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Killed by his poorly trained pilot attempting take-off in an iced up aircraft. Safe, secure VIP air transport is taken for granted now but it wasn't always so.https://twitter.com/RoyalNavy/status/1345429423831609345 It's horrifying
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OK, so Tera my former BIS colleague put me onto this paper about Feedback loops. Because, believe it or not, the way a slow-to-respond shower behaves DOES tell us a
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I took out identifiers of who posted this because this has nothing to do with who posted this and, in all honesty, this is a kind gesture. But, here’s the
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Yesterday I spent hours on an online education class, trying to update my assignments. I couldn't figure it out, and there was no one to ask. There was a due
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Latest AEMO quarterly update reports electricity prices plunge to lowest levels in 5 yearshttps://www.aemo.com.au/news/qed-q2 The AEMO presser fingers COVID-19, but really it isreally a text-book example of market power (ie monopolisti
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Theirs is still, and will maybe forever be, the most intimate relationship I’ve ever seen on television. Or, hell, in real life. I mean, Jesus, this shot. This goddamned shot.
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Story time: When I turned 16 my dad took me on a hunting trip. It was a kind of right-of-passage into adulthood and some father-and-son bonding. We travelled to Plumas
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When I was running NIIT, a Parent, Bank Official, came to me with a request for help. His daughter was in 11th but according to him not living up to
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Yes, I think this is the most succinct & accurate summary of its features. I also think it'd take another book to explain what this does and doesn't mean and
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I’m not sure if this is what’s going on, but in my experience working for people working for VERY low pay and taking care of kids is that even before
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When I was a kid, I received the social message early and consistently: something is wrong with you, you aren’t like other people, it’s wrong. Even before I knew what
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Some of the questions that you should be asking your agent when you receive an offer of representation: a thread 1. What did they like about your book (if they
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Back with another #FreeLoveFriday. My first thread focused on what I love about Bitcoin, and features we borrowed for @AvalancheAVAX. Today, let's focus on @Omni_Layer, or as OGs knew it,
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Hello.I’m white, middle class & English and once experienced blatant discrimination on nationality/ethnicity/race grounds ......now I know what you’re thinking.....But no it’s not that.It’s something else.But it taught me an
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A little thread about resiliency and efficiency. This might become a blog post; right now I’m thinking aloud.Imagine an airline, back when plane travel was safe.Running an airline is expensive,
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[THREAD] In our last thread, we talked about the physical symptoms of mental health. Let's focus this one on the psychological symptoms, mainly intrusive and racing thoughts. Why do they
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