#Means

A father said to his daughter: You graduated with honors, here is a car that I acquired many years ago ... it is several years old.But before I give it
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Instead of trying to test private methods, how about pulling out a new class where that private method behavior becomes part of the public API of that class? I often
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"These are illusions" Pelosi says on Fox News Sunday of Trump's executive actions Chris Wallace: "You’re known as a master negotiator but didn’t you mess this one up?"Pelosi: "Clearly you
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Lots of FUD being dispensed regarding IDFA deprecation. Here's what I think changes in the post-IDFA world: (1/X) 2/ There is no room for MMPs in this new paradigm. Google
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The UK provides an instructive example of the administrative challenges of distributing means-tested tax credit benefits on a monthly basis. In 2003 they implemented a big Child Tax Credit and
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A (not-too-much) provocative and extremely interesting article by @jayjamescarter on @supchinanews. A comparison between #Trump's and Mao Zedong's followers' actions, twisted around #CapitolHill and the beginning of the Cultural
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I am hearing some very plausible excuses for how the video of election workers at the State Farm Center unloading suitcases full of ballots weren't really "suitcases" and nothing odd
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I know y’all also get lots of msgs from people asking to collaborate, or to ask for help with their work, for advice, or validation.They come and go in waves,
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Many in STEM, myself included, work long hours. More than 40 per week.This is not a good thing. It makes us overtired and overworked. We make mistakes, become less creative,
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#RandomThoughts 1/nOver time, I've realised that the average Joe/Jane isn't really interested in growing rich & financially independent. He/she just wants to put the blinkers on, work at a job,
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We have to stop talking about the Black community as if it is one blob of society. There are a whole host of intellectual thinkers and doers from the entire
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From a reader. One can argue about the number of non-Covid excess deaths, but he is right - the difference between using a 2% increase in deaths in 2020 as
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TODAY I LEARNT: Another outstanding episode from @farnamstreet, with the beautiful mind of @danariely. Dan has great mental models for making the good choices easier, and the bad choices harder.Here
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Before I started writing yesterday I thought all this stuff about Nordic schizophrenia might be old hat to Finns and Swedes, but the impression I'm getting from the replies is
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It is against the law... or so it is supposed to be... for Companies to "Collude" and Set Market Prices and form de-facto Monopolies in our Economy.. Using that same
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Something people w/o ADHD don’t seem to understand: it’s not just the tasks we don’t like that we struggle with. Today, I really wanted to play guitar and video games
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