markya.bsky.social
Professor of Political Economy at the Munk School at University of Toronto. Father, curmudgeon, left full back in a beer league. Works best when fed Polish and Austrian food.
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… and that’s before they realize that they’d have to take a 30-40% pay cut
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Chance verpasst: „Bundeswehr setzt auf neue Wunderwaffe gegen Putins Super-Rakete“ hätte noch mehr historische Resonanz gehabt 😆
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I suspect this is driven by TikTok. I reset my feed twice a while ago and first I got alpaca clips, and then capybaras the second time. Why, I still don’t know…
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Ok but why did it take until 2025? Two winters on the tarmac in Toronto aren’t great for a plane
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Das ist in den USA und Kanada auch völlig normal. Manchmal aus banalen Gründen wie „die Kommission konnte sich nicht entscheiden.“
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PostmodernBERT… purely intersubjective embeddings
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Ich saß mal in einem Theoretischen Seminar bei einer Zentralbank und dachte genau das: für jede/n hier neben mir gibt es eine/n der ganz weit weg vom Durchschnitt ist, aber in die falsche Richtung
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Und wenn das Ministerium jetzt ein Sonderprogramm auflegt, dann könnten ca. 2032 noch ein oder zwei neue Lehrstühle geschaffen werden, also zum Ende der ersten Amtszeit von Trump Jr…
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Last time they tried that, the tanks were over engineered and wouldn’t start when it was -40C in the Russian steppe
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As I just discovered, 30-40% of Canadian exporters didn’t use the USMCA tariffs because of the paperwork. I guess the utilization rate will go up now?
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Apparently there are no tariffs on goods that have a tariff line covered by the USMCA and that comply with the rules of origin?
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If you ever change your research focus because you’re bored by it, you’ll be treated to a decade of review requests on things to thought you’d left behind
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And also not great at communicating. But at least you're likely to be able to enter the country before you step on the plane.
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Sadly there’s no chance in hell they’ll address the biggest issue - dairy supply management - because their majority in parliament depends on it
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At a Testament show in December I had to help a guy up who had dropped something, but not because he was drunk
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Wenn man eine Beamtenpension bekommt, da zählt die Zeit plötzlich, als ob man noch ein ganzes Jahr länger gearbeitet hätte. Könnte man auch auf alle Renten ausdehnen.
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You need a better union!
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… but you have to read them closely in case the typesetter turns “inverse mills ratio (IMR)” into “infant mortality ratio”.
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Im Prinzip stimme ich dem zu, aber meine Sorge ist, dass das BVG da ein Problem sieht.
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Wie soll das schwedische Modell mit der in Deutschland gesetzlich gebotenen Wehrgerechtigkeit vereinbar sein? www.bpb.de/themen/milit...
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I don’t know anything about planes but is there any disadvantage to the Gripen (except lack of stealth)?
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So it can only be the Rafale because the Gripen uses a US engine.
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That's going to be a tiny shrivelled state, because when you put up really high tariffs so that everything is made at home, you also don't collect much in duty, except on things you can't make at home (like, aluminum). Will the defence budget shrink to 1/10th of its current size?
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All presidential systems have at one point or another turned into authoritarian regimes, but some parliamentary systems haven’t. Americans wouldn’t know of course.
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Yes that’s true and I’ll propose that!
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I know but journals insisting on replication don’t work at your level Jordan
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Competitive ballet is one of the best things ever.
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Agreed. The seed value is only there so that journals can be confident that you could replicate the exact results. Fun fact with R is that you sometimes need to set the exact versions of packages, too, which is really worrying.
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Kommt mir drastischer vor als die Sparmaßnahmen von Trump. Und natürlich trifft es wieder den Mittelbau.
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Das Franzbrötchen gehört mit dem Croissant zu den größten Errungenschaften der abendländischen Kultur, ist aber südlich von Hannover nahezu unbekannt.
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Yes but that’s the vast majority of questions worth asking, sadly.
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Not with the current structure. I can already see the arguments for “we need to publish in European journals and ideally in German.”
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Yes and inconveniently Atléti was close to the airforce since the 1930s
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I grew up in Hamburg. Being a St. Pauli fan has always been a political act against neonazi Hamburger SV fans (long gone fortunately!), and many clubs have had political leanings: Lazio fascist, Bayern was “the club for the Jews” until the 1930s…so this doesn’t feel unnatural at all
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I can get you a PhD-level agent for a lot less than that anyway
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Schularick ist wahrscheinlich der beste deutsche Makroökonom im Moment, aber vielleicht in diesem Gebiet nicht ganz Experte.
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Also you’ll pay nothing extra if Canada imposes an export tax of 25% on gas and electricity. Almost like a reward for not voting for Trump.
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Why would I not buy goods from pirates what have they done to hurt us?
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They're talking €500bn for defence and infrastructure each over a decade. It feels like we've been waiting for this since the Eurozone crisis or at least since 2014.
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Exactly. The EU can target tariffs because import so much, but Canada can’t.
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Hiring a lecturer!