@AlexSJacquez @RichardRubinDC The metric is the wrong one to use, true or not
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Jack
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@JackRabuck
nobody is safe from the terrible takes.
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@JackRabuck @RichardRubinDC The metric here has been proven correct over and over again
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No peeking/cheating for this guessing game if you already read my story. Who said this about IRS?
"Reductions in enforcement spending create missed opportunities and lost revenue for the United States, as compliance activities generate more revenue than their operating costs."
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@RichardRubinDC I bet by only slightly modifying this metric, you’d have to think DOGE was the most efficient program of all time. Sure, they didn’t end the deficit like they thought (was never going to happen), but if a tiny team did save tens or hundreds of millions or even billions?
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@RichardRubinDC I don’t know, but it’s an obviously misguided quote. It may be true that the optimal number of IRS employees is higher than the number today, but the metric highlighted there is wrong for a bunch of reasons
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@bryan_caplan @bechhof It doesn’t make the chart any better but my understanding is that the cohort of women with delayed fertility is still aging and that completed fertility rate is not projected to be any lower than it was in the past, which would sort of ex post exonerate the chart crime
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I don't care what anyone says, this is an incredibly stressful way to start each day. TEN???
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glad to see nikita fixing the 'aggregator' incentives
Nikita Bier@nikitabier
Just to be clear: You copy and paste. You do not add any unique commentary. You leverage your follower count to take impressions from other posts. Our users derive no value from this. You are welcome to continue to do this, but it does not create any business value for X or enrich our timeline.
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This story makes no sense, random guy calls sales ops and they divulge everything he asks for and then take operational orders from him?
Obviously fudging the timelines here
My First Million@myfirstmilpod
How Elon Musk hired ex-Tesla president @jonmcneill is a story you shouldn't miss: Tesla promised a sale of 12,000 cars. Six weeks in, they'd sold 3. Elon was staring at disaster. Jon went undercover. He visited 8 Tesla stores, test drove cars using fake emails, and never got a callback. He called sales ops and asked: "How many people test drove in the last 30 days and never got called back?" Answer: 9,000. Jon immediately ordered teams in Asia and Europe to start calling every single one back. Sales exploded. When he called Elon to apologize for overstepping, Elon cut him off: "You've proven you can be useful. Why don't you just join?" Don't ask for permission to lead. Find the bottleneck and fix it. Results beat resumes. Every time. @thesamparr @ShaanVP
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@TheStalwart How consistent are people with themselves on these measures?
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This is not the kind of thing that's going to help too much in identification. But still kind of interesting.
Satoshi's writing using Douglas Biber's framework for doing corpus linguistics
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Fascinating how this is framed as “no tax on interest”
There is of course no tax on the interest as is
This is “give me a deduction for the interest paid”
Rep. Nancy Mace@RepNancyMace
Boating is not a luxury in South Carolina. It’s a way of life. Our state is home to more than 350,000 registered recreational boats and a marine industry supporting over 27,000 jobs and generating a $6.5 billion economic impact. Our No Tax on Boat Loan Interest Act extends the above-the-line loan interest deduction for cars to boats, allowing American families to deduct up to $10,000 annually in boat loan interest on American-made boats. More affordable boats mean more families recreating on the water, more marine manufacturing jobs in South Carolina, and more investment in an industry already generating billions in economic impact. South Carolina STRONG.
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@CliffordAsness The Asness corollary to my theorem that people who cite a change as a % of what is already a % are no good very bad
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People who use multiplication when they should use addition are the worst people.
People who use addition when they should use multiplication are also not ok.
Pete Buttigieg@PeteButtigieg
Inflation has tripled from just one month ago, and it’s higher than when he took office. Not only has Trump failed to deliver on his central campaign promise to make life more affordable - he is actively, directly driving prices up.
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OTOH matt and others keep motte and baileying between 'following the rules' and 'following the norms' when convenient
for example they both complain about things that arent technically against any rules, but violate norms they like
but then also 'oh technically that park isnt off-leash until 9pm, that norm of off-leash after work is no good'
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It's frustrating to read people being like "no one said anything negative" yes, if it was a problem, I just thought to myself "wow, I will no longer be able to enjoy this space because of that shitty, antisocial person" and then left
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I think that dog owners should follow the law and also basic moral precepts like “don’t lie for selfish personal gain” and the extent to which members of the dog community have convinced themselves that this is okay is distressing.
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@JackRabuck I found it understandable, though I cared more about being *with* Piranesi than about putting together every piece of what happened "outside the House"
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@SomeBrashAtom my somewhat strange take is that Piranesi is a rare novel about the intrinsic experience of being *enlightened*, at least in the way that I see as the goal of contemplative practices
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just realized that after you switch from For You to Following, you can still switch further from Popular to Most recent. This feels like the correct timeline
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Wrong wrong wrong, Twitter was worth $40B+ 4 years ago and arguably much more now, only fans might be worth $5B
Claire Lehmann@clairlemon
The sad reality is that "shaping elite thought" is an aesthetic preference, not a business model. Only Fans has zero cultural prestige yet it makes about $US37M per employee. Yet when Twitter was the front page of the internet, it rarely turned a profit. x.com/christopherruf…
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@PardonMyTake @ChevyTrucks Give basketball players the head tap challenge for out of bounds so we can get rid of the pointing wars
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@TheStalwart maybe the neanderthal boosters were right, still throwing up genes in the ole 23andme, eh?
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When Homo Sapiens came onto the scene, were there Neanderthals telling other Neanderthals that they had to get on board to avoid being left behind? Did some Neanderthals think that boosterism would save them? Do we have any hypotheses about what they thought of us?
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I don't think almost certainly is the right description
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
Yes, the lab leak theory turned out to almost certainly false.
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