#Cases

Sam Trabucco

AlamedaTrabucco

Here are some short threads, each detailing a recent-ish trading situation and how Alameda handled it. Each is an example where we either made a great decision because we got

Nazrin Gadimova-Akbulut

nazringadimova

1/ I was asked to present some information regarding the facts of vandalism and destruction of the cultural heritage of Azerbaijan in Armenia and Karabakh, so here is a thread:

Wen Zhong

forthewen

How did we get here?I've been following updates from Notre Dame (my alma mater) throughout this pandemic and wanted to share them to provide a little context for some recent

Courtney Milan 🦖

courtneymilan

So one sentence from very early in this brief DOES rather give away the game. https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1337415085963304961 ”Ripeness” is a doctrine about when you can sue someone.For instance, let’s say that

Rachael Meager

economeager

So some very smart folks have asked about how we would apply the AMIP metric to studies of rare events. This kicked off a discussion of what robustness checks are

Kate Davidson

KateDavidson

Republicans say the extra $600 in weekly unemployment benefits is discouraging some people from returning to work. Economists who’ve studied the payments say there’s no evidence that more generous benefits

Sheryl Ring, Esq 🚩🌈 ✡️

Ring_Sheryl

THREAD.I see this argument a lot - that a sexual harassment/assault civil suit for money damages is somehow less credible than a criminal case. I've handled cases involving both (and

Jason Smith

infotranecon

I thought I'd do a short thread on why I think "Regression Discontinuity Design" (RDD) is a poor method, especially for noisy data in economics. I'm going to generate a

Jon Deeks

deeksj

Follow-on explanation from RSS statementFair questions about the actual figures used, and how this fits with repeated cheap testing as proposed by Michael Mina and others.Key is that the Mina

Aaron Tang

AaronTangLaw

Why did the Supreme Court deny cert in the qualified immunity cases? THREAD.The need to rein in rogue police officers is painfully obvious... and 5 justices seem on board. So

Sara Mojtehedzadeh

SaraMojtehedz

NEW: the City of Toronto has started publicly reporting workplace outbreak data, including naming workplaces with significant workplaces. A thread on why that matters, after months of reporting on it:https://www.thestar.com/business/2021/01

Magilla Gorilla 39

39Magilla

(1) The @nytimes updates its United States Excess Deaths analysis based on August 22nd CDC Dataset updates.CDC Reported Deaths: 176,188CDC Excess Deaths: 246,588CDC Undercount: 70,400 (+40.0%)NYT 9/10 Reported Deaths: 190,714NYT

Richard ("Armchair Epidemiologist") Ward, Esq.

RichardWWard1

#StittVirusDeathCount for Dec. 4:OSDH (underreported): 1860CDC (Death certificate count): 2251 Estimated actual Oklahoma COVID deaths: 3000-5000Comments and update, including areas under investigation, follows.(more) Comments: FOX 23 and KF

Erik Wim During

ErikwimDuring

This is a typical example of a very dangerous Platonic claim, that we should trust those 'whose knowledge is based on science' or 'experts' or 'scientists'. A claim i suspect

Open Ocean Exploration

RebeccaRHelm

I was really excited until I read their actual statement. "the company said results from 94 evaluable cases of COVID-19 among study participants indicated the vaccine is more than 90%

Claire Sandberg

clairesandberg

One of the most depressing things about the debate over tactics this week has been how the people ceaselessly berating AOC seem to have no interest whatsoever in what it

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