First of all, happy Bastille Day.
Well, here are some highlights.
Trace the wood grainJuly 10, 2024.
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Unsurprisingly, Gerald’s sweeping, no-holds-barred policy has caused a lot of conflict at Wikipedia, with editors who disagree with his indiscriminate deletion raising the issue: More than once To Wikipedia administrators, On the talk pageand Other locations around the siteGerard always defends his approach of indiscriminately removing everything from unreliable sources, and typically continues to do so as long as the controversy continues. Each time, the controversy fades away without any noticeable change. In one case, another Wikipedia administrator, Sandstein, wrote: Prompted to ban the user He repeatedly criticized Gerard’s judgment in the case.
In other words, whatever Wikipedia’s written policy may be, the actual day-to-day reality is that Gerald will remove sources he does not trust. All at once Given that the explanation is brief, pays little attention to actual substance, and when pressed asserts elaborate justifications, it’s worth considering the credibility battle that Gerard raises.
of article Very long, very detailed and very compelling.
By Peter Jacobsen Foundation for Economic EducationJuly 12, 2024.
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In other words, states with more child care restrictions tend to have larger fertility inequalities, and women are unable to have as many children as they would like.Of course, the interesting thing is that reducing or eliminating child care restrictions might help increase fertility rates.
One persistent drawback of pro-natal policies is that they tend to be expensive. But this new paper suggests that they don’t have to be. Allowing parents to regulate child care through their purchasing decisions, rather than relying on standards assigned by politicians, could lower the cost of child care and ultimately help parents have larger families.
By Alex Nowrasteh Alex Nowrasteh’s Deep DiveJuly 9, 2024.
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Since 2016, my the study upon Foreign-born Terrorism represents a relatively small threat: Between 1975 and 2023, foreign-born terrorists killed 3,046 people on U.S. territory in 230 total terrorist attacks, including those convicted of terrorism offenses who were the attackers, those who planned attacks, or those who planned attacks. Annual Opportunity Your annual chances of being killed in a foreign-born terrorist attack during that time period are about 1 in 4.5 million. By comparison, your annual chances of being killed by a common criminal in the U.S. are about 1 in 13,767. In other words, your annual chances of being killed in a common homicide are about 323 times higher than your annual chances of being killed in a foreign-born terrorist attack in the U.S.
Alex, as always, brings great numerical knowledge to the discussion.
