#Bureaucracy

The system of #directprovision is twenty years old today. #directprovision didn't always exist, Ireland didn't always institutionalise asylum applicants https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2685035 The @ExploringDP project make
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the first rule of economics is that resources are scarce and there are never enough goods or services to meet demand.the first rule of politics is to ignore the first
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I'm reading Nick Szabo's famous essay "Money, blockchains, and social scalability" and will be live tweeting some excerpts. "Bitcoin offends the sensibilities of resource-conscious and performance-measure-maximizing engineers a
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Just did an interview of a student who did her BCA (Bachelor of Computer Applications) from a govt college in Gurgaon. It is a sad reflection of how the Indian
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Re designing the Service Aus queue “do you have to get a number” Me: “nah, security guard is triaging” 1/2 Common Q: “can you get through on the phones” asked
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I don't know why People (incl RWs) blame #NirmalaSitharaman so much for Economic slowdown & mock her continuously. IMO, it's the policy failures in the first term of Modi Govt
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I am an American living in Japan. Docs here have GREAT SUCCESS treating covd19 criticals with ECMO! Jap Docs have been screaming to the world about ECMO, VENTS. DON'T WORK
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7 lessons @VancityReynolds taught us from @Adweek #brandweek also some amazing things he said (a thread) Lesson #1 Less bureaucracy allows for more creativity. Quote below “I don’t know the
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Day #146e (#WalkingBedWeek, Pt. 5): Masonic & Anticlerical Readings of the Walking Bed“Little Nemo in Slumberland” dated July 26, 1908: https://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/489  I've always thought it strange how the f
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Diary from Italy, 1 April 2020 - on the need for the EU 27 to get their act together before it is too late. Includes English version of @CarloCalenda's letter
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As U.S. jobless claims skyrocket amid #COVID19, thousands of unemployed Floridians have been unable to access benefits due to a broken claims system. But the system's working just as state
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Ok - I REALLY need to drive this home for you peeps cos this is IMPORTANT.Bush here is literally admitting the UN has ALWAYS had the intention of imposing a
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I’m going to give you my impression of this as an Agent. You’ll undoubtedly get some brilliant legal analysis by @shipwreckedcrew later but he’s an attorney not an Agent. Another
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Another must-read article from @hknightsf points, again, at the complexity of the crisis in the Tenderloin and across our City. 1/https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Tenderloin-tents-are-now-rare-Open-air-drug-15544410
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Welcome to the bright side of Brexit. We know disruption is looming, but there are opportunities... 1/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-29/how-leaving-the-eu-could-help-britain-s-economy?sref=yMmXm5Iy w/ @DeirdreHipwell @lucy
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Alright, so here’s the start of a series of threads on the French army in the 18th century. Today’s thread will be introductory in nature and provide some background on
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