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2021 Outlook: The Year of Testing ResiliencyAfter a recap of the previous 3years of Outlooks, I'll delve into the structural setups that 2021+ looks to deliver us in the macro
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Reasons Why Afrika Fell To Europeans & ArabsCivilisations rise and fall, but the fall of a whole continent is quite something. We have working theories from scholars pertaining to this
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So what makes a government "legitimate" (شرعي) ? This is an interesting question to explore, because it leads back to the sources of law. Among modern states, a government is
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.@NYCCouncil is holding a hearing on a package of bills related to school safety. One calls for transferring oversight of school safety agents from the NYPD to the DOE. Another
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@RudyGiuliani @LLinWood @MattBraynard (long thread) Election officials committed possible postal fraud when they distributed ballots via nonprofit postage. Election officials get reduced postage rates via NVRA of 1993 for voter
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Jim Barksdale once said: “Two ways to make money in tech: bundling & unbundling.” It's true.Systems get unbundled. Platforms get unbundled. Companies get unbundled. This thread will highlight essays &
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From 2014, Qatar invested 10 billion investment with China's Citic. They were looking for new partners as it planed to invest between $15 billion and $20 billion in Asia in
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Great article by @noamscheiber about Biden team's aim to have a rational national industrial policy. The basic issue: can one come up with overnment policies that will help make the
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Thread: On realism and Iraq. @McFaul, affronted that some in US progressive politics are calling for a "progressive realist" foreign policy, insists: realism is responsible for war and destruction over
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1/22 Is #technology taking us forward, or actually taking us back in time?(Long thread) 2/22 There is the story of King Kakudmi who travels to meet Brahma. He thinks this
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FINDING A REPLACEMENT FOR SERGIO RAMOS: DATA ANALYSIS[A THREAD] After arriving in the Spanish capital in 2005, Sergio Ramos has had an iconic career for the Los Blancos. While his
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Why did the (U.S. Capitol) Police fail to contain yesterday's insurrection? My thoughts on strategic and tactical police restraint and racism (a thread) (1/20) The media, policymakers and the police
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A couple weeks ago I created a thread about logging into Windows. Have you ever wondered how that works for things like Remote Desktop?https://twitter.com/SteveSyfuhs/status/1297957799079510018 The first thing the client does
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Let’s talk about the fact that both the attack rate and the death rate among the young is indeed very low with COVID19, unlike most prior pandemics. And let’s speculate
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For Valentine's Day weekend I will be tweeting out links to pre-60's British films directed by women. It was a tougher road for females to crack the director's chair in
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What role does previous exposure to seasonal coronaviruses play in disease severity for COVID-19?New paper (great thread from @VirusesImmunity below) provides some evidence, but I don't think it can explain
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