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by bildung 6y ago
No, exactly these tribes were invented (as culturally/ racially distinct) by the colonial rulers, first German, then Belgian. Interestingly this is part of the German wikipedia article, but not the English speaking one: https:/&#
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by bildung 6y ago
Direct correlation of female workforce participation and poverty shows no trend: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/female-labor-force-partic... The macro trend of poverty <> birth rates points in the opposite di
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by bildung 6y ago
Then I obviously misunderstood you, sorry for the confusion.
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by bildung 6y ago
The newest I immediately remember is this: https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol40/2/ Here is a blog post of the author in case the above is not readable for you: https://www.niussp.org&
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by bildung 6y ago
> And that in a world where few make it to adulthood, people tried to have more children? It's pretty well-established that it isn't poverty per se but gender equality that predicts birth rates.
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by bildung 6y ago
Because A doesn't automatically follow B. Fewer children is better for the environment; that doesn't mean one has to favor population control. It's easier, more democratic and probably at least as effective to enforce equalit
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by bildung 6y ago
> Why are you so against this? Why should the people of Austin, Texas gift millions of dollars to a company that made a profit of over $8 billions in the last quarter alone?
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by bildung 6y ago
But the smart contract solution still needs a notary? It just can now be an unregulated third party. What problem has been solved here?
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by bildung 6y ago
That isn't a reason to push against Signal, it is a reason to push for a federated solution. Not your point, but federation is often heralded as some must-have feature for communication around here, but we already have that: XMPP does
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by bildung 6y ago
I've done your example in the real world, without smart contracts. The 3rd party is a notary. If I understood you right the notary here is replaced by a notary plus smart contracts. A notary in my juristication (Germany) is a quasi-emp
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by bildung 6y ago
Isn't that exactly what one would expect a free market for juristications to look like?
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by bildung 6y ago
It only assumes that demand is not 100% price elastic, which is almost guaranteed to be true.
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by bildung 6y ago
aka due process
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by bildung 6y ago
Is that really true? Truck driver is a recognized trade in Germany, and the number of apprenticeships continues to rise: https://www.eurotransport.de/artikel/bkf-azubis-und-eu-beruf...
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by bildung 6y ago
Others have already said that this boils down to a mix of precarious living not existing to this degree in other countries, and cultural norms. To illustrate with a counterexample: I think I know what you have in mind as good service, but t
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by bildung 6y ago
The idea of a dying and rising god is very common for the line of near eastern religions christianity emerged from. This also means that the scholars whose texts we now have as sources were most probably accustomed to the idea. Them reitera
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by bildung 6y ago
Capital returns is the superset (in the way it is used by Piketty). Capital returns include "profits, dividends, interest, rents and other income from capital" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twe
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by bildung 6y ago
The US isn't a small business, and as such debt works different. If the US now borrows $1 trillion, it currently pays essentially 0% interest. Assuming 2% inflation that means the whole debt has a value of just 370 billion in 50 years,
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by bildung 6y ago
Of course it all happens in the same economy, so the outcome of a can affect b. But if something develops into a problem for society, it should be acted on directly, which is possible for all the points at hand here: * If uber-profitable co
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by bildung 6y ago
This study is not about drugs per se, but only some oncology drugs that were popular in 2006. It even states "however, generic oncology drug prices showed no significant changes" in the abstract.
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by bildung 6y ago
CCS is the international standard for EV charging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Charging_System very common outside of the US, they are mandatory in Europe for example.
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by bildung 6y ago
International trade agreements, taxation of corporations and interest rates are all distinct issues. Trade agreements are not the reason Amazon and Google aren't paying taxes, and neither are the current interest rates.
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by bildung 6y ago
> The very swarms of users that chanted “just upgrade” as if that not incur a significant cost also seemed ridiculously naïve to me, not understanding the real cost that large projects have by having to rewrite very extensive codebases
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by bildung 6y ago
UK represents only 18% of the post brexit EU market. The problem is that that the Uk now is a completely seperate market, so is in direct competition for attention with other non-EU markets. Why should a EU company focus on the UK when e.g.
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by bildung 6y ago
Teslas casting machines are just bought from Idra, are they not? If Toyota thought their self-developed casting processes (they do that for nearly a century and had 2500 ton machines since the 1970s) are not competitive, they could simply o
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by bildung 6y ago
Regular supply and demand doesn't really seem to apply to real estate because renters are not voluntary participants in the market: The alternative to consuming the available housing is homelessness. Supply and demand obviously are
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by bildung 6y ago
You mean features like encryption?
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by bildung 6y ago
The source code licence has nothing to do with the right to access a particular service. Additionally, the organization behind signal is not bound to the licence, they can do whatever they want with their own code, it's their code af
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by bildung 6y ago
Thats wrong, the backend is FLOSS and available here: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server What is potentially problematic is not the usage of the same backend but of the same actual servers .
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by bildung 6y ago
No, the group chats in Signal are encrypted.

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