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The researchers “use de-identified smartphone geolocation data for a sample of US phones from January 2019 to February 2020,” obtained “from an online data vendor that provides data commercially to businesses, governments, and researchers” and “works with numerous mobile application providers that track ‘pings’ of the location of a phone while the application is either currently in use or is running in the background.” Then they use the addresses of SEC offices and corporate headquarters, and then match the smartphone pings to the buildings. A smartphone is assumed to belong to an SEC employee if it “pinged for at least 20 unique workday hours within one SEC location during the month” and “the accumulated time in that SEC building [is] greater than in any other buildings in the respective month.” And then they go measure which companies those SEC employees visited.

Matt Levine casually mentioning this in an aside like it's normal

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centrists need to take a good long look in the mirror and take responsibility for how their moderate rhetoric has led to violence. maybe they could take a lesson from us, the rational, reasonable extremists,

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Maybe it's because I'm not a Democrat, but I don't think Nate Silver is that annoying. I guess he reads his own preconceptions into the data, but literally every pundit with a model does that. At the same time, I do think a lot of his commentary boils down to stuff like "the election is competitive" and "similar states will probably vote similarly," which conveys basically no information. And his new book seems like the kind of book you buy at the airport, read the first chapter of on the plane before getting bored and watching the preselected episodes of Hot Ones on JetBlue's inflight entertainment system instead, and then try to leave behind on the plane, but the person next to you goes, "Hey, don't forget your book!" and you say, "Oh, thanks," so you have to take it home to put on a high shelf next to Atomic Habits and the Oprah biography your dad's new girlfriend got you for Christmas.

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(writing the editor's introduction to a collection of Fiveish TikToks hundreds of years in the future) I have opted to include only texts from the "P" source, as texts from the "Y" source are generally agreed to be later amendations by a much inferior poet.

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A Guide to Computer Applications in the Humanities (1983)

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original url http://www.geocities.com/Baja/2797/

last modified 2008-04-10 04:07:26

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The trump shooter being a Democrat Ramaswamay stan is so fucking funny I'm sorry.

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Most writers debut in their 40s I don't know why you people are so eager to get published in your twenties....get over this youth genius worship

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America Online 2.5

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don't marry someone you can't see yourself divorcing

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original url http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/7789/

last modified 2008-04-07 04:56:40

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17 December 1983

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Arby's announces they will now serve potable water

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Just now finding out that Have a Nice Life released a third album like five years ago. Thankfully it's not very good, so I wasn't missing much.

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it's kind of cool that there's this whole sub-ecosystem of podcasting dedicated to making people with somewhat intellectual interests feel like they're learning things and getting smarter while actively making them dumber