#Lottery

Imagine letting old people die because they're the wrong skin color and you want to rectify a historical injustice.Now imagine being a doctor and actively advocating for that. She suggests
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Me getting ready to invite fans of losing teams to the draft lottery party where they will very likely be disappointed again Welcome Rangers fans. First person to the party
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Here’s my story when I ran into former Premier Mike Harris a number of years ago. He lived in my neighborhood I was in line at my local Shoppers Drug
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Do extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? No.If the slogan were true, we could never have sufficient evidence for a whole host of extraordinarily improbable events. Although the slogan is catchy,
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Politicians who don't support a goal of zero road deaths should be made to nominate the specific people they think ought tot die in the coming year SHORT THREADhttps://twitter.com/fietsprofessor/status/1281216319044624384 You
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“An unusual sequence of numbers” genuinely laughed out loud at the stupidity of that opening linehttps://twitter.com/scottkeir/status/1334462278880661504 I do love the idea that to rig a lottery, you’d choose a sequence
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To get a sense of how meaningful an at-priority in the common lottery might be, @dcpolicycenter just released an analysis of application patterns by at-risk status using three years of
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The creative world from 80s was shaped by executives used to Design–bid–build methods, this left us with a design process I call Design-lottery. Where instead of designing with a strong
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"Self made" has different meanings to different people:Jeff Bezos' parents ploughed $245k into his e-commerce startup.Donald Trump received "a small loan" of $1m from his father. Bill Gates' parents funded
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This is what I would do with university admissions if the plan is to revert to teacher-predicted grades were I in government (there are legal issues but I think every
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Academic Job Discourseᵀᴹ is back (it’s never gone).Tl;dr: There are no jobs.Headline: Commodification of academia has decoupled the value of research from the chance of employability.Long read: Research and teaching
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This sucks not because it’s City — it would be the same if it were us as well! It sucks because we constantly hear these matter most for teams below
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If you (like me) see a 600B model, and shriek, let me try to give you some consolation. Why should we care about ultra-large models?
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A small thread on fraud. @thespybrief Fraud isn't always fraud. Sometimes people honestly forget what they did. December 31th I spoke to a client who was convinced she was robbed.
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Extremely low odds of instant gratification vs significantly higher payoffs of delayed wealth creation!Fascinated by lottery sales explosion in Kerala(last year was approx 12000cr).Over 79 million lottery tickets sold every
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NHL Draft Lottery goes Friday night at 8 p.m. ET. This year’s lottery is taking place at the @NHLNetwork studios in NJ and @KathrynTappen of @NHLonNBCSports will host the half-hour
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