matthjensen

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by matthjensen 3y ago
And big government, which demands information in many cases by law, is terrible at keeping that info "safe" in its hands once it's been collected. Taking the U.S. federal government as an example, by my count we've alrea
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by matthjensen 3y ago
An interesting aspect of this is that any information that USPS collects is also likely to be available to foreign governments now or in the future. The U.S. government has a terrible track record of keeping its own information secure. See,
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by matthjensen 6y ago
I did a calculation where the taxpayer earns $40k/year, single, 2 kids. You see Biden vs. baseline in the tables. Individual income taxes fall from -$3,370 to -$6,570.
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Hosting Dash/Plotly and Bokeh Apps on Compute Studio(hankdoupe.com)
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On economists jazzing up numbers between peer review and the book seller's stand(twitter.com)
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Show HN: Tax-Calculator for policy decisionmaking and individual planning(pslmodels.github.io)
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by matthjensen 8y ago
I associate "product" with something that is sold, so when I saw Muze described as a "product," but I didn't see a price, I was somewhat wary that the price was hidden or forthcoming. "Project" is also a f
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by matthjensen 8y ago
Cool. You might consider describing Muze as a project rather than a product. E.g., On the homepage: Our first product, Muze... -> Our first project, Muze....
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by matthjensen 8y ago
How do you plan to support the team and project, financially, over the long haul?
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by matthjensen 9y ago
I write based on my experience working on Tax-Calculator and the Open Source Policy Center. Tax-Calculator was used extensively by the NYT, WaPo, CNN, and Senate/House/Administration staff during the tax debates.
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Transparency for Congress's Scorekeepers(nationalaffairs.com)
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by matthjensen 9y ago
This critique underestimates the value of language and concrete diction for learning concepts. If a child learns the definition of key words, she'll carry the concepts they represent with her forever. Once she know knows "map&quot
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by matthjensen 9y ago
If this interests you, I would also recommend checking out http://open-source-economics.github.io/Tax-Calculator/ and https://github.com/open-source-economics/tax-calculator .
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by matthjensen 9y ago
The course information in the coorsy results is valuable, but stock photos are a waste of space on a search results page.
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by matthjensen 9y ago
I imagine FedEx thinks of the drivers as partners rather than "temporary commodities". It's a franchise model or close enough. McDonald's calls their analogues, "owner/operators." That's no slur.
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by matthjensen 9y ago
I direct the Open Source Policy Center at the American Enterprise Institute. We contribute to open source economic modeling tools. Check us out. I think we do good work, and I have never felt as if a donor biased our work -- this is probabl
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Suggestions: Todoist
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by matthjensen 9y ago
I am equally concerned by the application of secret simulation models by organizations like the Congressional Budget Office for fiscal policy decision making. Our legislators rely on models that even they do not have access to when writing
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by matthjensen 9y ago
Here is a new working paper on implementing a budget-neutral UBI in the US. We use a suite of open source models. https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/UBI-working-p...
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by matthjensen 9y ago
I expect many of the experiences will involve community. More and more SaaS products offer Facebook groups, Meetups, Slack channels, conferences, and more for their users. Community is a way for SaaS co's to create network effect, and
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by matthjensen 9y ago
https://www.github.com/open-source-economics/tax-calculator Open source tax-calculator for tax policy analysis. Used by many policymakers to inform their decisions about tax policy via the TaxBrain GUI ( https:/&#
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by matthjensen 9y ago
We need to incentivize people running for public office. Taking away privacy is not the way to do that. And I'm a complete advocate for openness in government where it matters, like in policy analysis--that's the field I work in (
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by matthjensen 9y ago
Primarily Python. See, for example, https://github.com/open-source-economics/tax-calculator . We also make many of the models available through webapps like https://www.ospc.org/taxbrain and https:&#x2
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by matthjensen 9y ago
The Open Source Policy Center, where I work, is focussed on this issue. www.ospc.org Most of OSPC's work is focussed on fiscal policy rather than monetary policy.
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by matthjensen 9y ago
That's for workshop materials. Here is the model itself https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl
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Cracking Washington's Black Box (2016)(wsj.com)
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by matthjensen 9y ago
Most policy decisions these days are heavily influenced by proprietary forecasting models. Just look at the fuss that was made because the House passed a health bill without a Congressional Budget Office score. The CBO score will certainly
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Forecasting with Julia(libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)
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by matthjensen 9y ago
Public policy is not politics. I was happy to have an opportunity to comment about some open source tax modeling resources.
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by matthjensen 9y ago
ospc.org/TaxBrain is an open source platform for analyzing tax policy. You can forecast revenue and distributional consequences for most of the individual and payroll tax provisions in this reform and others. I am happy to answer any q

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