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As a Latin American, I find it funnny it's basically impossible to tell if an American with this vocabulary and framing is like ultra MAGA or "communist". > which our Western gover…

Yes, they do. Just ctrl+F "identification" if you don't feel like reading the whole thing. In fact, this is such a common practice that it's nigh impossible to publich an empirical…

Well, let's try to take a step back and approach this sort of stuff with a more scientific, less politically hysterical way. Models are simply mathematical fiction, useful in as mu…

This is usually what's known in Econometrics as Identification. Any applied econ paper written in the last two or three decades has at least a short section discussing causality an…

{renv} is pretty solid, I've been using it in production for years now and have no complaints.

This is every country, buddy.

I'm confident the people pursuing this mad agenda don't know the first thing about US budget laws and think they can just cut spending DOGE-style forever.

Baked in this plan is the idea that the revenue from tariffs will be much smaller than income tax revenues, and therefore that the federal government will also get smaller.

As a Latin American, I can't help but buy the American Exceptionalism thesis, and seeing you guys in this situation humanizes you so much. The US has such a strong bureaucracy and …

Is this a joke that I'm not getting? "Planned economy" and "command economy" are synonyms.

Well, those Indians living in the US will have families of their own, and over time become part of the community you claim to be a part of. Very much like your ancestors did, excep…

Well, living near and airport or railroad is priced in, and not really a problem. Chemical plants... A bit of a stretch, isn't it?

That being said, in the US you can and should absolutely should build more, and basically get rid of most zoning regulations. You'd have a hard time finding anything as touristic a…

I can only see my own video :(

Michael Levin [1] does brillant work on this "cellular language" space and the key point is that genetics is more like biological IaC, it only encodes proteins. Most of the actual …

This links to a pre-print, but it has recently been published in the Review of Economics and Statistics [1] [1] https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/doi/10.1162/res...

"Massive" is a bit of a strong word. One year of 8-16% inflation with historic averages close to 2-3% is actually quite ok and demonstrates the European Central Bank's credibility.…

Sure, but is this what we want, as engineers? Can computers be held accountable?

> And an unchained LLM trained on reality is far more capable of finding solutions to that problem than a bunch of squabbling politicians. Not that I disagree with this statement, …