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The takeaway would seem to be that people who live close to one another are more tolerant and empathetic; they are more likely to know someone of a different color, a different income group, or a different sexual orientation. They rely on and appreciate the provision of public goods and public services (transit, parks, garbage collection)—even as they consume fewer public dollars than their red-state counterparts. And they have a deeper appreciation of the regulatory standards (guns, labor conditions, food, public health) that promise us a modicum of safety and security.
Declining Cities, Declining Unions: Urban Sprawl and U.S. Inequality - Dissent Magazine
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In many cases, firms providing AI-derived data or services treat their data and related products as a competitive advantage. This can limit transparency into how the data is derived, and may limit how planners can use the data, particularly if it is licensed rather than owned outright.
The Art of Learning by Example
Feature Extraction
Between Guam’s annexation in 1899 and World War II, it had nearly forty governors. FDR’s first governor of Puerto Rico, who served for six months, spoke no Spanish and left reporters with the distinct impression that he didn’t know where the island was. There was a period of several months when the territory of Alaska, which is half the physical size of India, didn’t have a single federal official in it.
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
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