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James Surowiecki

JamesSurowiecki

1. Progressives get understandably annoyed when ppl arguing that ordinary Americans are really well-off use mean income numbers rather than the median, since rich people's incomes skew the mean upward.

Toronto Star

TorontoStar

THREAD: As bad as COVID-19 was in the spring, this winter is even worse: patients in the ICU are younger and sicker, the infection tearing through their bodies faster. It

Chris Geidner

chrisgeidner

Or maybe it was just because the piece was shit, Paul. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/business/dr-jill-biden-wall-street-journal.html?smid=tw-share Imagine being so aggressively unwilling to see that you published something bad that you

优述/You Shu

You_Shu_China

Another domino falls. Tongshu Optoelectonic fails to pay RMB 66mn interest on a bond when it claimed to have RMB 9.5bn in cash on balance sheet at end Q3. Can’t

Nick Wallis

nickwallis

A year ago today Mr Justice Fraser handed down his final judgment in the Bates v Post Office class action. He then announced he was also sending a file to

Ivan E. Raiklin (Former Green Beret Commander)

Raiklin

Peter Navarro Issues Report on Voting Irregularities. We Must Postpone Jan 5 US Senate Runoffs while all the fraud is sorted out. Thread...https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/peter-navarro-issues-report-on-voting-irregularities-the-emper

Ezra Klein

ezraklein

Over the years, I’ve had a lot of discussions with Facebook officials about how engagement-based, algorithmic social media changes people. They tend to argue it doesn’t: It just reveals what’s

Bertram Wooster

Bert_Wooster73

http://www.bombay-tv.net/movie-en-af00265100a45a69710b55fc7ea9c1c2.html https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=45376.0 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.independent.ie/sport/soccer/other-soccer/john-aldridge-says-he-le

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

NEW: Remember the South Korean study on kids' transmission that had everyone talking? Well. The study had a big flaw.Doesn't change the upshot of what we know, but a flaw

Ben Norton

BenjaminNorton

Belarus has almost defeated poverty. Even though it is much poorer than superpowers like the US and Russia, it has a lower poverty level: 0.8%Belarus has one of the highest

Tom Philpott

tomphilpott

This framing is BS. If Heitkamp and Vilsack are so great at garnering support from white rural people, why are both of their states ruled by right wing ghouls? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/us/politics/biden-agriculture.html?referringS

Mangy Jay

magi_jay

I want to hear about the Asian American voters and Black voters who are crushing turnout in places like GA. We've heard enough about white men who own tractors and

Mike Caulfield

holden

Just a short appreciation of Howard Rheingold here. I was re-reading parts of his 1993 work on virtual community for a project, and it holds up in a way so

Axios

axios

EXCLUSIVE: A suspected Chinese spy developed extensive ties with local and national US politicians in what officials believe was an operation run by China’s main civilian spy agency from 2011-2015,

Matthew Mason

matthewwmason

'Until fairly recently, Britain had an amazingly vital autodidact culture, where a large minority of the working classes passionately pursued classic literature, philosophy, and music...they knew that the "great books"...would

Ken Shirriff

kenshirriff

In 1976, Motorola produced a 1-bit processor, the MC14500B. A 1-bit processor sounds like a joke, but it was an industrial controller for Boolean logic applications. I reverse-engineered the chip

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