Favorite Rejects 2022-06-30

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

While Fancy Lawyer Republicans insist that congress shouldn't be allowed to delegate detailed rulemaking to administrative agencies, Republican Party politicians complain nonstop that bills are too long.

Randall Munroe @xkcd

Sneak peek: I typed descriptions of scenarios from What If 2 into #dalle, so you can try to guess what the chapters are about based on the AI’s sometimes questionable understanding of the text. (To learn the real answers on 9/13, preorder here: xkcd.com/whatif2)

Ian Millhiser @imillhiser

The United States has three branches of government, the Judiciary, which makes laws. The Executive, which sends a lawyer to the Supreme Court to argue in favor of laws. And the Senate, which blocks Democratic nominees to the judiciary.

Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac

"Air Pollution as a Cause of Violent Crime" by Evan Herrnstadt, Anthony Heyes, Erich Muehlegger, & Soodeh Saberian erichmuehlegger.com/Working%20Pape…

Reza Zadeh @Reza_Zadeh

Natural progression

Chris Herd @chris_herd

💰 Private Equity: The hottest trend of the next decade for private equity will see them purchase companies, make them remote-first The cost saving in real-estate at scale will be eye-watering. The productivity gains will be the final nail in the coffin for the office

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

New study finds that cities with AirBNB regulations saw 10.8% reduction in new housing permits, with ADUs falling off the hardest by 16.5% fewer permits.

papers.ssrn.comThe Effect of Short-Term Rentals on Residential InvestmentWe provide new evidence that short-term rental (STR) platforms like Airbnb incentivize residential real estate investment. We exploit two complementary identifi

Swift Language @SwiftLang

From 152,000 lines to 29,000: @RonAvitzur spent the last 18 months porting the famous Pacific Tech Graphing Calculator from C++ to Swift and wrote about the journey:

swift.orgDeveloper Spotlight: Porting Graphing Calculator from C++ to SwiftDeveloper Spotlight is a series highlighting interesting Swift developers from around the world. This post is authored by Ron Avitzur, author of the Pacific Tech Graphing Calculator.