#State

Quite staggeringly idiotic, and entirely unsurprisingly, behaviour from govt over Brexit extensionhttps://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-uk-will-not-request-an-extension-to-the-brexit-transition-period It doesn't challenge my confidence in their
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You think distributed systems is about trying to accomplish complex tasks, and then you read the literature and it's like "consider the problem of incrementing a counter", and it turns
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I'm probably going to regret this, but here's a thread on Austin Steinbart's recent arrest. Austin is currently on home arrest and has been mandated for psychiatric evaluation and treatment.
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Trump plans to cry "rigged" when a blue shift occurs as mail-in ballots are counted. One way to counter this is for voters to be strategic in deciding between mail-in
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1\ Witnessed some debate on whether bitcoin follows a random walk or not. Here are some remarks from my side. 2\ First it is useful to have a look at
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The Wisconsin GOP treasurer asked rally attendees to “please leave Confederate flags and/or AR15s, AK47s, or any other long guns at home” when coming to the rally Friday in Madison
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1/5. PM Modi has repeatedly told us that a) he will never allow MSP to die and b) he will double farmers incomes by 2022. Great. So what stops him
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From pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers, Trump's phone calls alarm US officialsIn hundreds of highly classified phone calls with foreign heads of state, President
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Rape culture & schools: THREAD There are a lot of prominent opinions being put out there on rape culture and schools, but the views of school staff sadly haven't
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so today i learned that procrastination isn’t about laziness. it’s about avoiding the negative emotions that come with doing whatever task it is. but it ends up creating more negative
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The controversial scene shown during Ramadan on Saudi TV in which one Saudi actor advocates for normalization with Israel against Palestinians, saying Palestinians attack Saudi Arabia despite everything it did
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I’ve never been to a kpop fan sign but I have met a few celebrities. When I met David Tennant in 2014, I was in such a state of shock
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thread on the report I wrote about prison gerrymandering + why it’s the 3/5ths compromise + a love letter to Michelle Alexander. i wrote the report using the framework Michelle
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Things the high court said today:Pell's trial and appeal weren't justThings they DIDN'T say:Pell is innocentThe jury stuffed upThe accuser liedThese things matter, people. The high court is probably the
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Are populist parties (still) challengers?I've just read the umpteenth article considering (almost all) populist parties as challenger parties. This conclusion is disconfirmed by empirical reality and is grounded on this
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Excerpts from Nnamdi Kanu broadcast this Night...Facts and figures about the Death of Buhari1. On the 17/01/17 Buhari collapsed in Asorock2. On 18/01/17 he was flown to UK.3. He went
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