#Progress

THREAD: Last night I had the unpleasant sight of witnessing one of the key obstacles to progress in Bosnia. Unfortunatley that obstacle is the cohort of fanatical SDA supporters who
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1) What the situation in Belarus illustrates, is how even brutal dictators need public support, and are powerless when the public stand up to them. This lesson has profound implications
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New paper out in @RegGov_journal! With @petr_jansky and @markusmeinzer we develop the Bilateral Financial Secrecy Index and show how secrecy jurisdictions selectively resist automatic information exchange. Thread below , full
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A great read by @AbrahmL in @nytimes on how Russia might win from climate change, and how it can handle potential migration from China. The story has lots of interesting
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I founded Upfront Software in 1998. After 22 years in business, the survival of my company seems doubtful and I suddenly have to re-enter the job market. If you are
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Greetings, @PeteButtigieg, welcome to the wonderful world of the Department of Transportation. Here you will meet, well, me from time to time. So I thought maybe I'd compose a briefing
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Klopp joined Liverpool in October 2015 with the club 13th in the PL. Having inherited Brendan Rodgers' squad, he saw them finish the season in 8th. To rebuild, FSG made
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So. This week's exam question: "Can the Northern Ireland Brexit protocol survive?" There's an easy answer and a harder one - a short thread after a big week for NI
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The latest HSE Briefing kicking off now. Paul Reid: Everyone being given a lift by loosening of restrictions...We're looking into winter in three phases of risk: this weekend (restaurants, gastro
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In festiveangst news: SuperGLUE is officially "solved". Twice.Not sure if 0.7% improvement over T5 means NLP got radically better. But it IS a mental goalpost: we're now back to defining
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Juan Ferrando's general tactics at FC Goa (a thread) He has shown trust in his 433, which sometimes shifts to 4231 according to the situation, mostly. He hasn't tweaked much
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60 years ago this week, on November 14, 1960, four Black first graders in New Orleans desegregated two elementary schools in the Lower Ninth Ward. #RubyBridges began to attend William
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Passport's alpha firmware is now open source! Read our blog post about the importance of open hardware and the great open source work we've built on to bring Passport to
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Something to love about EVERY live action Batman - A Thread Adam West - I feel like wholesome is the word.Giving Batman a wider appeal, pairing comic wackiness with the
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Today, the Daily Dot is publishing the Trump Disinformation Project, our look back at the president and his allies' efforts to poison the internet.9 stories that highlight the most dangerous
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It seems a lot of folks who saw the news about Aunt Jemima are taken aback, “Aunt Jemima isn’t racist!” “How could you get rid of Aunt Jemima!” So for
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