How America’s Marriage Crisis Makes Income Inequality So Much Worse
The rich and educated are more likely to marry, to marry each other, and to produce rich and educated children. But this virtual cycle turns vicious for the poor.
Category: Blog
How Would We Report on the Government Shutdown if It Were Happening in Another Country?
How Would We Report on the Government Shutdown if It Were Happening in Another Country?
But the pleasant autumn weather disguises a government teetering on the brink. Because, at midnight Monday night, the government of this intensely proud and nationalistic people will shut down, a drastic sign of political dysfunction in this moribund republic.
4 Rules to Make Star Wars Great Again (by Sincerely Truman)
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Non-Chemical Warfare: Violence Continues in Syria
Non-Chemical Warfare: Violence Continues in Syria
Over the past past 2 1/2 years, the widespread use of conventional, non-chemical weapons by both Syrian government forces and rebel groups has resulted in the loss of more than 100,000 lives.
Information entropy
The Tale of the Three Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?desktop_uri=/watch?v=IdSpZgE3fD4
via Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows
Half the US population lives in 146 counties
Map via Census/Business Insider
People like to live live near other people. Out of the 3,000+ counties in the United States, 146 contain half the population. So much for the 80/20 rule. It doesn’t seem to apply to population distribution.
Initially, finding my county on the map surprised me. It does not have a major metropolitan area. However, if half the country’s population lives in a relatively small number of counties, I have a 50/50 shot at living in one of them. Overall, the map shows there is still plenty of space for us to grow into.
Here’s another map (also cool). This one has the size of the countries adjusted to better match their population. Each square in the grid represents 1 million people.
![World Map Adjusted for Population Size (1 grid square = 1 million people) [3040x1588] - Imgur](https://i0.wp.com/i.imgur.com/lB2ILxj.png?w=700)
How to disappear (from the web)
Creating new accounts for web services is easy. Getting rid of those accounts…not so much.
JustDelete.Me offers an expansive directory of links to pages where you can delete your accounts from various websites and services. In addition to pointing you to the pages, it also rates each service by the level of effort required to delete the account.
It is surprising how many services make it impossible to get rid of your account. There are no insurmountable technical hurdles keeping companies from letting users delete their accounts, but they make it difficult anyway. Many companies are motivated to keep a user’s data, even after they delete/disable their account. Also, it is impossible to know if any of these services actually delete your data or if they just remove your access to it.
However, you can get rid just about any service by updating your personal information and email to something bogus.