Favorite Rejects 2022-12-27

Prison_Health @Prison_Health

This is the first Christmas that Connecticut prisoners will be able to make and receive phone calls for free. The state was the first in the nation to stop charging for prisoner calls. ctpublic.org/news/2022-12-2…

The War on Cars @TheWarOnCars@mastodon.social @TheWarOnCars

“What’s finally sunk in with many people is that we have parking minimums and yet housing maximums, which means we have too many cars and too little housing. We have things the wrong way around."

theguardian.comShifting gears: why US cities are falling out of love with the parking lotCities are loosening rules on building parking spots with new buildings: ‘It’s about the climate, it’s about walkability’

Sarah Jones @sbjinsfo

Also problematic about the UC Berkeley case - in CEQA you can conclude there's not an impact where something is addressed through code or ordinance. Excessive noise is handled via noise ordinance. It's really bad precedent to take position that compliance w law isn't adequate.

Chris Elmendorf @CSElmendorf

This use of demographic statistical associations as the basis for a conclusion about CEQA impacts is, as best I can tell, unprecedented. (The CEQA cases about noise impacts cited by the court involve noise from the activity for which the project sponsor sought a... /7

Brian Albrecht @BrianCAlbrecht

Here are the 5 best papers I read in 2022 that you should read too: 1. "The Economics of Intangible Capital" by Crouzet, Eberly, Eisfeldt, and Papanikolaou kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/crouze…

Market Urbanism @stephenjacobsmith@mastodon.social @MarketUrbanism

Penn professor gentrifies West Philadelphia, opposes new housing, then bravely stands up against the ruinous environmental quality of the students who pay her salary. NIMBY Twitter is a bleak place, and Valerie is its dark, barely beating heart https://t.co/SZUC4wvdqJ

Valerie Ross @ValerieRoss14

Love to see YIMBYs in the comments insisting that student neighborhoods aren't noisy & don't engage in late-night revelry. This suggests that YIMBYs a) didn't go to college; b) didn't make any friends in college; c) are lying. https://t.co/vS8HFY6IcZ

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The exception that proves the rule is they should at least try the idea of a period Bond set against the backdrop of decolonization, the early Cold War, and an acute sense of British imperial decline — the original Bond setting is very compelling in a way that updates aren’t.

Tracy Hadden Loh @lohplaces

I would love to see this level of federal outrage and oversight over transit service, which is far more essential every day and gets disrupted for ridiculous, indefensible nonsense on a regular basis. https://t.co/rQoMY9WZc2

Edward Russell @ByERussell

INBOX: @SenMarkey, @SenBlumenthal Call for Southwest Airlines to Compensate Passengers for Avoidable Holiday Cancellations https://t.co/feQvtaNgtI

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

IMO we should talk more about how a few simple, tweaks* to land use policy would let Americans live in even bigger houses. (*eliminating all restrictions on FAR, building height, lot occupancy, parking, and quantity of units on all residential parcels everywhere)

Brent Toderian @BrentToderian

The average INDIVIDUAL U.S. resident now has as much living space in their home as entire families shared in the 1950s. That’s 3X as much space per person. We’ve convinced ourselves we NEED that space & the stuff we fill it with. We don’t. V/@TreeHugger @lloydalter @conradhackett https://t.co/NASyIENhd1

Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma

New research finds that immigrants… ➡️ Are 16% of all US inventors ➡️ Produced 23% of total innovation output ➡️ Are responsible for 36% of aggregate innovation, 2/3 of which is due to their innovation externalities on their native-born collaborators

nber.orgThe Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United StatesFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Sorry: To be more clear, what I’m saying is that to advance their partisan political objectives Republicans are misstating the situation at the border and these misstatements encourage more people to come which is exacerbating the genuine substantive problems.

Isaac Schorr @isaac_schorr

I get that this is meant to be a dunk on Republicans. I just can’t for the life of me see how it’s a compelling one. https://t.co/wNXVQfQDlF

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

If AI image generators cause the elimination of 100% of illustrator jobs that would be ... not very many people.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The most common BLS category in America is "Retail salespersons" at about 3.7 million.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Retail is so big that even "First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers" is over a million jobs.

Reza Zadeh @Reza_Zadeh

With recent advances in generative AI, Active Learning is primed for a major breakthrough. When an algorithm is unsure of correct label for some part of encoding space, it can actively generate from that section to get input from a human.