Neil Kimmett

@neilkimmett

engineering manager . organiser . angry cyclist . DMs open. he/him.

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  1. Feb 2

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    Jan 30

    did a great job on GMA talking about the fitness shifts that 2020 showed us in data. Pretty neat to see noon become the most popular workout time amidst the transition to remote work. I am gonna try that - good break, good for intermittent fasting etc.

    and chatted about health and wellness tips to kick off 2019 the strongest way!
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  3. Jan 29

    this is unconscionable. over 4000 NYC residents without heat or hot water. it’s so cold out right now.

    A disgrace.
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    Jan 27

    If you're feeling jazzed up about market manipulation today, here's a reminder that not one major Wall Street executive went to jail for nearly disintegrating our economy in 2008.

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  5. Jan 26

    damn should have done this with the clown emoji huh. who’s the clown now 🤡

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  6. Jan 26

    if 👏 you 👏 live 👏 in 👏 a 👏 circus 👏 you 👏 should 👏 expect 👏 clowns

    oh i'm sorry are the imaginary money traders mad that a bunch of gamer dorks are fucking up their monopoly game trading system??? if you live in a circus you should expect clowns
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    15 Dec 2019

    Funny how the slogan "Make America Great Again" never acknowledges that the era of "greatness" they all want to return to had top tax rates more than double what they are now.

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    15 Dec 2019

    My new hobby is taking graphs of economic data over time and indicating the year that Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, in case people find that helpful or informative.

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    Jan 19

    The UK currently has the highest Covid death rate in the world. The vaccine offers real hope but it'll be many months until everyone is protected. We can't go on for months more with the same failed strategy. We need a Zero Covid plan. My new article 👇

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  10. Jan 15

    the UK government has abjectly failed in their coronavirus messaging. ventilation is the most important thing you can do and yet we're still just telling people to wash their hands

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  11. Jan 14

    this chart is wild.

    Human history was basically a couple of million years and then BOOM, the Industrial Revolution. The scale of the sudden change is insane in every dimension. It is also hard to reverse (a catastrophe would have to drop world population by 15% to backslide).
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    Jan 10

    The vaccine rollout is so typical of this country's approach to delivering public goods. A decentralized and underfunded patchwork of organizations tasked with moving mountains by a federal government motivated primarily by a fanatical fear of the wrong people receiving benefit.

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  13. Jan 10

    this vaccine rollout is embarrassingly bad

    The site has a multi-step verification process just to set up an account, and then a six-step process to set up an appointment. Along the way, there are as many as 51 questions or fields, in addition to uploading images of your insurance card.
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    Jan 8

    “If I were governor I would be vaccinating people 24/7.” - Andrew Cuomo, the governor.

    "If it was up to me," says, the hospitals would be vaccinating 24/7.
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    Jan 7

    Mark Zuckerberg Announces All Of Facebook’s Future Decisions Will Be Made By The Cube Of Justice

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    Jan 5

    Pink blob leaves one year, but there is another year. Pink blob says “oh no”
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    Jan 4

    My brilliant idea for rolling out the vaccine in NYC is ice cream trucks. Kids get frozen treats. Adults get slightly different frozen treats.

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  18. 22 Dec 2020

    in fact, there was ample evidence TO THE CONTRARY

    Statistical evidence contradicted the FHA’s assumption that the presence of African Americans caused the property values of whites to fall. Often racial integration caused property values to increase. With government policy excluding working- and middle-class African Americans from most suburbs, their desire to escape dense urban conditions spurred their demand for single-family or duplex homes on the outskirts of urban ghettos nationwide. Because these middle-class families had few other housing alternatives, they were willing to pay prices far above fair market values. In short, the FHA policy of denying African Americans access to most neighborhoods itself created conditions that prevented property values from falling when African Americans did appear. In an unusual 1942 decision, the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia refused to uphold a restrictive covenant because the clause undermined its own purpose, which was to protect property values. Enforcement, the court s
    excluding African Americans who were willing to pay higher prices than whites. In 1948 an FHA official published a report asserting that “the infiltration of Negro owner-occupants has tended to appreciate property values and neighborhood stability.” A 1952 study of sales in San Francisco compared prices in racially changing neighborhoods with those in a control group of racially stable neighborhoods. Published in the Appraisal Journal, a periodical with which housing practitioners, including FHA officials, would have been familiar, it concluded that “[t]hese results do not show that any deterioration in market prices occurred following changes in the racial pattern.” Indeed, the study confirmed that because African Americans were willing to pay more than whites for similar housing, property values in neighborhoods where African Americans could purchase increased more often than they declined. Ignoring these studies’ conclusions, the FHA continued its racial policy for at least another
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  19. 22 Dec 2020

    currently reading "The Color of Law" and this passage stood out to me. the entire horrendous practice of redlining was based on the assertion that racial integration of neighborhoods depressed property values, an assertion with absolutely ZERO evidence

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  20. 21 Dec 2020

    that escalated quickly

    Hahahahaha apparently this is a greeting card you can get at Target
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