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You are of course talking about the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople.

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Unfortunately it is genuinely a complex problem. It is true that in general adding more housing lowers prices, but in detail the exact opposite is often true. For one, adding housing can lead to more demand for services (eg schools) which in turn makes a location more desirable which makes more people come which makes housing prices go up. The densest cities in the USA are also some of the most expensive for housing.

On the other hand, decreasing demand (eg people leaving) doesn't always fix socioeconomic problems either - sometimes, once people start leaving, more people leave until you end up with an empty husk of a city eg Detroit at one point.

People need services and people also want to be around other people like them. This causes feedback loops, making the nexus of problems related to housing truly and inescapably complex.

This is amazing, thank you! The symbol replacement seems really slick https://github.com/iheartla/iheartla/wiki/Keywords-And-Speci...

I second this - learning that a few slow, powerful bodyweight movements can get you insanely fit was game changing. Having introduced this program to a few others, I would add: don't be afraid to adapt some of the movements to yourself. The general movements in the book are fantastic but the details will vary according to you own body. You may even want to just skip certain stages in the progressions if they're not working for you.

How expensive would it be to deploy a moderate sized webapp like this to ethereum mainnet?

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As I said, to a very important extent it is true. Identical twins have a lot more in common than any other two people, even close siblings, often even when they are separated at birth. This gets us into semantics about what "identity" is, but that is indeed the issue that I'm trying to raise anyway.

> Modern twin studies have concluded that almost all traits are partly influenced by genetic differences.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_study

No one chooses their genes because to a very important extent you are your genes. There is no meaningful "you" that could have done the choosing.

Who is the "you"? Nothing more than the result of this process... unless you believe people exist metaphysically before having a corporeal presence? In which case you essentially believe in a soul, which is not a very secular belief at all.

I used to believe the Iraq War was about oil too, but the theory doesn't really stand up when you consider that there were several much easier ways for the US to secure an oil supply in the early 2000s (as other commenters have noted). Instead, I suggest you read about the Wolfowitz Doctrine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfowitz_Doctrine), named after Paul Wolfowitz, the man who CNN in 2003 called the "Godfather of the Iraq War" (https://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/12/29/timep.wolfowitz.t...). Enjoy the rabbit hole.

+1 to Strogatz's Chaos book - this was the first textbook I ever read cover to cover, almost like a novel, because of how exciting it was.

I also really liked self studying Strang's Linear Algebra. Another one that comes to mind is Naive Set Theory by Halmos - it's a very short and well written introduction to set theory for practitioners but it still manages to get you thinking very deeply.

That's an interesting idea, and while I doubt that it is true it seems like something you could determine experimentally. Has anyone done that or are you just asserting it?

Be specific.

IQ is the most reliable and most valid measure of general intelligence we have been able to come up with. It is good enough for many clinical purposes, eg assessing brain damage, and also just so happens to correlate very strongly with just about every "life outcome" you can think of. Does it measure everything imaginable about human intelligence? No. But it measures what we actually know about very well. To call it completely meaningless is absurd.

> institutions are controlled by them Citation very much needed. Have you actually looked at who occupies the high level executive positions at Ivy league tier universities? It's not predominantly WASPs.

So it's better to be dominated by an even bigger hegemon from further away?

>natural friend of small countries resisting regional hegemony

Consider Cuba or Venezuela and their relationship to the USA.

Not a podcast, but Adam Tooze also has a good and quite unique book on the subject of the economic history of the third reich. Well worth a read.

I want to add that I believe the way forward in this debate (and others) is to acknowledge that both rights are valid but neither are unlimited. The best compromise is to be found by sounding out the limits of each right. That is a political debate, not a quasi-religious one, and one that should be rekindled from time to time to update the compromise to match contemporary circumstances. In this regard, for either side in the abortion debate to enshrine their preferred right in the constitution would be a disaster.

The pro-choice side would say the by banning abortions you are infringing the right of a woman to choose when to have a child. The pro-life side would contend that by enabling abortions you are infringing the right to life of an unborn human. Both positions are framed in terms of human rights and plenty of "reasonable rational" people argue vigorously for each one while viewing those who disagree with them as basically evil.

Framing the debate in terms of individuals' rights is intended to remove the topic from the realm of political discussion and shut down dissent. It also completely drowns out discussion of the societal effects of allowing/banning abortion, which is just as important as the effect on individuals. The same unproductive dynamic plays out in the debate over e.g. the right to free speech.

What are human rights? To have an abortion? To own a gun? To have a say in what your children are taught? To get money from the government? It all depends on who you ask. Calling something a "human right" is a rhetorical device used to make disagreeing with your political position immoral and even heretical rather than just plain old wrong.

The US Border Patrol encountered over 100,000 attempted illegal crossings every month in 2021. It's estimated that each year somewhere between 500,000 and 1,000,000 people cross the border illegally without being caught or overstay their visa. There are nearly 50 million foreign born persons in the US total, about double the rate per capita of Europe.

Europe is on the same demographic trajectory - the current statistics put Europe where the US was in the 1990s. Focusing on unions as an example, since the 1990s, the US has lost approximately half the union membership rate in the private sector. This is in part due to immigration and in part due to offshoring, both mechanisms serve to weaken the power of the domestic worker.

You may be right that "race" isn't perfectly well defined, but socially and culturally it does exist and it plays a role in how people act. For example, even in highly diverse and progressive places you find clear racially segregated patterns of residence, with major downstream effects in areas like education, employment and healthcare. This is true in both the US and Europe. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on that phenomenon.

If you want unions, socialized healthcare, public services and the other trappings of European societies you need to start thinking about immigration and demographics. The very high levels of immigration (both legal and illegal) into the US is what makes it difficult for workers to exercise leverage because they can easily be replaced by people who will work for much less compensation. Ethnically diverse workforces are also less likely to unionize (e.g. this is a factor Amazon looks at when assessing unionization risk). It seems to me that socialist policies can only work in relatively ethnically homogeneous societies, which is what you see in Europe. Although that is now changing there too: it will be interesting to see whether they are able to maintain generous social services in the face of major demographic change.

You might find the article OP posted interesting, it completely contradicts your version of events. One example being that most gamer gaters were apparently Obama-voting liberals.

If your evidence is only anecdotal then I think you need to go find some better evidence or go back and rethink your argument. Calling voucher systems a "scam" based on this reasoning is a big stretch. There are lots of other ways for "low cost" students to accumulate interactions with "high cost" students that don't require them to all be educated in the same manner e.g. out of school activity clubs, local community groups, religious organizations, boy/girl scouts. Why not give students a say in how they are educated and make those opportunities more accessible / subsidised?

Do you have any evidence to back that up? I see no reason why students need to literally be in the same classroom all day with disabled people to learn empathy for them. There are many other ways they could interact with them without forcing students with vastly different needs into the same box (consider how home schoolers do it).

You're arguing against a straw man: most existing voucher programs are means-tested already (ie. only available to your "high cost" students) which negates your argument that the low cost students will use vouchers leave the system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_voucher

It depends on the application. For some use cases, moving to a GPU makes total sense. However, if you have power constraints, form factor constraints, performance constraints or simply want to be in control of your own hardware, using an FPGA with Tensil may be a better option.

I'm not completely sure if the answer is no but I have had difficulty finding anything like that.

If you have a device with known performance in mind, you can compare against our benchmarks listed here https://www.tensil.ai/docs/reference/benchmarks/

We'll be expanding this list and adding more comparisons to other platforms in the near future.