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…
1:54 PM · Sep 15, 2022
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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.
2:45 PM · Sep 15, 2022
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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
3:51 PM · Sep 14, 2022
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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
3:11 PM · Sep 15, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Russia's confirmed losses of tanks, artillery, and infantry vehicles appear to be going parabolic once again.
6:20 AM · Sep 15, 2022
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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
5:31 PM · Sep 15, 2022
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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…
3:27 PM · Sep 15, 2022
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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
7:18 PM · Sep 15, 2022
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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 ⤵️
7:20 PM · Sep 15, 2022
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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.com
Gavin Newsom Fucks Over The Open Internet, Signs Disastrously Stupid Age Appropriate Design Code
7:56 PM · Sep 15, 2022
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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
12:37 AM · Sep 16, 2022
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Dr Emma Southon@NuclearTeeth
5:55 PM · Sep 14, 2022
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