@SBN_Ricky The real problem is the impossibility of building a good team via free agency
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I'm much more in favor of abolishing the draft now after this shortsighted reform. Wouldn't be surprised if that's where this is eventually headed in 2030.
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I think something we keep discovering from surveys is that "living paycheck to paycheck" is not a well-defined concept.
Frank Chaparro@fintechfrank
This is pretty wild: A 2025 Goldman Sachs report found that 40% of people earning $500,000+ per year say they’re living paycheck to paycheck.
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@mattyglesias I think it really hinges on what you're graphing - spending as a function of income not so much, but "health outcomes" like life expectancy as a function of spending, very much so
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Interesting questions like "is America a huge outlier on health care spending?" end up hinging on really tedious questions like "do you plot the axes logarithmically?"
Sylvain Catherine@sc_cath
La raison pour laquelle les Etats-Unis consacrent une part plus importante de leur PIB à la santé est que cette dernière est un bien supérieur: une forme de consommation dont la part dans le budget des ménages croit plus que proportionnellement avec leur niveau de revenu. À travers l’ensemble des pays de l’OCDE, une hausse de 1% du PIB se traduit par une hausse de 1,8% des dépenses de santé. La relation log-linéaire des dépenses de santé avec le PIB par habitant est très robuste et les États-Unis sont au niveau attendu étant donné leur richesse. C’est vrai à travers tant de systèmes différents que ça n’a à l’évidence pas de rapport avec la thèse de Boris Vallaud. Ce qui ne dit rien de l’efficacité de leur système ou du nôtre par ailleurs.
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@JoePostingg Clearly Gallego planted this because it makes him seem fun and cool
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Such a funny article. They don't have the sourcing to write the story they wanted to write so instead they leave it all in subtext and write "Totally exonerated no wrongdoing!" in the actual text.
Reese Gorman@reesejgorman
New: While on a CODEL to Colombia last summer, Sen. Ruben Gallego and his chief stayed out until 3 a.m. partying at a club and asked multiple embassy staffers to join them, despite warnings from the U.S. Embassy in Colombia that they had identified a credible threat to Gallego’s life. At least one female embassy employee told her colleagues she received a message from Gallego asking her to come out. notus.org/senate/ruben-g…
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@Will_Gottlieb Whoever we hire will be overseeing a tear down and rebuild, our next coach after that will be the one to actually win, if we’re lucky.
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One of the top coaches on the market now unavailable to the Bulls
Shams Charania@ShamsCharania
BREAKING: The Milwaukee Bucks and Taylor Jenkins are finalizing a deal to make Jenkins the franchise's new head coach, sources tell me and @ramonashelburne. Jenkins, a Bucks assistant in 2018-19, went 250-214 and made three postseasons across six seasons in Memphis.
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@mattyglesias @brianbeutler If your priorities were destroying USAID and starting a war with Iran, there’s a lot to admire in Trump’s second term
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@brianbeutler It’s good to move fast, I guess, but I really do think “let’s copy Trump” needs to come with a much more specific theory of why it is we’re trying to copy.
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We need to be careful with this kind of thinking. Just as Biden’s ultimate failure didn’t discredit everything Biden did, the lesson of Trump’s failure won’t be that all his tactics failed. “Move fast” and “break things” are concepts that can be applied together or à la carte.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Did this work out well for Trump? Is he a popular and successful president?
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@TheStalwart @IrvingSwisher Engaging with ragebait should be done with your anonymous alt as god intended
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I think we should have a societal norm where dunking on or responding to obvious ragebait is considered to be almost as shameful as posting it in the first place.
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@mattyglesias @AdamPosen It may simply be a fact that what Americans want from their leaders are wildly implausible promises
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Trump people keep doing nothing to bring inflation back down to target, a thing that could be done if they tried, and instead making wildly implausible promises of economy-wide deflation.
Barchart@Barchart
“We’re in the early innings of a structural decline in prices,” says incoming Fed Chair Kevin Warsh
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@MattGlassman312 Yes, the difference between “supine legislature happy to let its copartisan executive rule as a long” and “impotent opposition legislature that will use what powers it has” is quite big
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There's obviously something to this, but you can also easily overate things; the policy differences between the ARPA/IRA and OBBBA aren't nothing, and they are directly downstream from partisan *legislative* control. 1/
Sarah Isgur@whignewtons
What’s funny about all this gerrymandering talk is that we’re fighting over which party controls a legislative branch that doesn’t actually legislate anymore.
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This would be good for an interview question to test basic statistical reasoning
“How valid is this claim based on this chart?”
“What else would you need to know to feel confident making this claim”
[It is a dumb slide that misses the relevance of petroleum products to growth]
a16z@a16z
Oil matters a lot less than it used to More charts: a16z.news/p/charts-of-th…
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@lionel_trolling Mrs. Magyar and Mr. Soros were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me
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@demacianraptor “The only tanks” plus “two four costs carrys” plus “traitbots”
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Comp to try post B-patch: Xayah Karma, I think karma is really good after the changes and xayah is rising. prio xayah items -> tank -> karma. still unexplored and no sample but felt good when I saw it so worth a try.
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> a law specifically allowing people to sue for a specified amount of time if their job was lost in some way due to AI
What a nightmare lol
John Ziegler@Zigmanfreud
There is no perfect solution to the apparent looming AI job collapse, but here’s a FAR better one than “Universal High Income”… Instead of making an already broke government responsible, make the corporations benefiting from AI pay by passing a law specifically allowing people to sue for a specified amount of time if their job was lost in some way due to AI. This would put the burden where it belongs and incentivize companies to slow down the layoffs so that our economy might have a chance to adjust. As a libertarian, I hate this idea, but not nearly as much as fundamentally destroying the foundation of our society and giving government near total control over all of our lives!
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Are we deadass there’s a subregional in 3 hours LOL
Teamfight Tactics@TFT
The team's working on a B-patch focused on nerfs to the dominant carries and a few econ Augment removals that have been enabling three-star 4-costs too frequently. Full details to come when the patch goes live this afternoon.
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They keep saying "but the cities will have all the power" without realizing this is an irrelevant argument when the EC is proportional. The states with the major cities have more electoral votes.
Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅@CameronCorduroy
an extremely potent midwit test is whenever people brainlessly copy-paste Senate justifications onto conversations about the Electoral College the EC doesn't reward small states or rural states, it rewards whatever states happen to have a 50/50 partisan split
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@Afinetheorem GDP just doesn’t properly count all the utility they get from queueing. They love it!
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The UK is most unusual first world economy: totally fine demographics, globally connected, leading firms in many industries including *by far* the best AI outside G2, wealthy capital, yet much poorer than you would think. Closer in PPP GDP pc to Poland than Germany, let alone US.
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Impressive. We hear a lot about the jaggedness of AI capabilities, but in this case it feels like human mathematical understanding was jagged.
Leeham@Liam06972452
GPT-5.4 Pro solves Erdős Problem #1196! Very pleased with this result; definitely my favourite thus far! This problem has been thought about for some time which makes this reasonably impressive and meaningful (see Lichtman's comments below). Formalisation is underway!
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@jdcmedlock @SpecialPuppy1 If filing taxes is too easy taxpayer may not be angry about filing, which would be bad
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What arguments are they using to convince politicians not to allow for automatic filings?
Basil🧡@LinkofSunshine
TurboTax is underrated one of the evilest companies in America
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