Property rights can be too weak (leading to overuse), too strong (leading to underuse), or structured in the wrong way (leading to all sorts of pathologies).
That’s about $24,000 per household on average. (Of course, given Germany’s highly progressive tax code, low-income households will pay significantly less while high-income households will pay significantly more.)
If you happen to be a high school teacher, Marginal Revolution University is currently offering a chance to win 50 billion dollars. Hyperinflated Zimbabwean dollars, that is.
The fertility rate of France started dropping in the 18th century — a century earlier than elsewhere — coinciding with a loss of moral authority of the Church.
Subtitle: An economic history of the twentieth century.
A simple build system for Java modules.
Subtitle: Why education, electricity and fertility are key to escaping poverty.
Reorganizes PostgreSQL tables without long-lived exclusive locks.
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I find it striking that AI-generated art characteristically draws human hands with too few or deformed fingers, which is similar to how counting your own fingers is a common (and presumably effective) trick to determine whether you are dreaming. What parallels between human cognition and simulator machines does this hint at?
Calls into question various points made in A Chemical Hunger.
A FreeBSD variant for capability-enhanced computer architectures.
Free cross-platform Podman management app.
Free cross-platform containerd and Moby (Docker) management app.