#Consumption

artsyhonker/Kathryn

artsyhonker

A thing about economics that is currently biting us in the arse pretty hard is that resilience at extremes requires decisions that seem inefficient in normal circumstances. Examples: staffing levels,

@simpolism

simpolism

Excellent framing of "instinct vs drive" and the relation of drive satisfaction to social vs individual interventions.https://twitter.com/4Q248/status/1276389880407429120 I especially like these paragraphs, that see @4Q248 alignin

Vaishnavi Suresh

vaishnaviisure1

Ok since Shruti's hot takes get worse each time, I'm going to try to break down everything wrong with this tweet from an environmental perspective. Like she says, I will

Sam Asher

thesamasher

Are night lights (NL) a reliable proxy for local GDP?An answer, in our paper “Development Research at High Geographic Resolution” aka the SHRUG paper (forthcoming at WBER). 1/14TL;DR: don’t trust

Anya Volz

AnyaVolz

I am cackling at a lot of the jokes being made about the Chris D'Elia situation because jokes do tend make me cackle but also!!!! Please do not act like

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

One of the machine learning researchers I follow closely is @petewarden, who writes extensively about the hardware side of ML, something we hear very little about beyond vague accounts of

Sam Vinograd

sam_vinograd

1. If intelligence that China paid non-state actors to kill Americans in Afghanistan is verified, it is a marked - and unacceptable - shift for the PRC.https://www.axios.com/scoop-trump-admin-declassifies-unconfirmed-intel-on-chinese-bounti

Alex Iskold | 2048 Ventures | 🤖 🚀💡

alexiskold

1/ We spend a lot of time @2048vc ventures talking about API business models .They come in several flavors.Aggregators and Adapters .Thread 2/ The simplest way to think about

Scott Wahlstrom

scottwahlstrom

This is my oil burner, fuel tank, and the last 125 gallons of fuel oil I plan to purchase. My wife and I have committed to a #ResidentialGeothermalRetrofit project that

Faisal Al Yafai

FaisalAlYafai

Was Abu Nuwas an Arab? / A Thread. So this week @newlinesmag we published @alexjrowell's unsurprisingly popular essay about the love early Arab poets had for wine. (Unsurprising because it

Dr. Asatar Bair

asatarbair

Markets, socialism, and communism: a threadMarkets tend to excel at exchanges that are less important (e.g. lemonade) and become monstrous with things that truly matter (e.g. kidneys) Adam Smith defined

Do Marlay Ka Moonh

2paisay

My data formatting for the discount rate comes in handy for looking at textile sector. Reportedly we have broken export records in Dec'20. Analyzing SBP data will enable us to

Peter Ganong

p_ganong

If stimulus checks were larger, would people spend more? Natural starting point: how were the checks that went out in April and May spent?tldr: we have no idea estimates all

Peter Daszak

PeterDaszak

Taking part in the @WHO @rd_blueprint Global Research & Innovation Forum today. Here's a comment from @DrMikeRyan: "Countries w/ govts that communicate complex science directly to the public, & use

Luca Fornaro

LucaFornaro3

Over the last 30 years, various factors have pushed up the global saving supply and depressed interest rates (https://twitter.com/profsufi/status/1272564374599864321?s=20). But the investment response has been lukewarm at best. So why

Justin Norman

just_norm

I'm a bit wary of Facebook's infrastructure investments in Sub-Saharan Africa. They just published a report:https://www.analysysmason.com/contentassets/f8a396952f9c4481982c674724d85356/the-impact-of-facebooks-connectivity-initiative

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