Can't say exactly why for Bangladesh, but I can tell why it's so for India.

India's paramilitary forces (multiple forces collectively termed as Central Armed Police Forces or CAPF) have been kept at equally high numbers to the armed forces to prevent coups. This has been the policy ever since first government post- independence. The CAPF come under the Ministry of Home Affairs and the recruitment is done similar to police recruitment. The higher-ups come exclusively from the elite Indian Police Service, which is a bureaucratic institute with no relation to the Army. So the command structure of the Army and the CAPF are kept separate.

This in turn means, if some day the Army decides to organize a coup, the CAPF will be called into action to respond. In the past, the CAPF had been provided gear subpar to the Army. But in the last decade, CAPF has been getting nearly as good gear as the Army and have also been assigned to roles which were hitherto assigned to the Army. Now you can see them fighting insurgency in Kashmir, which until a decade ago was the Army's job mainly. This is not to say, India's goverment views its Army with suspicion and the Indian Army has been notoriously apolitical. Yet, prevention is better than cure.

Coming to Bangladesh, this is just a guess. But Bangladesh models many of its policies based on India's. The founding father of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated along with his whole family in an attempted Army coup. His daughter alone survived as she was in India at that time. Rn, she is the country's Prime Minister. I'd guess, the Bangladeshi government doesn't want a repeat of that incident and decided to have a strong paramilitary force separate from the Army as a possible counterweight.

Now, as a contrast, neighboring Pakistan has had like a dozen coups ever since it's inception. The Army holds a huge sway over the government and politics there. That's perhaps something they got very wrong.

If the market ever moves away from iPhone, Apple is fucked. At this point, Apple's product line (top to bottom, left side) is iPhone, iPhone accessories, iPhone development kit, big iPhone, and iPhone Cloud.

I'll take "people who have never spent a day near corporate finances enact judgement like they're a 20 year wall street veteran" for 200, alex

People complaining arent realizing that the median house price only includes houses that people would even be put on the formal market

Could you explain the difference between the 'not staying home' and 'population who are traveling'.

Is this only for trips where you immediately return home (like day trips)?

Vice the 'traveling population' which sound like a trip to a destination where you stay for days before returning home?

Any chance the data goes back further? Would be curious.

What a time to be alive…

It's been a year since last trigger. Say Yes to 🕊 Peace ☮️, No Peaks.

Depending on a year, their effective tax rate was from 13 to 26%

snakey sankey diagram

WUI is counting the percent of word "uncertain" (or its variant) in the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) country reports.

Well, seeing that Net Income is ways lower than total assets since NI is rolled into equity, that's even worse. Their effective tax rate is probably closer to 1 or 2% then.

notice the asterisk

But it ist not after the „Wüstenfuchs“ it is after his son who was mayor of Stuttgart

Stacked bar graph although not the best as it is hard to compare the amounts of each type across countries. A user would still get an impression of the overall makeup of each country's renewable energy usage. Stack Bars also do not convey the overall quantity of each countries energy usage and the total of each each renewable type.

Side by Side bars are another option as they allow you to have a uniform axis for the total amount of energy and then group the bars by either country or renewable type.

A 25% ROI with a 5% tax rate.

This shows that gen z dropped off rapidly from driving.

You can’t average two medians. If there are 5 times more houses in the city center than there are out of it, this will completely skew it in favor of the out of city center median

Sankay Diagram

What is this type of graph called?

Probably all the AKs they had to invest in.

So, the US Dept of Ed is the all knowing entity who all should trust to determine what historical “big things” are taught to American children. Who determined who these decision makers would be, they’re not even elected officials, just a bunch of folks living off taxpayers backs with virtually nothing of value in return…oh, except determining what is taught in a secret chamber somewhere.

I’m pretty sure several states raised the age to get a driver’s license in the 90’s.

They didn't want Liverpool to be alone in that honour.

I smell an apple lobby and it ain’t for farmersss

That’s the couch change.