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East Boston is ground zero for the displacement and affordability crisis. Today, @bostonplans will vote on a Suffolk Downs PDA to create 10k units of new housing, almost none of
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Army officers: some of you need to update your resumes (an only slightly alarmist thread…) Due to a change in board procedures surrounding "adverse information," the hard truth is many
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THREAD to roughly set out my thinking on housing.The UK housing market is skewed by a lack of supply vs demand causing the housing crisis. Building houses will address this
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Short version: Anti-Semitism constructs itself as a conspiracy theory about how the world works, and blames powerful shadowy Jewish figures for all problems. This invariably lands on any Jews who
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Many enterprise IT departments have become big fans of an “API-first“ strategy. I think that in general, this is a bad idea. (Thread) When you start with APIs, you really
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An utterly naive article. Retaliation is completely the wrong word. Nor is it a question of us cooperating with China. We wanted to, but it chose to withhold crucial data
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Anti-vaxxers are some of the worst people on the planet!! Right now a lot of autistic people are stuck in quarantine with abusive family members. Anti-Vaxxers encourage people to see
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Why are the social sciences so bad at predicting and explaining phenomena? I often hear three answers to this question, and none of them are satisfactory.First, there is the appeal
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The furore over the United Airlines announcement that they are trying to increase the size of their pilot talent pool by opening up opportunities to under-represented groups is both totally
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1/n Covid has brought out some attributes of AMCs - that need contemplation and change. Every AMC needs to go back to the drawing board to see which of their
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There are 2+ reasons Seattle doesn’t mandate inclusionary units & allows developers to pay a few “in lieu” of putting the affordable units on site. It’s not some elaborate Marvel
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Scotland announces options for exit strategy:- @NicolaSturgeon says some restrictions will remain longer than others- Still stay at home if symptomatic- Social distancing would continue- gathering at pubs or public
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1|A short thread on the prospects of Taliban-India relations:India has long feared a Taliban ruled AFG as a threat for its national security. This could have been true in those
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#CommunicationGap1. We are busy building own arguments to ditch a person without trying to reach what s/he is saying2. We are inclined towards discussion that never meant to reach conclusion,
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This is 100% wrong. Rare events with significant health impact regularly result in FDA clinical holds, temporary restrictions in distribution, or even permanent withdrawal. The FDA is more apt to
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Durgam Cheravu/ the Secret Lake.Hiden by Rock formations, guarded by the Banjaras; the water from the lake reached Golconda Fort through hidden channels. This was the reason the Fort could
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