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The guy who got AKed could have burned his draft card, gone to jail for a few years and loose his SS benefits.

That's not fun either, but he wouldn't have died in a jungle half way across the world a young twenty-something to prop up the cowboy delusions of Kissinger.

Not more just. But when the situation is more asymetrical the more farcical the powerful side's complaints of the weaker's perfidy. (Tons of examples. The most universally accepted were Germans killing 1-10 civilians in retaliation for dishonorable uninformed partisans)

Yugo was way richer than Albania, and I doubt Poland was as poor as Romania. So wasn't just a "we don't care they're mere peasants"

Again, ppl were technically allowed to leave the USSR (and East Germany too). But it might take 10 years and you were a social pariah in the meantime.

the ezception that proves the rule.

You could, theoretically, leave the USSR, if you paid back what society had invested in you. De facto it was very hard to leave

You can quit your job. Except many of us de facto can't (H1B1, non compete clauses, etc)

Leaving Yugoslavia was probably easier than being an Indian engineer on an H1B working for a company with a non compete clause.

Btw, I don't think Hayek or any of the Austrians had very benign attitudes towards multinationals or large corporations: Begging for tax payer largess, ghostwriting regulations creating artificial barriers to entry, abusing immigration law to have a de facto slave. Mises and Rothbard would tut tut. And they were the hard core anti commies!

Sorry, I read it like an aggressive "citation needed"

Interesting. I've never heard of this fragility of hormones, could you expand a bit?

Unavoidable? Hardly. You just have a veal industry on the side. Milk has been produced for millennia before hormones of any type were added.

Furthermore Canada has milk production quotas so, depending how they're set, hormones might not be necessary to max production at all.

I thought if that, but This is a Canadian study.

Canadian diary industry is very different from the US, so it's not obvious that you'd find hormones in the milk (there are per cow milk production quotas). Certainly not in the quantities found in US milk.

How can you counterfeit money with an inkjet? You'll get caught in days (wrong paper, streaking, poor quality print) with or without the dots. You'd have to be blind not to notice the difference, but then you'd feel the difference. Heck, you could hear the difference. Smell the difference. Troublesome counterfeiting is more sophisticated than a $100 throw away printer.

The Stasi took fingerprints of every typewritter so people couldn't publish illegal things. This is not hostile only if the state is defined as non hostile.

Why forget the dates after the effort shoving them in?

And why not ask what is the value of knowing the dates of important events? The polish school system is hardly unique in this requirement.

I hated memorizing dates as a kid. Horrible at short term memory. But I was good at putting them in long term memory. Now what I hated anchors my understanding of history.

For example, does the modern Polish state obtaining independence have any meaning except in the 20s and 30s? (That is after the fall of the Czar, after WW1, before the Molotov pact). Despite Polish longing, 1917 had to happen. 1917 is an anchor.

Or consider that the discovery of America, 1492, happened less than 40 years after the fall of Constantinople and in the same year as the fall of Granada (ending the Reconquista). 1492 (and 1453) is another anchor

I'm hypothesizing, but you could make the slightest of changes to the print.

For example, if it's text, modify the font ever so slightly so it's invisible to the eye but measurable to someone looking for it.