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An Idiot’s Guide to Running Trump Out of Office Vanity Fair On the 25th Amendment route.
Without Saying ‘Trump,’ Bush and Obama Deliver Implicit Rebukes NYT. The rehabilitation of George W. Bush continues apaceIn attempt to sow fear, Russian trolls paid for self-defense classes for African Americans CNN. Apparently, being whacked by the cops wouldn’t be enough to do that….These Americans Were Tricked Into Working For Russia. They Say They Had No Idea. BuzzFeed. Outside agitators….
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Russia Is Using Marxist Strategies, and So Is Trump Cass Sunstein, Bloomberg. Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink. See footnote 1. It’s the best ever.
How “Big Data” Went Bust Slate “[T]he bigger problem is that the [Big Data] data you have are usually only a proxy for what you really want to know. Big data doesn’t solve that problem—it magnifies it.” And integrating multiple proxies is hard; witness the F-35 helmet debacle, which faced exactly that technical problem.
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What is sleep, even? Quartz. I wish I knew!
APSC Boss John Lloyd defends link to right-wing think tank IPA at Senate
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Public sector procurement could benefit from a new feedback tool based on evidence from consumer markets showing that feedback platforms benefit new and smaller companies. (Civil Service World) CBA takes a quantum leap into quantum computing. Commonwealth Bank has come together with UNSW and US-based quantum computing & data analytics software company QxBranch to give Australia a leading edge advantage on quantum computing. The pragmatic case for moving Britain’s capital to Manchester. "America aside, the countries where right-populists are doing best are those in which elites are concentrated in single geographical enclaves." Search Engine Land, Tom Demers: “…As Kristine Schachinger points out in her excellent article on image optimization, resizing and compressing images can often be the easiest and highest-impact action for speeding up pages on your site YVES SAINT LAURENT, Lady Gaga, David Bowie. Some people do not operate by the same rules as everyone else. Might the same be true of companies? Most bosses complain of being slaves to short-term profit targets. Yet a few flout the orthodoxy in flamboyant fashion. Consider Tesla, a maker of electric cars. This year, so far, it has missed its production targets and lost $1.8bn of free cashflow (the money firms generate after capital investment has been subtracted). No matter. If its founder Elon Musk muses aloud about driverless cars and space travel, its shares rise like a rocket—by 66% since the start of January. Tesla is one of a tiny cohort of firms with a licence to lose billions pursuing a dream. The odds of them achieving it are similar to those of aspiring pop stars and couture designers. Investing today for profits tomorrow is what capitalism is all about. Amazon lost $4bn in 2012-14 while building an empire that now makes money. Nonetheless, it is rare for big companies to...Firms that burn up $1bn a year are sexy but statistically doomed George Soros Looms Large in Democratic Party Circles and Far Left Groups Czech president waves mock rifle 'at journalists' during press conference Moscow journalist in coma after stabbing China's Communist Party has dismissed allegations of interference and espionage in Australia and New Zealand, insisting that it encourages all Chinese people living overseas to respect the local laws and regulations. A senior Chinese official said the allegation were "totally groundless and extremely irresponsible".China dismisses allegations of spying and interference in Australia ...Dewey B Strategic
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