It turns out that the people who reported spending the most time on social media — more than two hours a day — had twice the odds of perceived social isolation than those who said they spent a half hour per day or less on those sites. And people who visited social media platforms most frequently, 58 visits per week or more, had more than three times the odds of perceived social isolation than those who visited fewer than nine times per week.
Quotes
On nostalgia
At some point in your childhood, you and your friends went outside to play together for the last time and nobody knew it
On using tax heavens and support networks
The case is indicative of the “deal with the devil” that jurisdictions make when becoming a tax haven, says Alex Cobham, CEO of the Tax Justice Network, an advocacy group. “You’re agreeing to provide terms that multinational companies or the Big Four accounting firms or major tax law firms are demanding,” he said. “Once you start down that road and attract a certain amount of that business, you’re then much more vulnerable to the next request because you know that any benefits you’re getting can go away jus
Source: Sequoia Capital’s scheme to use Mauritius to avoid Indian taxes — Quartz
Metcalfe’s Law
Metcalfe’s Law states the effect of a network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2).
On replacing terminology from sports car to supercar in a supercity
If the incident was a test drive it’s not the first time a supercar has been wrecked on an Auckland motorway.
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