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OK Twitter, we're going to need a ruling. Are bouncy castles and cookies-and-coloring excessively juvenile activities for college students? Is their appearance at Yale a sign of the infantilization of young adults in American society?
For the record, I am a fan of these sorts of activities, but Wes is not:

I mean I'm a 30-something with a PhD and I spend my free time watching Voltron and having birthday parties for my pet bunny rabbits, so I'm hardly going to bat an eye at some 20 year olds in a bouncy castle
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I believe that a HUGE unexploited opportunity in TV is for shows to explicitly announce that they'll write plot elements according to the consensus wishes of fans. For example, letting shippers determine which way a love triangle will go. Engagement would be INSANE.
PUT SHIPPERS IN CHARGE OF EVERYTHING
You could also have a voting system and allow people to buy extra votes. The strategic interactions would be INSANE. Downside is the fans would go broke and sue.
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Dan Wang's year-end blog posts are always worth reading. In this year's post, he discusses how China's technological foundations were weaker than he thought. But he's still optimistic that Chinese engineers will "learn by doing" and catch up.

danwang.co/2019-letter/
Dan's post also has a very interesting discussion of what it's like to live in Beijing:
- "mostly unwalkable, unpleasant weather, generally maddening"
- "emanates a sense of sinister power"
- "the center of so many important stories"
- "feel[s] like the center of the world"
Oh, you should follow @danwwang by the way, if you don't already.
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How does Madrid build subways so cheaply?

…trianobservations.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/costsp…
Who builds subways cheaply, and who pays through the nose?

…trianobservations.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/costsp…
Alon Levy's suggestions for how to make subway construction cheaper:
1. Cut and cover to build simple stations
2. Have one company design and another build
3. DON'T PRIVATIZE/OUTSOURCE

…trianobservations.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/costsp…
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A running thread of things that @Twitter could do to unlock value for users. Will add to overtime. Please feel free to retweet and reply with your own, most of these below I have just taken and summarized from others. In no particular order. 1/♾ #JustKidding 🤔 or am I?
@Twitter I drafted a tweet on my phone but of course, can't access "draft's" on the desktop. So lets maybe start there. The desktop and @Tweetdeck version should be MORE robust than the mobile app not less. Tweetdeck, for example, has no bookmarks, emoji's, live video, polls, gif's, etc
@Twitter @TweetDeck There are SO MANY great meaningful quotes, threads, replies, and conversations that vanish into the Twitter ether, drowned out by hot takes, snark, and 280 character riffs on what some influencer or politician just did. Find a way to collect and resurface this treasure trove.
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Ok. Let’s take a peek and compare with recent responses to me wrt to complaints made to the @iconews about online tracking.
IMHO there are legitimate questions whether the revsied cookies and tracking process meets the requirements of Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive.

For example, while the ICO has disabled Google Analytics by default, it uses GoogleTagManager classed as necessary 🤔
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