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Mar Mite

@marmite4ever.bsky.social
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Salty, savory, and slightly bitter. Also an economist.

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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Metro's own report tells us we need fares to keep the trains safe: "Metro launched a pilot program installing reinforced, taller fare gates ... incidents related to security concerns, vandalism/graffiti, and cleanliness declined by 69% at stations with new gates." www.metro.net/about/media-...
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Metro Public Safety Strategy Delivers Measurable Results in 2025 - LA Metro
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Prenups signal your intensions (e.g. your commitment to the relationship). See Spier's "Incomplete Contracts and Signalling", RAND, 1992. www.jstor.org/stable/2555872
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Client Challenge
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Dario Amodei: "it’s my worry that in 6–12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet". Legislation typically takes more than 6-12 months.
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"There is no subject now but artificial intelligence. Nothing else is as crucial, nothing carries dangers so imminent or implications so great for the human future.... I believe we are at its hinge point, and we had better understand the moment we’re in." www.wsj.com/opinion/paus...
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Opinion | Pause AI for Humanity’s Sake
When something speeds up and gets out of control, it isn’t alarmist to demand prudence and deliberation.
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Fun fact: In 2019, Cambridge changed their title structure from lecturer/senior lec/reader to asst/assoc/full. The mapping is described here: www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/201...
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
A friend told me the catchy line: "If you don't build housing for the rich, they will steal it from the poor"
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Don't we already have laws against super fast electric bikes? Why not enforce them? If they are not pedaling and going over 20mph, give them a ticket.
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Isn't it STP Guy 7? There might be 6 other competing reviewers. Maybe one of them likes extravagant garnishes, burned bottoms and minimal sauce.
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
If you wanted to tax billionaires, would raising the top rate of income help? Their income is from capital gains (or loans secured against their stock).
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Well done ProPublica! It's great to revisit these important stories.
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
It's far better than WebMD, where everything could be cancer. Chat GPT gives you a sense of how likely different outcomes are. It also helps interpret test results and can give you a diagnostic tree.
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
One common path is that people delay having a family to pay of college, save for a deposit etc, and they eventually run out of time to have a bigger family.
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Five years post-tenure isn't a big window. In economics it often takes 3-4 years from first version to publication so there is a lot of gaming around tenure, with people prioritizing publishing over new projects.
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I'm skeptical that "man in studio talking to camera" is too expensive. I'd be more sympathetic if they tried to negotiate down Colbert's salary (which, amusingly, they increased in 2019).
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Please don't reduce everything to race: it's inaccurate, alienating and unhelpful since people can't change their race. The medicare cuts come from persuading one working class person that others are taking advantage of "the system" (hence the work requirements).
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I love my local NPR station, and some shows are great, but the choice of Maher showed little desire to be a "diverse" broadcaster (e.g. Rich Lowry and Left, Right, and Center). www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/b...
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NPR C.E.O. Faces Criticism Over Tweets Supporting Progressive Causes (Published 2024)
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The general idea of achieving growth that benefits everyone is uncontroversial. But many of Mamdani's specific policies (rent control, free childcare) would likely not be supported by the majority of economists.
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
"I found an economist who confirmed my personal opinion". Why not ask a second economist?
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Bluesky really is a weird place... you point out that the search engine and home computer are useful, and require lots of hard work and capital (and luck) to make. And the reactions are extreme. We can appreciate the work Brin and Gates did and tax them more.
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This doesn't prove anything. ROI should be measured relative to the counter factual that the student chose a different major (or didn't go to college). At least add some controls. Or, better yet, have some exogenous variation.
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Is it more than weakening planning laws and energy regulation (e.g. nuclear)?
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Should they respond? Maybe it's just really hard to improve evaluations while maintaining rigor. If a teacher went to college and had 10 years of experience, maybe they're already optimizing subject to their ability. Did they look at young teachers? (Apology: I've not read the paper)
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
In the past, people only have imaging when there is something wrong; in the future it will become more regular as the cost falls. It reminds me of how spreadsheets increased the number of accountants. But not all professions have room for growth (e.g. taxi drivers).
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
If Vance thinks the deficit is really important, he should really care about having a responsible tax bill.... www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Opinion | Ron Johnson: The Ugly Truth About the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Years after Covid, the overspending continues—even with a Republican Congress.
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Let me rephrase the claim: Male friendships more often have a functional purpose; when this purpose is eliminated, the friendships wither.
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Men are more goal focused. When young, these goals align with friends (sports, school, getting laid); when older this often means earning more or working out (as in the article), both of which are solitary. (Aside: video games have also harmed mens friendships for all age groups)
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Didn't Rogan endorse Bernie in 2020 primary and then vote for Trump? He's not a republican. He seems to believe in personal freedom, masculinity and be anti-establishment. It seems progressive democrats gave up on trying to persuade working class men.
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Reason has a lot of good articles: reason.com/category/cri...
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Police Abuse | Reason Archives
Reason Magazine’s archive of articles filed under Police Abuse. Reason is an American libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation.
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
This isn't just marketing. The name behind a policy tells us about the underlying motivation and what other policies may follow. E.g. "baby bonus" supporters may also want to ban abortion.
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
We people calling up the port today to ask them to put everything back on the boat and drive around the block a couple of times?
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
FWIW, isn't your example essentially saying "increasing supply lowers prices"? Suppose we go from (1,0),(1,0), so both agents compete over A to (1,1) (1,1), so both agents are happy with either item. Revenue drops from 1 to 0.
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Looked a bit more closely... yup, bidder 1 in their example has complementary preferences.
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This talks about it... web.stanford.edu/~milgrom/pub...
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Should we scrap the cap on benefits too? The whole point of social security is that you get out what you put in (kind of).
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Based on the FCC auctions alone, the government got a pretty good return on its investment. And then there's ad auctions, procurement auctions, utility regulation,...
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
In terms of elasticities... this paper suggests that 0.7% of families didn't have a third kid because they had to upgrade the car (at a cost of ~10k). www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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Car Seats as Contraception | The Journal of Law and Economics: Vol 67, No 3
Abstract We show that laws mandating use of child car safety seats significantly reduce birth rates, as many cars cannot fit three child seats in the back seat. Women with two children younger than th...
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Mar Mite @marmite4ever.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The numbers for Michigan and Wisconsin are 38% and 29%.
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