Favorite Rejects 2022-06-14

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Parking requirements for homeless shelters denverurbanism.com/2019/03/single…

Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer

The energy discourse is so weird right now. Senate Democrats have spent the past 16 months negotiating a deflationary energy-reform bill. Now an energy-driven inflation crisis is crashing the economy. Maybe y’all should, you know, hurry up with that bill?

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

Berkeley's bicycle improvements are visually a mess but i like that Berkeley opts for concrete which makes drivers very angry while Oakland loves pylon and paint that can be ignored or ran over.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I found @JonSteinsson’s case for really fast/sharp hikes that you can then reverse if needed to be persuasive when he laid it out a while back.

Jason Furman @jasonfurman

At some point there should be a serious debate about the utility of forward guidance for *tightening* monetary policy. There is a strong case for forward guidance for easing when rates are constrained by the zero lower bound. But there is no constraint on the size of rate hikes.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

LaMDA’s not sentient, it just does the combined work of an actor and a screenwriter to craft a fully-realized character that *seems* sentient. maxread.substack.com/p/is-lamda-mou…

Aaron 🥑🚈🚰🏀 @aceckhouse

if you must do facade articulation (and really, you don't *have* to), I think a menu of choices like this probably makes sense but doing this and then *also* a much more rigid set of requirements for plane changes limits the benefits

David Roberts @drvolts

Looks like the Green New Deal is saving Texas's ass.

cnn.comWind and solar power are ‘bailing out’ Texas amid record heat and energy demandEnergy experts told CNN the Texas electric grid is holding up well this week in large part to strong performances from renewable energy.

Sam Bloch @samkbloch

This neighborhood in Bologna, Italy grew a dense urban forest using one weird trick — traffic engineers hate them

Mountain View YIMBY 🥑 @MVyimby

Council members arguing to keep parking requirements tonight say that our lowest income residents need required parking because they depend on their cars. Almost correct, our lowest income residents live *in* their cars, and those same council members want them gone.

Siddhartha Mahanta @sidhubaba

Embarrassed to say I did not know this. Insane. newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

mle @_sadwaffle

Housing discourse has been so annoying the past few days so now my only housing take is that all new buildings need gargoyles. The only thing I will tweet about is replacing parking minimums w gargoyle minimums.

Vinny Thomas @vinn_ayy

Nobody is putting gargoyles on buildings anymore. It can’t be that much more expensive to slap a gargoyle up there. We used to be a proper country.

Dare Obasanjo @Carnage4Life

While @typesfast is getting dunked on for saying some software business models don’t work when you pay devs $400K/year, he has a fair point. Big tech companies make a lot of money and thus pay a lot. Tech is unique in that many index to $GOOG pay without $GOOG’s business model.