#Policy

Kevin Roose

kevinroose

New by me, @MikeIsaac and @sheeraf: a post-election look inside Facebook, where internal battles are raging about how to balance the sometimes-incompatible goals of growth and goodness.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/technology/facebook-

The Lancet

TheLancet

NEW Health Policy—First implemented in China in February 2020, Fangcang shelters, large-scale temporary hospitals, are a novel concept. S Chen et al discuss the value of shelters as a component

Ritwik Priya

ritwik_priya

On Prof @jrvarma , I was not being entirely accurate here. I *am* aware of a number of his macro intuitions - in quite some detail - just don't know

Jeff, who pays over $750 in taxes every year

NewJeffCT

Last night, Trump said he’s done more in 47 months than Biden in 47 years. However, I don’t think that means what Donny thinks it means. Let’s review what he’s

Mikal Skuterud

mikalskuterud

*Thread* Policy idea. Thoughts including s welcome. Foreign students pay big differential tuition fees in . Eg. domestics pay $62K for computer science coop degree at @UWaterloo; foreign pay $193K.

Shivank Shridhar

ShivankShridhar

We the students of IITG have been complaining to the administration for the past one year regarding various issues, each time we were given a half baked reason. @PMOIndia @HRDMinistry

Megan Tompkins-Stange

tompkinsstange

The term “wicked problems” was coined in 1973 to describe social problems without an isolated, identifiable cause.Silicon Valley elites generally don’t believe in wicked problems, and see them as technical

David Wilcox

D_W_Wilcox

The US finally abandoned the gold standard in 1971. Since then no mainstream expert has thought it was a good idea to go back. Incredibly, in February 2009, at the

Hercberg Serge

HercbergS

1/3 To all those spreading the fake news that the #Nutriscore algorithm is unhealthy or that it goes against the Mediterranean diet, please read the work published on the Spanish

Jack Murphy 🇺🇸 ⚔️

jackmurphylive

The Student Loan crisis is building. We need alternatives to federally subsidized student loans. Some novel tools do exist but people are ignorant. A thread. Learn something Currently subsidized

Twitter Comms

TwitterComms

We have placed a public interest notice on this Tweet from @realdonaldtrump.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1266231100780744704 This Tweet violates our policies regarding the glorification of violence based on the historical cont

Rob Ford

robfordmancs

Brexitland is out today! To celebrate the release of our new book I'm going to put up a graph a day here highlighting some of the big themes we discuss.

Jeffrey Cook

JeffreyCook

NEW: WHO are the nine signatures Kanye West needed to get on the ballot in Colorado?AT LEAST:- FOUR are current or former GOP operatives including a former Colorado GOP Political

Lisa

anelisa_tuswa

If you recently got retrenched - and you had debt (specifically: bank products like loans, credit card and vehicle finance) you are likely to have been paying for credit life

Daniel Reeders

engagedpractx

So the model on which the model on which the Victorian government apparently based its policy was based —yeah, it's messy —uses the following code to simulate transmission events. Now,

Jeremy Bentham's Severed Head

Malarksist

Okay, I'm gonna compile some criticisms I and others have had of @UnlearnEcon's treatment of Diamond, and also talk about the ways in which I think his response to some