#Incentives

Disturbing report from Axios that China has offered to pay for attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Obviously, important that the administration get to the bottom of this and keep
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11 controversial lessons I learned from my father on running a small business.While these lessons are not the gold standard.At times I've seen these to be true.A Thread. 1. If
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Finally an objective analysis (not a Crypto Twitter hot take) on SEC vs. Ripple from Joseph A. Hall, partner at Davis Polk.Key Takeaways:1. Loosing against Ripple could "epically damage" the
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1/ Homeowners can get guaranteed high returns through energy savings projects (thread)I've done many of them myself and now have ridiculously low energy bills, which PERMANENTLY lowers a fixed-costHere are
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The "marketplace of ideas" is at best an extremely strained metaphor and at worst a completely misleading one. Arguably the key feature of the actual marketplace is completely absent in
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Just taking a sec to reflect on how experts really got masks entirely wrong. Something technocratic libs/dems need to deal with. This robs science and "experts" of so much credibility.
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This year I’ve been part of many conversations about society’s current problems and the future we want live in.Productive dialogues naturally center oppressive systems (white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, authoritarianism, etc)
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Today I voted on a controversial downtown development in Times Mirror Square.I wanted to take the opportunity to dig into this vote, its implications, and what’s next. (thread) I share
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On 2 December, @EU_ScienceHub ran its 5th workshop of its series "#Science4Policy Across Europe", this time on the role of universities and research institutes.: http://bit.ly/2Sy7Tyz >50 participants from across joined
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This article really hits home the problem in Kansas City.@QuintonLucasKC likes to talk about how increasing supply of luxury units is "trickle down economics". But, that's exactly what city policy
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Extremely low odds of instant gratification vs significantly higher payoffs of delayed wealth creation!Fascinated by lottery sales explosion in Kerala(last year was approx 12000cr).Over 79 million lottery tickets sold every
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There's no question that our nation is despairing over COVID-19. It feels like people have given up, or are heedlessly killing each other with this virus. That, if only we
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This is fascinating thread on the mechanics of the breakdown in political discourse, but for better/worse, that seems to be only symptomatic of a much more fundamental societal failure, triggered
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Science is fake and nutrition science the fakest of all.Food surveys only get worse when you realize that many American's idea of a serving of meat is actually fried breaded
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Enter the age of Renewable Energy Fintwit. As @EnergyCynic and I were chatting this morning, we concluded #REFT is gonna be REKT... A primer on why these renewable investments are
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my job is very simple, i go around a store and fill carts for people who have put in online orderslet me explain how this minimum wage job is at
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