The event and the insect are spelled the same, after all.
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Noah Smith: That's too many people in a meeting.
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The study's use of multiple different countries is interesting. Presumably the fact that the main outliers are *recent* US elections mean that we're likely to 'regress to the mean', but who knows?
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Sudden spikes in pay drive innovation in automation, hopefully jolting us to permanently higher productivity. Plus, they're reportedly "becoming easier to use", so I guess both costs and improving technology are driving this.
Thanos is pretty clearly bearing the infinity gauntlet on his arm, seems cut and dry from a legal perspective. BTW, it's quite out of date, but I've never forgotten this 1995 article on the Second Amendment.
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