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by iguy 8y ago
There are a lot of choices which go into all of this, too. One interesting story is about which poor countries tried to copy 20th-C US farming, and which did almost the opposite. The first path was a mistake -- it looked modern, all those b
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by iguy 8y ago
> humans could never farm this way ... at scale. Humans do farm this way -- I've seen fancy shade-grown coffee being grown in what looks like a jungle. But it requires a huge amount of manual labor, right now. I think we'll g
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by iguy 8y ago
Are you saying that a majority, possibly a huge majority, of the people arrived after 1767? Or rather, that a huge majority now are the descendants of people who arrived then? Then perhaps I should ask the reverse question, about which dist
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by iguy 8y ago
Thanks, this seems pretty damning for the study. Any significant post-1767 immigration (and especially from some of the most developed parts of the world) would easily produce bigger effects than this claimed persistence from the Jesuits. H
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by iguy 8y ago
This would be more convincing if it had a map of where the Franciscans set up shop. Does anyone know of one? The article has a map of where the Jesuit missions were located, and they are in quite a small area, basically in a line about 300k
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by iguy 8y ago
In my limited understanding, the credible version of this story involves the transmission of quite crude information, like a response to famine. Lots of animals starved, since there were animals, and the ability to tune the behavior on a ti
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by iguy 8y ago
My guess is that the guy they interviewed spends his weekends hanging out with NGO types. How else would you get invited to any parties in Nairobi? And they love this stuff... saying "everybody profits" makes you sound like a cold
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by iguy 8y ago
It's indeed true that the problem is not caused by a lack of technology. Some places became much more sanitary, safe, well-fed on a much lower technological level. But a more positive take would be that perhaps better tech offers a way
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by iguy 8y ago
There is something to this. Was it Ethiopia that (at some point) instituted a no-NGOs-on-mondays type policy, after realising that all their ministers seemed to do was have meetings with the many aid organisations? (No link, sorry.) From me
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by iguy 8y ago
Oh that's awesome. For non-slavic speakers, I especially like how it stops at the border, so you can get half a screen of normal map and half a screen of strange words.
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by iguy 8y ago
Well according to TFA they pay over 4x the going day wage. That sounds like quite a raise to me.
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by iguy 8y ago
In fairness to the article, it's quite clear about this: "Samasource targets those currently earning around $2 a day, or less, in the so-called informal economy of odd - or dangerous - jobs. Samasource instead provides a living wa
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by iguy 8y ago
Thanks! These are more readable than I was imagining. And indeed, about discretion. So much of how things work is outside the written law, and of varying quality.
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by iguy 8y ago
From that link, it's unclear to me whether an Opinel would be illegal: it locks in place, but not with a button. Anyone know? > Lock knives are not classed as folding knives and are illegal to carry in public without good reason. Lo
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by iguy 8y ago
Some places do exactly this. I think the idea was that, with any kind of profiling, it would be easy for drug gangs to figure out who to use as mules. And with any judgement, they can pressurise the guy making the call. But a lottery machin
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by iguy 8y ago
Agree this usage is odd. My guess is that they are used to describing people by their institutions: writing things like "Caltech scientists showed..." etc. is very common in such articles, to save readers from having to keep the n
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by iguy 8y ago
Maybe you would like this classic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Not_Being_Governed
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by iguy 8y ago
That sounds unpleasant for your mom. But how is this different to buying a stolen bicycle and having it confiscated back by its legal owner? I thought the law was clear that, even if you didn't know it was stolen, your purchase gives y
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by iguy 8y ago
Indeed, UBI is uncharted territory, so it's not obvious what would happen. I only meant that we should be very cautious about extrapolating. I'm not convinced that the changes in competition would be in the direction you mention.
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by iguy 8y ago
> an awful lot like UBI. But, I think the key difference is that ... parents ... have a standard for how it's spent. There's another important difference from UBI, that only a few kids now get this $28k. So being one of them, y
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by iguy 8y ago
> And how would he get from the Ecuadorian embassy in London to Russia? Easy! They fly 15 specialists over on a day-trip, equipped with some good music and a bone saw, and every part of him will be in Moscow the same evening.
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by iguy 8y ago
Buildings too: I think most gothic cathedrals were brightly painted inside, but now we know them in bare stone.
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by iguy 8y ago
This is true, but I'm sure the original painters were very skilled at working within these constraints. While quite a lot of reconstructions seem content to get the base colors only. I also wonder how much of the time these statues spe
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by iguy 8y ago
Indeed. And of course some of what was Greece has now became Turkey, and for which enough Turks must have shown up to switch the language... I don't know the current data here but I'm sure it's improving rapidly.
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by iguy 8y ago
In addition, it's also hard to imagine how they looked to people then. By which I mean that people would not have seen so much other color in their everyday lives -- obviously trees & flowers were as now, but paint and dyes were ex
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by iguy 8y ago
It is a bit strange how the article veers between ethnicity and paint. I mean both are interesting, but the fact that we came to think of the naked marble of these statues as the canonical version seems largely unrelated to whether the gree
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by iguy 8y ago
I think you're imagining something with arms you bolt onto the counter & talk to. But maybe it doesn't look like that. Maybe it's better for the robot to work 24/7 to pay off its cost, by serving many people. It can
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by iguy 8y ago
Awesome, https://www.franklinrobotics.com/ is the cutest thing ever. Maybe its big brother will do lawns though.
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by iguy 8y ago
Another factor is the 2-body problem. If most of the workers are looking for a city with enough jobs for two different careers, then that's where employers will need to be to hire them.
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by iguy 8y ago
Doesn't free movement include economic migrants? That said, they have also had a lot of non-EU immigration. But my point was that free-movement between near-peer countries seems like almost pure benefit. And this was where the EU start

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