I'm really sorry to hear that and I hope your family has recovered and everyone is doing well. Rapists/Murderers/Pedos are definitely not good and should be put away for a long time

My bad, shouldn't have assumed. I don't think that would be the worst thing if it could be done peacefully

Look man I don't really want to get into it, I think it's fair to say you and I don't agree on who should be imprisoned in perpetuity. I'm definitely on the side of the argument that most people who are repeat offenders would rather not be repeat offenders. They aren't super bad people so much as folks who have had their opportunities greatly diminished by past mistakes/desperation.

The fact that we can be critical of our country as citizens should be appreciated. Let's make the most of the fact we can point out our own errors by doing something about them.

I mean 2% is probably way too high of an estimate. We clearly put way too many people in prison in the US. Other countries have lower crime and lower incarceration rates. We need to take ownership of this problem as a society - it's immoral and just inefficient.

It depends on what you're using ratings for. A binary of good movie / bad movie works great if you are trying to pick a movie with the highest probability of being something you would enjoy. If you want a movie to totally blow you away, an IMDB score or a tally of awards won might be more useful.

What's a LatAm cheese I should try

Damn even if you designed a beautiful and efficient UI to log all this, that would drive me totally nuts to do all the data entry. Anything surprising for you in here?

Think the visualization is well done, I'm just not sure the underlying data is that interesting. It seems like there's no correlation between your two metrics, and we're also really just comparing the top performers. I didn't get much out of this other than a list of the top countries by primary school teachers per capita (is this even a great metric? Wouldn't per student make more sense? What about secondary and tertiary?)

It's interesting you say that, one of the primary architects of the modern metric (Kuznets) had a similar critique, in that no one should use national income metrics as a shorthand for all encompassing prosperity. Totally agree on that point.

I think calling military expenditure a black hole is a little bit reductive. Many of our technological advances were at least partially accomplished by military funding. We probably wouldn't even be having this online thread without the billions of $ the US military put into ARPANET.

It's a great strategy for peacetime. I think a lot of European nations are rethinking it in light of Russian aggression.

Why would we exclude it?

Honestly Apple & Google have grown into their valuations a lot more than many people realize. Even by pretty traditional metrics (eg P/E ratio) they're barely above average, and that's with them still making pretty giant investments in growth. Agree on Tesla though

416k are black, 71k are asian.