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Ventura, CA
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Once a producer/always a producer/now a co-host of my favorite podcast
Jeff Guo and Nick Fountain named Planet Money co-hosts
Congratulations @_jeffguo & @nickfountain 🥳
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Francesca Gino has lost her case against Harvard. storage.courtlistener.com/re…
We covered this saga in its early days on @planetmoney. npr.org/2023/07/27/119056847…
Nick Fountain retweeted
We interrupt our usual programming to inform you that I was never hired by Facebook to do a hit job on Jonathan Haidt.
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Fascinated at the idea that Gelman has to be encouraged by external forces to write a "take down piece" on bad statistical inference. He does it for free, every day, for pure love of the game.
Meta had an internal PR plan to try and discredit Jon Haidt because he was a critic of social media.
Meta was going to recruit academics, like Andrew Gelman, to write take down pieces. They were trying to turn academics against one another through a "whisper strategy".
This is a very serious problem for open academic debate. If academics who share negative evidence about a platform are targeted by campaigns to smear our credibility, we are in deep, deep trouble.
This creates a very serious conflict of interest for anyone who is paid to do this.
law360.com/articles/2542517/…
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New from me in the @vcstar:
Ventura council election could mean the end for car-free downtown
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ah crap, it's raining today. guess she didn't have the last laugh after all.
Ex White House press secretary Katie Zacharia has last laugh as she's spotted working out in sunny SoCal trib.al/K2n7q73
why did they put that podcast studio inside out up there
Just for fun, I checked some rough estimates for all in average costs to build a typical 2000 sf home in some of the most and least expensive places in CA.
I also checked rough average time frames for construction.
Within a region, hard construction costs can stay relatively consistent, while land and soft costs can vary dramatically. Add to this variations in time (add’l carry due to subjective planning regs, neighbor obstruction, etc) and you start to see where some of the problems lie.
Note these are from rough modeled estimates, not statistical averages. And it doesn’t include land costs adjusted for new state law. Based on this, they line up pretty well with my experience.
Palo Alto
Land: ~$3,000,000
Hard: ~$1,300,000
Soft: ~$250,000
Permits: ~9 mos
Construction: ~15 mos
Sunnyvale
Land: ~$1,500,000
Hard: ~$1,300,000
Soft: ~$200,000
Permits: ~6 mos
Construction: ~12 mos
San Francisco
Land: ~$1,000,000
Hard: ~$1,300,000
Soft: ~300,000
Permits: ~15 mos
Construction: ~18 mos
Los Angeles
Land: ~$750,000
Hard: ~$800,000
Soft: ~$200,000
Permits: ~9 mos
Construction: ~12 mos
Kern County
Land: ~$200,000
Home: ~$400,000
Soft: ~$100,000
Permits: ~4 mos
Construction: ~8 mos
Imperial County
Land: ~$100,000
Homes: ~$400,000
Soft: ~$100,000
Permits: ~4 mos
Construction: ~8 mos
IRB? You mean "Is reptile bogus"? retractionwatch.com/2026/09/…
Nick Fountain retweeted
The IRS has spent decades working to complete a modernization project, which has faced cost overruns and delays as well as recent setbacks caused by DOGE, former IRS employees say. At the moment, there is no end in sight.
Read the story in @TaxNotes bit.ly/4A6JXWq
Nick Fountain retweeted
Evidence of fraud in Study 1 of Ariely and Wertenbroch. We weren't necessarily expecting to interrogate this study, since the recent replication failure focused only on Study 2. But we stumbled on some evidence, which then led us to find an older version of the paper...
Colada[139] Artificial Deadlines Part 2
Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination (Ariely & Wertenbroch 2002)
datacolada.org/139
