This is cool! I'd be interested to see it include more jurisdictions (I'm from Guernsey which is low tax but high rent, and I wonder how that evens out.)
I read the Paul Graham article mentioned here immediately before reading the Neil Gaiman exposé, and it left a sour taste in my mouth.
PG is an incredible writer and contributor to this community, but that doesn't mean he isn't human (as others have been saying). Open minded people who spend too much time with the same group of global elites (including tech-minded POCs and trans people etc.) end up thinking social justice has already been served and start wondering if those saying it has gone too far are correct.
I did a degree in Politics and then an MSc in International Relations, which are not subjects where there are definitive "canons".
To put it another way, you can go very far down the tech tree of one set of ideas without necessarily having to have the prerequisites from other courses, although you do build up your own inner library of useful tools, touchstone texts and concepts that stick with you for the long run.
I may never have directly put many of those into use in my career, but they've certainly given me a useful framework to interpret other things I've come across.
These days, I read a lot of effective altruist/rationalist discourse where they're reinventing very old social science concepts from first principles, and I feel it's a weakness of the monoculture that they have so little connection to what came before.
The only time I've heard of negotiating net is in certain Gulf countries where employers will pay all your taxes for you. Not a thing in the US or Europe though.
> Bu şehirdeki polis teşkilatı faaliyetlerini arttırdı.
Interestingly the -ki suffix here was borrowed from Persian (another Indo-European language like English), and effectively highlights a unique instance - "the one which" - in a way that Turkish otherwise doesn't specifically do.
This initially sounded impossible, but in reality the results are unsurprising and the interpretation is the strange part.
All the children depicted were 9 years old while the adult pictures were presumably from a wider range of age/class cohorts.
It's unsurprising then that participants were able to tell Barbara from Taylor and Brittany from Alexis. (I'm presuming that Ines wasn't present in either sample.)
"I think it's something that’s aged sitting there because it’s a number, so we have to understand how that number got there because the number was so big that the control panel didn’t know what to do with it and kicked into shutdown mode." - CEO of Jersey's Island Energy after the gas completely cut out for their tens of thousands of customers
A Dutch friend once said that the one word from his language that has had universal reach was "apartheid"... I'm sure that if there are any truly global words they are probably ones like that (initially) attached to a specific geographical context.
Given that this is a place with a disproportionate number of "internet randos" who have experienced the same problem, I'd say that it's worth asking - and then weighting responses by level of experience.
Sounds like a real concern until you consider that the Suez canal is the only waterway from the Mediterranean to Asia and that cables can also be sited on land.
You likely have your own reasons for submitting the news, but it does echo China's official position on the protests - Chinese embassies and news sites have been running stuff claiming the protesters are a violent mob for weeks.
Great work - there needs to be a good place to write for free without the site then trying to sell the writing on. I've signed up to your newsletter but it took me a little scrabbling about to figure out how.