#Mechanism

Simon Evans

DrSimEvans

What the EU recovery plan means for climate…& what it doesn'tTHREAD€750b recovery plan + €1.1t budget30% earmarked for climate (no detail)"Just transition fund" cut (+weaker conditions)New 2030 goal by year

Steve Lawrence

SteveLawrence_

So, what just broke?His Éminence Grise, in customary hair-shirt attire, walked out of the front door of @10DowningStreet, inviting paperrazification, with his festering Hard-Brexit in a cardboard box, threatening a

James Prestwich

_prestwich

Scalability vs Throughput myths -- A threadScalability - validating more transactions on the same hardwareThroughput - processing more transactions across the whole system It's easy to increase throughput, but it

CZEdwards ($2KforAll)

CZEdwards

As a correlary:If your child isn’t cleaning a room to your standards, 1) ensure they know HOW to clean. This is not a one & done lesson. Start them with

Sam Lutzker

SamLutzker

Who does @LAHomeless mobilize for? Politicians. What mobilizes politicians? Bad PR. Totally unsustainable process: there are 41,000+ homeless people in LA city. We can only write so many bad

Tiffany Bond 🦞🇺🇸

TiffanyBond

Can we talk about this?I think it's kind that we have MOC fundraising for Americans...but we should be furious that state and federal government isn't more immediately stepping up.Government is

Lucas Guttenberg

lucasguttenberg

The one thing the EU institutions can and should do now is to hold the line. and are blackmailing everyone and should be treated as such. This means

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/5An important point over which Chen Yulu is right to worry. The US-China trade relationship is a kind of machine that converts US consumption into Chinese savings, which in turn

Alexandros Marinos

alexandrosM

Thinking about self-replicators recently, thread with thoughts. Why do I care? Because a reasonably compact machine that can power itself, produce a broad range of things (including itself) and recycle

"Shoot him again, his soul is still dancing"

Aelkus

most comments about realism of genre fiction don't make positive case about what realism would add beyond satisfaction of nerds that's a pity because the best case for it is

Lo-fi Republican

LoFiRepublican

I've never known a secular family who was healthy and tight-knit My grandparents raised their kids with ambivalent adherence to Catholicism, and thus most of their kids' marriages ended in

Chip Brownlee

ByChipBrownlee

DLive — a platform used by a number of far-right figures to live stream Capitol chaos — has banned several far-right figures in the last few days.That list now includes Vincent

Annie Murphy Paul

anniemurphypaul

A thread about the importance of young children’s gestures, ending with a suggestion for parents.Research tells us that language emerges out of gesture: infants and toddlers can use their hands

Colin Spacetwinks

spacetwinks

think one of the thing that bugs me the most about talking politics is the endless thrum of "this politician said they're going to help you; why don't you believe

Marion Holman

holmanm

1/10 The statin drug Baycol made by Bayer was recalled in 2001 after a series of statin deaths from kidney failure following rhabdomyolysis (death of muscle fibres, debris from which

Sam Wang

SamWangPhD

There's lots of talk about how partisan gerrymandering will now run amok. Maybe I am a glass-half-full guy, but I see gains in the last decade, and possible routes to

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