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Is school worse for your kids than social media?

For instance: did you know that daily social media use increases the likelihood a child will commit suicide by 12-18%? Or that teenagers are far more likely to visit the ER for psychiatric problems if they have an Instagram account? Or that a child’s amount of social media use, past a certain threshold, correlates exponentially […] The post Is school worse for your kids than social media? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to mkt42. I think this is more evidence of how AI...

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Business

Should You Buy a Newspaper or a Yacht?

The article explores the contrasting values of investing in a newspaper versus a yacht, examining the implications for personal fulfillment, societal impact, and financial considerations.

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Geopolitics

The Great Lie of War

Two sitting heads of state, eight weeks apart. On Saturday, February 28, the United States and Israel launched a massive military assault on Iran that resulted in the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with much of his senior command. This came less than two months after the United States military captured Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela, in an overnight raid. The president seems to believe that he can decapitate these regimes and control their successors without events spinnin...

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Technology

Consolidating systems for AI with iPaaS

For decades, enterprises reacted to shifting business pressures with stopgap technology solutions. To rein in rising infrastructure costs, they adopted cloud services that could scale on demand. When customers shifted their lives onto smartphones, companies rolled out mobile apps to keep pace. And when businesses began needing real-time visibility into factories and stockrooms, they layered…

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Politics

Where the Dallas Charter Went Wrong

In Peter Weir’s 1981 film Gallipoli, hundreds of Australian foot soldiers, armed only with bayonets, are sent, wave upon wave, into the ­machine-gun fire of Turkish troops. This depiction. The post Where the Dallas Charter Went Wrong appeared first on First Things

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