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Quantitative urbanism / quantitative finance. "It was in any case on his finger."

Null Island
Joined April 2009
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Came here to the “indict a ham sandwich” jokes and was not disappointed
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Replying to @charlesmurray
But how are Trump's tariffs about fairness when the calculation is (US trade deficit / imports from that country / 2)? It's one thing to match the actual tariffs other countries put on the US, but that's not the case. The “reciprocal” tariffs target US trade deficits. Saying that this response is about fairness assumes that any trade deficit is caused by systemic unfairness (what is this, critical trade theory?)
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North Shore traffic backed up miles after workers at shuttered 19th century Lowell factories rush back to work as mills roar to life following Trump tariffs
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Incredible that Cory Booker has gone 24+ hours without blinking
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As usual, alpha, once revealed, is immediately arbed away
tremendous alpha right now in sending your wife photos of yall converted to studio ghibli anime
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Aside from the horrid self-interest, this is also completely wrong. Planning jobs are directly correlated to new development. More new development - more planning jobs, even if we lift the regulatory burden that limits development.
abundance agenda urban planners have no capacity to understand that the profession cannot exist if development is deregulated. we literally maintain regulations, that’s what planning is. this is not the best era to advocate for your own unemployment.
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Patrick retweeted
abundance agenda urban planners have no capacity to understand that the profession cannot exist if development is deregulated. we literally maintain regulations, that’s what planning is. this is not the best era to advocate for your own unemployment.
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By this logic my credit card is a “magic money computer that sends payments out of nothing”
An absolute bombshell from @elonmusk on the latest episode of Verdict. He reveals there are 14 magic money computers in the federal government that send money out of nothing. Don’t miss the latest episode of Verdict wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Do people know what a cliffhanger is? Stopping the episode when a plot point is achieved is not a cliffhanger
so severance is just cliffhanger slop?? rugged again
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Cliffhanger: character is in a car crash and episode ends before you find out if they survived Not a cliffhanger: character goes on a journey and at the end reveals something new. Episode ends before you find out implications to other characters
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World’s most overconfident man pokes around inside world’s most critical system on suggestions from world’s dumbest people. What could go wrong?
The @DOGE team is rapidly shutting down these illegal payments
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Preliminary analysis of the crash of flight 5342 today suggests a possible factor might have been the helicopter pilot accidentally looking at AAL3130, a larger plane landing behind 5342, on a different approach but visually close and possibly brighter than the closer, smaller 5342.
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Plastic boards are better because you can actually wash them in water hot enough to sanitize without ruining them, unlike wood
Friendly reminder: if your chopping board looks like this, please throw it away immediately
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Friendly reminder: if your chopping board looks like this, please throw it away immediately
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Replying to @cavecreep
Hell yeah
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You rang?
I'm sorry, £200k to run the entire Civil Service?
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Congratulations to your mother for making it into the NYT
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People are recognizing more and more - whether by great size or by great promiscuity - your mother is close to most of the country
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