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by iguy 7y ago
Yea, I know. And since they track people by tax returns it can't literally be the rich newcomers who are the today datapoint. But I'm still pretty dubious about the causality they claim.
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by iguy 7y ago
Right, but doesn't this explain what they see just fine? The walkable parts of cities are the gentrifying cores, which are now expensive, but 30 years ago were in deep decline. Were poor, now rich, call that upward mobility to sell the
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by iguy 7y ago
Besides cost there is also time. Many of London's lines are very deep, and so it takes significant time just to get down there & back up again.
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by iguy 7y ago
I don't think they're trying to reduce the amount of electricity generated/used. Rather, they're trying to help electrical out-compete fossil fuels.
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by iguy 7y ago
Does this enthusiasm for building gold-plated cathedrals (and religion in general) also translate to enthusiasm for monastic life? Would be interested to hear about that aspect.
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by iguy 7y ago
This is already possible, I'm told that many monasteries accept visitors, for a week or two, who are basically expected to be quiet and polite.
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by iguy 7y ago
I'm surprised these are allowed in exams at all. Can someone who wrote such exams tell me what sort of questions were asked for which graphing was useful? Clearly there would be no point in asking many curve-sketching questions. In tea
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by iguy 7y ago
I think that these belts make better sense in the west, than in south-eastern europe, maybe the gradient of climate is more complicated there. The other famous trio are the olive oil/butter/lard belts, which again were fairly clea
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by iguy 7y ago
"these days" is key. I think the map is trying to say that maybe 200 years ago, people mostly drank hard alcohol of some sort, not beer or wine. Do you know whether that is accurate? And they've lumped by country borders, too
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by iguy 7y ago
This is not actually crazy. The prevalence of alcoholism is inversely related to how long most of your ancestors have been farming. And within Europe, the northerners have much more descent from the Indo-European invaders, compared to Medit
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by iguy 7y ago
> point is to drive businesses in the US to supporting contact-less payments. So the card does not support contactless payment by itself? Only magnetic strip and chip? I hadn't realised this, but I guess might be difficult to do in
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by iguy 7y ago
I believe the Australian & UK systems work a bit like this, too. Perhaps it's nominally a loan, but collected like income tax, with a threshold on how much you must earn to pay at all. However I don't think either is very flex
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by iguy 7y ago
It would close this particular loophole, by treating legally disowned and merely estranged identically. I'm not saying they would accept letters stating that you are estranged (which they certainly don't do now). I'm saying t
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by iguy 7y ago
I believe "financial aid" here means from the college, either directly in the form of lower prices, or indirectly in the form of loans subsidised by them.
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by iguy 7y ago
Now that they know this may happen, what's to stop every university closing the loophole? Since they appear to be free to do whatever they please, they can simply ask for a list of anyone who was ever your parent, and a letter explaini
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by iguy 7y ago
And containers. "The Box" is a book which I'm sure has been a regular around here? https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10724.html
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by iguy 7y ago
I think you can take one more step backwards and still have an argument. X is a huge country. Y is a small island/peninsula nearby, with shared cultural roots, but very different recent history (decades to centuries) and different gove
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by iguy 7y ago
I believe the big problem is cleanup, not production. "They end up clogging city drains and sewers" is the key here -- a mix of plastic bags & dirt is much more effective at blocking drains than just dirt. And this matters a l
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by iguy 7y ago
Can you explain what you see in this graph? I'm baffled, I don't know what "suspects" means, nor why Canada has 10x as many as Mexico. (Presumably the x-axis is police per million population, or similar.)
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by iguy 7y ago
But IIRC these central/eastern European countries don't have very high crime. I presume what GP meant is that one should also look at other places with comparable size crime problems. I mean comparing Baltimore to (say) Prague is
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by iguy 7y ago
Thanks! That's interesting, to use the post-nuclear curve as a modern clock, instead of using C14's half life for an ancient clock. For a given tooth they seem to assume all enamel was from one date, during childhood.
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by iguy 7y ago
I suspect that what made the culture of pilots change is that their own lives are on the line. That, and the fact that the guys flying the coolest fastest planes had commanding officers who could simply ground them if they didn't like
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by iguy 7y ago
Is there any dead carbon, like perhaps in the teeth? Have never heard of it being done, but would be neat.
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by iguy 7y ago
These things all happened. But a huge part is simply that people live in suburbs built at a time when people could afford cars. So they did. Just as their grandparents moved out to districts served by streetcars as soon as they could, for t
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by iguy 7y ago
That the slave economy was huge in early America is beyond doubt. But the more interesting debate is to what degree this influenced later American wealth. This question doesn't answer itself, we need evidence. And the presence of lots
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by iguy 7y ago
That's a pretty small difference, in such numbers, I think. If everyone had exactly the same job, and saved 10% for retirement their whole working lives, and got promoted occasionally, then you'd get about that much skew.
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by iguy 7y ago
No, I think you may have this backwards. The median really is unaffected by adding a zero (or ten zeros) to Bill's income. All that matters is that if half the population makes less than Joe the plumber, and half more, then Joe is at t
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by iguy 7y ago
Median is the 50th percentile, it's unaffected by Bill Gates. So half the median is a better measure than half the mean. However as you say it's still a measure of disparity, not an absolute level.
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by iguy 7y ago
Yes to this. Somehow it's easy to imagine that the Iraq war could happen for the benefit of some people's careers, and Halliburton's stockholders, while being a complete disaster for the US as a whole (not to mention for ever
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by iguy 7y ago
> United States benefited hugely (in purely economic terms) from slavery. Whether or not we would have been as, less, or more successful without it, or whether it has been helpful to others, is an orthogonal discussion. I don't see

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