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watching Americans fight Indians over the superior bat-and-ball sport is viscerally painful
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People will really be like "you believe in zoning reform? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, maladaptive violent daydreaming" and then maladaptively have violent daydreams
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I'm always saying this
Daily statistics reminder: you are assuming independence somewhere. It’s a very powerful assumption and I doubt statistics as a field could exist without it. However, that assumption is likely far more concerning than any choice of marginal distribution (eg Gaussian)
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whenever i am listening to rachmaninoff am like "to think this is the man who angel funded the helicopter, when no one else would"
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you would not guess from the tweet, but the numbers quoted as being from "new" research are calculated using the 2019/20 SIH
Almost nine in 10 households aged over 55 in Australia have at least one spare bedroom, and 60 per cent have two or more. That’s twice the rate of households aged 25 to 54, according to new research published in the GemLife Downsizing Australia Report. bit.ly/4dG2IGC
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“The Greens created and maintained a secret dossier that catalogued allegations against Senator Jordon Steele-John and set out ways to shut down media coverage and monitor members who raised concerns on social media.” By @jamesmassola theage.com.au/politics/feder…
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Remember, only the Nobel prize in economics is actually associated with the Sveriges Riksbank, the others in categories like "medicine" and "peace" have NO affiliation with the Swedish central bank at all.
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Weird how AI is so bad at writing but it keeps winning these literary awards
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"Britain partitioned Cyprus". Erm what.
No, as Muslims don’t claim to be an ethnic group or people, but Pakistan is a state that prioritizes religion, not ethnicity, over equal rights and I’m opposed to that as well, and have written and spoken before about the discrimination against Pakistani Shias, Christians and, especially, Ahmadis. I also think all of the ridiculous, divide-and-rule, British-led partitions of the postwar era, from the Middle East to the subcontinent to even Cyprus, to an extent, were a cynical disaster, obviously. Now, your desperate whataboutism and deflections aside, do you accept that Israel is an ethno-national state, because the Jewish nation-state law explicitly says “the right to exercise national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people” - not to the millions of Palestinians who live there. There are multiple laws and land quotas that privilege Jewish citizens above Palestinians citizens. So maybe, Dan, stick to internal Tory party politics for your Mail gossip columns and don’t make sweeping statements about big subjects you’ve never ever researched or even read a book about. en.wikisource.org/wiki/Full_…
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Britain never partitioned Cyprus. The 1960 Zurich-London agreements established a power-sharing republic between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. The 1974 division followed Turkey’s invasion after a Greek junta-backed coup aimed at enosis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_o…
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Tweeted something very slightly viral about supermarkets policy on Friday and now I have people arguing about Hitler in my replies
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there's the theory that BBC started out making such great television because everyone involved was innocent of television. They had grown up reading, they had come from theatre, scholarship, and so on. As the time before television recedes, television itself deteriorates.
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On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - October 9, 1990: This exchange in the Senate, one of my all-time favourite Hansard contributions...
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what's with the sudden rush of policy proposals that rely on people not knowing that colesworths have net profit margins of 2-3%
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The left and right across the West show little sign of slowing down their arms race to innovate on bad ideas.
Germany's Die Linke won last month's Berlin election on a pledge to socialize ~220k flats owned by large landlords. A thread on why housing expropriation is a successful campaign promise, how Berlin's flats became an asset class, and what expropriation would do. 🧵
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Believe it or not, America's 5 largest cities lie perfectly on a 4th-degree polynomial
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Big day for the stochastic parrots.
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You can do Fourier transforms in O(N log(N)^0.9999999999999) time. Fuck this gay chud universe
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