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Dave Vanness

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Health economist interested in using Bayesian methods to improve decision making about health and health care. Advocate for high quality, affordable higher education as a public good. Personal views only.


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Once-per-day price change regulation, no doubt.

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So voting is better than *not* voting when it comes to getting what you want? Huh.

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Force ghost Yoda for President!

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His performance in an unscripted environment was new to me. And very shocking.

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Nothing that Trump said in the debate was new or shocking in any way to anyone who has paid attention. Biden's performance was both. They don't call it NEWs for nothing. Completely predictable media response.

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I'm really not sure, but my instinct suggests he admit that he had the best intentions of protecting our democracy from Trump, but the campaign made him realize that the physical demands are too high for him to continue governing and campaigning. He should release his delegates to VP Harris.

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Already feel like that, frankly.

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his lawyer argued as much in front of the court its absurd for Roberts to say that the dissenters are being dramatic when this is the verbatim quote from the defense with regards to using the military to assassinate a political rival

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Welp, this would explain why everyone is acting like she's not actually there...

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Something clearly happened during the recovery from the great recession that led to a long linear trend up in leverage. Any thoughts?

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One of those little yellow patches in central Pennsylvania happens to be Centre County - home of Accuweather. As a resident, I would say 48 hours is a big stretch.

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Ashton Pittman's avatar Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social
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In 2016, Hillary Clinton gave a speech in Wisconsin about the importance of the Supreme Court.

She warned that 2016 was "make or break" for the courtโ€”and the country.

National mediaโ€”focused on her emails and Trump's anticsโ€”barely covered the speech.
www.thenation.com/article/arch...

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Emma Evans's avatar Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social
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It's important to note that Trump tried to order this at least twice we know of during his regime.

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southpaw's avatar southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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An unfairly maligned formulation of the true meaning of the separation of powers, according to todayโ€™s Supreme Court majority.

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Congratulations and thanks for your service! (and thank you to Sally!)

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Is there any other kind of lunch with Maureen Dowd?

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Crazy question: Could ending Chevron deference backfire by closing the "revolving door" between industry and agencies? The benefits to industry of placing sympathetic agents in rule making positions seems reduced if courts can reinterpret what's optimal. @donmoyn.bsky.social @pamherd.bsky.social

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What's his beef? ๐Ÿฅ...I'll show myself out.

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Pizza Hut Express is a pale imitation of the real Hut.

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As a health economist who just underwent two knee replacements, I can attest that this applies also to people who have deep subject-specific knowledge and strong quantitative skills. So much for pure risk reduction benefit of insurance!

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Great discussion/debate thread...

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Normatively, absolutely no. Positively, it depends on a whole lot of things about our culture that I am not confident about.

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Not sure you can really call last night a "misscue" as much as a revelation. God I hope I'm wrong.

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I agree - there's no easy answer. I'm not sure that there's any way that the case for withdrawing Biden can be made that doesn't sound unhinged. But I also am fairly confident he is going to lose the election. There's likely a sizeable group that is being vocal to be able to say "I told you so."

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I think he would have lost either way, so this take is not exactly making me feel better TBH.

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Lawprofblawg's avatar Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social
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Advice for students who just took Administrative law and Statutory Interpretation and Regulation:

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Happy 'hope you're not still quietly sobbing into your pillow day!'

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But also... โ€œIt may be simply my educational background, but I can only describe it as sociological gobbledygook.โ€ - Chief Justice Roberts (re: trying to measure gerrymandering).

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IMO, if there's a single ideology that threatens higher education, it is excessive managerial corporatism. The idea that everything produced by a university must be measured, incentivized and market-driven is contributing to a crisis of confidence - both internally and externally.

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That explains it. I thought it was cicadas.

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That was exactly my impression. It was pretty good, but I had no desire to read the sequels.

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This was the day that I predicted Trump would win in 2016. Chaos and anti-institutionalism ruled the day.

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The enemy of my enemy is my friend applies when the enemy is uncertainty, and the enemy of my enemy is the rule of law:

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Too bad you can only buy one for a solid bar of pure gold.

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Erik Gunn's avatar Erik Gunn @erikgunn.bsky.social
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Are there researchers in polling or adjacent fields who have investigated people's *perception* of the economy and how it either aligns with or diverges from objective assessments of the economy? Let me know if that's you or you know someone.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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You will never guess which Judges voted to make it easier for public officials to receive gifts.

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Going to give Bluesky a try. Hope to reconnect with folks I've lost touch with.

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