What the Murder of the UnitedHealthcare C.E.O. Means to America | The New Yorker
newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-the-murder-of-the-unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-means-to-americaIf one were to, hypothetically, blow up an unoccupied private jet in protest of the fact that the wealthiest one per cent of the global population accounts for more carbon emissions than the poorest sixty-six per cent, this would be seen by many people—like Thompson’s murder, and unlike the tens of thousands of human deaths per year already caused by climate change—as a sign of profoundly alarming social decay.
Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones
newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/24/crooks-mistaken-bet-on-encrypted-phonesDrug syndicates and other criminal groups bought into the idea that a new kind of phone network couldnât be infiltrated by cops. They were wrongâbig time.
The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero
bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fraud/Counterintuitively, businesses, customers, and society prefer having fraud to what they'd need to do to not have it.
How Japan Has Virtually Eliminated Shooting Deaths - The Atlantic
theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/a-land-without-guns-how-japan-has-virtually-eliminated-shooting-deaths/260189/In part by forbidding almost all forms of firearm ownership, the country has as few as two gun-related homicides a year.