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And big government, which demands information in many cases by law, is terrible at keeping that info "safe" in its hands once it's been collected. Taking the U.S. federal governmen…

An interesting aspect of this is that any information that USPS collects is also likely to be available to foreign governments now or in the future. The U.S. government has a terri…

I did a calculation where the taxpayer earns $40k/year, single, 2 kids. You see Biden vs. baseline in the tables. Individual income taxes fall from -$3,370 to -$6,570.

I associate "product" with something that is sold, so when I saw Muze described as a "product," but I didn't see a price, I was somewhat wary that the price was hidden or forthcomi…

Cool. You might consider describing Muze as a project rather than a product. E.g., On the homepage: Our first product, Muze... -> Our first project, Muze....

How do you plan to support the team and project, financially, over the long haul?

I write based on my experience working on Tax-Calculator and the Open Source Policy Center. Tax-Calculator was used extensively by the NYT, WaPo, CNN, and Senate/House/Administrati…

This critique underestimates the value of language and concrete diction for learning concepts. If a child learns the definition of key words, she'll carry the concepts they represe…

If this interests you, I would also recommend checking out http://open-source-economics.github.io/Tax-Calculator/ and https://github.com/open-source-economics/tax-calculator .

The course information in the coorsy results is valuable, but stock photos are a waste of space on a search results page.

I imagine FedEx thinks of the drivers as partners rather than "temporary commodities". It's a franchise model or close enough. McDonald's calls their analogues, "owner/operators." …

I direct the Open Source Policy Center at the American Enterprise Institute. We contribute to open source economic modeling tools. Check us out. I think we do good work, and I have…

Allow users to toggle whether comments are displayed in the project view so they may scan all tasks and comments at once. Also, allow line breaks in tasks. I keep track of life wit…

I am equally concerned by the application of secret simulation models by organizations like the Congressional Budget Office for fiscal policy decision making. Our legislators rely …

Here is a new working paper on implementing a budget-neutral UBI in the US. We use a suite of open source models. https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/UBI-working-p...

I expect many of the experiences will involve community. More and more SaaS products offer Facebook groups, Meetups, Slack channels, conferences, and more for their users. Communit…

https://www.github.com/open-source-economics/tax-calculator Open source tax-calculator for tax policy analysis. Used by many policymakers to inform their decisions about tax policy…

We need to incentivize people running for public office. Taking away privacy is not the way to do that. And I'm a complete advocate for openness in government where it matters, lik…

Primarily Python. See, for example, https://github.com/open-source-economics/tax-calculator . We also make many of the models available through webapps like https://www.ospc.org/ta…

The Open Source Policy Center, where I work, is focussed on this issue. www.ospc.org Most of OSPC's work is focussed on fiscal policy rather than monetary policy.