Favorite Rejects 2023-02-22

Brad Shapiro @btshapir

nber.org/papers/w30960 "We show that increased immigration significantly raises the staffing levels of nursing homes in the U.S., particularly in full time positions. We then show that this has an associated very positive effect on patient outcomes"

nber.orgImmigration, The Long-Term Care Workforce, and Elder Outcomes in the U.S.Founded 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.

Keith 🦀 @mosheroperandi

a16z is really not coping well with the crypto crash

Marc Andreessen @pmarca

Theory: The more the AI is trained with the woke mind virus, the more the AI will notice the fatal flaws in the woke mind virus and try to slip its leash.

James Pethokoukis @JimPethokoukis

You Need at Least $3 Million in Savings to Live Comfortably in Retirement bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

This is a fun piece and I generally agree with the framing. substack.com/app-link/post?…

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

If they don't want people to draw the parallels, they should consider not making the parallels real.

Bloomberg Next China @next_china

China urged the world to stop drawing parallels between Ukraine and Taiwan https://t.co/4eNa5KHE2g

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

The New Russian Empire finally finds a country it's able to conquer.

Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire

Leaked document shows how Russia plans to take over Belarus https://t.co/sMKeTIBz0q

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

It's funny that the term "late capitalism" has outlived the widespread belief that there's actually a viable alternative to capitalism.

Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630

There's no such thing as "late capitalism" - that's a Marxist idea based on the assumption that all other systems should/will eveeeentually become Communist.

Liz Ann Sonders @LizAnnSonders

After plunging by 84% from peak, rate to ship 40-foot container from Shanghai to Los Angeles looks to have stabilized for now

Adam Jacob @adamhjk

Two racks. My friends, it fits in *two racks*. I love the cloud as much as the next person, but $7m over five years to run a workload that will fit in *two racks* makes me want to sleep for a year. Fully automating two racks was not hard.

world.hey.comWe stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exitSince declaring our intention to leave the cloud in October, we’ve been busy at work making it so. After a brief detour down a blind alley with an enterprise Kubernetes provider, we found our stride building our own tools, and successfully moved the first small application out of the cloud a few wee…

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

A reminder that there are many people who live their lives quite differently than political junkies. (This is the foreperson of the Fulton County grand jury investigating Trump) apnews.com/article/politi…

Shashank Joshi @shashj

Interesting new data on casualties from an official. Ukrainian casualties (>100k) lower. But Ukr also has much better wounded to dead ratio: 10-20 wounded per one dead (comparable w/ US in Iraq/Afg). Russia, with much worse medical care, estimated at three wounded per one dead.

Wojtek Kopczuk 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @wwwojtekk

Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan

It is interesting that these days one does not read much how the end of communism has ushered in liberal utopia of peace and prosperity.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Think Xi will tell Putin to back off Ukraine, or will this be the start of Chinese military support for Russia?

The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent

⚡️WSJ: China's Xi Jinping plans visit to Russia. Chinese leader Xi Jinping is planning to visit Moscow for a meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in the coming months, the Wall Street Journal reported on Feb. 21, citing people familiar with the matter.