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Going to try the answer the old question “Why are the Japanese so…..Japanese?” in the sense of patient, nonviolent, guileless. And I think the answer is related to another stereotype:
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QUick roundup of some #NBERday papers today! NBER is putting out a huge volume of COVID-related research and with everything else I can't read and review it all in detail.
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#Yogesh Rim jhim gire saavan - Yogesh | Lata | RD Burman Although, the Kishore version is more popular, but this one takes the cake for the brilliance of choreography..
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Super interesting new paper that tackles an important problem: How do we know if we're measuring variables we care about at the "right" times?Authors = @Oisin_Ryan_ and Ellen Hamaker (sorry
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Selected quotes from Part II of @FossGregfoss’s salient paper:‘Why Every Fixed-Income Investor Needs to Consider Bitcoin as Portfolio Insurance’0/ “Bitcoin is the best asymmetric trade I have seen in my
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For the “I’m not putting a vax in my body that’s not FDA approved” crowd, this is a reminder that if you take nutritional supplements you’re likely already putting many
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I am re-activating my twitter and twitter is an unhappy place, perhaps unsurprisingly given COVID19. Organising my thoughts a little here: For the people who want to do armchair between
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I've seen a number of unfair narratives used to try diminish the Irish response to coronavirus. I'm going to address a particularly disingenuous one here:That Ireland should be doing 'better'
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As a former health insurance exec, I don’t think any story better illustrates my old industry’s racket than the one I’m about to tell you: Right now, as we enter
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ANALYSIS: A month since lockdown, finally the sacrifices made are paying off. Death rates at a plateau, transmission rate below one. Now politicians have to decide what comes next. The
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0/ Been thinking about new types of lenders that could be enabled by DeFi railsGenerally pretty bearishHappy to be proven wrong!A thread 1/ As a loan originator, there are basically
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#CPSMicrodataDay There are lots of topics potentially of interest of course. I created my normal batch of charts during very different, happier economic times. So for the moment, I thought
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why do people keep consistently comparing the hot character of the moment to onceler. like. onceler was an absolutely unique level of fandom insanity nothing else has been able to
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I think this article is really important to absorb, and I say that as someone who has done several stories about child and adolescent mental health during the pandemic. 1/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/04/pandemic-suicide-c
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#VeChain X $VTHO 1/8Blockchain technology is a certain way to store data.In order to store data on the VeChainThor blockchain you need VTHO to pay the transaction costs.The Authority Nodes
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I share the overall view that we are in a very different place in the pandemic economy than we were in April, but a lot of people are still very
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