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This debate is over, right? Replies:"Confirmed cases is an irrelevant statistic""It would be good to see actual death totals""Hospitalizations & deaths would be a better measure than limited testing""I

Not The Onion:“EU proposing to regulate the use of Bayesian estimation” https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/04/22/eu-proposing-to-regulate-the-use-of-bayesian-estimation/ Can’t believe I missed the obvious “EU proposing to r

The DOJ's antitrust complaint against Google is out!Thread with some of my initial reactions as I go through it... Economies of scale are at the heart of this case:The pro-competitive

House Judiciary Committee report on tech and antitrust is out!Thread with some of my initial reactions as I go through it... First highly misleading claim:"a decade into the future, 30%

This was all so predictable (and preventable) https://www.npr.org/2020/04/21/838879361/bitter-taste-for-coffee-shop-owner-as-new-600-jobless-benefit-closed-her-busines

1/ @calebwatney and I wrote 4,000 words for @mercatus detailing how we can use government purchase guarantees and targeted deregulation to massively increase production of essential medical supplies.Short thread with

Why aren’t we putting copper tape on literally everything in public spaces https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xgqkyw/copper-destroys-viruses-and-bacteria-why-isnt-it-everywhere

So much of life is pure luck, being in the right place at the right time.This is not that. Here are some other examples of tech visionaries:Aug 2006: Elon Musk