matthjensen
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
An interesting aspect of this is that any information that USPS collects is also likely to be available to foreign governments now or in the future. The U.S. government has a terrible track record of keeping its own information secure. See, for example, a list of notable federal breaches (2020-present): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PGVHO6BDZzGnB3l3j3hy...
Comment · 6 years ago
I did a calculation where the taxpayer earns $40k/year, single, 2 kids.
You see Biden vs. baseline in the tables.
Individual income taxes fall from -$3,370 to -$6,570.
Comment · 8 years ago
I associate "product" with something that is sold, so when I saw Muze described as a "product," but I didn't see a price, I was somewhat wary that the price was hidden or forthcoming.
"Project" is also a fairly common term to refer to open source tools and the community around them. See the nav bars for linuxfoundation.org or numfocus.org, for instance.
Comment · 8 years ago
Cool. You might consider describing Muze as a project rather than a product. E.g., On the homepage: Our first product, Muze... -> Our first project, Muze....
Comment · 8 years ago
How do you plan to support the team and project, financially, over the long haul?
Comment · 8 years ago
I write based on my experience working on Tax-Calculator and the Open Source Policy Center. Tax-Calculator was used extensively by the NYT, WaPo, CNN, and Senate/House/Administration staff during the tax debates.
Comment · 9 years ago
This critique underestimates the value of language and concrete diction for learning concepts.
If a child learns the definition of key words, she'll carry the concepts they represent with her forever. Once she know knows "map", "value", and "key", she will own the concepts, Map, Value, and Key.
Definitions give a child the opportunity to learn -- and a parent the opportunity to teach -- valuable concepts that will enrich her world.
Comment · 9 years ago
If this interests you, I would also recommend checking out http://open-source-economics.github.io/Tax-Calculator/ and https://github.com/open-source-economics/tax-calculator.
Comment · 9 years ago
The course information in the coorsy results is valuable, but stock photos are a waste of space on a search results page.
Taking the U.S. federal government as an example, by my count we've already seen over 60 notable breaches in just this young decade: https://github.com/MattHJensen/US-gov-info-losses. Certainly many others have gone unreported or unnoticed.