mwt

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Economic Theorist at US Federal Trade Commission | Econ PhD Northwestern 2023 | Owner of https://econtwitter.net | #research #policy #economics #econtwitter #math #mathematics #mastoadmin #fedi22

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mwt, to Economics

Springer charges $39.95 for access to a public-domain review written by the government.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-023-09931-z

You can access it in the same place for free if you redirect through the DOJ's website: https://www.justice.gov/atr/public-documents/rio-annual-review-articles

Academic journals are crazy.

@academicchatter @economics

chikorita157, to random
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Basically every day on Sakurajima Mastodon.

Including other SPAM accounts, not just bet accounts. Been limiting signups on a lot of IP ranges they are using.

mwt,

@chikorita157 you can enable a captcha for signups https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/25019

jwildeboer, (edited ) to random
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For many years, DSL/Cable routers by German company AVM, sold under the Fritz!Box brand, did some internal dns tweaking so that when you typed in http://fritz.box it would lead you to the config page of the router in your network. Now, years later, there actually is a .box TLD (Top Level Domain) and AVM forgot to register the fritz.box domain. Someone else did. And activated Certificate Pinning (HSTS).

UPDATE 2024-01-27: Their dns entries are flaky ATM, sometimes there, mostly not.

mwt,

@jwildeboer it's a good thing that icann is planning to reserve .internal for internal use. It would be good to standardize on something.

mwt,

@pemensik @jwildeboer isn't .home.arpa already approved?

The reason .internal is being considered is that it is intuitive. No one could guess what .home.arpa means and it's particularly counterintuitive for any non-home usage.

mwt,

@jwildeboer @pemensik those are fine too. I think .local is already reserved for mdns usage.

The difference is that internal networks are not necessarily local. You might use .internal within a wireguard network and/or for a corporate intranet.

mwt,

@jwildeboer @pemensik yeah, I've never seen one without a real fqdn. They'll probably continue to do that after .internal is introduced as well because of ssl certs.

tonofcrates, to random

I wrote some ideas for how to actually make HTML documents a viable replacement for PDFs.

https://willcrichton.net/notes/portable-epubs/

mwt,

@tonofcrates I like the PDF theme

mwt,

@feld @tonofcrates aren't those just the properties of epubs that, already exist?

I think the issue is that many people who make PDFs don't want flexibility, they want total control/consistency of the end product (and PDFs are very good at that)

feld, to random
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    mwt,

    @feld oh, I'm going to buy 10 years of my .me right now

    brian_gettler, to history
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    Historical question! Does anyone know when institutions in the English-speaking world - corporations, government departments, etc - began opening bank accounts in their own names rather than entrusting funds to individual officeholders (who often mixed public and private funds in personal accounts)? I'm currently looking at 1830s-40s Canada where, if I'm understanding the admittedly sparse material correctly, this shift had not yet occurred. @histodons @econhist

    mwt,

    @brian_gettler @histodons @econhist I don't know about mixed private/public accounts, but I heard that English people in the 1600s or so opened accounts with their local silver/gold smith to keep money in their vaults and payed for things with cheques that could be redeemed with that smith.

    SallyStrange, to Economics
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    "Debunking degrowth" or trying to, anyway

    "In the degrowth literature, a caricature of the typical economist is presented as believing in unlimited economic growth, and that growth should be pursued regardless of its environmental impact. This is a straw man. It would be a naïve economist who did not recognise that constraints exist. And economists usually limit their projections to a few decades to come, rather than to the infinite future, in which they supposedly believe in unlimited exponential economic growth. Certainly, there are theoretical economic growth models which portray the possibility of exponential growth into the infinite future, but economists have had enough common sense not to assume stylised theoretical models are the be-all-and-end-all when it comes to public policy."

    Then why, Mr. Tunny, is it so hard to find an economist who can tell us when the economy should stop growing?

    https://www.cis.org.au/publication/debunking-degrowth/

    mwt,

    @pleaseclap @SallyStrange @simon_brooke @HeavenlyPossum @petealexharris @violetmadder total welfare of the world population

    mwt,

    @FantasticalEconomics @SallyStrange @simon_brooke but it's the resource usage that's bad, right? It's easy to reduce GDP without reducing resource usage and there's nothing good about that.

    It sounds like the right name is "conservationism"

    mwt,

    @FantasticalEconomics @SallyStrange @simon_brooke why agnostic though? If you can have the same resource consumption but with more surplus then that must be good. It's hard to be agnostic between everyone doing well and doing poorly with the same resource consumption.

    There's at least a frontier here.

    mwt,

    @SallyStrange @HeavenlyPossum @simon_brooke I said that growth is about doing more with less and that the strawman was to suggest that growth is about using more.

    Growth is the increase in welfare over time. You can achieve "degrowth" by making people worse off. You can make people worse off in lots of ways that have nothing to do with conservation of resources. Policies and technology that make people better off without increasing resources usage are good.

    mwt,

    @HeavenlyPossum @SallyStrange @simon_brooke but growth isn't capitalist intensification. It's the increase in aggregate welfare. Measured growth rates are based on some metric that is trying to measure welfare. GDP per capita growth is reported because that's one of the metrics that people use to measure welfare.

    You think it's a flawed metric? I agree. Measuring welfare is hard. No one has a perfect addition yet.

    mwt,

    @Stoneshins @violetmadder @enby_of_the_apocalypse @pleaseclap @HeavenlyPossum @petealexharris @simon_brooke @SallyStrange yeah, I'd argue that those are both terrible options and you can do better than both of them

    mwt,

    @simon_brooke @FantasticalEconomics @SallyStrange yeah, the more you have in total, the more you have available to redistribute.

    I think there are two types of redistribution here: conservation policies redistribute across time and you redistribute among people within a single time period as well.

    mwt,

    @HeavenlyPossum @SallyStrange @simon_brooke

    > It sounds like we should call it “growth in welfare” then, and not just “growth.”

    Sure. It's about "economic growth" which is also vague.

    > This is the problem. You’re measuring GDP per capita growth and calling it “growth in aggregate welfare” but what you’re measuring is GDP per capita growth. They’re not synonyms.

    Yes. There is some platonic "growth" that is objectively good, but you can't readily measure it. It's a major unsolved problem.

    mwt,

    @pleaseclap @simon_brooke @SallyStrange @HeavenlyPossum @petealexharris @violetmadder effective altruists just use the same words as economists. I don't know what their process is, but they come to really weird conclusions.

    mwt,

    @HeavenlyPossum @SallyStrange @simon_brooke it's the average inflation-adjusted income (from both capital and labor) in the economy which I believe does have something to do with welfare, but it's not an accurate measurement of the thing.

    There are many ways to increase GDP per capita while making everyone worse off.

    mwt,

    @pleaseclap @simon_brooke @SallyStrange @HeavenlyPossum @petealexharris @violetmadder they're extremely distinguishable... I think the usual AF position is to ignore climate change and focus on vaccinations as though the two are mutually exclusive.

    mwt,

    @pleaseclap @simon_brooke @SallyStrange @HeavenlyPossum @petealexharris @violetmadder are you sure? They seem to have a lot to say about how climate change should not be a priority.

    What's wrong with a long term outlook? I think short term outlooks are a big part of the current problem.

    mwt,

    @FantasticalEconomics @SallyStrange @simon_brooke I think everyone agrees with that. GDP is not "true North". It's a very flawed welfare metric.

    mwt,

    @FantasticalEconomics @simon_brooke @SallyStrange I think it's very flawed, but per capita GDP is at least the average inflation-adjusted income in the country. So, that is certainly an input to welfare in the sense that people like higher income.

    I think that people do look at other dimensions of welfare when they discuss actual policy though. Eg, people compare our medical outcomes to other countries rather than trumpeting the expenditures as a big win. Same with things like prisons.

    radlschorsch, to fediverse German

    Wo bleiben die Universitäten im Fediverse?

    warum betreiben Universitäten nicht schon längst eigene Mastodon-Instanzen?

    Warum bekommen Studierende nicht mit der Inskription auch einen Mastodon-Handle?

    Warum hosten Universitäten Vorlesungsvideos nicht über PeerTube im Fediverse?

    Es gibt einiges, das für ein stärkeres Engagement von Universitäten im Fediverse spricht.

    Ein Aufruf den man nur unterstützen kann!

    https://netzpolitik.org/2023/aufruf-hochschulen-aller-laender-ins-fediverse/

    mwt,

    @sarahjelm @Oozenet @RichardShaw @srfirehorseart @radlschorsch @edutooters it's just so competitive though. I don't think it's an informational thing.

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