely disabling features and the option…

https://www.google.com/search?q=india+total+fertility+rate tells me India's is 2.18, below the modern replacement TFR rate of 2.3 [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_ferti…

It's obviously possible to buy gold in non-USD currencies. So I think the gist of your comment applies to the dominance the US has over oil markets. So while the "petrodollar" era …

I agree with the general premise of your comment, that this is a small sign of the deglobalization which is _already_ under way. But, what are the UUUGE tailwinds benefiting India?…

Because you can't get any accurate information out of them?

I've never heard anyone from the US or Europe claim that plastic will degrade back into the ground. Somehow they changed their "entire culture" to put trash in cans.

Is this related to Peter Turchin's book of the same name? I can't tell from reading their site (historiacivilis.com) if that's the case.

>Ideas, especially those that stoke resentments, are like viruses. The problem is that people make statements like this but apply them selectively. E.g., platforms like major news …

A very accessible book which discusses exactly the intersection of Puritan beliefs and their treatment of American Indians is "American Nations" ( https://www.google.com/books/edit…

The Puritans were especially strident in imposing their beliefs though. Their concept of collective salvation meant they'd brook no dissent at all. And so _anyone_ not toeing the l…

That sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox , and in fact the article has this snippet: "The expansion of slavery in the United States following the invention of …

In fact, there were even claims during the 2020 riots that "White silence is violence." See e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSVUrvnJFXs . That's right, even _not_ saying anyth…

https://mobile.twitter.com/StupidWhiteAds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvNNtBmA3SQ

Too bad it's not a first-order phase transition so it could have a latent heat of fusion!

Nazism can't be forklifted into 2020s USA, _even if_ someone texts his mom Hitler pics. That guy is LARPing, like many do, and killed and injured people in the process. It's awful …

This is typical of Americans' understanding of the events leading up to the Second World War. It seems that a lot of the wartime propaganda still holds sway, reducing many to view …

I doubt the complaints would be ignored. It'd be fair to assume that the complainant might face consequences for not going along with the program.

One company I worked at in a major US city allowed individual teams to perform their own hiring. The division I was in had employees mostly from outside the US, and the autonomy gi…

Networking and having a reputation among peers for doing good work is one thing. Ethnic nepotism is a different thing. It's a massive failure on the part of many of these companies…

But that could be done by other, less obvious means, if desired. Does this redirect add any new tracking abilities?

Maybe to prevent harm to their agendas and continued grip on power.