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and that's why Arizona needs more money to beef up security on their land border with [checks notes] China
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Granting that there are some logistical snags with distribution as well as public ignorance, I think people who want to do more to protect the vulnerable from Covid should focus on *solving those problems* so people can get the medicine they need.
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New York state has allotted millions of dollars to turn hotels into affordable housing. But onerous zoning laws has made the plan impossible to implement, via @SamMellins
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Big news from Russia today is that China's payment system UnionPay which was widely advertised in Russia as an alternative to Visa/Mastercard, has refused to cooperate with Russia's largest bank Sberbank our of fear of being sanctioned by the West.
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Most importantly, due to sanctions, these vehicles are mostly not getting replaced.
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WRT Netflix, I think people are underestimating the extent to which further growth is inherently hard once you reach a certain scale.
The Slow Boring growth curve has flattened out a lot; my best customers already signed up.
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If you look at birth years of presidential candidates back to 1789 they typically follow each other by 4-8 years as you'd expect (1732, 1735, 1743, 1751 etc)
Then in 1992 we hit people born in the 1940s and it just grinds to an absolute halt...
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Musk actually did fight Putin for the future of Ukraine...but it wasn't a boxing match.
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Unless they sent @DonaldShoup, exporting US parking regulations is probably the most dangerous thing we could do short provoking a nuclear war.
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I guess that explains why the Second International didn't implode in 1914 and instead went on to usher in a new age of international solidarity.
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