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food delivery wars + fee arbitrage + pandemic surging demand = everyone has opinions on what’s “right financially”take a step back and look at how some restaurants are evolving during
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Before working as an Uber driver, Enrique* spent years as a mechanic in an employed position and, later, as an independent contractor in the D.C. area. As a Central American
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Imagine you're a British civil servant in the colonial government. When you were a child, you were plucked you from the house and sent to boarding school. Your humanity was
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Its been nearly 3 weeks since Labor DayWe were all worried about surge after holidayHas it happened? Actually, yesData here pretty clear First, here’s a graph of the number of
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I often joke about not wanting to date men. The main reason is being in a relationship with a man is a health hazard.Being with a man lowers your life
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For the record, I am a tenured professor who shares my syllabi, & am overdue to redesign my personal site so it’s easier for me to share them. That said,
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So Jana at around 7pm her excellency started experiencing labor pains while we were told by the doctors to expect it MAYBE from 21st April. She told me to jipanga
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How would I improve American scientific output for $100B? A thread. 1/n First, we already have a lot of processes that seem to work incredibly well, and processes really matter!
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Activist movements raise the salience of particular issues thereby generating the attention and energy required to address them -- but the means adopted to do so can often derange the
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Wishing profs would give their students better advice about protocols for approaching / demanding in depth interviews from Indig folks because it’s getting overwhelming in my inbox & i’m not
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As PhD programs around the country plan for the next app cycle, I imagine that you might be thinking more about how you recruit URM applicants. But I need you
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A brief entreaty for fellow tech writers covering Amazon Prime Day or the Apple Event, or other tech giant exhibition or deals bonanza: We've gotten much better at asking hard
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cleansing your timeline with this Mandy Patinkin clip from 2012 when the interviewer's wife went into labor IMPORTANT UPDATE: https://twitter.com/davepricetv/status/1252037603047735298?s=21 https://twitter.com/davepricetv/status/12520376030477352
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The messaging really ought to be the truth, which is:*We can't afford to not take care of sick people anymore.*We can't afford to not house the houseless anymore.*We can't afford
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A reminder to folks hiring sensitivity editors and readers right now: We're all fragile, we're all tired, and the emotional labor that your sensitivity readers do is likely weighing more.
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How can anyone be proud to call themselves a Democrat Voter today?@SpeakerPelosi, their leader, is an arrogant, soulless, lying, condescending, arrogant, hypocrite, yet they allow her to lead?@JoeBiden is a
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