Lover of America, supply-side economics, steak, Guinness and Notre Dame Football.
Chicago, IL
Joined May 2011
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Guinness advances human knowledge and progress.
.@willob on how Guinness gave us Student’s t-test
“I studied math in college, and one of the tests from that is the Student’s t-test. This is how you derive either the standard deviation if you know the mean, or the mean if you know the standard deviation from a small sample, less than 30.
This was a problem at Guinness because one of the biggest predeterminants of the quality of a pint of Guinness is the amount of lipids or fats in hops. So, they were having to take up hundreds of hops to see is this a high-quality batch or not? And they were losing a few percent per batch. And that means a lot when you’re in the high-volume, low-margin food-and-beverage industry. So William Sealy Gosset had to publish under a pseudonym. That's why it's called the Student's t-test.”
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Steve Botsford retweeted
Hey @NCAA, look what you’re killing. Walk-Ons are people too.
☘️ 🏈 🦶🏼 🌳
Matt Jeffery (former walk-on): Blocked punt
Jordan Faison (former walk-on): Fourth-down conversion
Luke Talich (former walk-on): Interception
Not bad, @WOPUnation
He’s bringing in new businesses, he’s helping to get more housing and he’s constructive on lowering crime. Time to re-elect @timmyknudsen43!
After 4 years as Alderman of the 43rd Ward, I’m proud of the progress we’ve made across Lincoln Park, the Gold Coast and Old Town Triangle. Vacant storefronts filling up. New housing going in. Historic investments in public safety. We built one of the most tech-forward local offices in the city — and passed real legislation to fight hate crimes, root out corruption, and get Chicago’s finances back on track.
Join us at the @wienerscircle this Sunday, 8/16 Noon-2pm for a FREE #SendKnudes T-Shirt, Hot Dog and to sign up to be a part of this campaign.
Huge thanks to 👩🏼🍳Elizabeth, 🏗️Robert, 🦮Ailey, and 🌭Evelyn for bringing the star power to this video!
#LincolnPark #GoldCoast #ChicagoCityCouncil
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The future is going to be dope!
The startups YC funds now are much more serious than they were in the supposedly good old days. In the last couple days I've met with startups making optical switches, rewriting the software infrastructure of manufacturing, making nuclear reactors, and curing cancer.
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Steve Botsford retweeted
Leftists: Abolish the gerontocracy
Also leftists: Except this 77, 80 and 84-year-old
Ed Markey, facing a primary challenge from Seth Moulton, puts his endorsers front and center in his first TV ad: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Ayanna Pressley https://teapawt.net/t.co/FpecT2gUna #MASEN
Steve Botsford retweeted
Why does every socialist have parents or grandparents with wikipedia pages.
Scoop by @MikeElk: Rep. Summer Lee barred Platner recruiter Daniel Moraff “from her 2022 congressional campaign after receiving at least three complaints of sexual misconduct.”
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Steve Botsford retweeted
Could not imagine a better data point to illustrate today’s column — this is just not a movement that thinks beating Republicans is interesting or important
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NEW: Ben Chin, campaign manager for Graham Platner in #MESEN, blasted out a mass text
Chin slams the Maine Dem Party for allowing the DSCC to send staffers to plan "a nominating process behind closed doors"
It also includes a Survey Monkey link for feedback?
Couldn’t agree more. I am beyond grateful that Elon Musk exists and that he chose to become an American and power the next American century.
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Would love to be a fly on the wall for his first meeting with the Director of the CIA, with his entire background knowledge being the Jason Bourne movies and the first season of the Jack Ryan show.
Bill Pulte, who has never served in an intelligence role, will be the acting director of national intelligence.
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I love Nvidia but Jensen has to choose America or China. It’s a competition and there is only one winner. #StarsAndStripesForever
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She literally pressured the Biden Administration to block a merger that would have saved Spirit and created a stronger competitor to the Big Four. She is not a serious policy person for a prosperous future.
The Big Four airlines (American, Delta, Southwest, United) control 75% of the U.S. market.
Fewer choices = higher prices for you.
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In 2024, Senator Warren supported the Biden Administration’s DOJ suing to prevent the merger between JetBlue and Spirit, fearing “fewer flights and higher fares”. Now Spirit shutdown, resulting in fewer flights and less competition.
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I co-introduced historic legislation to increase the minimum wage to $25.
As someone who taught economics at Stanford, here is why it makes sense.
The real minimum wage was $14 in 1968.
Today it is half, but productivity has increased 2.5x.
Instead of extractive capitalism, we need a free enterprise system that pays workers what they are worth.
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3 years and $30 million to create a grocery store is such a perfect metaphor for socialism.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani that the first city-owned grocery store – which carries a whopping $30 million expected price tag – won’t open until 2029. trib.al/zJEMm8D
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