dan reed 🦀🏳️🌈👋🏾@justupthepike
MoCo doesn't just have a housing shortage, we have a housing mismatch (source ⬇️)
1) lots of big houses with 1-2 people in them
2) most future demand (80%!) is for multi-family homes (apartments, townhomes, etc)
montgomerycountymd.gov/council/Resour…
6:47 PM · Oct 11, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
I read 36 books about immigration, and people on Twitter still just yell at me that immigration kills jobs and drains our finances and destroys our culture and replaces White people
I read 36 books
Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford
Most people don't read → if you read books at all, you are more educated than most
Even among those who read, most haven't read a book on X. If you read one book on X, you know more about it than the vast majority
Read 2–3 books on one topic, and you're practically an expert https://t.co/qBsDnpVFE8
2:24 AM · Oct 12, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Writeup by @StacyCowley, with key quote from one of the authors.
nytimes.com/2021/10/11/bus…
11:53 AM · Oct 12, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Dunno how it would poll, but personally I would enjoy it if a American politician were this overtly pro-progress.
Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron
Le rêve est possible. https://t.co/a1vjZagnpH
1:59 PM · Oct 12, 2021
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Armand Domalewski@ArmandDoma
“will we run out of parking spaces for Nobel Laureates” is the most Berkeley article of all time
Berkeleyside @berkeleyside
This is @UCBerkeley’s 6th economist to win a Nobel and 26th Nobelist overall for the university. Will Cal run out if specialized parking spaces soon? “Cal, Stanford economists share Nobel for research on wages, jobs”https://t.co/2qebOue7Bg.
5:02 PM · Oct 11, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Wait, what?!
Tom Andersen @TAndersen_nSCIr
@Noahpinion The German crash program to build renewables out has not done much in 20 years.
5:52 PM · Oct 12, 2021
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Ezra Klein@ezraklein
The media is attracted to controversy. Controversy requires large or powerful groups to be both opposed ands interested.
Most of the time, that requires some degree of unpopularity in your ideas.
6:33 PM · Oct 12, 2021
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Ezra Klein@ezraklein
This is a point @davidshor makes, too. It’s behind his consistent admiration for Bernie Sanders.
Sanders adopts all kinds of unpopular policy ideas and labels, but it’s in service of keeping controversy focused on his broad issues of strength.
Ezra Klein @ezraklein
@AdamSerwer I couldn't use this quote from @davidshor, but I thought it was interesting, true, and in tension with popularism: https://t.co/V0ih2TpRA2
6:33 PM · Oct 12, 2021
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Ezra Klein@ezraklein
This is also relevant to Trump: He said lots of very unpopular things on immigration, but the benefit of that, to him, is it kept the media focused on immigration, which was a better cut for him than economics.
6:33 PM · Oct 12, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The Discourse has taken a lot of twists and turn.
But to me, these eleven points are the core of the Shor Pill and a lot of the other stuff people are arguing about I don't have strong opinions about.
8:18 PM · Oct 12, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
@Noahpinion @henryfarrell I think economics is mostly dumb, but I also feel like college professors don’t seem to realize that even though economists are conservative relative to professors they are well to the left of the general public. It’s like coal executives thinking oil executives are the left.
9:49 PM · Oct 12, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
I just don't understand this. How is wanting to make electric cars a "colonizer mentality"? Electric cars are definitely going to have to be a big part of the solution to decarbonization.
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙 @ayanaeliza
"Musk, Bezos, and Gates believe the natural world can be bent to accommodate humanity’s existing behavior—and they are obsessed with doing the bending." – @emorwee nails it again. https://t.co/5uc5rSapQg
11:41 PM · Oct 12, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Even in countries where transit systems are top-notch and hyper-dense cities are built around train stations, car ownership and car use are both very substantial.
There's just no way to decarbonize without electric cars.
noahpinion.substack.com
We will not ban cars
11:43 PM · Oct 12, 2021
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Lord Businessman@BusinessmanLego
I love that there was a period of time when it was like 'grrr someone should fix these robocalls' and then they never really did and now we just don't answer phones anymore
2:19 PM · Oct 12, 2021
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Ben Golub@ben_golub
Here's a basic queuing theory fact that may have behavioral/psychological implications.
If customers take on avg 10 minutes to serve and arrive randomly at a rate of 5.8 per hour, then with one bank teller working, expected wait is 5 hours. With two tellers, 3 minutes.
1/
10:01 PM · Oct 12, 2021
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the Fully Vaxxed Tallest@spooknine
Their only other policy is "Destroy American society because the president is a Republican" so it's kinda lose-lose
Brian Beutler @brianbeutler
The Republican “destroy American society because the president is a Democrat” ethos will have a very high body count. https://t.co/T5w4XTslsf
1:08 AM · Oct 13, 2021
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