Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The market is “getting from Rome to Milan” not “getting from Rome to Milan on a train.”
Europe should be pushing more cross-border consolidation of vertically integrated railroads, not separating infrastructure from ops and pushing open access.
6:45 AM · Jul 25, 2022
9 Reposts · 229 Likes
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
There’s a roughly parallel issue in the US where some people want to treat freight railroads as monopolies rather than recognizing the basic reality that they compete with trucks.
6:56 AM · Jul 25, 2022
2 Reposts · 135 Likes
Visegrád 24@visegrad24
BREAKING:
Turns out the Polish-S. Korean weapons deal is much larger than thought.
The spokesperson of the Polish Armaments Agency @krzysztof_atek confirmed today that Poland is buying:
1000 K2PL MBTs
672 K9 self-propelled howitzers
Up to 1400 Borsuk IFVs
48 FA50 fighter jets
10:39 PM · Jul 24, 2022
1.19K Reposts · 4.68K Likes
Darrell Owens@IDoTheThinking
3 theories:
1) Americans live in bigger houses and have more space for WFH.
2) Toxic Japanese work culture.
3) American offices are more centrally located and harder to access than Europe's.
Toby Muresianu 🇺🇦 @tobyhardtospell
Why are the office vacancy rates in the US now 2-3x what they are in Europe, Japan, etc? https://t.co/BdXSqcUt4e
4:47 PM · Jul 25, 2022
14 Reposts · 196 Likes
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Nationwide crime wave
+
SCOTUS-mandated universal open/concealed carry laws
+
Fox News telling everyone that the police have been defunded
=
Libertarian dystopia and loss of government's monopoly on the use of force
4:55 PM · Jul 25, 2022
7 Reposts · 193 Likes
M.G. Siegler@mgsiegler
Did a baby write this? https://t.co/xUPHoZAEeR
BBC Future @BBC_Future
"Sleep training" is seen by some as the key to a good night's rest. Others argue that it's distressing for babies. What’s the science? https://t.co/yLm44lQFk3
6:13 PM · Jul 25, 2022
13 Reposts · 225 Likes
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
U.S. isn't even close to the worst country in terms of falling housing affordability.
Naturally Japan and South Korea are doing great.
10:45 PM · Jul 25, 2022
91 Reposts · 755 Likes
Anne Paulson@KrampusSnail
The City of Los Altos has a truly terrible housing approval process. I wrote a letter, with the receipts:
3:11 PM · Jul 25, 2022
4 Reposts · 35 Likes
Ethan Mollick@emollick
A reason that NASA continues to seem so impressive is that many missions consistently crush goals: Opportunity was a 90 day mission that lasted 16 years. Hubble was supposed to last 15 years & will do 45.
Anyone know if this a policy of under-promising? Genuine over-performance?
2:31 PM · Jul 25, 2022
57 Reposts · 521 Likes
Massimo@Rainmaker1973
How a book written in 1910 could teach you calculus better than several books of today
[Calculus Made Easy, by Silvanus P. Thompson, 1910 - full text pdf: bit.ly/2pThkf1 or with the table of contents: calculusmadeeasy.org]
2:00 PM · Jul 23, 2022
2.52K Reposts · 11.5K Likes
Eliot Brown@eliotwb
"The development also faces one challenge unique among construction worldwide: the curvature of the Earth."
a story on the 75 mile-long, empire state building-high skyscraper in the desert that definitely is economically feasible
wsj.com
Inside Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Build a Skyscraper That Stretches for 75 Miles
8:35 PM · Jul 24, 2022
5 Reposts · 18 Likes
Scott Gottlieb, MD@ScottGottliebMD
If we have allowed monkeypox to become an endemic virus in the U.S. — which is becoming an increasingly possible outcome — it will be among the most unfortunate public health failures in recent times.
2:12 PM · Jul 24, 2022
1.67K Reposts · 9.06K Likes