#Future

New paper on national differences in time preference.Combines many different measures (e.g. survey questions and field studies), standardizes them and extracts a common factor. Blue: people on average wait for
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As today is #WorldCPDay, I wanted to mark the day by showing some of my achievements to date as a young woman who lives with CP from the last 5
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"There's no point in resisting the GOP unless you have the votes to stop them" is a toxic idea that has infected too many Democrats. FIRST, resistance sends a political
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A lot of white people need to be deprogrammed. It felt weird to use that word at first, but I honestly think it’s the right one. Like they’re mostly okay.
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Don't wanna have this whole dumb argument again, but I will quickly explain why Gates' (and similar tech dudes') rhetoric bugs me. First, by way of preface & forestalling familiar
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shout out to the kids on the other side of gifted kids who were publicly singled out in class for being bad at shit and never developed the self esteem
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F*ck Labour; we had a chance for real change for tens of millions of people, current generations, older generations and future generations, but factions stabbed us all in the back
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Breaking: I've never seen anything like this. But you can't buy oil anymore. They are now paying you $56/barrel to take it. Yes, the price of a barrel is now
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If you still find yourself asking 'How do I write a resignation letter?' 'How do you deliver a resignation letter?' Then go through this thread A resignation letter gives you
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1/n-A thread on #books. Please bookmark, RT, do whatever..but more than anything, I hope you read these books.Some of my favorite books that gave me 'clarity' about life, the beginning
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“Like” for the Future lyric that reminds me of you @Kburns_ as reference to your hoop skills: “we ballin like the March madness.” Simple. Easy. Relevant. @emba23 you don’t get
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a thread of jeongin’s vocals ♥︎ one of his lines in top i don’t care what you say but his voice here makes me so calm and feel at rest
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you have to understand where the madoka franchise is at by the time magia record rolls out. theres the success and shock of rebellion, whose ending feels stilted because it
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Essentially, the #UCP govt is going to liquidate our parks, watersheds, forests, and other public goods and transfer the proceeds to private interests. Then they'll all leave town. 1/n #abpoli
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Okay, so I just learned something about inhibition that is kind of blowing my mind.I tend to think of inhibition as "acting without thinking." But it's much more than that,
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Metaphor is one of the most powerful tools for writers, but also technologists.It goes far beyond comparison. @gerogelakoff's "Conceptual Metaphor Theory" is the basis for understanding how every new technology
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