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June 26, 2015
In its reporting on yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling in King v. Burwell, Vox’s Matthew Yglesias makes the important point that Justice Scalia’s dissent is based on a profound misunderstanding of how language works. Justice Scalia would have it that “words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not...
April 04, 2014
…a social contract… Title page of the first octavo edition of Rousseau's Social Contract [This post is based loosely on my comments on a panel on 2 April 2014 for Terry Fisher's CopyrightX course. Thanks to Terry for inviting me to participate and provoking this piece, and to my Berkman colleagues for...
October 30, 2013
…in the upper 90's… apparently from Health Care for America Now! via logarchism.com. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) limits the “medical loss ratio” (MLR) that an insurer can have — the percentage of collected medical premiums that must go to medical services for the insured. The minimum...
October 28, 2013
Update March 25, 2019: Wesley Pegden, Ariel D. Procaccia, and Dingli Yu have an elegant working out of the proposal below that they call "I cut, you freeze." Pegden and Procaccia describe it in a Washington Post opinion piece. …how to split a cupcake… “Halves” image by flickr user Julie Remizova. Why...
