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by matthjensen 9y ago
I wish our medical system trusted patients more. Why not tattoo a tiny dot on the scalp where the patient needs to inject, train him, and then send him home with the Novocain. Have a checklist of warning signs that should terminate treatmen
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by matthjensen 9y ago
I am very thankful to people who take the time to share their tips for email management or other such tasks in enough detail that others can implement. A lot of people have absolutely no strategy for managing email. A simple blog post like
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by matthjensen 10y ago
Stan has a BSD core. Prophet must avoid the GPLv3 interfaces.
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by matthjensen 10y ago
This would be great. Lifting the restrictions that keep insiders from publicly disclosing information would likely improve market efficiency, reduce the value of true insider trading, reduce the spoils that go to information thiefs, and hel
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by matthjensen 10y ago
This article is focussed on anti-trust regulation, but the problems it addresses are much broader. Every spending and tax law, for example, is scored by the Congressional Budget Office/Joint Committee on Taxation to determine the budge
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by matthjensen 10y ago
What else is on the list of things you show people who are new to VR?
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by matthjensen 10y ago
I wonder how they will determine which open source projects are included at code.gov. For instance, I contribute to a few projects that are used within government for determining the economic impacts of fiscal policy, and the code is in the
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by matthjensen 10y ago
The article mentions that this comes three months after a redesign. I love it that they are open sourcing the code, but at first I was wondering, why not do it before the redesign so that contributors could really dig into the project and b
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by matthjensen 10y ago
Shouldn't Microsoft have made the trade in page prettier if the goal is to get the word out that "Surface Pro/Book are competing for the same market as the Macbook <whatever>"?
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by matthjensen 10y ago
Arthur Brooks is the president of the American Enterprise Institute, so I'll leave a plug here for another AEI initiative that I work on: The Open Source Policy Center. We build open source tools for policy analysis like TaxBrain and t
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Should Coke buy Twitter?
2 points by matthjensen 10y ago|1 comments
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by matthjensen 10y ago
Tax-Calculator (1) and TaxBrain (2) are part of a similar project for the USA. There are several other policy-relevant projects in the open-source-economics GH organization (3). Feel free to email me for more information. (1) http:/&
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by matthjensen 10y ago
I agree. In the case of fast moving policy debates, open analytical code is also important. There are also situations when government agencies like the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, and many many others use
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by matthjensen 10y ago
I strongly believe that open sourcing the analyses that are intended to influence policy would be a big step to mitigating the 'money problem' in Washington. If we could see exactly which assumptions policy researchers rely on in
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by matthjensen 10y ago
I'd love to see the ecological models or decision making rules that were applied to decide where to plant the trees, what kind and how many to plant, and any other imporant factors that a lay person like myself might not think of. Open
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by matthjensen 10y ago
Warranty-void-if-removed stickers reduce the cost to the company of providing the warranty, among other effects. Outlawing these stickers increases the cost of warranties to consumers who have no interest in opening the hardware. In this si
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by matthjensen 11y ago
What brain region did they stimulate? And what kind of TMS parameters？It must have been repetitive TMS, at what frequency？