Alan Cole

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Alan Cole

Alan Cole

@AlanMCole

International and Federal Taxes @taxfoundation High Priest of #DBCFT Twitter

Washington, DC Katılım Temmuz 2012
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Alan Cole
Alan Cole@AlanMCole·
@StefanFSchubert A very funny one is "Brunswick," which is actually a completely fair and literal translation AFAIK, but it translates *so* well that it actually feels native to both languages. (The Dutch also use this: Wijk aan Zee and such are the same wick/weig.)
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Stefan Schubert
Stefan Schubert@StefanFSchubert·
The English translations of some German place names give a profoundly different vibe: Schlesien (sounds harsh) - Silesia (sounds Elven) Pfalz - Palatinate Köln - Cologne
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Alan Cole@AlanMCole·
@actsmaniac Oh nooo. You have now learned about one of the most salient US union rules. They cannot stay working beyond their scheduled shift. It’s ironclad. I suppose Europeans see rules like this more often, but for us only flight crews really seem to have rules this strict.
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what the hell do you this late at night if you get deboarded? do they give you a hotel? a flight the next day? still sitting in the plane at this moment but they said they need new pilots....
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Dirty Texas Hedge@HedgeDirty·
A major, possibly unsolveable, problem blue states now have with the DSA is that longterm business and investment decisions are not made based just on current policy but (sometime explicitly, usually implicitly) on a weighted average of all future policy in the Overton window
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Alan Cole@AlanMCole·
@IrvingSwisher In the end, everything is forward guidance other than like hiding in your closet and submitting your interest rate decisions, sans commentary, using a telegraph wire and Morse code.
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𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯@atlanticesque·
I WAS SEARCHING FOR THE QUOTE NOT TALKING TO YOU I'M NEVER TALKING TO YOU
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Robert VerBruggen@RAVerBruggen·
"I want to get paid what you pay for that job." "Good news, we can transfer you into that job right now!" "No, I want the pay but not the job!"
Paul Novosad@paulnovosad

Interesting, from @ATabarrok: These laws in Britain are demanding, at gunpoint, that apples and oranges sell for the same price because they’re both fruit.

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Alan Cole@AlanMCole·
@Tyler_Menzer @Duderichy Yeah, I was about to draw this analogy. There are 1800 characters in the lyrics to Piano Man, but in practice those lyrics are wildly compressible in memory. Turns out that the music side is also wildly compressible, except maybe the piano solo if you want to get it exact.
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Tyler Menzer
Tyler Menzer@Tyler_Menzer·
@Duderichy @AlanMCole I think the point is that "note/chords" is the wrong unit. Remembering my name is not the same as "memorizing 5 letters"
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the Rich@Duderichy·
was curious about how many notes the guitarist for one of my favorite bands has to have memorized per show... pretty wild the amount of things people can memorize.
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Alan Cole@AlanMCole·
@captgouda24 Whaaa? I totally assumed you would have always been skinny.
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Alan Cole@AlanMCole·
@memeticsisyphus When it was about him, she dismissed it as "light misogyny," but now that she can reformulate it to be about all men, she finds her more dramatic lexicon again.
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Alan Cole@AlanMCole·
Guy who wants Argentina to take the Falklands in order to restore Thatcher's legacy of right-market-liberalism.
Agustín Romo@agustinromm

@Nigel_Farage Las Malvinas son Argentinas. And the UK is a muslim third world shithole.

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Alan Cole@AlanMCole·
@billyez2 Gay centrist hacks are Heroes, all of them. 🥰
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Billy Easley II@billyez2·
was at a party and within 10 minutes of meeting a new friend they said, "you're one of those gay centrist hacks aren't you? I bet you go to Vida"
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Alan Cole@AlanMCole·
@stanfordNYC Most of the time this is nonsense, especially in its most famous forms like Graeber. For a narrow enough version where you're talking about the most "lefty identity talk" majors and careers, Vance would be right.
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Alan Cole@AlanMCole·
Both "slop" and "vibe" were popular words right as AI broke onto the scene, earning them a place in the AI discourse lexicon. But while "AI slop" fundamentally makes sense as a newly coined phrase, the neologism "vibecode" is a disaster. Using automation is not a "vibe!"
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits·
Strong representation from the blind community at this hearing. Several other blind people have testified about the ways AVs would give them independence and make their trips faster and more predictable.
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Timothy B. Lee
Timothy B. Lee@binarybits·
The likely next mayor of DC, Janeese Lewis George, asked some perceptive questions at this morning's DC council hearing on autonomous vehicles. youtube.com/watch?v=tFFhC_…
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Alan Cole@AlanMCole·
@JHWeissmann Wat? Aren't you from NYC? I am from DC through and through and I knew about it.
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Jordan Weissmann
Jordan Weissmann@JHWeissmann·
So I somehow never knew about Prep for Prep until last night, but the fact that there’s a program that sends 600 or so of the city’s top performing black and Hispanic students to exclusive private schools for free seems like it should affect this conversation
Lincoln Restler@LincolnRestler

1 in 5 NYC public school students are Black, but at Stuy - our most prestigious high school - 3 of ~800 incoming Freshmen are Black. We urgently need state legislation to modify the admissions process. A single test should never be only factor deciding who gets in & who doesn’t.

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Alan Cole@AlanMCole·
@ibflorea Sometimes the wife makes them, but Graham did not have a wife.
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Alan Cole@AlanMCole·
@ibflorea Old guys, especially workaholic old guys, like to avoid going to the doctor for heart stuff.
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