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by iguy 9y ago
It is _partly_ organic, or rather, technological. General Motors did everything in house (partly) for the same reason the hotel did: the computers needed to keep track of today's supply chain / subcontracting payments & manage
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by iguy 9y ago
It actually seems pretty complicated here. IIRC the best previous studies just used years in education as a proxy -- not a great one, but an easy number to get, thus allowing large a sample size. This one seems to do some weird combination
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by iguy 9y ago
"2. We could reasonably travel more than 10 miles from home in a day." No, this is not the reason. Plenty of societies had very strong norms against cousin marriage centuries ago -- from memory below 1 percent in colonial new engl
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by iguy 9y ago
It seems clear evolution has uniformly negative opinions of brother-sister couples. But cousins are more interesting, because the biological downside of having some ill (or just thick) grandkids must be balanced against the upside of having
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by iguy 9y ago
There's a much bigger and longer story than this. Roughly speaking, it's my understanding that the catholic church suppressed this in Europe from roughly 1000 years ago, essentially as a way to counter alternative power centres. H
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by iguy 9y ago
Here's one take-home message: if you made up a country which was 10% like Venezuela and 90% like Germany, then it would have murder stats double the USA. It would also have a GDP much like the USA, and would qualify for the OECD. Obvio
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by iguy 9y ago
Broke the law, got caught, served their sentence, and are now looking to re-join society. As opposed to those who broke the law and haven't been caught yet. (Different laws, granted.)
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by iguy 9y ago
Note that the article doesn't contain the word "shortage". It's just the continuum of supply and demand: if people like the ones you hired last year can't be found this year, you have to pay more, or consider those