Favorite Rejects 2021-12-27

John Paul Koning @jp_koning

New blog post: Is money a ponzi? jpkoning.blogspot.com/2021/12/is-mon… [Spoiler: no it isn't.]

jpkoning.blogspot.comIs money a ponzi?Matt Levine entertains the possibility that all money is a ponzi: “But of course crypto people will happily tell you that fiat currency is...

Lauren Kunis @laurenkun

As a parent whose 3 and 6 year olds have taken to calling me "Mommy-chron," I also found this analysis helpful. Apparently we've been talking about this new variant a LOT in our household. 💔 for these ever-resilient covid generation kids who are always listening.

Jon Favreau @jonfavs

As a parent who’s been extra worried about our unvaccinated 1-year-old since the arrival of Omicron, I found this @ProfEmilyOster analysis of the data very helpful: https://t.co/mR4ZgTiY5c

Tyler Dinucci!! @TylerDinucci

This is fairly easy to explain -- no one in SF's government outside of Scott Wiener actually has a plan to deal with homelessness and rising housing costs because the real solutions seem to stab at the heart of the warped NIMBY ideology of both the SF left and center-left.

Michelle Tandler ⚖️ @michelletandler

Here is what confuses me about San Francisco. We have the most liberal, left-wing government & population in the country. We have a $13B budget. And we have 8,000 people sleeping in the rain this week. Can someone please explain this to me?

Market Urbanism @MarketUrbanism

In Europe, you see more apartment buildings with a diversity of unit sizes and more family-sized apts than in the US. It’s not because of higher incomes or bigger families – it’s because single-stair configurations are legal and they don’t have to have double-loaded corridors

Bobby Fijan @bobbyfijan

Additional comment: This also ties into Single Stair Buildings. The internal single stair buildings are laid out particularly well to allow for a 3BR on one side of the building. Wasn't explicitly mentioned in this article, but important. https://t.co/N0gD3Jjulb

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Love Dutch politics where an election that results in the same guy continuing as prime minister backed by the same parties can still be a big deal due to shifting intra-coalition balance.

FT Europe @ftbrussels

New Dutch government abandons ‘frugal’ label with big spending plans https://t.co/YuRu4H8zMK

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This is one reason why I’m obsessed with housing policy — getting it wrong saps Massachusetts, California, etc of so many of their virtues for people who don’t happen to be longtime homeowners.

Lorin Hochstein @norootcause

As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks in your career. How well a CS degree prepares you for these tasks (and whether it even should prepare you for these) is left as an exercise to the reader. 🧵 1/

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Fake answer: Shamed by my good tweets. Real answer: NIMBYism is about local hyper-local situations not a broad principle that you want to articulate to an audience of people who don’t live near you. https://t.co/y773pABqwz

Special Puppy🧦🐵 @SpecialPuppy1

What's the reason why NIMBYs are super underrepresented on Political Twitter? Is it just a lack of old people and homeowners?

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

One reason that hospitalization is not a perfect proxy for severe disease

Chris Hopson @ChrisCEOHopson

Talking to trust chief executives this morning, what’s very interesting is how many are talking about number of asymptomatic patients being admitted to hospital for other reasons and then testing positive for covid. Some are describing this as ‘incidental covid’… 7/19

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Oh neat. This data is actually broken out!

John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch

NEW: weekly breakdown of hospital patients being treated *for* Covid vs those *with* Covid as an incidental finding is out. Here’s London: Though incidentals are still rising at unprecedented rates, there is also a clear and steep rise in patients being treated for severe Covid https://t.co/lgUh29ct56

Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin

It’s hard to pick the worst thing about Twitter, but seeing lots of otherwise rational people sharing contextless 4-second clips from rando accounts is waaaay up there and it’s a weekly occurrence

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes

Genuinely unnerved by how often I’ve seen that Biden clip today! Whatever people think of the WH Covid response (and there are plenty of legit criticisms!) the context of the clip was him doing utterly normal, banal, appropriate backslapping of governors and their role.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

This is actually the one I was thinking of when I wrote the question

Shane 🇺🇸 @Shane_maps

Luxury belief I see all the time from leftists: “Rs & Ds are exactly the same and we shouldn’t vote!” https://t.co/AOqZ0qQNNC

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

People say missing school is bad for kids’ education but my six year old has learned phrases like “asymptomatic” and “quarantine” way younger than I did.

Feross @feross

"In this paper, we argue that fork() was a clever hack for machines and programs of the 1970s that has long outlived its usefulness and is now a liability." microsoft.com/en-us/research…

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

The show Counterpart was good, but it didn't have enough J.K. Simmons. We need a show where 90% of the characters are played by J.K. Simmons.