#Problems

1/ Probably an unpopular opinion but I think trading psychology is overall useless and reading Trading in the zone 10 times in a row doesn't make any actual improvement to
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Urban agriculture has been a staple in Cuba since the special period, including communal urban farms. This isn't new, but an upscaling.The reason Cuba has not yet achieved food sovereignty
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only if you circle Missouri first https://twitter.com/secretlywinter/status/1358867682695798786 Europeans love this type of shit and think it's the biggest own. like, of course I know Wales is in SW Britain. it's
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The exit polls are a nice example of collider bias, an important and ubiquitous but not very intuitive problem in statistics. Collider bias means this: If a and b both
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I want to say some hard things to whoever needs to read it. I left a dope job at VICE that had some dope ass people, and it still hurts
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The trouble really is that our security & policy establishment have never thought strategically about trade, employment, growth & financing of deficits.Nor do our economists understand that, given hegemony, trade
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They will still argue about the negative connections of the past despite the company doing the update in 1989 to remove the stereotypical image. It's like what happened with Darkie/Darlie
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one of the ways European colonizers were able to solve the now-infamous local knowledge problems (I.E. being reliant on indigenous peoples for survival) was by more or less bringing European
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Our @GenderandTrade webinar, Mobilising for Feminist Trade Justice within the United Nations, takes place on Tuesday 21 July. @RegionsRefocus has all the details: https://sites.google.com/regionsrefocus.org/gtc/webinars?authuser=0#h.p_-3Ha4
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Interesting research from a large team of intermediate econ instructors: On average, students learned less during the pandemic-afflicted semester than in prior semesters, with effects sizes of about 0.1-0.2 SD's
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Vous avez été nombreux à réagir à notre chronique du mardi 4 février sur la baisse des cas dans le monde et dans la majeure partie des pays. Beaucoup ont
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https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/752443-hubco-power-plant-offers-govt-buyout-for-rs65-billionThe problems here:a) You can't use Thar Coal in Karachi/Hub. The coal has high moisture content, which makes it combustible, so it can't be
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Today's reading suggestion: classic piece on separation of powers by Prof Ackerman, arguing against the export of the US Presidential model. Those in India who think isomorphic mimicry of the
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This is especially maddening in light of how many of the recent obsession on the right with "cancel culture". In 2002 it was basically impossible to be truly opposed to
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End of year, good time for introspection & looking to the future. Here's a thread covering my reckons from this year about what Auckland needs to succeed in the future
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TL;DR: The vaccine is the opposite of wearing a mask.(Explanation follows.)https://twitter.com/nataliexdean/status/1357011532106792960 Data seem to show that the vaccine will slow but not stop the spread of Covid-19; what it will
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