Python offers several main ways to format your strings: Using + operator between elements to create a string, eg name + ” is ” + age + ” years old” Using curly braces and format like “{} is {} years old”.format(name,age) Using f strings like f”{name} is {age} years old” Using join like ” “.join(name, …
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Enough of this low tax nonsense
I’m researching why New York City’s population has declined over the last few years, and ultimately, I think a lot of it has to do with remote work. Many people moved back to live near their families when they could, yet New York still has one of the highest costs of living in the United …
Working definitions of racism
Any definition of Anti-Semitism, one of the most ancient forms of racism in this world, must include people like bin Laden and Adolf Hitler as being anti-semitic because they were. Still, it also must necessarily exclude people like Hannah Arendt, who, as a Jewish German woman in the 1940s who wrote some of the harshest …
Big changes in Armenia
Armenia is sending a delegation to Antalya, Turkey on March 1 to participate in a diplomacy forum, and Macron went to Armenia yesterday as Armenia announced it has frozen its participation in the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a paper tiger Russia set up as an “alternative” to NATO but so far has been rather toothless. …
But why NATO?
Why does NATO exist? Let’s look at history. In 1800, there were only a handful of democracies in the world. The United States and France, though France, were in decline. The United States had a massive slave population, so by modern standards, the United States was not a democracy. There were no democracies to be …
Possible futures
We are standing at a crossroads where our leaders must decide what future we want. Despotism On the one hand, we can have a future where we might make right. Israel has more weapons than Palestinians, so they have the right to kill them all. Russia has nukes, and Ukraine does not, thanks to Bill …
The Simple Solution to Homicide
So I have a dataset that I have curated from public data over the last 7 years and continuously updated with the latest data. I include data focusing on political economics (look at this blog, surprised?) and it includes lots of variables. For this regression, I handpicked the following statistics: pfi 2021 is the Press …
Capital Punishment
Makes it clear which side Republican states are on. I didn’t like the Wikipedia map of capital punishment because it didn’t include US states and the US has a moratorium on federal executions thanks to Biden.
Worse than Tories
UK and Germany back a sustainable ceasefire So why can’t the United States? David Cameron is the foreign minister of the United Kingdom. Yes, the same Prime Minister who led Britain into its largest foreign policy debacle since the colonial era. I disagree with David Cameron on most issues. He was a horrible Prime Minister …
Why the Western Balkans haven’t joined the European Union
A response to How the EU Failed the Western Balkans by TLDR News. The reason the Western Balkans have not joined the European Union is simple: the remaining Western Balkan states have not finished closing their accession chapters to join the European Union. If we use the Democracy Index, Montenegro, Albania, and Macedonia all had …
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