Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 37mThere's not much danger of a Republican winning that seat, fortunately! 010
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Hey it looks like they cancelled the listings for these. Did they email you telling you your bid was cancelled or anything? 100
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Very weird that we permit pill mills which sell counterfeit drugs! 011
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Wasn't there a thing about how many LED street lights were an unsettling blue color for a few years because of a manufacturing defect? Is it possible that caused a spike in spending over the past few years? 130
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Bedrock edition of Minecraft is the version which you can play on a console or on your phone. It's optimized for those purposes. But the menuing, precisely placing blocks, etc are all significantly more challenging. Nevermind that he appears to be playing on a controller rather than a mouse/keyboar 130
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Excuse me no one talking about this has mentioned that this is on bedrock edition 130
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Maryland taxpayers can't pay for on field talent, but can pay to make the stadium nicer. The incentives are kind of weird! 031
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The ballpark app knows (presumably) all my "song of the game" votes and how many pretzels I bought. It knows how the starters did when I bought a hot dog before the third inning. Baseball fans like that kind of stuff! Of course, we also probably don't like being reminded of the surveillance state 000
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I've thought for a while that the Ballpark app should do stuff like this. Give me a wrapped for the season 241
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Your lifetime chances of getting struck by lightning is like rolling three natural 20s followed by rolling a 10 or better. The chance that Baltimore gets hit this century by a meteor at least as large as the one that hit Chelyabinsk in 2013. That's 4 natural 20s followed by at least a 14. 210
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The fangraphs odds say that the orioles need to roll two consecutive natural 20s followed by rolling at least an eight. 100
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026They've noticed that fans always hit peak engagement during the race! 000
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I get my coffee in the mail now. My store switched to all pre ground a couple years ago at least. 110
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Those don't seem to be very important, no. Either intentionality, motivation, and freedom come from physical processes and we are on the same footing as the machines or they come from souls which the machines have and we lack 110
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Americans vote for Democrats to punish republicans for bad governance. And when no one needs to be punished they vote for Republicans, our default rulers. 130
Reposted by ClarkUSER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026is it possible to bait the "user was blocked for this post" account into posting whatever i want? 2940921028
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Every time I check this number it makes me mad at the playoff format 011
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The BLS makes quality adjustments to the goods! It's not perfect by any means but they do it. 110
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026So the answer seems to be either that humans have souls or that humans and chatbots are similarly autonomous. Maybe both! 000
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This CDC data is here: www.cdc.gov/wastewater/r... This kind of data is reasonably hard to fake. The main threat is that they will stop publishing it.cdc.govNational Wastewater Data for Respiratory VirusesView national wastewater viral activity data for Influenza A, COVID-19, and RSV. 010
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This is great and also it's an effective (free to taxpayers) subsidy for solar companies that are missing out on federal subsidies this year 010
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Some of which are caused by short-sighted regulation! "Let them build a diesel plant so they don't interconnect and cause grid pain" is as bad a policy as "let them interconnect and make household rate-payers cover the upgrades" which is as bad a policy as "ban all growth" 130
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 09/09/2026She's in the 24% bracket I suspect! Maybe the 32% bracket if she gets a lot of side work. 000
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It looks like her salary is $150k so maybe it's just a 30% bonus? 000
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 09/09/2026in this case... mostly imagined externalities as far as I can tell? 1120
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 08/09/2026r>g is the norm for most of our history! Granted, g being about 0 is also the norm for most of our history. 000
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 08/09/2026If AI is successful the idea is that a larger share of the proceeds of production will go to capital instead of labor. It is possible for capitals share to increase while labor's absolute income rises. I don't know what bet I would make either way on that. What do you think? 100
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We keep careful track of income and we measure inequality with something called the Gini coefficient. 0 is perfectly equal, 100 means one person has all the income. fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1YgBgfred.stlouisfed.orgGINI Index for the United StatesGINI Index for the United States 230
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Income inequality went up a lot from 1980-2000ish but inequality today is about what it was in 2006. It ebbs and flows a little but it's mostly stopped the meteoric rise. 330
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Is there a reason to think "doing okay or living comfortably" in 2025 is better or worse than "doing ok or living comfortably" in 2013? My baseline assumption would be that they're similar. 0120
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Also similar to how (often, anyways) most people disapprove of congress but like their congressperson. 160
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026"recruited panel members who did not have a computer or internet access were provided with a device and access to the internet to complete the surveys" They thought of that! www.federalreserve.gov/publications...federalreserve.govDescription of the SurveyThe Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC. 1170
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026And for questions about your personal experience you want responses which evoke your personal experience (like 'just getting by'). But for questions about your opinion on something, "good" and "bad" work fine. The responses given are made to manipulate people into saying what they really think! 010
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026It has to do with a general bias towards pleasantness. "Is the economy excellent, good, only fair, or bad?" Leaves a soft bad option to respond to. If they say "only fair" and you ask why, they answer with a grievance or complaint. Some people, though, will never say bad! 010
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I looked at their replies and he's been dogging Matt Darling for misunderstanding a labor market fact for three weeks. I live in a glass house of weird hobbies but, I mean, come on. 010
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Well they blocked me. It's a thoroughly validated scale for survey questions. Just about any survey considers "fair" or "only fair" on a four point scale to be negative. It's a kind of flat eartherism to declare the whole field of survey design wrong on a topic. 110
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The SHED collected the data. It's all available. Is there a problem with the data? 000
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The data is all right here: www.federalreserve.gov/consumerscom... That's the easy part. The hard part is getting out of bed to fire up STATA.federalreserve.govDataThe Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC. 000
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I'm happy to remake the chart for you with the missing positive responses. Though I should caution you that survey methodologists treat "only fair" as sub par. So we would be making the chart worse by the standards of experts. 000
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Offering the same options to different kinds of questions would make the data worse. One question asks about your lived experience. Another asks about your opinion of something. The study designers are very careful about this because they want to find out what people's personal finances are like! 000
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This chart is fine. Your objection to it doesn't make sense to me. But I'm offering to display the data according to your preferences to see if the data says something different. 000
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026If we recreated the chart by your preferences would it imply something different? 100
Clark @c1ark.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This particular good got cheaper over time and increased in quality. 0140
