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Re:A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about e... by enviclash on Monday October 03, 2022 @05:41AM (#33065288)
Lights are overrated as proxy. I would like to see the ecosystem of contracts and transactions, but this is not possible.

Phone calls could be a better proxy? I saw a paper using them in Scientific Reports.

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Re:A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about e... by mrtksn on Monday October 03, 2022 @05:53AM (#33065366)
How do you count number of calls in a dictators country?
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Re:A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about e... by enviclash on Monday October 03, 2022 @08:38AM (#33066632)
Indeed. I saw they were available in a few countries only.
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