#Policy

{Thread} LGB Alliance recently posted a thread critical of the 2017 Government Equalities Office Research into the experiences of LGBT+ people in the UK, and it's interesting going through the
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Erin O’Toole is back to chat with the #UCPAGM2020 crowd. As soon as he stops talking about himself, I believe he’s going to do a Q&A. He says if you’d
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Passed the AWS Security Specialty exam!Interesting contents. Studying for it allowed me to gain exposure to multiple AWS services I wouldn't have otherwise experimented with.Here's a thread with random AWS
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There's a famous Hemingway quote describing going bankrupt two ways: "Gradually, then suddenly."I think that's what's been happening with trust and goodwill with BC public health officers and yesterday was
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I keep seeing these “I don’t care how ahead Joe is in the polls, I’m voting like he’s down” posts & can’t help but wonder how many Americans actually vote/don’t
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Entrepreneurs are often so fixated on “getting to yes” with a VC – and will go to great lengths to answer any question posed to do so – that they
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A common misconception in South African political commentary is that Apartheid was somehow 'capitalist'. This lie is peddled by Apartheid beneficiaries whenever we try to speak of socialism. They ask
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Investing during manipulated market conditions (a thread).Let's face the facts, you are not participating in free and open markets, so what's an investor to do? Here are a couple important
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Seems there’s been something of an (intentional?) misunderstanding of what I thought was a clearly stated @theSNP position on #nuclearweapons & #armscontrol in the @SNP_SITW team’s submission to the #IntegratedReview,
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Today, a study conducted by myself, @Fixed_Effects, @aaronsojourner & @LauraHuangLA published in @PNASNews: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/08/12/1913405117/tab-figures-data Cc:@KatherineJWu @ByNinaMartin @PublicHealthUMN @UMNew
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/We-re-witnessing-a-battle-over-America-15523758.php Documentary evidence piles up in Trump country (but even lakhs of bodies doesn't count for these people, unless they're pr
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THREAD I've reported extensively on Ivanka Trump and her scurrilous business practices. But Tiffany was in law school and largely--and smartly-- out of the public eye. Now she is campaigning
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As much heat as some people have put on @IHME_UW for their #COVID19 model right now the curve and actual numbers aren't spread far apart. If you look at their
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"Biblical" huh?Would you like to know what the Bible actually says about Trumpism?Because it has a lot to say that's amazingly contemporary, both about populist uprisings & elite response to
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US hospitals saw a steady decline in COV+ patients from 4/15 to 6/15. in the last 10 days, they have seen a change in this trendmany have sought to blame
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I just covered a little history of eugenics in my behavior genetics class and it never fails to surprise. If you’re in the US and/or think only the Nazis did
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