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Ole In a 2019 interview with Yascha Mounk I don’t think the evidence is consistent with the idea that slavery was good for economic development in the United States. If you look at the U.S. South, it was a lot poorer. It had very little manufacturing industry. It was less urbanized. It was much less publicly … Les mer
GoodAlexander I think it’s interesting to reflect on how I got so blackpilled – and how I’ve finally seen the light it was a process in 2013-2014 – I was working with large scale transaction data at some Asian financial institutions. it became apparent you could use this data (SWIFT) to predict trade flows, in … Les mer
Fritt etter Jean-Baptiste Fressoz I begynnelsen var tre. Vi brukte trær til oppvarming, matlaging og produksjon av verktøy og byggematerialer. For to milliarder mennesker er dette fortsatt hverdagen, men i Vesten kom den industrielle revolusjon rundt 1800 og kull ble populært. Vi kan kalle det den første energiomstillingen og man skulle tro at forbruket av … Les mer
Danial Lashkari and Jeremy Pearce, July 11, 2024 Throughout the twentieth century, steady technological and organizational innovations, along with the accumulation of productive capital, increased labor productivity at a steady rate of around 2 percent per year. However, the past two decades have witnessed a slowdown in labor productivity (LP), measured as value added per hour … Les mer
Most people think that the problem with communism is that people aren’t perfectly altruistic, or central planners aren’t smart enough, but neither of these is the real issue. The real bottleneck is data, not intelligence. See, economics is the study of choice. Specifically, it’s about the choice of how you allocated limited resources that have … Les mer
Morgon og kveld – Jon Fosse. Om att og om att. Latterlig dårlig. Dubbelstöten – Tomas Arvidsson – Dårlig Enkelstöten – Tomas Arvidsson Trippelstöten – Tomas Arvidsson Utanförskapet – Tomas Arvidsson – Bra Bukken til haversekken – Gunnar Staalesen (reprise) 1999 – Aftensang – Gunnar Staalesen (reprise) 1950 – High Noon – Gunnar Staalesen (reprise) … Les mer
A canticle for Leibowitz – Walther M Miller Trist men fin sci-fi. Minneverdig Magpie Murders – Anthony Horowitz Intrikat «who done it». Bra The Riddle of the sands – Erskine Childers Kjempefin «spionbok» fra Nordsjøkysten Black Run – D.L. Marshall Møte i rom sjø, mer MacLean 😊 Anthrax Island – D.L. Marshall MacLean er tilbake! … Les mer
Mouse fathers who ate high-fat foods and human fathers with high body-mass index have male offspring with metabolic disorders. A dad’s sperm records his diet — and this record affects his sons’ metabolism, according to a study of mice and humans1. Giving male mice a high-fat diet raises levels of some types of RNA in … Les mer
Guttorm Schjelderup, DN.no 27. mai 2024, kl. 19.59 I DN 25. mai skriver mine to kolleger Jøril Mæland og Karin Thorburn at formuesskatten krymper kaken vi har til deling. De nevner ikke at nesten alle skatter krymper kaken, og at det ikke er belegg fra empirisk studier om at kaken krymper mer ved formuesskatten. Statistikken viser hvor … Les mer
Gazzaniga, Michael S., «The Split Brain Revisited,» Scientific American, July 1998 The Corpus Callosum has been severed, a treatment for epilepsy. 1. Each hemisphere was presented a picture that related to one of four cards placed in front of the split-brain subject. The right hemisphere saw the picture on the left (a snow scene), and … Les mer