#2020

Just read the NYT piece on the closing of Prune (restaurant in East Village). The end part about the motivation to start a restaurant vs β€œwhat restaurants in NYC have
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Interesting thread on how Sweden is handling the crisis at hand and worth the read https://twitter.com/sizwelo/status/1247857255535575041 In case you didn’t read the entire thread, you are welcome to read this
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If things come to negative interest rates, what will happen? Will banks pay you to borrow money? Nope.It will mean deflation. If you didn't like inflation, just know that you
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I worry a lot about the way people will use EFS support for Fargate, because I think it's another candy-vs-vegetables situationhttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/04/aws-fargate-launches-platform-version-14/ There are lots of valid us
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1/ @DrTedros @WHO @CDCgov @ScottGottliebMD @US_FDA This is two-pronged attack by a bacteria and the coronavirus.Like here.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168281/We need to add anti-bacterial to the therapy. Half of the 20 million reads
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Germany is considering "immunity certificates" for people who have positive antibody tests. This is hugely premature for at least three reasons. A short thread. a) The tests we have now
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#THREAD: Why run at protests?A Hong Kong court today found 7 people not guilty of rioting in relation to an Aug. 31, 2019 protest. One of the issues is whether
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one of my questions for writers asking "why don't writers talk to regular restaurant workers more?" is have you ever tried to talk to restaurant workers? people are afraid to
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New @HEPI_news report says only 32% 15-to-30 year olds from the UK can confidently read and write in two or more languages (including their first language). Second placed EU country
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Hey @AzureDevOps. Happy Build day- Riddle me this? Can the cross stage variables feature be used in the conditional of a -stage-. The release notes make me think yes\maybe. Comments
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(1/x) The General Office of the CCP released a new central opinion on ramping up united front (统战ε·₯作) work aimed at the private sector - i.e., clearly marking private business
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This, to me, is a good illustration of one of the many flaws in the 'let the virus rip' idea. Cinemas are open and have been for a few months.
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Next time Republicans complain about extraneous stuff in #COVID bills, remember this: someone stuck a $170 BILLION tax giveaway, "an easy-to-overlook provision," into our CARES bill.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/business/coronavirus-re
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2020 has been one of the worst years in living memory for hundreds of thousands of families all round the world, who have been left heartbroken by the sudden loss
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These goons spent 5 years giving the Trump family a vicious partisan audit trying to prove they took Putin's money.The Trump family was vindicated.Now it's the Biden's turn.I wish them
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NEW: Trumpworld insiders and GOP campaign veterans have a warning for Democrats: Don't get cocky just because the initial @TeamTrump response to @JoeBiden's selection of @KamalaHarris is a bit schizophrenic.https://www.independent.c
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