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by viburnum 6y ago
Wrong, the Netherlands.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Troops and cops are the most aggrieved people in the world.
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by viburnum 6y ago
“Grit” is just about which people get sorted into he poverty bin, not how big the poverty bin is.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Replacing highways with trains for most trips is more sustainable.
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by viburnum 6y ago
The grit discourse is mostly about attributing poverty to individuals, rather than as an effect of the system as a whole.
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Four Functions of Markets(interfluidity.com)
1 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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Confessions of a PPE Smuggler(newrepublic.com)
2 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 6y ago
Climate change is bad but the federal debt is good. It allows the private sector to be net savers and creates overall stability. It’s also clearly sustainable, hundreds of years and counting.
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by viburnum 6y ago
The recommendations in the article are just a bunch of generic advice for whatever is in style right now. Zero evidence any of it will work. It might actually make you feel worse.
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Amazon Workers Say Warehouse Health Precautions Are Insufficient(jewishcurrents.org)
3 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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What CUNY teaches us about the coronavirus, and vice versa(nydailynews.com)
1 points by viburnum 7y ago|0 comments
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The Government Must Decide If It Wants Pedestrians to Die or Not(vice.com)
4 points by viburnum 7y ago|0 comments
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Should we be scared of the coronavirus debt mountain?(theguardian.com)
2 points by viburnum 7y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 7y ago
As if hedge funds only trade stocks. As if LIBOR was the only thing ever fixed.
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by viburnum 7y ago
You know successful hedge funds profit more from insider trading than from any kind of analytical wizardry, right?
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by viburnum 7y ago
Their unsexy paintings are fantastic
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by viburnum 7y ago
Corporate agile is a mixed bag but Extreme Programming is still good though.
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by viburnum 7y ago
Amazon used to protect books for shipment, sealing them in plastic with a piece of carboard so the book couldn’t move. Now they just shove it in an envelope. Almost all books are delivered with at least minor damage. You’re better off buyin
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by viburnum 7y ago
If you diagnose the pneumonia early, what’s the treatment? The article doesn’t say what they do for people that can prevent needing to go on a ventilator.
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Expertise, Interest, and Community Colleges(interfluidity.com)
1 points by viburnum 7y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 7y ago
I only made it halfway but my impression was, "maybe your critics are correct because I can't tell if any of this makes sense."
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A co-operative system to solve human problems(medium.com)
2 points by viburnum 7y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 7y ago
Me too. One way to look at it is that it's a signal that you're working the wrong thing. Something that's worked for me is to think of the contexts where you feel like you are motivated or productive, and then try to put your
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Causal Inference and Data-Fusion in Econometrics (2019)(arxiv.org)
61 points by viburnum 7y ago|14 comments
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by viburnum 7y ago
Taleb as a popularizer of Mandelbrot is good, the rest not so much.
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by viburnum 7y ago
I found a two page cheat sheet in 1993 and that was enough for the next 27 years.
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A Glimpse of a Better Future(aviewfromthecyclepath.com)
2 points by viburnum 7y ago|0 comments
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Can’t I please just visit one friend?(statnet.org)
4 points by viburnum 7y ago|2 comments
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by viburnum 7y ago
I’m in the same boat. A friend told me she went cold turkey on reading anything that scrolls. She said it took about three weeks for her brain to come back. Now she’s back to reading 600 page books. I’ve tried but I can only make it a day o
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by viburnum 7y ago
This magazine is mostly know for its racist intellectuals so sure let’s see what they have to say about energy.

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