First of all, happy national day.
Now let’s move on to some highlights.
Wood grain tracingJuly 10, 2024.
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Unsurprisingly, Gerard’s policy of systematic, no-questions-asked deletion has led to much conflict on Wikipedia. Editors who object to his indiscriminate deletions have raised the issue several times to Wikipedia administrators, on the talk pagesAnd elsewhere on the site. In each case, Gerard defends the approach of indiscriminately deleting everything in unreliable sources, usually continuing the deletions as the arguments continue. In each case, the arguments peter out without anything in particular changing. In one case, another Wikipedia administrator, Sandstein, pushed to ban a user for repeatedly criticizing Gerard’s judgment on the matter.
In other words, regardless of Wikipedia’s written policy, the practical day-to-day reality is that Gerard will remove unreliable sources. in mass with terse explanations and little regard for the actual content, digging into elaborate justifications when pressed. That being said, it is worth examining the reliability battles Gerard picks.
THE article is very long, very detailed and very convincing.
by Peter Jacobsen, Foundation for Economic EducationJuly 12, 2024.
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In other words, states that have more child care regulations tend to have larger fertility gaps: women are less able to have as many children as they would like. So it’s interesting that reducing or eliminating child care regulations could promote higher birth rates.
One of the persistent drawbacks of pronatal policies is that they tend to be expensive. But this new report shows that they don’t have to be. By allowing parents to regulate their child care through their purchasing decisions, rather than relying on standards imposed by politicians, it seems possible to reduce the cost of child care and, in turn, help parents have larger families.
by Alex Nowrasteh, Alex Nowrasteh’s Deep DivesJuly 9, 2024.
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From 2016, My research on Born abroad Terrorism has shown that the threat is relatively minor. During the period 1975-2023, foreign-born terrorists murdered 3,046 people on U.S. soil in attacks by a total of 230 terrorists, including attackers, those who planned attacks, or those who were convicted of terrorism offenses where they planned an attack. annual chance The risk of being murdered in an attack by a foreign-born terrorist during this period was about 1 in 4.5 million per year. By comparison, the annual risk of being murdered by a common criminal in the United States was about 1 in 13,767. In other words, the annual risk of being murdered in a common homicide was about 323 times higher than dying in an attack by a foreign-born terrorist on U.S. soil.
Alex, as usual, brings a nice numeration to the discussion.
