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Interesting. Official NYPD police association strongly implying that NY’s crime statistics are faked.
Taken with the LA Times story on LAHSA’s faked homeless stats, indicates that official sources may need more corroboration.
A third example of this is the flagrant fakery around cash vs accrual accounting — far from a technicality, despite the headline. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
What happens when the official truth is false?
More and more frequently, I point people to @paulvigna and @mikejcasey’s book for an accessible explanation of how blockchains allow us to establish certain kinds of truths even in adversarial environments.
amazon.com/Truth-Machine-…
To independently validate crime statistics, you might set up a distributed NCVS.

Whole thing doesn’t have to be on chain, but you could timestamp digests of the database to resist tampering.
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Maybe the v2 answer is just encouraging employees to play Fortnite together.
To be clear, I think all of those ideas are good ideas and clearly Gitlab has done well as a company.

But maybe informal socialization for remote teams means video games and social networks?
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Catholicism was centralized and led by the pope and Church.

Protestantism was decentralized and preached disintermediation (via “a personal relationship with god”).
Over time, Protestantism built up its own institutions, but it’s easier for a new pastor to found a new denomination than to fork the Catholic Church.

That’s part of why Protestantism was initially attractive: it offered a path to power outside the Church hierarchy.
The theological arguments that justified the disintermediation of the Catholic Church in favor of a “personal relationship with god” led to the Counter-Reformation, the 30 years war, and a huge power struggle.
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If you ran a script over your media diet, you could figure out what concepts you are reinforcing through repetition. augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
That script could print out nutritional facts on your media diet, much like you get on food.

Just a list of the top 1000 keywords on your screen would show you what you were loading into your brain.

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See also the concept of effective frequency. Maybe you can retarget yourself to improve learning?
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