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Thu, 23 Jan 2020

ECB to launch review that will redefine its mission and tools under Lagarde. “Climate Change - just what every central bank should focus on.”

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Sat, 18 Jan 2020

New US Bill Wants to Assign Cybersecurity Coordinators to Each State

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Wed, 15 Jan 2020

Woman of 24 found to have no cerebellum in her brain. [“Plasticity”? Maybe. Or maybe brains don’t work how we think they do. The poor track record of fMRI comes to mind.]

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Sun, 12 Jan 2020

'Pretty much everybody prosecuted gets convicted:' Carlos Ghosn exposes Japan to new scrutiny. [Interesting]

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Thu, 09 Jan 2020

U.S. Cancer Death Rate Drops by Largest Amount on Record - WSJ

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Wed, 08 Jan 2020

Idaho Republican Party Passes Antiwar Resolutions: "We’re not going away, our voice is only going to grow louder and stronger, and soon it’ll be heard in state capitals all across the country"

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IRS adds specific crypto question to 2019 tax form: “ 2020 will see at least one tax evasion case of a high-profile early adopter.”

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Ukrainian airliner (737) crashes in Iran, killing all aboard (176 people)

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Mon, 06 Jan 2020

Borden Becomes Second Big U.S. Milk Producer to File for Bankruptcy: “Conventional milk producers have struggled amid rising milk prices and competition from almond, rice and soy milk.”

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Mon, 23 Dec 2019

Another day, another celeb doing the one-eye thing. This is dumb. The article is titled: "For Beyonce, Creativity is the Ultimate Power". Creativity is only powerful when you're rich.

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Bill Introduced To End Draft Registration: “we are closer to ending draft registration than at any time since...the Selective Service System was reinstated in 1980.”

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When you’re about to get cranked up fighting with your spouse, remember...

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Fri, 20 Dec 2019

StockX CEO Scott Cutler: “There’s also the prospect of synthetic investment products [derivatives] based on the price of sneakers...where the underlying assets don’t change hands” [Sneaker derivatives. Tulip mania 17.0]

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Thu, 19 Dec 2019

FCA investigates HFT access to Bank of England meeting audio feed: “We have identified that an audio feed of certain Bank press conferences...has been misused...to supply services to other external clients”

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Wed, 18 Dec 2019

Boris Johnson and ministers to boycott Davos: “...can make a case to ‘inward investors into the UK more efficiently’”. [“inward” as a verb? The Silicon Valley everything-can-be-a-verb crap is off the rails.]

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Tue, 17 Dec 2019

I kind of rolled my eyes at the "one eye covered" stuff. But, I keep seeing it. This picture of Reese Witherspoon just popped up on an Apple News email. What kind of weird, were-in-a-secret-club signaling is this?

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Massive bill calls for $1.4 trillion in federal spending: “...most of the provisions of the spending bill enjoy bipartisan support” [One thing both sides always agree on - spending sh**loads of other people’s money.]

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Sun, 15 Dec 2019

“Text is so much easier to take as much time as you want to think about it”[But this is a problem because that’s not the way real life works. It doesn’t prepare you for actual social interaction.]

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Thu, 12 Dec 2019

Brookline, MA bans gas hookups on new houses: but “...the region’s electricity grid relies mainly on natural gas.” [So, you must use electricity, not gas. But the electricity will be generated by natural gas. 🤪]

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Wed, 11 Dec 2019

U.S. Army to fund rare earths plants.

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