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In a business where the buying & selling price is fixed by the government, how is that the sugar stocks are rallying so much?A thread to learn how the
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Changing meaning of the Chicks / Dixie Chicks controversy in cultural memory (a thread) My main area of interest concerns how the meaning of cultural artifacts and phenomena change over
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If I walk in a party and say “what the hell going on up in here?” I’m in for a good time. Really used to walk in like: Then turn
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Twitter made me mad today. Must be time for an #RVAMayor Campaign thread!Incumbent Mayor Stoney says "I choose Richmond." WTF does this mean? Lots of things. But it also suggests
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A thread about a small thing that is actually a very big thing indeed, and highlights perfectly how the UK media distorts any news about trans people at its very
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If you are producing or consuming unemployment rate forecasts for April, know that these have to answer both an economic question (how many people stopped working?) and a measurement question
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THREAD: 1/7 THE SYNDICATE A month ago we placed three MLB World Series Futures bets and now we want to give out a 20% share of each one to you
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|Dr. Richard Páez has given me permission to share an 8-slide presentation he prepared for the 'Challenges & Issues of Venezuelan Football' forum held yesterday, which he was unable to
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This is @Comcast's 1000mbps/35mbps connection, ladies and gentlemen. And it's been like this for months during the day with no improvements.100ms+ ping and poor upload translates into multi-second delays in
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Pondering whether COVID-19 will be evidence-based medicine’s nemesis. Having saved lives for 25 years, EBM (narrowly interpreted) will now tend to increase deaths. Not yet convinced, but worried. 1/ As
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A thread about the marginal seats that will decide the next election..1. Aberdeen SouthTories ahead, but SNP could overtake them#TacticalVote https://www.livefrombrexit.com/tacticals/aberdeen-south 2. Alyn & DeesideLabour won last time, but Torie
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There will be lots of post mortems on the mistakes Sanders’ campaign made. They’ll all be right. His campaign made plenty of mistakes. But bottom line: Sanders doomed his campaign
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A thread on Hyeon Chung’s brilliant run at the 2018 AO Chung went into the tournament unseeded, but left as the first Korean player to make a major semifinal. After
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This thread is dedicated to the great quartet of Barrera, Marquez, Morales and PacquiaoThey gave us some great head to head battles and only a Marquez v Morales fight was
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Browser mediated ads: not yet a set future. Should the browser take a role in the ad stack? Does it make sense for browsers to not just run scripts, but
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Brexit stockpile reality. Practical tips from a guy who has thought about things and who knows how to eat frugally. Tip. Buy a pressure cooker from a cheap and cheerful
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