If the administration think credit card companies are ripping people off, they should increase taxes on their profits, or address it though competition policy. A rate cap will otherwise just curtail lending some of which won't any longer be worthwhile for the banks.

Government friends, submit talks, enough to enable a government track for a day or half day. It means a lot when we can sit and chat and exchange ideas with fellow govys for more than 20 minutes.

And you, yep you who are doubting yourself, submit one please!

#RStats #PyData #DataBS #PositConf

We live in a time without dignity.

Can you imagine central bankers brought down the regime? We’d never hear the end of it.

Seriously weird and shallow piece about DC. Like writing about London using Mayfair as the only reference point.

www.ft.com/content/372a...

It’s a relief to see some more voices raised against appeasement.

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I think it's very important that Rupert Lowe's "Million Nonce March" gets widespread media coverage. Critical to amplify diverse voices.

When working on a private repo with messy commit messages, what do you usually do before making it public?

Do you squash everything into one clean commit, rewrite messages, or leave history as-is?

#rstats #git

It is very exciting to live through Horizon Zero Dawn's backstory.

You could definitely fund the military by cutting the safety net

But this is not an inevitable rule of the universe, it is very much a political decision

One of the wilder things about US politics is how just about anyone from the government will be interviewed on TV. In Britain, something would be seriously wrong if, totally random example, the Prime Minister's deputy chief of staff ended up batting for the Government on TV.

#uspol #ukpol #politics

(Serious answers only) What happens if the US annexes Greenland? Does Europe just let if happen or is there a sliding scale of plausible responses ready to go? #uspol #europol #greenland #denmark

I reached out to the author of this viral Reddit post thinking there might be a story in it. He sent me an employee badge that Gemini flagged as being AI-generated and supporting documents that I suspect were also generated by AI. Be careful out there folks!

www.reddit.com/r/confession...

Good morning, I see the solar system’s trashiest planet is having a normal one.

Hello and Happy New Year friends. I've just published a new blog post that briefly outlines how to use @1password.bsky.social secrete references in your R code. I hope you find it useful.

"Using 1Password Secret References in R" rorylawless.com/posts/using-...

#databs #rstats