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alangisaac.bsky.social
Economist and sci-fi fan.
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Do you have survey evidence? Anecdotally, I find that voters do not understand what the Social Security Trust Fund is, and they have no clue that it is approaching exhaustion. #EconSky
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I look forward to finding new ways for my students to use AI (critically) to answer their questions and amplify their skills.
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Did they draw the pub arrow reversed by accident?
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Additional detail.
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Employment to population ratio still looks quite good.
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I wonder if there is a more effective way to reduce the interest payments on the exploding national debt? 🤔
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The superfluidity of humanity might be, however. (Hope not.)
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abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/r...
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LOL
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It would require a massive superset, but some syntax changes seem arbitrary to a newbie. E.g., using the equals sign instead of the octothorpe for headers. It seems the equals sign could have as well introduced code mode? Separately, I suspect automatching for smart quotes is a mistake. But 👍!
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He explained why in 2018: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Is there a good reason for Typst to choose so much deviation from Pandoc markdown? What limitations would that impose?
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That's a good reminder to do this again!
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2025 was the first time ED missed the June 1 deadline, which was established in 2002. ies.ed.gov/ies/2025/01/... And this report dates back almost 160 years, when the federal government began tracking education data. nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/di... (4/9)
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Yeah well ...
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