Doing reviews for a conference and 1) getting annoyed about the authors assuming US readers, and 2) learning horrible things about the US.

"[...]having an eviction on record makes it more difficult to [...] qualify for affordable housing programs."

WHAT? That's who those programs are _for_?

It's interesting. The paper starts by describing horrible structural issues for renters and around evictions, and then it's like "so here's our slightly more effective band-aid"

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The US is the country where people saw it as reasonable that "ISPs are a terribly monopolistic market" is solved by "lets route all internet via tens of thousands of antennas in orbit to go around the monopolists"...

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