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by marojejian 2mo ago
Can't get past the abstract, but that lays out the key assertion: >Accounting for income in holding companies erases half of the difference in the 1980-2020 rise of the top 1% fiscal income share between Nordic countries and the Uni
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by marojejian 2mo ago
This could be a The Onion headline. But also pretty fascinating, beyond the lowbrow humor. Found this linked in another HN story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448665
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Corporate profits hit highest share since WWII, as worker payouts wilt(ft.com)
138 points by marojejian 2mo ago|55 comments
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by marojejian 2mo ago
free w/ signup, but here's the archive anyhow: https://archive.is/wU0s9 Pretty impressive long-term charts, and dramatic surge in the last years. Of course there are lot of other relevant details (e.g. more peopl
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Single CRISPR Treatment Slashed LDL Cholesterol for a Year(nytimes.com)
12 points by marojejian 2mo ago|3 comments
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by marojejian 2mo ago
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/science/an-experimental-s... n=15, but this is still an impressive example of gene therapy, especially since it doesn't addresses a rare single-gene dis
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by marojejian 2mo ago
I've long been a fan of this view (though i do think some aging is also essentially entropy). Natural selection favors organisms with a lifecycle time that is optimized and not random. Some organisms will benefit from shorter lifecycl
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Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown(quantamagazine.org)
4 points by marojejian 2mo ago|2 comments
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The Intrinsic Valuation of Biodiversity Loss [pdf](static1.squarespace.com)
1 points by marojejian 2mo ago|1 comments
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by marojejian 2mo ago
Not a happy message: >the aggregate sentience losses of animals in the past half century outstrip the sentience gains to humans from population growth by at least 10,000-fold. Breaking even in welfare terms requires assigning a correspo
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by marojejian 2mo ago
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/science/humans-love-havin...
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How Turkey may have solved the Kurdish insurgency(nytimes.com)
2 points by marojejian 2mo ago|1 comments
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by marojejian 2mo ago
Gift Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/opinion/turkey-kurds-pkk-... Of course there are external / uncontrollable factors behind this, but I also buy the article's opinion, that peace is
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Poll shows support for proportional representation in the US(npr.org)
5 points by marojejian 2mo ago|1 comments
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by marojejian 2mo ago
The data here is suspect, since the poll was administered by supporters of the idea. But even so, I believe the gist of the results. And I think anything we can do to shift attention to fixing the system is a good idea (vs. just focusing o
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Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform(aeaweb.org)
2 points by marojejian 2mo ago|1 comments
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by marojejian 2mo ago
>an aggregate 1.6 percent increase in housing stock and a 0.4 percent reduction in prices ... produced welfare gains of 0.65 percent of city GDP... sadly don't know a free link to the full text...
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Abundant empirical evidence of multilevel selection(frontiersin.org)
4 points by marojejian 2mo ago|0 comments
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Plants and their ants: When flora and fauna team up(knowablemagazine.org)
7 points by marojejian 2mo ago|2 comments
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by marojejian 2mo ago
Having read a lot about symbiosis, I still found a bunch of novel interesting stuff here. e.g. how acacia makes ants dependent on them: >These acacias are quite notorious for another reason: The nectar they provide contains an enzyme th
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Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area(science.org)
272 points by marojejian 3mo ago|208 comments
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by marojejian 3mo ago
Originally heard about this via Nature podcast's interview with the researcher: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02367-x This is a continuation of many findings in this direction. It's wonderful to
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The US just passed the biggest housing law in 36 years(ft.com)
3 points by marojejian 3mo ago|2 comments
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by marojejian 3mo ago
Omitted the Betteridge's law part of the headline, since we all know the answer. This sounds like only a drop in the bucket. But nevertheless it is a hopeful sign that Congress is at least able to agree on the the right thing to put in
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Winged robot "puffin" can fly starting from the water(nytimes.com)
3 points by marojejian 3mo ago|1 comments
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by marojejian 3mo ago
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/science/new-winged-robot-...
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by marojejian 3mo ago
Why should a retail investor never buy derivatives? spreads?
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by marojejian 3mo ago
Correct archive link: https://archive.is/2026.07.11-040454/https://www.economist.c...
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by marojejian 3mo ago
Oops. Here is a good one: https://archive.is/2026.07.11-040454/https://www.economist.c...
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How dementia is being defeated(economist.com)
3 points by marojejian 3mo ago|5 comments

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