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This may already be implicit in your question, but that putative company has to be clearly intending to offer goods or services to EU visitors (which isn't specifically defined but might mean something like accepting payment in Euros o
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So I did a little digging into the citations, and the most authoritative paper on the subject is J.-W. Lee and H. Lee, Human capital in the long run [1]. While there isn't a time-series for Canada, Fig. 9A shows the U.S. had a signific
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I don't know much about Canada, but I'd be very interested in looking at census data for primary and secondary education in Canada for the whole of the 19th century. Do you have a source? Remember, the argument goes that the U.S.
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See my citation above; the US was well ahead before WWI. And while the economic damage wrought by the wars was not inconsiderable, it simply exacerbated an existing trend.
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The argument that "most kids don't need to go to college" is the same argument that British intellectuals were making at the end of the 19th and early 20th century, except replace "college" with "high school.&q
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Putting aside the way these figures are calculated (addressed in sibling comments), I'm always surprised at the lack of interrogation of the charitable contribution deduction in these conversations. The way that the tax code is current
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The Antiquities Act of 1906 does not give the President power to declare National Parks; only National Monuments [1]. This is a mistake in that episode, and the link you cite also mentions this (see the "Trivia" section). [1] h
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Just being pedantic, but the president actually doesn't have the power to create national parks - only Congress can. The president can create national monuments, though, which are pretty similar for all intents and purposes.
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For me, the biggest issue is that it's incredibly annoying to reject non-essential cookies. It usually involves clicking "Cookie Preferences", scrolling through a bunch of options (which are mercifully unchecked by default, t
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> Once you've reached even 25% coverage, it's really dubious whether more coverage than that is actually telling you anything. For sure there's diminishing returns on test coverage and I share your frustration with the myo
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If this were true, rich people would already have cars with chaffers and beds in them. They don't because the form factor isn't practical without compromising all the other things that you'd want to use your car for. The seco
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None of the things you're describing actually require automation. If people actually wanted "diners on wheels" then we'd all be taking diner buses to the airport. A driverless car just frees up a bit of space; it doesn&#
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I think the point here is that "zero interest" isn't particularly compelling when the cost of credit is being driven up (to exorbitant levels) by another mechanism. An equivalent loan with a 5-year term would have an interest
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There's perhaps some relationship, and of course "martial law" can have a wide variety of definitions under different political contexts, but I think it's worth pointing out that the Roman Republic worked pretty differen
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Putting aside the big issues with using the Gini coefficient as a measure of income inequality (very different distributions can have similar Gini coefficients) - and the even bigger issue of ignoring wealth altogether - the World Bank data
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I'm glad you brought up the Roman dictatorship, because it's a great example of the way checks and balances worked in the Roman Republic. There were nearly 100 dictators prior to the 2nd century B.C.E. - often appointed in times
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> Rome wasn't found upon rebellion Myths aside, we don't really know anything about the founding of Rome. But it's clear that (like the United States), Rome was originally a "frontier" place, situated at the inte
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The major link in the chain that you're missing here is the breakdown in the elaborate series of checks-and-balances that underpinned the Roman Republic. For most of the Republic, the army consisted of a citizen militia commanded by mi
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I don't think the reputation of Caesar as a "man of the people" can survive true interrogation. Caesar was a master propagandist, but perhaps more importantly many of our sources postdate him and come from a world in which he
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> That's just flat wrong. A global solution can solve global concerns and also allow for local conditions. In theory, yes. But in practice, no (and this is the author's point, I think). In theory, the more "local condition
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Because while the "top-tier" media outlets are doing extremely well (NYTimes, WSJ, FT, etc.), everyone else is suffering. Huge numbers of media outlets have closed over the past 20 years and there are now far fewer journalists in
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> Central to that cultural history has also been the notion of meritocracy, going back to the Mandarin bureaucrat-scholars who obtained their positions through the imperial examination system. More recently, China’s communists have attem
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One thing that's confusing/annoying from the Stripe developer experience is that subscriptions generate an absolutely huge number of webhooks. There's probably 10 or 15 webhooks per recurring payment, and many of those contai
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I think it's unrealistic for any engineer to remain highly proficient in many of those things simultaneously. I use AWS day-to-day, but haven't used GCP day-to-day in 5+ years - should I realistically be able to keep abreast of th
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> I write that line 1 time max in a project and then never think about it again. In my experience, wanting to know why things work the way they do (instead of just accepting that things work a certain way) is a very desirable quality i
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I'll preface this by saying that I'm not a medievalist, so I won't try to opine too much on the workings of medieval society. That being said, I think the key difference here isn't between a theist/non-theist basis
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It's true that the charges were somewhat cynical in the sense that Socrates could have been charged with the same crimes 10 or 20 years earlier - it wasn't his beliefs that changed, it was the political circumstances. That being s
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> There was no evident tolerance for athiesm, at least as recorded in this kind of history. It took the later rennaisance and reformation for aspects of roman/greek atheism to enter the conversation I think it's worth pointing
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I get it, in 2009 smartphones weren't devices that everyone owned. But I still find the myopic obsession with "techie" approval as a harbinger of success pretty narrow-minded. People didn't like the iPhone in 2009 becaus
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That error's a bit better, but not much. You basically have to know that `+` only works on stuff that implements `Num` or else it still makes no sense. Compare that to the Rust/Python errors which are so much easier to understan

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