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Economics Nobel Laureates' Letter Supporting the California Billionaire Tax [pdf](gabriel-zucman.eu)
33 points by marojejian 7d ago|28 comments
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by marojejian 7d ago
While the concept of progressive wealth taxation is very important and good, executing on such taxes is very hard. I'm skeptical this bill is actually a positive step in the overall campaign. That said, I think the more discussion ab
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The Working Class Face a 'Class Ceiling' in Elite Occupations(nytimes.com)
7 points by marojejian 7d ago|1 comments
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by marojejian 7d ago
Gift Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/business/class-barrier-ac... Paper: https://www.econometricsociety.org/publications/econometrica... This seems on the same spectrum wit
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The Next Gene-Editing Technology May Also Be the Oldest(nytimes.com)
4 points by marojejian 8d ago|1 comments
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by marojejian 8d ago
Gift Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/science/crispr-gene-editi... While this seems overhyped in terms of it's applicability (wraps around DNA vs. actually editing it), it's still reall
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New Species of Cat Discovered for First Time in a Century(nytimes.com)
10 points by marojejian 8d ago|1 comments
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by marojejian 8d ago
he smol but feisty Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/science/tilcayo-new-cat-s...
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T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F(nytimes.com)
65 points by marojejian 9d ago|112 comments
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A.I.'S Effect on the Work Force Is Showing Up in Wages(nytimes.com)
3 points by marojejian 10d ago|12 comments
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by marojejian 10d ago
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/business/ai-raises-hiring... >Liminal Capital, an investment firm, estimated in August that about a third of jobs appear to be more exposed to substitutio
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Mice with human brain cells offer a tool to study disease(npr.org)
2 points by marojejian 10d ago|1 comments
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by marojejian 12d ago
Nice to see something built for AI that's supporting both openness and interpretablilty.
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The End of Friday Nights with Friends(journals.sagepub.com)
25 points by marojejian 13d ago|5 comments
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How Much Redistribution Will AI Require?(marginalrevolution.com)
7 points by marojejian 17d ago|0 comments
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Limits and opportunities of AI reviewers: Reviewing the reviews of Nature papers(arxiv.org)
1 points by marojejian 17d ago|1 comments
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by marojejian 17d ago
>On a composite of all three dimensions, a reviewing agent powered by GPT-5.2 scores above each paper's top-rated human reviewer (60.0% vs. 48.2%, p = 0.009) note this was GPT-5.2
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Why Labor's Share of Wealth Is Shrinking(nytimes.com)
10 points by marojejian 19d ago|8 comments
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by marojejian 19d ago
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/opinion/labor-capitol-wor... I've agreed with this conclusion for a while: the decline in labor's share of income is mostly due to automation, broa
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by marojejian 21d ago
I'd like to 2nd schiffern' s comment. Your comment gives a persuasive perception of competence. But that's not sufficient to accept your point. I'd love to have more data and details to work with so I can decide which
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Another heart drug fails, previously assumed to be the vanguard of a new era(nytimes.com)
4 points by marojejian 21d ago|3 comments
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by marojejian 21d ago
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/science/heart-drug-fails-... Damn, biology is complex. But I'm glad our system at least has enough integrity to admit failures of this magnitude. >Th
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by marojejian 22d ago
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/opinion/clinical-trials-d... This isn't news at all, but simply a process that has gone on for decades. But it is nice to see the NYT giving it coverag
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Robust inference and correlates from genetic associations with personality(nature.com)
2 points by marojejian 23d ago|1 comments
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by marojejian 23d ago
>Common genetic variants explain a moderate 4.8–9.3% of the variance in measures of each trait But this is just the influence of "common" 1000 markers they looked at. Overall Big Five personality is >40% genetically heritab
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by marojejian 27d ago
Not sure what the new data here is, but I think this is an important point worth promoting. Perhaps it's the geographic association they show. In that case there could just be a confounding correlation: areas with more dynamic econo
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Cross-class friendships are strong predictors of upward mobility(ft.com)
2 points by marojejian 27d ago|2 comments
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Why America's prisons are shrinking and racial gaps are closing(nature.com)
9 points by marojejian 28d ago|13 comments
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by marojejian 28d ago
Forget the why, I wasn't aware the gap was closing... Someone with more, info feel free to refute this. I can't defeat the paywall, but these posts have some more detail: https://news.wisc.edu/incarceration-rates-a
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Personal Holding Companies, Tax Progressivity, and Inequality(nber.org)
3 points by marojejian 28d ago|1 comments

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