#Policy

Lyn Alden

LynAldenContact

Here’s a new thread on the dollar, swap lines, and the treasury market. With lots of charts.AKA “Why the global dollar shortage is not insurmountable.” There is $250+ trillion of

Liam Thornton

LTlaw_

The system of #directprovision is twenty years old today. #directprovision didn't always exist, Ireland didn't always institutionalise asylum applicants https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2685035 The @ExploringDP project make

Shreyas Doshi

shreyas

Let’s talk about High Agency: an attitude I’ve seen in every successful product manager & leader I’ve known.Some ppl are born/raised with High Agency. It can also be developed later

el gato malo

boriquagato

the first rule of economics is that resources are scarce and there are never enough goods or services to meet demand.the first rule of politics is to ignore the first

Hunter Walker

hunterw

I covered Bloomberg in City Hall for a couple years and have a few thoughts about his presidential candidacy now that it’s been officially announced. There was probably a legitimate

Doug Ducey

dougducey

I hear @JoeBiden is out there attacking the “Republican governor of Arizona.” I guess he *does* see “red and blue” states after all. But if you’re going after AZ, Joe,

Wolfie Christl

WolfieChristl

Location data secretly gathered from smartphone apps is potentially flawed, biased, untrustworthy or even fraudulent.Overview of data harvesting companies who claim to help fighting the virus by providing data on

Dan Worth

DanWorth

I'll be live-tweeting the #ioedebates latest talk starting in five minutes discussing the 'somewhat' debate-creating line 'What if... we got rid of GCSEs?' - should make for some interesting opinions...

David Wallace-Wells

dwallacewells

How bad will climate change get? Sometimes things change so quickly you hardly notice, and over the last year, amidst climate horrors and climate suffering, the good news has come

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

I felt it may useful to summarise the various intervention strategies available to us to manage the Covid-19 pandemic. So far, there are three basic strategies that have been considered.

David Neiwert

DavidNeiwert

1) A thread about Sarah Palin, who in many ways was the key figure in the transformation of the Republican Party into the know-nothing, anti-science, conspiracy-theory-loving, cultishly authoritarian Party of

Peter Foster

pmdfoster

Why is Jeremy Corbyn so unpopular? His net approval rating is 'minus 60' - that's heroically, historically poor. But why? And is there a way back, like 2017?Been pondering with

LookNoFurther

LookNoFurther4

#Remember https://look.substack.com/p/the-sullivan-brothers 2. The Sullivan family first heard the news that their five sons had died at Guadalcanal from neighbors. So their mother wrote this letter of inquiry to the

File411

File411

I am going to point out WHY you should pay attention to this tweet.This (mini) thread will make a lot of folks in the legal community uncomfortable.But someone needs to

Atomsk's Sanakan

AtomsksSanakan

1/HThere was a recent effort to champion Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) as a non-expert who speaks uncomfortable truths experts don't want to hear.That's misguided, as we can see by examining how

Stacey - 1776 & MLK

ScotsFyre

One seriously has to wonder why some ideas or inputs were not considered in modeling the COVID outbreak. There are several reputable researchers who had a different take that seems