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The is a tech bubble in the stock market, and it will burst soon. The question is, which of the #NGS companies below will come out stronger from the stock market tech bubble bursting? $ILMN $PACB @nanopore @MGI_BGI


Looking at the NASDAQ for the last 5 years, there was a big drop in March 2020, triggered by the first wave of worldwide #COVID19. The tech bubble was already inflated back then. But the market recovered with a matter of weeks, and kept climbing up.


By 9/8/2020 there was another attempt of a correction, mostly #COVID19 related, but again, with a highly inflated tech bubble, the market recovered and quickly jumped another 1,000 points (around 11,800):
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(ok you gonna love this one)

(jk it's a sad ending hahahahaha)

Assalamu ‘alaykum, hope you’re well bi’ithnillah ta’alah. I don’t even know how to start this 😂 so i’d joined this marriage whatsapp group thing [Don’t laugh pls🤧]

I thought hey, there’s no harm in trying different halal avenues right? Who knows, maybe my ‘the one’ could be hiding on this group waiting for me 🙈
Long-thread: A Sunday morning well-spent exploring Lahore’s Orange-line Light-rail metro train with @gulraizkhan.

One thing I can tell about the experience is that it was in nowhere any less than the best Metros in the developed West.


This project will remain divisive, and in no way I intend on converting anyone. Skip.

Neither will its utility increase nor decrease by this Twitter cost-benefits blabbering.

What I am truly happy about is that Orangeline is owned and being used by those who need it the most.

The cars we use have a Heater & AC. The new ones also have a cabin filter against pollution. They harm everyone outside but user is safe inside. Then cars also cause congestion and accidents.

We don’t realise it while driving, but navigating spaces is important for everyone.


We know that cars, which serve less than 20% of all trips, are bad for our cities. Yet they have been getting disproportionately higher share in budgets in the form of allocations for Road in Transport spending.

A mass transit project flips this equation.

There is also very real loss that construction works of the project caused, which, we, as bystanders, cannot fully understand.

We need to move to inclusive infrastructural planning, rather cold-hearted bureaucratic logic which dictates that who
1) The danger and tragedy is that people have been told by Trump, McCarthy, Cruz and others in responsible positions that there is reason to doubt the validity of the election; then whipped up by social media promising Trump will eventually be declared the winner...


2) When, after all that, Biden is being inaugurated, many will go nuts: the cognitive discord is just too great and they will be convinced that Biden must be stopped. Yes, the fault lies with crazy conspiracy peddlers; but they were given support and legitimacy by the officials.

3) who enabled Trump and supported his lies about the election being stolen FOR MONTHS. What they should have done is spent the last two months defending the elections, telling people the only challenges should be in the courts, preparing people to ACCEPT that Trump fairly lost.

4) By keeping alive popular hopes that Trump could somehow win; by talking up empty court challenges, saying the courts didn't really hear the evidence; by refraining from criticizing Trump's broadcasting of even crazy conspiracy theories; GOP officials THEMSELVES gave reason and

5) motivation for people to riot against certifying Biden's becoming President, and even more to fight the inauguration of a "false" President. It will be very hard to undo months of lies to this effect coming from the top levels of the GOP and US Government. ALL GOP who did
It's Sunday, Fed blackout, am recovering from soccer match, sipping on double espresso, so of course a perfect time to take on Tyler Cowen here. 🙂


Like many people, I enjoy reading Tyler's blog. But there are times (alright, many times) I disagree with him. This is no big deal. I also disagree with myself sometimes (especially my past self). But his recent post left me

What is he trying to say here? After thinking about it for a bit, I think he's critiquing the idea that "running the economy hot" leads to employment *and* real wage gains. Perhaps the former, but only at the expense of the latter. At least, this is what a textbook IS-LM model

tells us if one "runs the economy hot" through increased fiscal stimulus (on consumption and transfers, not public infrastructure investment). If this is what he meant, then he should have just said so, instead of labeling this a "Keynesian" proposition.

In fact, this property follows as a *neoclassical* proposition that is embedded in the IS-LM framework. (For non-economists, note that Keynes did not invent IS-LM; the framework was developed later by Hicks as an interpretation of *some* parts of the General Theory.)
I’m guessing these responses really reflect people’s weighted averages (age*current average effort fraction) though I kept it simple and asked for just averages.


I suspect a healthy weighted average should be ~ (age-20)/2. So a 30 year old should be at 5, a 40 year old at 10, a 50 year old at 15 etc.

Standard deviation should be ~average/3 maybe, so distribution spreads as you age and accumulate projects and get better at them.

Other things being equal, people get good at starting in their 20s, at follow through in 30s, at finishing in 40s.

No point learning food follow through until you’ve found a few good starts to bet on. No point getting good at finishing until a few projects have aged gracefully.

I’m in the 7+ range myself. Probably 8-9. Slightly less than healthy for my age.

I suspect most self-judgments on being good starters/follow-through-ers/finishers are really flawed because of the non-ergodicity of project management skill learning. You can’t learn good practices for the 3 phases in an arbitrary order. On,y one order actually works.
A few people have asked me how to do this in the comments, so: a thread!

(Disclaimer that no writing process advice works identically for everyone.)

Producing large quantities of words in a session AT ALL was never my problem. Doing so ON COMMAND was what I needed to learn.


It sounds obnoxious, but the best way to not flounder when you sit down, or to not avoid writing because you don't know what to do, is to... know what to do. And WANT to do it. 🤷‍♀️

So the short answer is: I learned how to write Very Extensive outlines.

(Wait, don't panic yet!)

To make writing easier, you have to understand first what your barriers are.

I trained myself writing weekly serial novels. I HAD to be able to produce a chapter every week to keep up, and I could only budget one day each week for the long writing session that works best for me.

For the serial, I was only writing a few chapters ahead of when I posted. I couldn't decide I had the story wrong and go back and change it--it had to basically work from the first.

Tailor your process solution to the problem you actually need to solve. Mine required outlines.

That said, I am by nature both a binge writer and a discovery writer. Neither is ideal for consistency!

I cannot write every day, and there will always be parts of the story I HAVE to figure out when I get there.

HOWEVER, I have learned which parts will cause me to bog down.
Today, @propublica published a searchable data set of videos from the Capitol hill attack that is organized by time and location. #SeditionHunters #SeditionVids https://t.co/yGO7iWLaC1


These are some of the hashtags being used to identify rioters. #SeditionHunters


#StripesGuy


#ThePinMan


#EyeGouger
Don't mean to be a negative nancy, but I **really**, really, dislike this trend of some Punjabi artists in the West now churning out artwork by making their own "covers" of popular magazines with photos from the protests.

Lot of genuine problems with this


For one, when these are shared on social media, the image is what captures attention, not the caption - a LOT of people are sharing these in groupchats/posting online with the assumption that they're real. Have had to correct some of my fam in India saying it's just artwork

This just adds to general misinformation, which is really not ideal at a time when we see coordinated efforts to spread that - the facts should stand out above all

Secondly, this gives really easy currency to those saying that farmers are protesting the bills because they're unknowledgeable; some Indian media outlets have already scored points off the National Geographic cover, "fact checking it", and inferring all info is as such.

Another problem is a lot of the "headlines" are lifted from other news stories - for example, the Rolling Stone "cover" literally copied the headline of IP Singh's great article (covered here). Give coverage to the people actually writing these