"Team Nigeria by Malcolm Gladwell" is the most cursed title of anything I've seen in a minute

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Larry Summers is related to both Samuelson and Arrow - part of the thousand year economics breeding program.

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right! i almost never see people discuss that voters simply facing multivariate policies or having multidimensional preferences undoes the intuitive logic of the median voter model. (because of this pref ordering, plus there's no single intuitive metric of distance in higher dimensional space)

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This is also why I think it is so important to include the crimes of Italian fascists and Japanese militarists (and even of the Soviets) because the lesson is not 'the Nazis were uniquely bad' but rather 'if you let authoritarians take and hold power in *any* country, this is what they will do.'

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European train triiiiip 🚆 We're off to see a castle in 🇩🇪 and we're taking the train (of course) - going to see if people can guess exactly where we're headed en route. First up, the Eurostar 🇬🇧 to Brussels 🇧🇪

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