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It was so awful almost nobody blinked at the "Browns on Browns crime" comment by Herbstriet. Just fire them both.

I've always thought Kirk Herbstriet was kinda an idiot, but you can't go calling Cleveland's penalty issues "Browns on Browns crime."

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About that murderbot apocalypse...

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Can we say for sure that this isn't just a time trend rather than birth cohort+age?

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Maga world gives no shits about Eric Schmitt schmitting the bed in front of Jack Smith. If their flimsy conspiracy theory is true then they can gloat about catching a Dem red-handed; if it's not then if libs react they can laugh about "owning"then; and if libs don't react the story dies

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To these folks losing coverage due to administrative burden is a feature, not a bug. Feel free to replace the middle two letters of "folk" in the post to get the full F-ect.

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Spent for years living in the armpit of Missouri (Kirksville). There is a nonzero probability that they cannot do better.

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I wonder if folks are projecting the political (dis?)equilibrium were in on the economy. The economy has been oddly resilient to how fucked things are politically around the developed world.

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"[J]eans and a t-shirt is your dominant strategy: If you are a good student, then a department that will not give you a job [because of this] does not deserve to have you. If you are mediocre, then [this] is the only way for you to get noticed." arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/papers/10QA....

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Jeffrey Wooldridge @jmwooldridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In case anyone is interested, here is a new working paper on non-binary treatments with staggered interventions. Essentially, I show under what assumptions it is valid to estimate cohort x time dose-response functions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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A Heterogeneous Slopes Approach to Difference-in-Differences with Non-Binary Treatments

I extend the approach of Wooldridge (2023, 2025) to allow for heterogeneous gains to treatment in the context of staggered interventions for non-binary treatmen

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Projecting your personal experience on the economy as a whole it's a fallacy of composition. Socials amplify this fallacy because people doing a bit better aren't chirping as loudly, just like my econ students who learn well but had to work hard aren't lining up to praise their professor's teaching.

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R² is useless in nonstationary time series, and I'm not holding you to any double standard. Hell, I don't even know what makes the vibecession "real": that it's just vibes or that the vibes are linked to a real 'cession? Sketchy data analysis catches my eye. I wish you well.

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Even establishing a clear /association/ is sketchy if there's serial correlation due to common trends.

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That's fine if it's clear and you don't use terms like "explains." A reasonable person would interpret this to imply a casual claim.

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You really should try taking first differences of all of these variables to make sure the correlations aren't spurious.

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I wonder if this casual analysis considered the number of Nicholas Cage movies. www.tylervigen.com/spurious-cor...

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I too hate tibbles and support the student's instinct, even if their execution failed.

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So lovely spending two days in jury selection with a random cross section of the community knowing that you're 99% certain to be one of the lawyers' peremptory strikes.

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Can't wait for Dear Leader's revised plan for the Kennedy Center.

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Counterpoint: he declared bankruptcy multiple times and still got favorable loans for his business, so grown adults are pretty stupid sometimes.

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Also very backwards economic reasoning in several ways.

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Did the analysis also consider state capacity to collect revenue from less distortionary sources? This story also seems to fit and explains why some institutionally weak countries rely on tariff revenue even today.

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Donnie gets -20 points (out of a possible 10 points). I actually got dumber reading this and would give a better score for a blank response. Drop slips (which don't even exist anymore) can be picked up at the registrar's office.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 15/09/2026

One aspect of research funding that it took me a while as a prof to appreciate: Someone who directs significant funding can shape the questions researchers investigate, *even researchers they don't directly fund*. Why? Because many researchers chase citations, and better-funded areas get cited more.

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One day I'll be able to work in my office (or at home) in a full body VR suit some my work on that dream location.

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Cabin in the mountains. Wireless Internet is a game changer for making this a reality.

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Say you didn't read the assigned readings without saying you didn't read the assigned readings.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds

A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.

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I find it hilarious that I've been blocked even 20 times.

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Casual inference is the art of knowing why your estimate isn't casual, claiming it is anyway, and adding a bunch of "proofs" to your methods section to confuse reviewers. Bonus points for fancy notation like integral symbols or Kronecker products.

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Can we add real estate agencies to this list?

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Hell yeah! I'd like to see Python do THAT!

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Bureau of Labor Data Analytics?

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I came here to find a fun nerd thread and you all aced the assignment. 11/10

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With this supposedly-Christian ethos we should have the best education system in the world, right? ... Right? Because otherwise it'd be like they just don't want to feed the poor OR teach them so they can feed themselves, and gosh that would be pretty hypocritical.

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Really.... Teach a man.... On an unrelated note, please tell us more about your plans to eliminate the Education Department.

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Counterpoint: I've never heard of a speed camera citing someone for rolling a right turn and then shooting the person.

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I can't do much against textbook corporate greed but by adopting open educational resources I fight corporate textbook greed every semester.

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Work emails gon get a lot less cordial for a minute.

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PER. MY. PREVIOUS. EMAIL. send...

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Kicking is even illegal unless you are the kicker and even then only l it's only legal if you do it right.

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