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I'm so excited to have ordered a bunch of Frederick Wiseman documentaries today (for work!).

The most immediately relevant one is "Welfare": 3 hours of unadorned footage from a NYC welfare office in 1975. It's not for everyone, but it is totally for me

cinetrafic.fr/video/extrait-…
"Hospital" (1970) gives the same treatment to Metropolitan Center Hospital in East Harlem:

"High School" to a high school in Philadelphia in 1968:
vimeo.com/176401029
"Titicut Follies" (1967) looked at a mental institution in Mass, and was apparently very controversial (was it an issue of informed consent or a cover up by the state?).

"Law and Order" (1969) documents the KC police department.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_O…
These glimpses of institutions in the 1960s are very valuable to me. If anyone has other suggestions along these lines, I'm all ears!
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Does your diff-in-diff treatment variable turn on at different times? Of course! Most of them do!

nber.org/papers/w25018

Very happy to share my paper showing how DD with variation in treatment timing works and what that means in theory and practice. 1/29
So…

Maybe there are untreated units and units treated at different times.

Maybe you ONLY have variation in timing (ie. everyone winds up treated).

Essentially your data look like this: 2/29
We add “two-way fixed effects” for units and times to our regression. But what comparisons actually get made in this case? Where did the elegant DD expression in terms of sample means go? 3/29
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And industry has been doing this for a century.
Here's a physician group, the California League for the Conservation of the Public Health (academic.oup.com/jhmas/article/…) writing in 1918:
Worth noting that in the health insurance context it doesn't become "socialized medicine" until after WWII. Before that it's "too German" not "too socialist".
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OK, a thread of weird graphics from historical reports that I like.
Not (Medicare) sure (could) what ("cover") the (us) subtext (all) here (you know) could (like) be (a blanket?!).
Here is a waterfall of faces in need and some plaintive Old Age Assistance recipients from 1960.
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The place where "testing vs. checking" starts to really leak (as all metaphors do but still…) is the Cartesian division of "things a human does" and "things a computer does."

First, Safety-II and therefore #devops, explicitly reject the Cartesian view of complex systems.
For instance the idea that there exists a computer activity called "checking" and what "checking" does is it validates assumptions.

There is a problem right there. Validation assumes some kind of goal-oriented behavior — telos — which computers do not on their own, have.
As covered pragmatically in the classic paper "The Ironies Of Automation" and further explored by Donna Haraway: computers on their own are not capable of "validation" because validation implies an understanding of some set of moral *values.*

But computers can't do that.
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U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman ordered it be released by Trump administration today.
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Kudos to the minister for making this humane and compassionate gesture. Respect, but notice the old woman to the minister's left in white holding the picture of her son posing by his taxi. I recognise her from a chance encounter. I want to tell you her story. THREAD
So sometime back I was in the Peshawar secretariat visiting a friend, an officer there, on an errand. I arrived there at 10am (still early by their standards) & my friend told me to wait in his office. 'Shal minata ki darlam'. But in secretariat 20 min can mean one or two hours.
So I decided to wait in his office. His staff let me in and I enter his office to find an old woman in white with a plastic bag already sitting there waiting for him. I say salam and sit down quietly. She seems nice. We strike up a conversation but it doesnt start well.
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Today's water heater drama update:

1) Called local @Lowes @LowesCares store & spoke to the Appliances guy I spoke to yesterday. (For some reason, they consider a water heater an appliance, not a plumbing thing.)
@Lowes @LowesCares 2) Guy said he hasn't heard back from the installer (who is an independently contracted plumber) yet. Said he'll call him again, but repeated that he can't process a return if he has no proof that the unit was returned.

BUT IT GETS BETTER.
@Lowes @LowesCares 3) THEN this absolute unit freaking has the gall to suggest that I just buy the replacement, then they'll send an installer, and it can get installed.

I'm not talking about a couple of bucks here. I'm talking about $900ish, installed.
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