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Ryan Duff

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When people talk about 'English culture', they often think of cricket, tea, or fish & chips 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 But culture isn't about what people eat and wear. It's about norms, habits, and systems of social organisation. A 🧵 on the systems and norms which make England genuinely unique

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Wow. Korea is running a trade deficit in kimchi With China of course ... Talk about taking over global goods supply! 1/2

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The more "Woke" the Finnish political party or position, the greater the average level of reported anxiety.

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Park Ave used to have an actually park running down the middle. Then in the 1920s the median was shrunk to make more room for cars. And now great news: a new plan will restore the median, more than doubling its width, adding walkways, benches & landscaping, from 46th to 57th St.

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Incredible: "Tim Walz is the first person on either the top or bottom half of a Democratic presidential ticket since 1980 who didn't attend law school. That is 20 individuals across 10 elections over 40 years who pursued a JD or LLB." V good Ganesh column: ft.com/content/837112…


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I'll let others argue the effect of inflation on housing costs. Here are 16 other ways that Biden-Harris made new houses more expensive, whether owned or rented. They tightened regulations on: microwave ovens (88 FR 39912), conventional ovens (89 FR 11434), 1/3


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Given that the US is the R&D lab for the world, the positive innovation spillovers from this migration are likely very large. See full paper from @prithwic @inaganguli @patrick_gaule here: nber.org/papers/w31308


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India is in fact sending us their best. Here are migration rates for top scorers on their college entrance exam: 36% of top 1,000 scorers 62% of top 100 scorers 90% of top 10 scorers Twice as many migrate to the US as every other country combined 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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The age at which women have children is rising in many countries, making fertility rates look lower than they are in terms of cohort fertility (how many children women born in a particular year eventually get). Same in Sweden. x.com/StefanFSchuber…

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The total fertility rate (TFR) is a very tricky indicator. While the TFR has fluctuated around 1.75 in the last 30 years in Denmark, the average number of children per woman at age 45 (CFR) hasn't declined below 1.9. #demography #fertility #Denmark #Poland #Hungary

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China didn't steal your job. The Sunbelt did.

People focus on US manufacturing jobs going overseas. But check out the huge shift in US auto manufacturing jobs from Michigan and Ohio to California and Alabama.

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How well can LLM agents complete diverse tasks compared to skilled humans? Our preliminary results indicate that our baseline agents based on several public models (Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o) complete a proportion of tasks similar to what humans can do in ~30 minutes. 🧵

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Fascinating graph showing how much people report enjoying different activities. Much of it backs up common sense but here's what jumped out to me: 1. 'Computer games' are among the most enjoyable, probably deserve more respect. Clearly beat 'watching TV'. 2. 'Play with child'…

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Your periodic reminder that town planning used to be an Olympic event. John Hughes won gold for Team GB in 1932.

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Inside Iglesia del Rosario in San Salvador. One of the most unique churches. A brutalist structure designed by Rubén Martínez with the aim to bring people closer to God - unobstructed by needless ornament. It feels like it should have been in Eastern Europe, not Central America.


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A randomized trial in over 4,500 participants for surgical masks [2 weeks, public places] vs controls [no masks] found a 30% reduction (3/100 absolute) of respiratory symptoms consistent w/ infections bmj.com/content/386/bm… @Runar_Solberg @bmj_latest

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Child care in Canada is starting to look a lot like health care in Canada - nominally universal, but with long waiting lines acting as the implicit form of rationing, particularly for low-income parents

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Most Commonly Spoken South Asian Language Across North America

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He's apparently comparing *mean* home price with *median* household income New York and San Francisco matter a lot for the mean Not much for the median I did it a better way, and the log scale makes it easy to see the long term (nominal) trends Stay skeptical my friends

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This is the most boomer “avocado toast” response possible. See chart. Btw, do you have a cable bill every month?

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Scientists have been communicating with apes via sign language since the 1960s; apes have never asked one question.

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