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Public sector sustainability & strategy consulting at Accenture. Former Singapore diplomat & climate policy guy. Proud papa. Loves cities, wordplay, trivia, food, sport. Pronounced “suhng”
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Long Island City is completely built up now, while when I covered it the only skyscraper was One Court Square (the Citicorp Building)
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A long time ago, I was a writer for the travel guide Let’s Go: New York. These were among the parts of the city I covered but I haven’t been back in ages. Really cool to see what’s changed and what’s stayed the same
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Couple that with a (fortunately changing) system of teaching reading that de-emphasised phonics and emphasised learning to read through context (which has collapsed) and you have lots people who aren’t even in the same universe of argument
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And… it’s done. These 300-pointers are such a slog
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I even had a screenshot ready to go about how CHICANE continues to be unjustly ignored by the game. This was the original!
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Thanks, but what I meant is there they completely changed the Bee for today (right now the letters are U/AIGLMN, when I solved it the letters C/AEIHNM)
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At the start of every chapter the book makes a dun-dun sound
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Our reading education was very much based on the same concepts as phonics though, even if that wasn’t what it was called
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And yes, definitely listen to the Sold a Story podcast for more on the disaster that was scrapping phonics education in favour of the methods of Marie Clay and Lucy Calkins
features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
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As a parent right now embarking on teaching my kids to read, I just signed up for this SUNY microcredential on the Science of Reading fundamentals
www.newpaltz.edu/science-of-r...
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Every time I’m reminded that much of a whole generation of Americans weren’t taught phonics and were left functionally illiterate all because of a misguided pedagogical idea, it just makes me angry all over again
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This would be the first time I’ve seen odometer fraud used to inflate odometer readings!
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I think this is particularly pronounced in the tech industry, in part because of the culture of that industry. Chief risk officers should play this role, but that seems to be more the case in older industries
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Norman Borlaug isn’t a bad name for a Harry Potter character
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Cc @debamlen.bsky.social
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There’s a long history of people taking Metformin off-label for its supposed anti-aging and other beneficial effects, so there’s something about diabetes medications
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I needed a nail clipper in Sacramento and it was impossible to find a pharmacy to get one, had to go all the way to Target to get it. At least I got to eat at Ming Dynasty across the street for my efforts
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I generally agree with your whole thread but where are the chain supermarkets in downtown Sac? The closest I can think of are the Target south of 50 and the Safeway near the Ice Blocks. And there are no chain drugstores to be found
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Ah, so he foots the bill
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Was it a sole proprietorship?
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And: how do you sing Take Me Out to the Ball Game in Latin?
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It’s debate club syndrome. As long as an idea is said, somehow it becomes worthwhile debating
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Yeah, 28th annual meeting! Always on the sidelines of the ADB meeting since all the finance ministers are there, but it does make it funny to have a meeting of only Asian countries taking place in places like Italy
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Yeah, no argument there. The issue with Tate etc. is how pathetic they are even as moral antiexemplars
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Haven’t teenage boys idolised criminals forever? Scarface, Jordan Belfort etc.
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Concave
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Agreed, models of carbon price effects are fine when you are modeling choices between known pathways / technologies. But much harder to model when the idea of the carbon price is to spur development of hitherto unknown technology options
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There are a lot of people who really don’t want to grapple with the math, and who have this belief that as long as the process by which a policy is arrived at is “fair” the outcome will be fair and beneficial to all
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You can see this from the fact that the 30-year mortgage exists in almost no other country