20 pages a day of real books is a great concept! Despite personally staying clear of social media the last few years the internet provides far too much excellent news content for anyone to be able to read and it really should be thought of dessert rather than the main dish.
I bought “The Fall of Rome” at 12:30am this morning and started reading (might as well get an early start) and today’s narrative REALLY made me want to read several of these classic that I hadn’t gotten around to yet.
A tiny point: the Slow Boring post on incarceration was written by guest author Keith Humpreys. I do believe that Matt has been pretty open to the crime spike since quite early on but I may be wrong on the details.
This is one of the greatest books I have ever read......slowly reading it. Not that long, but like to dip into it. Here is a description of it:
"The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by the eminent Islamicist and interpreter of Arabic literature Franz Rosenthal, was published in three volumes in 1958 as part of the Bollingen Series and received immediate acclaim in the United States and abroad. A one-volume abridged version of Rosenthal's masterful translation first appeared in 1969."
FY I the link here is to a different article = Cultural transmission, competition for prey, and the evolution of cooperative hunting. Cooperative hunting evolves when prey is abundant, and no surprise there is the natural selection for “horizontal learning” when species are evolving this phenotype
Why do Dalits Indians constitute only 1% of the Indians who immigrated to the US? What is the caste distribution of the other 99% ?
Most in academia, politics, health industry have upper castes sounding names. Strange that crossing the oceans is considered a violation of the Hindu dharam, yet they are overseas in their millions, including the second largest illegal immigrant group in the US after Mexicans.
What about Christians and Muslims from Hindutva India?
i assume it's because there was strong selection for SES in the 60s/70s and that anchored family migration. later H1B is selected from tech sector where there aren't many dalits. also, some bias to ppl who are leaving reservations/squeezed out (doctors).
There is an "underclass" of people in the US, mainly originating from India. Most of us are women. We are the H-4 non-immigrants, LEGALLY in the US, but not allowed to hold a job (or to meaningful volunteer). The majority of us is well-educated, and fluent in English.
We are not earning income, we are not building social security rights.
We have no money, so politicians are not interested in our situation, let alone interested to remedy the problem. When it comes to immigration(reform) we are hardly ever mentioned. And when politicians talk about us, it is not in friendly terms - we are the wives of the job-stealers.
For H-4's the US is not the Country of Opportunity, but more the Republic of Gilead. Our lives leak away one day at a time. And no one cares.
20 pages a day of real books is a great concept! Despite personally staying clear of social media the last few years the internet provides far too much excellent news content for anyone to be able to read and it really should be thought of dessert rather than the main dish.
I bought “The Fall of Rome” at 12:30am this morning and started reading (might as well get an early start) and today’s narrative REALLY made me want to read several of these classic that I hadn’t gotten around to yet.
A tiny point: the Slow Boring post on incarceration was written by guest author Keith Humpreys. I do believe that Matt has been pretty open to the crime spike since quite early on but I may be wrong on the details.
This is one of the greatest books I have ever read......slowly reading it. Not that long, but like to dip into it. Here is a description of it:
"The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by the eminent Islamicist and interpreter of Arabic literature Franz Rosenthal, was published in three volumes in 1958 as part of the Bollingen Series and received immediate acclaim in the United States and abroad. A one-volume abridged version of Rosenthal's masterful translation first appeared in 1969."
https://www.amazon.com/Muqaddimah-Introduction-Abridged-Princeton-Classics/dp/0691166285/ref=sr_1_1
Enjoying "The Long Summer" about ancient human migrations. Didn't like "Origins" (ancient geography) as much.
FY I the link here is to a different article = Cultural transmission, competition for prey, and the evolution of cooperative hunting. Cooperative hunting evolves when prey is abundant, and no surprise there is the natural selection for “horizontal learning” when species are evolving this phenotype
Loving all your free stuff - thank you Razib ... Hope to upgrade soon. Happy New Year.
What software are you using to automatically generate text from podcasts?
ottair. but i have a transcript guy go over it
Thank you.
I presume this is meant to say Otter.ai?
yeah
Good job Razib.
Why do Dalits Indians constitute only 1% of the Indians who immigrated to the US? What is the caste distribution of the other 99% ?
Most in academia, politics, health industry have upper castes sounding names. Strange that crossing the oceans is considered a violation of the Hindu dharam, yet they are overseas in their millions, including the second largest illegal immigrant group in the US after Mexicans.
What about Christians and Muslims from Hindutva India?
i assume it's because there was strong selection for SES in the 60s/70s and that anchored family migration. later H1B is selected from tech sector where there aren't many dalits. also, some bias to ppl who are leaving reservations/squeezed out (doctors).
survey
80% "general category"
20% OBCs
There is an "underclass" of people in the US, mainly originating from India. Most of us are women. We are the H-4 non-immigrants, LEGALLY in the US, but not allowed to hold a job (or to meaningful volunteer). The majority of us is well-educated, and fluent in English.
We are not earning income, we are not building social security rights.
We have no money, so politicians are not interested in our situation, let alone interested to remedy the problem. When it comes to immigration(reform) we are hardly ever mentioned. And when politicians talk about us, it is not in friendly terms - we are the wives of the job-stealers.
For H-4's the US is not the Country of Opportunity, but more the Republic of Gilead. Our lives leak away one day at a time. And no one cares.