Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I’m an inflation hawk now because the Fed is mirror-imaging the mistakes of ten years ago — too much supply-side analysis and not enough simplistic looking at aggregate spending.
slowboring.com
The Fed should do more to fight inflation
12:00 PM · Mar 21, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
What does this even mean? I think I missed the step in the discourse where someone explains the theory “if a country has labs in it, that means it’s good for Russia to invade it.”
12:08 PM · Mar 21, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
An idea guaranteed to increase Boston transit ridership would be to reduce rules limiting the size of buildings and number of units you are allowed to construct on residentially zoned parcels. https://t.co/L5GamJjJmn
David Zipper @DavidZipper
In Boston, fare-free buses have apparently replaced more walking/biking (8% of riders) than driving (5%).
https://t.co/AXyGs3201h
12:46 PM · Mar 21, 2022
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Julie Pace@JuliePace
Many of you have asked about our brave @AP team in Mariupol. This is the story of how they covered a city under siege, and how they escaped.
apnews.com
20 days in Mariupol: The team that documented city’s agony
10:17 AM · Mar 21, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
A big problem with Russia's current strategic direction is that China is a really shitty ally.
Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky
A nontrivial piece of China's foreign policy is kidnapping women from its allies so that Chinese men, who greatly outnumber reproductive-age Chinese women due to the One Child policy, can have wives and prostitutes. https://t.co/nPQ97vwBUZ
2:33 PM · Mar 21, 2022
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Colin McMillen@mcmillen
Lots of good anthropic arguments in the replies. I've always liked "it's relatively easy to find reductions of P problems to other P problems & NP-C problems to other NP-C problems; it'd be *weird* if there exists a reduction from an NP-C problem to P, but it's just hard to find" https://t.co/UtEkCfbM7c
Zach Weinersmith @ZachWeiner
Hey math/CS dorks - what's your intuition on why it's almost certainly the case that P=/=NP? Like, if a philosophy-minded student asked you why it'd surprise you if P=NP, what would you say?
2:46 PM · Mar 21, 2022
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
Facebook seems to be congenitally incapable of thinking through the obvious consequences of their actions. Seriously every step of this fiasco was completely predictable. sfist.com/2022/03/14/fac… npr.org/2022/03/21/108…
4:07 PM · Mar 21, 2022
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nilay patel@reckless
There was a meeting where someone at Apple was like, "Okay, let's reduce the functionality of the Apple TV app to avoid Google's platform fees" without even a hint of irony
The Verge @verge
Apple TV app on Android TV no longer allows rentals, purchases, or subscriptions https://t.co/vf9Pb3h3ad https://t.co/dWlKafo3HB
2:56 PM · Mar 21, 2022
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Justin Sandefur@JustinSandefur
Half the replies arguing nobody actually worries about overpopulation and the other half screaming “what myth?!”
eddie | ☭ @fruitbatblues
the grip that the myth of overpopulation has on climate activists
5:49 PM · Mar 21, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Fifteen years ago, I thought progressives exaggerated the importance of money in politics issues but that doing so was plausibly just a fundraising tactic ... I now think it's become a genuinely damaging cope.
Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite
I'm just not convinced that Democratic state legislative issues are primarily about them not caring enough or not spending enough money or "organizing" or whatever. I think it's very largely just the maps. I've never seen an actual analysis of campaign $ to tell me otherwise. https://t.co/Gnr16F8lEi
6:09 PM · Mar 21, 2022
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Michelle Goldberg@michelleinbklyn
11:18 PM · Mar 21, 2022
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