Favorite Rejects 2022-09-15

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Pretty persuasive argument from @MattBruenig that the big 2018 decline in child poverty is an artifice tax of a change in Census methodology rather than of CTC expansion or labor market trends. peoplespolicyproject.org/2022/09/15/the…

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

One reason I'm not excited about the work-from-home revolution is that it comes at a time when other forms of face-to-face interaction have been in decline for decades. Church attendance is down. Youth sports participation is down. Union membership is down.

Adrian Pietrzak @zoningwonk

It also doesn't help that so many American metro areas are set up as elaborate systems of legalized tax evasion and school segregation.

Politics & Education @PoliticsAndEd

Americans have warped sense of what urbanism can look like because our zoning restrictions lead to mostly either single-family homes or towers. We lack gentle-density of the missing middle. https://t.co/QbnqkGBzCT

Rutger Bregman @rcbregman

Uncomfortable, but good point.

Daniel Hemel @DanielJHemel

But it can't be that when liberals avoid gift & income taxes by transferring shares to a c4, it's "no tax benefit," while when conservatives do the same, it's "an unusual series of transactions that appear to have avoided tax liabilities." 5/ https://t.co/Un5ejaHG2N

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Russia's confirmed losses of tanks, artillery, and infantry vehicles appear to be going parabolic once again.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Now that Ethereum is energy-efficient, it's time to start taxing proof-of-work mining.

Stephen Stapczynski @SStapczynski

Ethereum completes enormous energy-saving upgrade ⚠️⚡ 💻 Ethereum’s energy consumption will decline by an estimated 99%, which is pretty wild 🇨🇱 CONTEXT: That's annual power savings of 77 terawatt hours (!), which is roughly equal to the demand of Chile https://t.co/KLxILukfwv https://t.co/qLVwctNcf2

Ethan Mollick @emollick

Students need to be able to make more mistakes. A stress on getting 💯 on everything in school hurts learning & we may need to do more to encourage mistakes in class: "An unwarranted reluctance to engage with errors may have held back American education" annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/an…

Lenore Skenazy @FreeRangeKids

OH NO! Even in France, only 3% of kids now walk to school on their own. The Ministry of Interior warns: “Make sure [your kid] is never alone. Have him accompanied by someone you trust." I am so sorry our inability to tolerate risk has gone global! bit.ly/FranceFear

Bzavier @bzavr

Some reading from Paris for @FreeRangeKids (ggl translation link) https://t.co/wnhjNoL0x8

Mountain View YIMBY 🥑 @MVyimby

The city's own economic analysis says gov't policies add $275k to the cost of building an apartment unit and $420k to the cost of a townhome. Unsubsidized housing is expensive in MV because the city makes it expensive. Receipts ⤵️

Mike Masnick @mmasnick

This isn't a surprise, but it's still disappointing. @GavinNewsom took the coward's way out and signed the disastrous #CAKidsCode into law, fucking over the internet that helped build California's recent economy.

techdirt.comGavin Newsom Fucks Over The Open Internet, Signs Disastrously Stupid Age Appropriate Design CodeThis isn’t a surprise, but it’s still frustrating. Gavin Newsom, who wants to be President some day, and thus couldn’t risk misleading headlines that he didn’t “protec…

Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers

This thread is amazing partly for documenting the suspiciously well-timed trades that political spouses have made, and even more for the sheer ethical blindness that would lead anyone in DC to think this is okay.

Chris Josephs @Chrisjjosephs

Two days ago the NYT posted an investigation into politicians trading stocks They found that 81 Democrats & 101 Republicans filed up to 3,700 trades and $100M in possible volume Many had 100% winners, with some perfectly timed Here’s examples of just how good they were

Dr Emma Southon @NuclearTeeth

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