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If a new software engineer were to ask me for basic career advice, here's what I'd tell them. 1. Pair program often. Learning by osmosis. See how experienced devs tackle
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Congress. Get a deal done. The evidence is in. Enhanced unemployment benefits didn’t deter people from work but did support spending. Without it, we are toast. We just lost $18b
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Mental models I used in 2020:https://barnacles.substack.com/p/my-mental-models-2020 1/ Most people don’t deeply understand they're talking about, me included. On the flip side, you can almost always learn from a statement something
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Yeah, I do. (Had the same problem with my Ph.D. dissertation.) You Write Anyway, is what it comes down to --but what I did was to start keeping a
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With any luck, automatic voter registration will pass out of the NY Assembly tomorrow and head to the Governor's desk. #AVR4NY This is a big deal. Here's why: AVR is
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Hey #AcademicTwitter! A lot of folks are making decisions about PhD programs right now, so I want to share a bit of wisdom that has helped me in my PhD
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How to Have A High Net Worth and No Cash People want to invest. I have been an active investor for years, not in the standard stuff (stock market, real
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The police came, advised me to lock my doors and call 999 if he shows up again. Neither knew what Doxing is, that it is a crime, or what livestreaming
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We still need full details on the government's catch-up programme, but Sir Kevan's appointment is a really promising sign.https://www.tes.com/news/pm-appoints-sir-kevan-collins-covid-catch-tsar Some more thoughts - Thread alert What
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PLAYBOOK PM: THE LAST GASP? … SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI is hosting Senate Minority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER, White House COS MARK MEADOWS and Treasury Secretary STEVEN MNUCHIN to the Capitol today
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1/ Thread: Shamelessly stolen...A Day in the Life of Sue RepublicanSue gets up at 6 a.m. and fills her coffeepot with water to prepare her morning coffee. The water is
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Fanon called the black body ‘phobogenic’ prone becoming the repository of white/colonial neurotic projections. Part of what happens to black bodies in white spaces is a reproduction rather re-enactment of
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Thread time! In the preface to The World and Africa, W.E.B. Du Bois laments not being able to use the classicist Frank M. Snowden Jr.'s research on black people in
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Who will chase the bad guys now? A thread. I’ve had a few days to digest it. The BBC doesn’t want me. I’m being made redundant. Okay.But I need to
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I'm not a fan of many of the founders. They were terrible human beings. But I am a fan of some of their ideas. Patrick Henry declared: "we have done
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This is important. I just met up with a friend from church to discuss some social/political differences. We wanted to get more on the same page and encourage each other
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