Sam
@samueldiamond
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Bluetooth enthusiast, gdocs power user
London, England
Joined January 2009
I love him
Ok. I've just deployed my second app, the one that @BijanTavassoli is looking for. Try it out here!
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It has taken more than a decade but the tech guys have reinvented Bastani from first principles
New blog post w @pawtrammell: Capital in the 22nd Century Where we argue that while Piketty was wrong about the past, he’s probably right about the future. Piketty argued that without strong redistribution of wealth, inequality will indefinitely increase. Historically, however,
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Fair play to Villa, their squad of Arsenal rejects nearly had a title race on their hands. But ultimately the fact they are total shit weighed against them
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This is one of the worst films I have ever seen lol
Watched Nuremberg. A proper film among a load of dross in the current pre-Oscar crop of films. Love the bit where the British lawyer has to step in and save the day after Hermann Goring (superbly played by Russell Crowe) has run circles round the American lawyer. Historically
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For Jacobin, I sat with @michaelxpettis for a long conversation about the global trading system. We talked about his influential framework for understanding imbalances, hashed out some of our disagreements, discussed the role of finance and remedies. https://t.co/B5hDWXQhIG
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Pillion was good and the main lesson is that forcing your partner to read Knausgaard is one act of domination too far
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Hear me out: no European countries, just a patchwork of city states with trade rules harmonised by an Empire from Vienna. And each one gets a nuke in case of funny business
ft.com
Small, often invisible barriers to trade affect products from businesses across Europe, including a fluffy Ikea pachyderm
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it's something like: by writing on a base narrative logic level without perfecting each sentence they can reach a sense of thematic cohesion on a grander level. or something
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the morning star is really good and i think it's interesting that knausgaard is a very 'bad' writer. similar to bolaño in that sense. like, both can clearly be 'good' when they want to but they're much better when they're 'bad'
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