#State

missed this FT interview with Uber's CEO the other day but Dara said some things worth quickly pointing out (1/5)https://www.ft.com/content/1bf57b48-0af5-4386-af4c-c2005a4dc3e6 This actually is Uber's hypothesis: they can achieve pr
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[QUICK THREAD: XERXES, RIKSH, AND THE BIG DIPPER]1/10This brilliant thread by Crystal speaks of the word for dog in a tongue that went extinct more than 3,800 years ago. Do
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Since @senatecommerce has released all witness testimony, opening statements, and questions, I thought I would do a thread about the recurring themes I was seeing emerge.https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2020/4/enlisting-big-data-in-the-fight-against-c
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Thread: Well, here we are, special session. Quite honestly it doesn't feel very special, especially not for TN families. To me, a special session in a pandemic would be addressing
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Friends please use logic when dissecting the Trump Sessions issue. Keep in mind Sessions campaigned from very early on for them candidate Trump. Sessions was an early and trusted confidant
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ThreadI shared this on my WeChat moments, asking my Chinese contacts if this was the consensus view in China, if they thought the pro-engagement cohort of the American left are
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DeFi is eating CeFi.Thread TL;DR: Money: Centralised - Dollar, Euro, Pound.Decentralised - @MakerDAO (Dai), @ethereum, @AmpleforthOrg. Central Banks: Centralised - Federal Reserve, Reserve Bank of India, Bank of England.Decentralised
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night before, morning after. the bedding arrangement is EXACTLY the same. even the folds of blankets and the pillows. i had people coming at me saying these is not true.
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Will Director Shinn move himself & his family into the tents at Florence North Unit? Or the Lewis Morey Detention unit that has 3 men in a 2 man cell,
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.@RyanDNunn, @janamkparsons, and @JayCShambaugh released a new analysis on one of the most important pieces of economic policy support since the onset of #COVID19 in the U.S.— the rapid expansion
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The Deleveraging SpiralBorrow money to buy assetAsset goes upBorrow more, buy moreAsset flatlinesAsset goes downLender requests moneySell asset to pay lenderSelling drives asset downLender asks for more moneySell more to
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Remember that riot at a Texas prison a few weeks ago? I’ve been poking into that more: Turns out some of the guys defeated the locks & broke out of
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Not the Sr day we all wanted or expected but best way to acknowledge the Srs of the #JTTF program. Will be posting kids bios and pics that we have
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1/n: THREAD — the full text of @realDonaldTrump’s executive order has been released, here’s a summary:Sec 201(a) of the US-HK Policy Act is suspended as HK is no longer “sufficiently
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an argument people make a lot against prison abolition is, "but what will we do with the murderers and rapists?"well, I've been raped, so maybe I can answer that. tw
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Are states using hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus patients? Here’re some of the feedback from states in correspondence with their recovery numbers! A Texas hospital discusses their great success using hydroxychloroquine!https://twitter.com/TXC
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