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Ideas Untrapped

IUntrapped

#IdeasThatMatter STATE CAPACITY starts here. The fundamental question, what is STATE CAPACITY."State capacity describes the ability of a state to collect taxes, enforce law and order, and provide public goods."

btw he dont have internet

CalebCatlin

i spent the last hour or so looking over some of my favorite articles this year and i wanna share them with all of you guys. just a heads up,

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

US history as synecdoche for world history really begins in 1854. Not coincidentally that was peak UK too.Everything before that is mostly provincial backwater prequel stuff.Bleeding Kansas, Perry in Japan,

Thomas Shugart

tshugart3

Ok, folks. The 2020 China Military Power report is out!Here are a few thoughts on some of the interesting tidbits (IMO): https://media.defense.gov/2020/Sep/01/2002488689/-1/-1/1/2020-DOD-CHINA-MILITARY-POWER-REPORT-FINAL.PDF First up: overa

Gold⭐Road

GoldRoad3

1/77What is National Socialism, why is it denigrated, why was it destroyed?This thread is for information purposes only. 2/77National Socialism's rootsIn 1919, ordinary workers struggled to thwart a Bolshevik seizure

Emily Rose ➡️ carcosa 🟡🎭

caravanmalice

weird how every person clutching physical or local copies got lambasted as overthinking it then turned out they were all right on a timescale long enough that everyone can just

Sunshiny

sunnshiiny

Absolute abdication of responsibility for protecting public health. Refusal to implement proven strategies to stem viral transmission.This is called extremism. Clearly, personal responsibility is NOT working. But NDP & UCP

foone

Foone

So the intro to Final Fight 2 for the SNES has Maki calling up Mayor Mike Haggar on the phone, and Maki appears in a little "I'm on the phone"

Brian Castner

Brian_Castner

I know I'm a few days late to this, but just read @Anand_Gopal_'s thought-provoking piece on America's views of the laws of war and, well, a few things... 1/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/21/americas-war-on-syrian-ci

Save Your Sons

SaveYourSons

Society’s leaders have corrupted the nuclear familyHere are 5 ways to save your children, and in doing so save the world=THREAD= First you may be asking:What’s happened to our families?

⚔️NIKKIQ⚔️

NikkiQpatriQt17

Why did ModeRNA sell so much stock prior to covid vaccine release? CEO Stephane Bancel is now worth $3 billion after selling shareshttps://www.businessinsider.com/moderna-ceo-sold-million-stock-company-emergency-use-vaccine-filing-2020-11 $

Ryan Powers

rmpowers

Dan Maliniak, Sue Peterson, @MikeTierneyIR, and I hope you’ll consider adding our new edited volume, Bridging the Theory-Practice Divide in International Relations, to your summer reading list. Link: http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georg

Sahil Bloom

SahilBloom

Network Effects 101The concept of network effects is a powerful mental model through which to evaluate businesses, startups, money, human societies, and nature.But what are “network effects” and how do

mcc

mcclure111

A long time ago— like 15 years ago— I worked at Sun Microsystems. The company was nearly dead at the time (it died a couple years later) because they didn't

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thegoldenjhumka

The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act 2020 allows sale and marketing of produce outside notified APMC mandis. State governments cannot collect market fee, cess or levy

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NiveditaNarayan

Remembering the Bengali scientist Dr Subhash Mukhopadhyay- the Pioneer of IVF in India, the creator of India's first and world's second child using IVF on his birth anniversary. The Father

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