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Heidi N. Moore

moorehn

Amazon has always seethed about the Post Office because the PO has an enormous, indestructible competitive advantage in the shipping business: It knows everyone's address and the routes to them,

Uncle Zo

UncleZoGunTales

The whole "vehicles have more uses are are more regulated to prevent death that guns are" is rendered void by comparing a privilege to a right. Even so, the argument

Dr. Adele Hite

ahhite

Okay, so what happened in/around 1980 that changed? We have always ever preferred cheap/tasty/convenient food. That's not something new that started in 1980. BUT: "cheap/tasty/convenient" used to mean a fried

Lyn Alden

LynAldenContact

Unless Yellen changes plans, then during the next several months, over $1T from the Treasury General Account is going to pour into bank reserves. Despite massive T-bill issuance, there is

Alexandra Topping

LexyTopping

It was not a good day for the CPS yesterday. Its annual #VAWG report showed that the number of convictions and prosecutions have fallen to the lowest level since records

Emre Akcakmak

akcakmak

"The world's cheapest emerging markets" by forward looking price-to-earnings (P/E) ratios. Nigeria: 6.3x Turkey: 7.5x Pakistan: 7.9x Egypt: 8.2x Russia: 8.3x Kenya: 8.6xBut wait! +++ ++ One must always consider

Barmak Nassirian

BarmakN

The Critique of Neoliberal Reason: for at least 30 years--a mere decade after we took the wrong turn into debt-financing of higher ed--"experts" have focused on making debt more affordable

Quinn 'Moonracer' Maximiliano 🌱 🏴

NoThatIsNotAll

meet capitalism's best kind of house ghoul (a thread):the subject matter expert who publishes an opinion that politicians, the media, and other non-experts amplify to create and justify public policy

Brandon del Pozo, PhD, MPA, MA

BrandondelPozo

This is a plot of homicides & fatal police shootings by US state, 2015-18 (Please note the Y axes differ by a factor of 10). Data is from @washingtonpost &

Matt Olm

MattagenOlmics

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2505-4 I loved this paper and I bet it's conclusions will be taught in "Intro to Microbial Physiology" classes for decades to come. Very fun to read about a fundamental

Catherine Koebel

cmkoeb

I got a burr under my science saddle and fact checked whether the “more police less violent crime” studies actually say what Yglesias said they say and WHEW BOY he

Philip Stafford

staffordphilip

@ESMAComms latest report on derivatives trading helps underline why there needs to be a fix.https://twitter.com/staffordphilip/status/1328241905981911041 The market in 2019 shrank slightly, to €681tn outstanding total notional in Q4 from

clarkesworld

clarkesworld

This remains one of the biggest problems facing online short fiction magazines. (Another is lowballing the price of a subscription or single issue.) Both devalue short fiction and hold the

The Telegraph

Telegraph

Infection rates, hospitalisations and vaccinations – these are the targets that will shape the Prime Minister's roadmap out of lockdown on Feb 22.Here’s how the UK currently measures up to

Solomon Messing

SolomonMg

I've been thinking a lot about why Trump outperformed his 2016 returns in counties hit hard by covid. Well, I took a look at his performance by the racial makeup

Aaron Tang

AaronTangLaw

As a parent and educational equity advocate, I want kids to be back in school ASAP too. But to make the case for doing that, it's not enough just to

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