#Leverage

Back in court for the sex assault trial of former Ottawa Police rookie Sharmarke Ali, 34. The complainant is on the witness stand this morning. She is 19 yo. I
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"As gatekeepers of the digital economy, these platforms enjoy the power to pick winners and losers and shakedown small business, and enrich themselves while choking off competitors." — RI Rep.
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Remember $5B startup that laid off mostly white guys with $$$ but didn’t give women/POC that option and increased their workload/cut pay instead? Meet @toasttab board: @steve_fredette @kentbennett @davelyuan @LeadEdgeCapital
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1. Why we invested in http://Maps.me Not financial advice. 2. Introduction2.1. Sino Global Capital is excited to announce our investment in @MAPS_ME (https://maps.me/ ). In this investment thesis, we will share our
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I was quite pleased with this as a brief summary what I take to be the most counterproductive arguments made on the political left. However, it might be worth elaborating
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THREAD: Pausing from the US election, what is it happening in #CotedIvoire, which also held a contentious presidential election recently? I am going to discuss here why Cote d'Ivoire 2020
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Thread: 2021 is gearing up to be a difficult year for human rights. It's all a question of seeing how individual comments and policies create a pattern, but that in
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The National Labor Relations Board, and its structure and processes, and the terms it uses, and the terms journalists use for what it does are confusing: a (dry but hopefully
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Will re-read.https://worldmodels.github.io/  Really good summary of the article. Looking forward to learning about more recent developments with this work.@hardmaru https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzA8LRqhujk Seems like this work also
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Don't know how many people in India are keeping tab on dangerous turn #Pakistan domestic politics is taking due to various external & internal reasons.But what's happening has far reaching
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Through a cruel twist of fate, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has become perhaps the most powerful man in Washington https://www.wired.com/story/the-relief-package-ushers-in-trumps-planned-economy/?emci=1a8f097f-f874-ea11-a94c-00155d03b1
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The president's son made a deal with Russian intelligence to agree to unlock their sanction Mob money laundering in exchange for the service of Russia's spy services attacking American democracy.
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Hello San Francisco. I'm attending a hearing of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Land Use and Transportation Committee, watching an item on maximizing affordable housing on public land. Supervisor
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My latest story in the fiercely independent @BylineTimes gets down to brass “tax”.https://bylinetimes.com/2020/12/01/the-tax-man-cometh-robert-mercer-william-barr-and-trumps-chinese-bank-account/ 1/ Upon his retirement as Supervisory Sp
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Some useful mental models worth knowing: Efficient markets (and the efficient market hypothesis): Prices adjust until quantity supplied = quantity demanded, and that this can result in an "efficient" distribution
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Government beyond neighborhood scale is 90% corner cases. Defaults need low governance. Eg. If everybody drove carefully and there was universal healthcare you could get by with low traffic regulation.
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