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Thread: Examples of the long term impact of past institutions
Literacy rate in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1931. You can easily make out areas that were held by the Habsburgs for centuries, and those that were under the Turks.
Map of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867-1918) overlapping the results of the 2014 presidential elections in Romania.
Pre-1918 German Empire borders and 2007 Polish elections results. thepolitikalblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/ana…
The borders of "greater Serbia" vs Croatian local elections 2017. reddit.com/r/europe/comme…
The Alabama Senate Election Was Decided 100 Million Years Ago: Current voting patterns in the South are related to ancient sea creatures. Yes, really. wired.com/story/alabama-…
Borders of the Confederacy superimposed on a map of human development in the US.
The location of coalfields in England and Wales (laid down millions of years ago) and the results of the 2015 British general elections (Labour in red).
German right-wing AfD election result VS East German borders.
East-West German divide: the green marks shareholders in Germany sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/akt…
Greater Roman road density goes along with (a) greater modern road density, (b) greater settlement formation in 500 CE, and (c) greater economic activity in 2010.
Roman Empire has long-term effects on economic growth (luminosity). link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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To understand why some people perceive the coordinated corporate action against Alex Jones to be deeply worrying, consider the following hypothetical country:
Its government guarantees all human rights as long as citizens do not live within autonomous communes.

98% of the population live within an authoritarian commune that exerts arbitrary justice.

Outside of this commune is desert and a few oases populated by trolls and monsters.
Such coordination suggests that those companies constitute an information cartel that increasingly controls what the majority of the population can know and who can hear what people have to say.

First they came for a loony conspiracy theorist, tomorrow they might come for you.
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Counterintuitively, it might happen that people's attitude toward Muslims improves both after terror attacks and policies or rhetoric perceive to be anti-Muslim (thread):
Following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, favorable views of Muslim Americans rose from 45% to 59%. Following the Charlie Hebdo terror attack in France, favorable views of Muslims rose from 72% to 76%, very favorable views from 14% to 25%. pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015…
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This raises another question: what is <knowledge>? Knowledge is related to identity ("sameness"). Here are some dimensions of knowledge: abstraction <= model <= implementation <= simulation <= emulation <= reproduction <= physical self
1. An abstraction (the simplified and idealized description of the attributes of an object or the behavior of a process) becomes a model when it describes not just the attributes and behavior of an object or process but also how they arise and are implemented.
2. A model (the static description of the physical properties of an object or of the dynamic state sequence exhibited by a process) becomes an implementation when it can be computed, visualized or otherwise instantiated.
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Babcock University is a good tertiary institution with regards to academics, but I'm afraid, I can't say same for their administration and
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