Nathan Franz

Asianometry Video essays on business, economics, and history. Sometimes about Asia, but not always. For general mail: hello@asianometry.com For business inquiries: business@asianometry.com I don't have an Asia...

Not a book, but the YouTube channel Asianometry has some really in-depth summaries of the history of technological changes, especially related to computers. youtube.com/@asianometry

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Not the same robot or company, but this is getting there.

If I recall correctly, there are alternating -ion and -iard endings with the usual prefixes?

So 10^6 is called a million just about everywhere, 10^9 is called a milliard some places and a billion here, 10^12 is a billion some places and a trillion here, etc.

Grak is this true

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The second half of that sentence is true of the crude birth rate, but not necessarily of a standardized birth rate.

But certainly demographers mean different things by the two words!

I think this is mostly just different fields using the same terms differently. Demographers have been using "fertility" to refer to how many children a woman has had since at least the 1940s.

Makes the low gravity thing much easier

Patriots in contr-owl

I was similarly struck by the lack of mechanization in rural Uttar Pradesh. Is it more extreme in Indonesia?

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Although I see what he's saying, if population size is causally related to quality of life, this can be importantly wrong.

Pretty good! It still feels aimless, though, compared to a lot of the math rock or metal I've listened to.

I'm always surprised by what I find when I clean out my desk too

Perhaps not an album, per se, but The Bad Plus doing a jazz trio arrangement of Rite of Spring is fun and surprisingly successful. open.spotify.com/album/6IIKS3...

I've mentioned it before, but After the Spike just came out, and the authors (my PhD advisors) discuss their personal fertility decisions quite concretely along with the more abstract parts. If I sent you a copy, would you be interested in reading it?

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YouTube video by Steve Mould I Can Twist My Eye Around Its Pupil (And So Can You)

Regarding rotating eyes, see also: youtu.be/DkaJ6iK2CJc?...

Here's the abstract, but the paper isn't quite ready to be posted publicly yet. I just sent you an email with it!

If it ain't baroque, don't fix it

You maniacs! You blew it up!

Thanks for coming and for these threads! :)

Nathan Franz, PhD student at UT Austin - he’ll be on the market this fall!

Paper is about the trade off between public and private facility deliveries, leading to a situation where private and more expensive facilities have worse health outcomes

Website: nathan-franz.github.io

Valuing statistical absences? Why benefit-cost analysis cannot avoid population ethics Policies subject to BCA sometimes prevent premature deaths. If survivors would later have children, those policies not only prevent deaths; they cause…

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Valuing statistical absences? Why benefit-cost analysis cannot avoid population ethics"

My new paper with regulatory legal scholar extraordinaire Andy Stawasz is out in Ecological Economics!
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Gravity, both economical and physical

Like this? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I'm sorry, Dave. Similar days in my life have been quite difficult.

YouTube feeding me 1944 US Army Field Ration C Breakfasts

We are not the same