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Corporate capitalism largely started colonization. Most of the English-speaking colonization of America was started by companies like the Virginia Company, the Massachusetts Bay Company, etc. Most of India was conquered by the British East India company before it turned over its holdings to the British government. The Congo Free State was the personal property of the King of Belgium, not part of or governed by Belgium, for the exploitation of companies he had interests in.

Dental procedures can setup trigger points in the masseter and pterygoid, as well as in your neck, all of which can cause headaches until they're resolved. Massage and trigger point needling by a physical therapist can help resolve these.

The problem is that there's so little money in academia. In the US, state support for public universities has plummeted in the 21st century. In the last state I lived in, the state university near me went from providing over 75% of teaching costs to under 25% in less than 20 years. Tuitions have risen, but it's important to understand the sticker prices are usually discounted with financial aid. If a university raises tuitions by an amount x, they are usually brining in less than 1/2 x new funding. Ironically, reducing university funding leads universities hire more administrators, as they attempt to replace lost funding with donations or indirect costs.

Some schools really focus on teaching to the test. Since the tests the student's take require answering questions based on passages, the school requires teachers to only use similar length passwords with no context during class. Their textbook is a collection of such passages.

Ubuntu Linux used to use a SHA2 hash repeated 5000 times, but my Ubuntu 22.04 system uses yescrypt, which is one of those KDFs.

Being married doesn't necessarily increase your income tax in the US. Some couples pay more, while others pay less, depending on how incomes differ between the two spouses both in amounts and in kind. Being married does give you more options--a good tax preparer will have their software compute both the taxes for filing jointly and for filing separately.

Heavy government involvement with public universities in the form of subsidies once made public education free in some states and low tuition everywhere. As government subsidies have decreased, tuition costs have risen to compensate. The state paid 75% of the costs to educate a student in the closest university to me in 2005, but paid less than 25% of those costs in 2020.

Lower subsidies led to a reduction in tenured positions to reduce educational costs as well as to a rapid expansion of administrators whose job it is to obtain funds from donations, grants, and corporations. Unfunded government mandates like Title IX and so forth have also led to the expansion of the administration and increasing education costs.

Most industry positions are much better than adjunct positions. Adjunct faculty are temporary part-time workers who teach one or two classes per term. They are paid $1000-4000 per class without benefits, which is less than minimum wage when you count time to prepare for class, grade, and interact with students outside of class. A quarter of adjuncts depend on public assistance programs like food stamps to survive.

I subscribe to the The New York Review of Books (nybooks.com) for in-depth reviews and also follow RSS feeds from The London and LA Review of Books.

You might expect more. The US has had several more recent wars. Medical technology keeps a lot of people alive that would have died in the WWII era, leading to higher percentages of disabled civilians and soldiers.

For public universities, declining state government funding is the primary reason for tuition increases. Funding for the state university nearest me declined from the state providing more than over 75% of the budget in 2005 to under 25% last year, while the number of staff decreased. Unsurprisingly, tuition increased to make up much of that gap in funding.

Remember that "them" above refers to the native population in Hawaii in the post it's taken from. The reason the referendum succeeded was a big decline in the native population combined with large amounts of immigration from the U.S. Today only 6% of the population are native Hawaiians or 21% if we include part-Hawaiians. That population has doubled since Hawaii became a state.

There are efforts to give reviewers credit for their work, like Publons.

The time period in the article is too short. However, when I grew up, abortion wasn't an issue for Protestants, which was the dominant religion where I lived. They considered it a Catholic issue. Abortion became an issue after Republicans began to implement their southern strategy, raising it as an issue to bring evangelists and fundamentalists into their religious right coalition. They created pamphlets, movies, meetings, etc. to make abortion a religious issue. As their propaganda campaign developed, you could watch abortion spread as an issue in Protestant churches through the 1980s and finally become an issue for the majority of white evangelical and fundamentalist Protestant by the early 1990s.

Since military might no longer rests on large conscripted forces and once again is based on small professional forces with expensive equipment, where does that leave democracy?

The use of probability distributions and calculus in introductory statistics is a historical artifact. See my comment above about resampling approaches.

The use of calculus in introductory statistics is a historical artifact. Before computers, it was easier to use mathematical models like probability distributions than to do resampling. With computers, it's easy and more intuitive to use a resampling approach and textbooks that use such approaches are becoming more common. OpenIntro's Introduction to Modern Statistics is a free textbook of that type. You can find it at https://openintro-ims.netlify.app/

I was only writing about public universities.

Focusing on workforce training is a choice of values too, that not everyone agrees is important.

Universities have a broader purpose than training people for the workplace. Ironically, increased costs is a large part of the reason why society's vision of universities has become so limited.

It's also worth noting that reducing subsidies to education led to much of the administrative expansion. Recruitment, development, alumni, grant, and IP offices were created or expanded tremendously in an attempt to find additional funding from sources like more students, donations, indirect costs, and royalties.

College costs have increased due to decreased state funding and increased regulation (both legal and from accreditors), which requires more administrative staff. Ironically, decreased state funding leads to an increase of administrative staff too, as universities invest in grant offices, development offices, and outreach departments in an attempt to find more funds.

MS IE was built from a web browser MS bought from Spyglass, so two startups died in that war. By bundling IE with Windows, MS escaped paying royalties to Spyglass (they were sued over this but settled out of court for just $8 million.)

While most comments focus on fiction, I find the real value of the NYRB for me are the reviews of nonfiction books. These reviews go into much more depth than reviews in other places and often compare and contrast multiple books on the same topic. The nonfiction reviews are great for both finding books to read and learning enough about a topic so that you can decide that you don't need to read a book on that topic.

Inherited wealth leads to powerful dynasties, both at the local and national scale, who dominate local politics as well as economic opportunities. We see that in both India and the US.

Reddit has a report at https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsecurity/comments/pfyqqn/covi...

That is one tiny yacht. (-;

Manning has a new book, The Cyber Defenders Career Guide (https://livebook.manning.com/book/cyber-defenders-career-gui...) that might help. It's an early access book, but all the chapters have been written, so you can read the whole book as an ebook already.

There's much more to higher education costs than Baumol's cost disease. Public universities have much higher tuition because state subsididies to universities have decreased. In 2005, the state paid 3/4 and students paid 1/4 of the cost of instruction at my university. By 2019, those numbers were reversed, with students paying 3/4 of the cost. Total cost of instruction remained the same within a couple percent over that time period.

On the other side, elite private universities are in ever greater demand, driving higher tuitions. Higher tuition is a signal of their elite status, and such universities want to keep their tuition close to that of their competitors. They use financial aid to produce a sliding scale to collect as much money as they can from those who can afford to pay. On the other side, because of that financial aid, raising tuition an amount x may only produce an increase of income of 1/2 x, because the rest goes to increased financial aid. That factor increases the rate at which they raise tuition.

Decentralization transfers powers to local elites, who are more likely to be interested in interfering with you or your group specifically compared to a more or less uncaring larger government. In the US, states weren't bound by the Bill of Rights until the 14th amendment, giving them more power to restrict liberties than the federal government. After reconstruction, SCOTUS issued decisions restoring much of the pre-war order, using the 14th amendment mainly to find new powers for corporations.

Look at Chatanooga, TN's munipcal broadband for an example of how a government can be better. As for why, broadband is typically a monopoly or duopoly (phone + cable), which private companies take advantage of by raising prices and spending less money upgrading their networks. Since the municipality isn't limited by shareholders to focus purely on profit, it can invest in infrastructure that's not profitable, such as by providing Internet access to low population areas.