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“Industry rule of thumb is that, depending on how carefully they work, programmers make btw 0.5 and 50 errors in ev… https://t.co/sMQ8P6M6d7

Hot chips: There have been nigh on $200bn worth of acquisitions of chip-makers worldwide since 2015.… https://t.co/UA45LqrCfW

The oil majors slashed costs to be able to operate profitably at around $50/barrel. Much lower than that and their… https://t.co/0n4zSWuS5E

Hun Sen, Cambodia’s dictatorial, kleptocratic leader has a worldview "born under the thunder of American B-52s and… https://t.co/C6tc4P0zWt

And the whole thing could be powered by the sun and the wind. https://t.co/kXAMRiklfJ

Raw wine for a summer weekend: Casa di Baal natural (and I mean natural) Frizzante from the slopes of Salerno. Ano… https://t.co/qebQ9aye6v

"In the age of Xi, China pundits have been asked to become overnight experts on ideology. But which definition of i… https://t.co/KANdS5EF0s

The last recorded case of smallpox was in Somalia in October 1977. The WHO declared the disease eradicated in May 1… https://t.co/PBw9IwsPqh

By 2030, on present trends the water cost crisis in Austin will be serious. In real dollar terms, this means a pers… https://t.co/OScvRjKQ5l

Coming water crisis: Between 2010 and 2018, water bills in 12 US cities rose between 27% (Santa Fe) and 154% (Austi… https://t.co/93CzbYMY4I

Next time your book post is delayed, spare a thought for early 20th century Russian revolutionaries. Here’s Nikol… https://t.co/Sd4vtk1fGR

Even though I was arrested, I smiled bc I was on the right side of history. Find a way to get in the way #goodtrouble http://t.co/SN0K6lHbqO

JP Morgan maps the global bond market. After the stagnation 2009-2015 the surge 2015-2020 stands out. @jpmorgan vi… https://t.co/Uf8qm90ckn

Chesapeake accounts for c. 1/3 of debt defaulted on by oil and gas producers in US in first half of 2020.… https://t.co/3M54nwI5WO

Corporate funding binge: btw jan 1 and July 15 2020, companies worldwide issued a record >$2trn in bonds. But the s… https://t.co/ydOFJvMjFg

2020 has turned from a moment of crisis that threatened to cut off financing for big corporates. Instead, it is pro… https://t.co/u1TfOlF4ph

Pago Pago American Samoa is one of hubs of Pacific tuna-industrial complex: $200m in fish landed annually. Chicken… https://t.co/aWSQfNy0RB

Wild wine for the weekend: Amongst the @dryfarmwines discoveries of recent weeks, Christoph Hoch’s BONKERS Zweigel… https://t.co/OgZE9HOLxP

How does tuna get from the fishing grounds in the Pacific to the supermarket shelf? Often canning is done in indust… https://t.co/3jnB7h8hXQ

COVID hoarding drove a surge in price of tuna, in canned form it is one of the cheapest sources of protein availabl… https://t.co/4IqPjUiE2f

One of the discoveries of the lockdown has been @dryfarmwines wine club. If you are into interesting organic, “raw”… https://t.co/AIS8DD1e92

Striking that @jpmorgan is pessimistic about the growth of the Indonesian middle class. By 2030 set to be c. 300 m… https://t.co/wcpQ9e2F4J

End of an era in Alaskan oil: In 1977 BP pulled off remarkable feat of pumping oil out of Prudhoe bay to Valdez te… https://t.co/YOG3rkjXYa

When price of Brent crude surpasses $100/b c. 90% of world’s oil can be extracted with return on capital of > 10% A… https://t.co/2BEw4tdWvH

Global corporate tax debate will stir up G20 finance ministers meeting next week. Excellent explainer from… https://t.co/48z7wsDb60

In 2017 40% of profits made by MNF outside their home country were shifted to tax havens -> $200bn in forgone tax =… https://t.co/ewwIyxRuLQ

interest rates WAS the lever the Fed could most reliably pull => housing WAS the transmission mechanism => housing… https://t.co/dzSQPhbI2r

Housing WAS the American business cycle. But as scale of investment relative to GDP has declined, population growth… https://t.co/EQNn510uU0

As a case study in all-American ideology Walter Russell Mead’s puff piece on Biden’s foreign policy guy Blinken is… https://t.co/bc7WRR53bx

This day in 1944 US forces took St Lô which had been devastated by Allied bombing. In 1946, Samuel Beckett wrote a… https://t.co/zeWmhqvmdW

"The origin of this absolute negation can only be the absolute dread inspired by the given World, or more precisely… https://t.co/F7jQtauxbj

How bad will COVID be for insurers? They like to insure risks like earthquakes that do not happen everywhere at onc… https://t.co/9hkaS3gY6L

"America can bring reluctant partners like New Delhi and Beijing along on climate change even as it pressures them… https://t.co/8yG343fLvr