Daniel Asarnow
@dabiophysicist.bsky.social
Postdoctoral scholar in Veesler Lab @ UWa.
Former UCSF Biophysics & SFSU & UCSC Biochemistry student & Exploratorium Explainer. He/him.
I take tiny pictures, in 2 & 3 dimensions.
https://github.com/asarnow
Former UCSF Biophysics & SFSU & UCSC Biochemistry student & Exploratorium Explainer. He/him.
I take tiny pictures, in 2 & 3 dimensions.
https://github.com/asarnow
It won't be insolvent, to be clear there is no threat of not receiving any payout under current law. If nothing is done, benefits will become limited to payroll tax receipts and simply fall once by ~20%.
But you're absolutely right about the choice to hopefully save the additional benefits
But you're absolutely right about the choice to hopefully save the additional benefits
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
It won't be insolvent, to be clear there is no threat of not receiving any payout under current law. If nothing is done, benefits will become limited to payroll tax receipts and simply fall once by ~20%.
But you're absolutely right about the choice to hopefully save the additional benefits
But you're absolutely right about the choice to hopefully save the additional benefits
It really hasn't been explained to them! The caption of this graph says benefits may be reduced. It doesn't bother to explain they won't have to be reduced further. "12% of wages" is not something that can run out, while the last human is employed.
This is a common point of confusion. Social security transfers some % of income (thus ability to consume) from workers to retirees. Historical bond returns were sufficient for benefits to exceed that % of income. The extra might go away, but the core transfer (now ~75% of benefits) can't "run out"
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 AM
It really hasn't been explained to them! The caption of this graph says benefits may be reduced. It doesn't bother to explain they won't have to be reduced further. "12% of wages" is not something that can run out, while the last human is employed.
My first thought too, raise *which* taxes?
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM
My first thought too, raise *which* taxes?
This is a common point of confusion. Social security transfers some % of income (thus ability to consume) from workers to retirees. Historical bond returns were sufficient for benefits to exceed that % of income. The extra might go away, but the core transfer (now ~75% of benefits) can't "run out"
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
This is a common point of confusion. Social security transfers some % of income (thus ability to consume) from workers to retirees. Historical bond returns were sufficient for benefits to exceed that % of income. The extra might go away, but the core transfer (now ~75% of benefits) can't "run out"
Have to say I was expecting tiger beetles (but these are cool too!)
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Have to say I was expecting tiger beetles (but these are cool too!)
So it is a composite map. Need to see how the local refinements were assembled as you said...overrefining is one thing, hopefully that's as far as it goes
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
So it is a composite map. Need to see how the local refinements were assembled as you said...overrefining is one thing, hopefully that's as far as it goes
The "micelle" would be from the liposomes, my guess is the cubes are from resampling two copies of a local refinement into a bigger box. What paper though? Theirs of Sep 2025 doesn't seem to mention that entry. It does give other EMD codes with a comma, which might reflect a lack of experience
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The "micelle" would be from the liposomes, my guess is the cubes are from resampling two copies of a local refinement into a bigger box. What paper though? Theirs of Sep 2025 doesn't seem to mention that entry. It does give other EMD codes with a comma, which might reflect a lack of experience
Everyone I know whose collaborators published without them felt poorly about it - actually the more so the greater their contribution
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Everyone I know whose collaborators published without them felt poorly about it - actually the more so the greater their contribution
And it has two routes, the other one goes through Belarus
November 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
And it has two routes, the other one goes through Belarus
She also characterized graphitizing carbon, determined the structures of tobacco mosaic virus and very nearly of polio virus (colleagues completed her experiments), and may have been the first person to use humidity control in crystallography 👸
November 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
She also characterized graphitizing carbon, determined the structures of tobacco mosaic virus and very nearly of polio virus (colleagues completed her experiments), and may have been the first person to use humidity control in crystallography 👸
Someone was paying attention in that class!
Active predation by brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) on bats at urban mass hibernacula in Northern Germany: Conservation and one health implications
This study is the first to document systematic predation by Rattus norvegicus on bats at urban hibernacula hosting several thousand individuals in Eur…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Someone was paying attention in that class!
They also seem to be voluntarily cutting university and research investments that by their own estimates have an 8-fold impact on economic activity. To me these choices seem more like the misallocation you warned of, and less like overspending or monetizing too much debt or whatever.
November 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
They also seem to be voluntarily cutting university and research investments that by their own estimates have an 8-fold impact on economic activity. To me these choices seem more like the misallocation you warned of, and less like overspending or monetizing too much debt or whatever.
The UK is an island nation where trade is ~2/3 of GDP, that just voluntarily worsened terms with its largest partners
November 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The UK is an island nation where trade is ~2/3 of GDP, that just voluntarily worsened terms with its largest partners
Especially them, even. Eg they argue recent & 70s inflation both had real, non-monetary causes, & bc the US has a large domestic economy, privileged trade, etc that basically short of war it's our internal politics & (real) allocation choices that matter for growth. Very much like what you said imo
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Especially them, even. Eg they argue recent & 70s inflation both had real, non-monetary causes, & bc the US has a large domestic economy, privileged trade, etc that basically short of war it's our internal politics & (real) allocation choices that matter for growth. Very much like what you said imo
They're definitely not rare! Never meant to imply that. But don't think any professor of economics says a country can persistently misallocate real resources without consequence, no matter what it does with its currency, including the ones in Kansas City.
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
They're definitely not rare! Never meant to imply that. But don't think any professor of economics says a country can persistently misallocate real resources without consequence, no matter what it does with its currency, including the ones in Kansas City.
Are there any historical examples without the fixed exchange rate, currency board, dollarization, monetary union, foreign-denominated debt, revolution, war, or other dramatic political transition typically cited by self-styled MMT economists?
November 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Are there any historical examples without the fixed exchange rate, currency board, dollarization, monetary union, foreign-denominated debt, revolution, war, or other dramatic political transition typically cited by self-styled MMT economists?
It depends where you stick the chili pepper
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It depends where you stick the chili pepper
That's the thing, Doc. It's my worms that have cancer
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
That's the thing, Doc. It's my worms that have cancer
Palo Alto, CA and especially Stanford University campus have a (locally) well-known colony of black Eastern Gray Squirrels. Lots of pictures online, but can't find a nice article I read years ago...IIRC they were likely imported from the East Coast & established intentionally, perhaps a century ago
November 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Palo Alto, CA and especially Stanford University campus have a (locally) well-known colony of black Eastern Gray Squirrels. Lots of pictures online, but can't find a nice article I read years ago...IIRC they were likely imported from the East Coast & established intentionally, perhaps a century ago
November 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Palo Alto, CA and especially Stanford University campus have a (locally) well-known colony of black Eastern Gray Squirrels. Lots of pictures online, but can't find a nice article I read years ago...IIRC they were likely imported from the East Coast & established intentionally, perhaps a century ago
I was thinking the Kantian a priori stuff, like extension in space and so forth. You don't even need symbolic thought to believe in that
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
I was thinking the Kantian a priori stuff, like extension in space and so forth. You don't even need symbolic thought to believe in that