#Cheap

For the past week I’ve been using the Xiaomi Redmi 8 as my main phone. It’s the most common “budget” smartphone in India.In some ways, this thing is shockingly good.
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THREAD: Cycling on a budgetIf you've been following the commentary from talk radio hosts, opinion columnists and anonymous twitter accounts, you could be forgiven for thinking cycling is a hobby
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We did a few of these today. Eleanore's dad has done tree work for years and I worked for a tree service once, so we have an idea of what
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THREAD 1/ Yesterday a 3rd FBI raid on the Chinese owned Saipan casino & on Gov Ralph Torres office took place. There are direct links between Saipan & Mar a
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What's up! I'm vacation! Let's talk about why board games get cheaper the longer they've been out and why it's important to pay full price vs discounted. Righto! So I've
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THREAD AWS $AMZNAMZN has 15Xed in 6 years (~$60bn->~$1tr). Along the way there have been many investor concerns, which have in hindsight been "can't see the forest for the trees"
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I'd like to take this occasion to hijack this thot's argument (and MIGR excuses in the comments) and talk about polyamory and my recent exit from "sex-positive community".https://twitter.com/fingerbIaster/status/1339803350
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Great article by @zeynep and @jeremyphoward. To answer the question they get asked what and "where to buy proper masks," below is a thread. I have no financial interest in
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This video about how the player sprites in Super Mario Bros 2 work is very neat, but also kinda creepy in the implications.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opoQdHqGEHg so the tl;dr is that in Doki
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BREAKING—Single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine was 72 % effective at protecting against moderate to severe illness in US, 66 % effective in Latin America & 57 % effective in South
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This is a really great post about going viral with real numbers & insightful conclusionsInspired, I want to share my own going viral experience with rough number estimates in the
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Preprint: COVID-19 screening and surveillance are critical, but molecular tests haven't come close to meeting needs, and temperature checks fail. We modeled the epidemiological impacts of using loss of smell
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This thread shows how deep performative meanness runs among "pragmatic" liberals. Nathan Robinson runs a pretty good magazine. That *is* a "fucking job."https://twitter.com/jhweissmann/status/1341978290018545665 I just c
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I used data to find Arsenal a replacement for Bellerin. A thread. First of all, what's the issue?Bellerin, although in my opinion a player who's slightly underrated, probably isn't good
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The new issue of @Meanjin is out, and I had the immense privilege of proofreading it again. It's full of beautiful, exploring and provoking writing. I hope all who can
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Twitter is so confusing. Are y’all rich or nah? 5 mins ago y’all was worried about Biden’s 400k tax raise & now you’re mad about EBT comments. What’s the truth?
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