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Given OU is a large research institution, my default assumption is that she would just get moved to an RA position which comes with the same tuition waiver.

I dont know the dept, but it is certainly what both my PhD institution and my current institution would have done

Is there a book like The effect (@nickchk.com) or Mixtape (@causalinf.bsky.social) but for more experimental methods?

Trying to get up to speed on all the variations for Anova and factor analysis

Depending on how you define the problem, you did solve something

If
1) the judge were to rule that the defense would entitle the plaintiff to privileged communications, and
2) The defendants didn't use that defense based on the ruling

What would an appeal on the issue look like? Since they would not have actually taken the position

I can't DM you here, although I think we have DMd on X

Dang, I thought you had one back a couple years ago when we did the crypto comment letter, thanks though

Does anyone I know have any good contacts with tax folk in Congress?

@meganajustice.bsky.social ?

I would say that there is value in being able to make arguments with no stakes though!

It is large positive, when the stakes are high, to have someone who has already thought deeply and carefully about a topic.

It is up for me, so it may be back online

@chancethelawyer.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social @sranderson.bsky.social @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org

I will be writing a letter of recommendation for one of my students for Law school. I know the general format, but anyone have good suggestions for what law schools are looking for in particular? See below for the list of schools
@omrimarian.bsky.social @annmlipton.bsky.social #lawsky

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We're Google, and we're going to brick your perfectly functional thermostat after buying the company that made it.

Major countries like Europe, Canada, Australia, and Japan are probably not going to get closer to China, and the global south has already been taking a lot of BnR money.

Again, there will be a shift, but I think it will be marginal rather than groundbreaking

I am not sure USAID is that big of a deal in this comparison. Belt and Road was already spending like 6x ($120bn in 2024) more than USAID ($21bn in 2024) (although not a direct comparison as BnR uses more loans).

and on the China side, they can certainly attract some, but they will have a very hard time copying what the U.S. did without significant immigration reforms. I hear stories from my Chinese friends that even they have a hard time going back with all the restrictions
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I think the U.S. will certainly be below where we might otherwise have been, but think the old adage, "never count on someone understanding something when their job depends on them not" will be very telling. Grant money funds a lot of positions
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Ah yes, Marketing, the true height of efficiency is making sure that the first thing you have is a good clickthrough rate

BEA Announcement: Changes to the New FDI News Release and Related Data Tables SUITLAND, Md. – The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis’ ongoing modernization and streamlining of news release packages will include changes in the presentation of tables in the July 11 release, "New Foreign Direct Investment in the United States, 2024." Data previously published as tables within the annual news release on new foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States will continue to be updated and available simultaneously with the release in BEA’s online Interactive Data. However, tables will no longer be included in the body of the news release. This will reduce duplication, increase efficiency, and point data users directly to our most complete and flexible data tables, via links in the release. These customizable tables include full time series and can be downloaded as PDFs, in Excel, or in CSV format. Additionally, some data tables previously produced alongside the news release will be discontinued on July 11 due to resource constraints. The new FDI in the United States tables to be discontinued, currently available in the Interactive Data, cover: Total sales of new affiliates Net income of new affiliates Balance sheets of new affiliates BEA will continue to publish the tables on investment expenditures and employment of new affiliates, as well as the number of investments. Discontinued tables will be archived.

NEW: The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis says that "due to resource constraints," it plans to stop releasing new data tables on new foreign direct investment in the U.S., including statistics on the total sales, net income and balance sheets of new affiliates
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If you ever thought that crypto taxes were easy because there are a whole bunch of companies to solve the issue of crypto tax compliance, think again!

I find that no two providers are the same, and go over some common errors that they make in @taxnotes.com today.

www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...

I thought the exact same thing when I read it. 😂

Has anyone on #tax #taxsky had someone who used crypto software and was then audited or had their return adjusted on the transactions?

Know a reporter looking for people to interview

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

I think the bigger thing is actually that they have different rates. If they had been the same rate, the admin could have at least argued it was just doing it for clarity or something.

Although I am sure they will walk it back soon (or in private)

Trump also recognizing Taiwan as a country! He is basically left wing 😂

So 17% tariff on Isreal?...Trump was secretly a BDS supporter all along

Exclusion criteria are useful when they are black and white, because then we don't have human bias in picking and choosing.

Moving that bias to an LLM is not any better (and maybe worse) than just having the human bias

The detailed breakdown of each factor are nearly identical between the two papers, which really just makes this seem like a black box that is arbitrarily excluding papers.

Just from these two, can you actually tell why one was excluded and one wasn't? I can't.
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Honestly, that actually confuses me even more and makes me think this is even less helpful.

For example, two papers, both have the same score, 1 include, 1 exclude. I am guessing this is just a significant digits issue, but a lot of 4.5 papers were excluded.

but it goes deeper
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