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Why Hasn’t the California Globe Retracted Its Story?

The Big Picture

The Globe, amazingly, cannot even sum a column of five small numbers. Newsom and his staff including Brandon, are picking numbers and months to serve Newsom’s own false narrative. It was the Journal, then Hoover, then CABIA, that did all of the cherry-picking, and used a bad set of numbers to do it. That’s not even math.

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Surprise! California’s 40 Qs of Rising Minimum Wage & Fast Food Industry Growth (Beating USA)

The Big Picture

To prove their point, a number of friendly commentators, academics, and hired guns all wrote endless white papers, Op-Eds and commentaries. But they made one super-sized mistake: they cheated with the numbers. from last September [2023], when the state backed a deal for the increased wages.” to only 19.5% to just 18.8%

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Saturday links: hospitality and sophistication

Abnormal Returns

(apnews.com) Travel There is a growing number of hotel brands. popsci.com) Science Google DeepMind solved a previously unsolvable math problem. slate.com) Chronic fatigue A better estimate of the number of people with chronic fatigue syndrome in the U.S. wsj.com) Drink The consensus turned against alcohol in 2023.

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Saturday links: communities coming together

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grist.org) Environment What's to explain 2023-24's anomalous temperatures? bakadesuyo.com) Numbers are persuasive up to a point. npr.org) The math on farmed fish doesn't work. (hakaimagazine.com) Forests Flying firefighting airplanes is a high risk proposition. yale.edu) What if natural carbon sinks stop 'sinking'?

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Math Problems

The Better Letter

The maths are exactly the same. These sorts of math problems are the focus of this week’s TBL. Math Problems As this TBL goes live, just 16 games and one day of the NCAA Tournament are in the books, yet my bracket is a mess. We notice the unlikelihood of 100 in a row because of the pattern. Thanks for reading.

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50% Risk-free Annual Returns

The Big Picture

emphasis added) The red flags were there for anyone who could put their greed aside and simply focus on the math. Previously : How to Avoid Financial Disasters (January 26, 2023) If It Sounds Too Good To Be True… (September 18, 2022) All the Ways You Can Get Defrauded (July 8, 2021) Advice for Rich Uncles and Others.

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10 Monday AM Reads

The Big Picture

But most of all, it was just simple maths according to Druck. Fowler and Clymer (dubbed the “ High Priest of Horology “) discuss all things wristwatches and timepieces, including their experiences at the 2023 Watches & Wonders , why the marketplace has exploded over the past few years, and what are their favorite grail watches.

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