“Challenging long-held beliefs—some of which go back to Thucydides’ account of the clash between democratic Athens and authoritarian Sparta—that democracy is a liability in the harsh world of international affairs, many scholars now claim that democracies win most of their wars. This research suggests that democracies emerge victorious because they prudently choose to fight wars that they can win…”
Natural experiment, incoming…
Ha. Cleaned first, I think
Depends if you want that extra “depth of flavour”.
I once got served some special intestine dish in the northeast of Thailand and was told that the slightly grassy taste was because what was special was that it still had the half digested contents of the intestine in the dish.
Here are some features that recently came to Windows, which I personally enjoy. Some of them have been backported to Windows 10, most haven’t:
winget install firefox does exactly what it should.It’s happening
Whoops!
This is what happens when a stable genius sets tariffs according to changes in the barometer.
Elsewhere, I have compared Trump to one of the papers Einstein published in 1905. Not the ones on special relativity, but the one on Brownian motion…
I’m afraid that would be too much of a scientific and preditable method:
Please keep in mind:
The weather is fundamentally a chaotic system with many random processes. 
As is also the global economy.
It is here a question about decision/prediction horizon, I bellieve.
This seems like an interesting development
It’s happening
Gift article:
In our current election, this is the only party leader who is competent. The rest just warm their seats, not having any qualifications or accomplishments whatsoever.
I experienced this during the pandemic. Right after we replaced our ancient vehicle, we were automatically subscribed to emails asking us to sell it back to them. Offensive and tone deaf: why would we sell something we clearly need and purchased way above MSRP?
The always brilliant “More or Less” on BBC Radio 4 addresses the mistake in Trump’s tariff formula. (Also, later in the episode, they discuss electrocuting redheads.)
The re-broadcast today dryly pointed out that mere hours after the original broadcast on Wednesday, Trump postponed action on the bad formula for 90 days. Not, of course, that correlation proves causation, but …
You could buy an iPhone, but it might cost you $2150 instead of $1199…
Going back to buying things. I am mildly interested in purchasing the following items for my WFH day office:
The City provides me a monitor, but it is not always a good one. Any recommendations? As you should probably know by now, I am Canadian and like bargains.
I really fear what will happen if the guy with nothing on his CV except “politician” is voted in. We have an elite economist with a proven track record, or we have some guy who only knows how to criticize others. To me, in these exceedingly difficult times, it’s an obvious choice, regardless of whether you are usually red, blue, orange or green. (Sorry if this is too political).
For this you might as well just use the monitor buttons 
Good KVM’s are expensive unfortunately.
Dunno how IKEA is in Canada, but they currently sell a monitor arm that should be affordable and serve you well. It might be the best bang for buck you can find due to their massive volume.
You could check second hand stores for monitors, companies are constantly unloading office material… It’s the best place to get mini pc’s too.
I have used three different brands of monitor arms. They all worked fine. Pick any.
I like my BenQ monitors. But it’s really a similar story. If they’re specced for good color reproduction, they usually reproduce color well. I’ve not seen a bad monitor in a good while. (Decide on your desired gamut. 99% sRGB is sufficient for most cases, but a high percentage of aRGB might be nice if you print a lot, and high DP3 will display some movies better. Do you need HDR or high refresh rates for gaming or movies? Do you need a built-in KVM switch?)
I use an external USB switch, with a physical button on my desk for switching inputs. With a little LED that indicates the current input. It’s very simple, very cheap, but very effective. Then I connect my computers to the various inputs of my monitors, and they auto-switch easily enough. No need for a dedicated KVM switch there.
