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Weekly Reading Highlights for July 14, 2024

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First of all, happy Bastille Day.

Now let’s go over some of the key points.

Wood Grain TrackingJuly 10, 2024.

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Unsurprisingly, Gerard’s no-questions-asked policy has caused several conflicts on Wikipedia, with editors raising the issue in opposition to his indiscriminate deletions. many times To Wikipedia administrators, On the discussion pageand Elsewhere around the site. Each time, Gerard advocates an approach of indiscriminately removing everything from unreliable sources, and usually continues to remove as the dispute continues. Each time, the dispute dies down without any significant changes. In one case, another Wikipedia administrator, Sandstein, Force user to ban For repeatedly criticizing Gerrard’s judgment on this matter.

In other words, no matter what Wikipedia’s written policy says, the practical reality of day-to-day life is that Gerard will remove unreliable sources. In bulk With its concise explanations and little consideration of the actual content, and its tendency to delve into elaborate justifications when pressed, it is worth looking at the credibility battle Gerard has chosen.

that much article It’s very long, detailed, and very persuasive.

By Peter Jacobsen, Economic Education FoundationJuly 12, 2024.

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In other words, states with more child-rearing regulations tend to have larger fertility gaps, meaning women can’t have as many children as they want. Of course, the interesting implication is that reducing or eliminating child-rearing regulations can help increase fertility.

One of the persistent drawbacks of prenatal policies is that they tend to be expensive. But this new paper suggests that it need not be that way. Allowing parents to regulate child care through their purchasing decisions rather than relying on politicians to dictate standards could lower the cost of child care and, as a result, support parents to have larger families.

Written by Alex Nowrasteh, Alex Noraste’s Deep DiveJuly 9, 2024.

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from 2016, my research In ~ born abroad Terrorism has shown that the threat is relatively minor. From 1975 to 2023, foreign-born terrorists killed 3,046 people on U.S. soil in attacks by a total of 230 terrorists. This includes the attackers, planners, or people convicted of terrorism for planning attacks. Annual Opportunity At that time, the annual odds of being killed in an attack by a foreign-born terrorist were about 1 in 4.5 million. By comparison, the annual odds of being killed by a common criminal in the United States were about 1 in 13,767. In other words, the annual odds of being killed by a common homicide were about 323 times greater than the odds of being killed in an attack by a foreign-born terrorist on U.S. soil.

Alex, as usual, brought his wonderful numbers talent to the discussion.

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