Your call is very important to us.

Huh! IRS Direct File is implemented in part in #Scala, both JVM and JS.

“when you’re in this kind of situation it’s hard not to become preoccupied obsessing over how stupid you’ve been.” #relatable i think i want it on my tombstone from a great piece by Moe Tkacik. revenue-based repayment in theory makes some sense for small business loans, but price is everything.

everything they pretended to complain about on principle they were really only jealous of. this is their diversity statements.

i had no idea there was a credible challenge in the courts until last night they announced its success. and i’m a pretty obsessive news reader.

they seem inconsistent, with mutually exclusive reasoning. but i guess not!

will it be the Supreme Court that ignores Humphrey’s, or the Supreme Court that exempts the Fed?

(I don’t have a strong view one way or another on the question of whether holding eg US Treasuries gives a player meaningful power over the US. The Fed, after all, can buy what the other guy sells, has the power to do yield curve control if it wants. But what are the knock-on effects of that?)

yeah. the exceptions we’d want to make to taxing payouts on US securities would be securities issued by US subs to purchase primary, greenfield, real investment in domains where we want to learn from foreign suppliers.

they are! but i don’t think they should be. if the US had a big bilateral deficit with China offset by a surplus elsewhere, i don’t see a problem. (there might be problems in terms of sole-sourcing particular critical items, but that’s distinct, might be the case even under bilateral balance.)

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you are talking about nothing i have brought up, nothing i give a shit about. they are your talking points. your shield.

i am not any of these groups, and the source of my shame and disgust at this point with the state of Israel has nothing to do with any of the irrelevances you are throwing my way. on this subject (and this subject alone), i simply do not consider you a good faith interlocutor.

this American Jew is sick to death of all the murder, and all the apologetics that surrounds it. all the rest is noise noise noise.

and all the arabs in new jersey who celebrated 9/11. this rhetorical style is, to put it very gently, uninformative. you are better than this on every subject but this one.

we are all opposed to the 7.10 attack. because we are liberal universalists and oppose murder, of anyone. there has been a lot of murder and it is ongoing and we oppose it.

“The perversity at the center of American Jewish liberalism is the fact that American liberalism’s towering achievement, the end of Jim Crow, is precisely what Israel violates.”