Peter Tanner
1.9K posts
Peter Tanner
@pr_tanner
Data Scientist. Former Obama Analytics Team Staffer. Political and Hockey Analytics.
Katılım Şubat 2014
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@pr_tanner @rakyll hmmmm. I dont think that these are necessarily good comparisons.. I would compare trips instead of miles, and then also compare trains vs planes instead of cars vs planes
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Decades of hard built trust in aviation is being destroyed. I’m now a 'last resort' flyer. Once your brain flips to feeling unsafe, there’s no easy way to flip it back.
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@thatcaden_ @StatisticUrban Seeing some in Boston, Michigan, Puerto Rico, and elsewhere too in the top 100 #google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">zipatlas.com/us/zip-code-co…
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@StatisticUrban Does your source have a minimum population requirement bc this one has Waco 76798 and Boston 02113 in the top 50 #google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mapszipcode.com/reports/larges…
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97 of the 100 densest zip codes in the US are in NYC or de-facto NYC (Hudson County, NJ)
The three that aren't are all SF.
- 94102 – Tenderloin / Civic Center, San Francisco
- 94109 – Russian Hill / Polk Gulch, San Francisco
- 94108 – Chinatown, San Francisco
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@MattSpoke @ivicaArt They would have to take a loan at a much higher interest rate on the open market. That’s why they took the government money. It’s a subsidy.
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@ivicaArt The $300m from the province will get paid back with interest.
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This misunderstands the economics of this announcement.
I don't love when the government steps into the market like this, but this is a net positive step for a housing market experiencing atrophy.
First, $300m is from the Province and will be repaid with interest. The balance is from private investors.
Second, these condo units are getting purchased at a massive loss to the developers who built them. Yes, it frees up some of their equity, but mostly they lock in their loss.
Third, the equity that is freed up will help kickstart new housing projects that are waiting on the sidelines.
Paul Manning@mobinfiltrator
Hey #Ontario, @fordnation is using $1.3 Billion in taxpayer funds to bail out his developer buddies. With the $300 Million from the BOF, which is also your money, that’s $727,000 a unit. He’s literally giving rich people your money for the bad business decision they made, whilst you don’t have a doctor, or can’t afford groceries. #onloli #canpoli
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@peteremcc @danielfoch This makes me think this data is junk. Trend is suspiciously linear too. Usually survey data like this is jumpier. Not saying young people aren’t unhappy now, but I don’t trust this graph.
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@danielfoch The x-axis also repeats 2016, 2022, and 2024.
The y-axis also goes 80-70-80, but I'm assuming that's a typo?
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Young Canadians keep getting more miserable
Old Canadians keep getting happier
Data from world happiness report: worldhappiness.report
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@LatexEngineer @RealKidPoker Yes, and non citizens can get drivers licenses too! If you really want to do proof of citizenship, then it’s passports only.
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@pr_tanner @RealKidPoker Honest question, can a foreign student studying abroad get a UofT student ID?
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Who is against this and why?
This is another one of those common sense 80/20 issues that the Dems are on the wrong side of, and you really have to wonder why they take the side unpopular with most Americans of every race?
To suggest POC can’t get ID is blatant racism.
Absurd.
America@america
REMINDER: Americans support Voter ID regardless of race: Black Voters: 76% White voters: 85% Latino voters: 82%
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@gregorykennedy @patk49682 Because almost every other developed country has even higher taxes than the US. Their only other options are Singapore, Switzerland, or Estonia.
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@patk49682 None of them are leaving the country. Not yet.
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The fact that the rich move rather than fight the tax shows how little political power they actually have. It also shows how powerful unions and other special interest groups are.
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Oil Shock Amnesia
The last 50% oil shock triggered steep losses across pretty much every financial asset over the course of ‘22, while investors today expect little impact from sharply higher energy prices ahead.
bobeunlimited.substack.com/p/oil-shock-am…
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Radar graphs are among the worst ideas in data visualization. The whole point of them is to show the area and you can usually reorder the labels freely in order to create a desired dramatic effect.
Two versions of the same graph:
- left one tells the story that AI is rapidly replacing whole industries
- right one shows the "jaggedness" and reinforces the idea that humans will always have something that AI won't be able to replicate
Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_
Striking image from the new Anthropic labor market impact report.
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@RealDave1977 @Variety More like the NYT starts doing more video content.
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CBS News chief Bari Weiss is expected to play a major role in steering CNN if the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger is approved.
Weiss was appointed to lead CBS News by David Ellison in October 2025 as part of Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of her media company The Free Press.
Read the full cover: wp.me/pc8uak-1lGXCp
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@conorsen @aaron_renn How is it a worse business than it used to be?
I'd think the opposite, actually.
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It’s a good sci-fi read. One thought experiment is that if Jamie Dimon could push an AI button and fire half his company with no impact on profits would he do it? Because to me the answer is clearly no, he’s smarter than that. And he’s not alone.
Citrini@Citrini7
JUNE 2028. The S&P is down 38% from its highs. Unemployment just printed 10.2%. Private credit is unraveling. Prime mortgages are cracking. AI didn’t disappoint. It exceeded every expectation. What happened? citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic
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@cremieuxrecueil In 2010 foreign athletes were severely restricted from getting in training runs on the bobsled course compared to Canadian athletes. Practice makes perfect when the track is unique. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerns_…
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Obama: "At some point, you age out. You're not connected directly to the immediate struggles that folks are going through. I'm not making a hard and fast rule here, but I think Democrats do well when we have candidates who are plugged into the moment. To the zeitgeist. To the times."
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@ronmortgageguy I’d bet that European NATO members would be more likely to come to our defence than the US.
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Just To Be Clear: Canada IS IN North America - We Want To Align Defense With Europe?
Does 3 things:
- Angers US Government just prior to CUSMA Renewal
- Aligns Canada with those who will NEVER come to our Defense if we're attacked
- Creates Defense tech inferior to US tech
Mark Carney@MarkJCarney
Canada is now the first non-European country to be granted a membership in SAFE. This is a gamechanger program that means Canada can rearm our Canadian Armed Forces members more effectively and scale up our defence industries with more contracts overseas.
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@JacobPacheco6 Part of the reason Canada did so well in Vancouver is because the Canadian athletes got more training time on the courses than foreign athletes, which really helps for things like bobsled and skeleton.
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It’s wild how much extra funding, drive, & sheer determination show up when the Olympics is in your own backyard
Host nation medal totals tell the story:
🇮🇹 Italy - record 20 medals (currently 18)
🇨🇳Beijing (2022 host) - 15 medals
🇰🇷PyeongChang (2018 host) - 17 medals
🇷🇺Sochi (2014 host) - 29 medals
Yegor Sharangovich replaced Breadman@FierySharky
No gold medals for Canada just over a week into the Olympics. We really did peak in 2010. Take me back.
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One of my favorite charts in the entire economics literature.
Price discovery and information technology are good.
Anup Malani@anup_malani
Kerala fishermen used to sail to shore, pick a market, and hope for the best. On any given day, 5-8% of the catch was thrown away — fish rotting at glutted beaches while neighboring beaches had none. Then they got cell phones. Waste dropped to nearly zero.
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@CBSNews It’s incredible to me this belief that’s arisen, particularly among the American left, that the world hates Americans. I’m abroad 4-5 months a year. It simply isn’t true.
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Americans traveling to Italy to witness the 2026 Winter Olympics say residents have been friendly to them amid heightened political tensions in the United States and around the world.
One spectator from Minnesota said he's met a number of Americans, even some from his state, and they haven't been talking about politics or what's been going on at home, instead focusing on coming together and having a good time.
"This is a time for us to pause and smile and enjoy each other," he told CBS News' Seth Doane.
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