Jorenby

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   by Jorenby 9y ago

   The lack of standard address system does not make a place a shithole.
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   by Jorenby 9y ago

   Also I would imagine that incremental improvements to tools and methods have the potential to benefit farmers much more than hunter-gatherers. So even given the same amount of free time, farmers have more incentive to tinker.
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   by Jorenby 10y ago

   Explaining the top 1% is exactly the goal of the article: "Could the differences between the very rich and the hugely rich [...] be the result of pure, dumb luck?" So if the model you're looking at indicates power law distrib