andrewducker | Interesting Links for 07-04-2019

"Modern Monetary Theory" doesn't appear to be an actual coherent theory: (tags:economics money )
What happens when you buy a bunch of different fish and then test them to see what they *really* are?: (tags:fish fraud genetics )
UK university removes reference to Taiwan as a country on map after Chinese student backlash: (tags:china taiwan map UK academia )
Deer faeces & 'spewing' referees - the wonderful world of Scotland's Highland League: (tags:football Scotland viaDanielDWilliam )
A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy: (tags:doom infection disease thefuture )
Britain's wartime generation are almost as pro-EU as millennials: (tags:wwii europe polls demographics )
You're The Worst creator Stephen Falk on the show's emotional finale: (tags:tv writing comedy relationships )
Divided by DNA: The uneasy relationship between archaeology and ancient genomics: (tags:archeology genetics anthropology history prehistory )
Islamic world abruptly stopped calling out China's Muslim persecution: (tags:China islam OhForFucksSake )
Just how harmful is porn? (And are the government's plans worse?): (tags:UK porn OhForFucksSake )

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"Modern Monetary Theory" doesn't appear to be an actual coherent theory

Given the laughable degree of failure of most economic theories and models to predict or even replicate real world events, I'm not certain this is an actual problem.

dewline

Item 10 understates things here: "This runs a big risk of creating a database of sexual preferences and porn habits, in the hands of providers with varying abilities to protect it. This sort of thing has happened before: the “dating site for married people”, Ashley Madison, was hacked in 2015. It became something of a feeding frenzy for extortionists, and there were reports of suicides linked to the leak. A lot more people use porn than use skeevy hookup sites for affairs. And it’d be OK for those of us with vanilla proclivities, but for people with unusual or hidden kinks, it could be awful."

I would suggest that such database-creation is an Intended Consequence of such plans.

Very cool, if true

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