Aristotle Magganas

@AristotleMa

Researcher at Stanford University. Aspiring economist/academic. Secular humanist. Greek-American. Avid reader.

California, USA
Vrijeme pridruživanja: svibanj 2014.

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    26. sij

    Evil happens when people let it happen, and our best defence against it is never to forget where evil leads. That is why it is so important to commemorate and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of @AuschwitzMemorial on 27th January.

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    23. sij

    Coming soon from Jonathan Israel: Enlightenment Begins. Enlightenment Reloaded. Enlightenment Returns. Enlightenment vs Predator. Enlightenment Balboa. Enlightenment Salvation. Enlightenment 2049. Enlightenment Endgame. Enlightenment Against The World Crime League.

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    -- Ekaterini Sakellaropoulou elected 's new President with 261 MPs votes against 33 votes.

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    : Historic vote in Athens parliament shortly to elect new head of state with MPs slated to vote in country's first female president /via

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    2. sij

    The mechanics' institutions spearheaded Britain's bottom-up approach to adult education, with classes held in the evenings after work. (There's a reason that University still holds evening classes: in the 1820s it was founded as the London Mechanics' Institute.)

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    2. sij

    "Man", Gregory preached, "is in his nature an improveable being". He was speaking to the Deptford Mechanics' Institution because in the 1820s such institutions were another new phenomenon of improvement: working men who pooled their savings to pay for lecturers & libraries.

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    2. sij

    It's sometimes said that people living through the Industrial Revolution didn't quite notice it. But nothing could be further from the truth. Here's a thread on the decade of technological wonders that was the 1820s - the decade we always forget.

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  9. 18. sij

    As I point out below the tweet, hard labor and imprisonment were the sentences applicable here. Execution may have been used in Stalin era or other instances, but it was rare.

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    18. sij
    Odgovor korisnicima

    And Fitzpatrick's stuff on housing in Soviet cities in the 1930s is shocking - I can't find space per person data in UK cities from the same time period, but the space standards in the 1935 Housing Act give an idea of what was seen as a baseline in the UK at that time

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  11. 18. sij

    In fact the chapter is called “Poor Folk.” Mea culpa.

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  12. 18. sij

    Judge: “To become a poet? Did you try to attend a school where they train [poets]...where they teach...” Brodsky: “I don’t think it comes from education” Judge: “From what then?” Brodsky: “I think it’s...from God.”

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  13. 18. sij

    The judge at his trial asked him who told Brodsky that he was a poet. Judge: “Who assigned you that rank?” Brodsky: “Who assigned me to the human race?” Judge: “And did you study for this?” Brodsky: “For what?” Ctd below.

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  14. 18. sij

    Heda Margolius Kovaly mentions in her book “Under a Cruel Star” that being unemployed in Czechoslovakia was illegal: the offense was called “parasitism.” Joseph Brodsky was sentenced to hard labor for “malicious parasitism” in 1964—supposedly too many odd jobs. Not “real” ones.

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  15. 18. sij

    Clearly, accuracy is of second order importance when one’s purpose is to use Muhammad Ali’s greatness in an attack on the institution of private property.

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  17. 18. sij

    Setting to one side the cavalier way Comics deals with chronic shortage and everything else, it is simply untrue that the USSR had no homelessness. David Remnick’s book “Lenin’s Tomb,” has a chapter called “Poor People” in which he describes encounters with “bomzhi.” See below.

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    2. sij

    How to save lives and money: Define forecasting accuracy as skill at achieving both a high Hit rate & low False-Positive rate. It’s trivially easy to claim you can predict every recession, war,… when no one is tracking your False-Positive rate.

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    6. sij

    Here’s a robust psychological effect that does not wilt under replication scrutiny. Kurt Lewin noticed it in the 1930s: making public commitments “freezes” attitudes in place. So saying something dumb makes you a bit dumber. It becomes harder to correct yourself. Tweeters beware.

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    2. sij

    2/ 3. The returns to capital of state-owned enterprises are much lower than their private counterparts (Hsieh and Song 2015). 4. State-owned enterprises lag behind private firms in productivity (Brandt 2015).

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