Day 3 with a Green mayor and the number of bins on this corner has already doubled
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Henry Roberts
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Henry Roberts
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London Katılım Mayıs 2016
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@MattZeitlin The BBC calculated what the murder rate was on one of the more ludicrous detective shows and it's hilariously high for rural England and yet still well below the US homicide rate
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British crime shows are hilarious because there’s like 30 gun homicides a year
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@WalkerMarcus Can you imagine Britain requesting exemptions from the free movement provisions of a pan European political union which it belonged to?
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A larger percent of left-wing Americans say they attend religious services at least monthly than right-wing Britons
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@KooHo_jin I can't wait until this filters through to British growth posters about how $70k is poor in America
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This is how Megyn Kelly thinks the historic St Nicholas looked
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🚨🇮🇷 JUST IN: Iran's Supreme Leader recites 'azaan' to the newborn son of a martyred soldier. Meanwhile, Western leaders are eating babies.
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@ROX_Hojin @nickisafraud Need to do a synethic control of israel since 1967
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@_night_brain__ The state of north Carolina will do this if you become very good at basketball
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I wonder if any large state entity will pay me to learn Swahili now that I've discovered the grammar is really cool
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Maoist Zimbabwean guerilla fighter known as Margaret Thatcher
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@ROX_Hojin When I did it with the entire post WWII Congress corpus I think it ran for like 10 hours
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@KooHo_jin @jwhandley17 cambridge.org/core/journals/…
I used this to do it for MPs a couple years ago (I'm sure the methodology has advanced since) but it seemed to perform way worse than the authors' results for American legislators (and the word vector projections seemed much less related to ideology)
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@hbjroberts @jwhandley17 my primary goal is to see if constituency characteristics affect the ideal points of MPs (particularly interested if MPs in marginal seats are closer to the points of their primary competitor) and then maybe see how party medians affect frontbench member ideal points
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@jwhandley17 @KooHo_jin I don't know how you'd systemize it but I feel like you could do a compelling paper about how the extent to which speeches reveal ideal points tells you about party discipline etc
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@nickisafraud @duncanrobinson That feeling when you're a MENRY (mid-earner, not rich yet) Henry
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@jwhandley17 I suppose the problem more comes if a sharply rising capital share of income makes democracy more unstable
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A lot of the AI-induced economic doom prognostications I see involve the capital share of income rising massively but then appear not to give a single thought to how democratic societies are likely to respond to that
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They’re dividing Lafayette, Indiana like it’s the holy city of Jerusalem
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I would take this deal in a heartbeat
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@ROX_Hojin Yes and even when you use the continuous measure itself in a regression it's nonsense to interpret. "$1000 increase in GDP per capita is associated with a 0.2 point increase in democracy" - statements spoken by the utterly deranged
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