Best of Twitter - Week of June 21, 2021
Am in Boston for ~10 days.
it'd be interesting to quantify the rate at which unaffiliated reddit users have improved on the state of the art for treatment protocols for diseases. my guess is that for 75% of diseases, they're responsible for a greater QoL increase than pharmaceutical companies over 10 years
I think Reddit has been relatively successful as a scene for crowd knowledge because it's unique among social platforms in having some amount of shared memory: pinned posts, top-rated posts, sidebars, wikis, etc. This seems to allow a much higher ceiling for scene-intelligence.
for example, r/migraines has a wiki, an FAQ, and a comprehensive spreadsheet of treatments for tracking results, as well as threads with good anecdata on most of them.
Twitter, in contrast, is a basically oral website: knowledge does not accrete.
Tables and charts have been going around this site showing the total extinction of Chinese unicorns.
Purportedly China added 14 in 2020 (U.S. 73), 3 in 2021 (U.S. 126).
I checked Chinese-language sources and found 40+ more for 2021 alone!
New post: yiqinfu.github.io/posts/china-us…
when people begin lying about travel expenses, instead of starting to require paperwork, just dissolve the organisation and start anew
Czechia has one of the highest birth rates in Europe, and higher than the US, despite having barely above TFR of 1 in the early 2000s.
It's one of the largest fertility rebounds ***ever documented***, and yet nobody talks about the Story of Czech Family Policy.
Czechia provides a child allowance, *and* a parental care allowance, *and* a family-housing allowance, *and* a baby bonus.
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