Favorites August 14 2021
Jenny Schuetz@jenny_schuetz
it’s legal to build single family detached homes on large lots in neighborhoods where zoning *also* allows apartments. If you wanted, you could buy a 10-story apartment building, demolish it, and replace w SF home. But Single-family-exclusive zoning prohibits the inverse. https://t.co/mx0F5TgG9o
Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion
One NIMBY tell is the idea that allowing dense development is "forced density". As if allowing more people to live in dense areas is the same as forcing them to do so! https://t.co/gohw6O4BG2
7:38 PM · Aug 14, 2021
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This is one of the more productive exchanges generated in response to some absolutely insane comments from a Beverly Hills city council person.
Eeshani Kandpal@eeshani_kandpal
@estebanjq3 @franciscome @PJakiela @US_FDA Yes— we’re still waiting because in March the FDA asked for 6 months of follow up data instead of 2. The AAP president’s letter notes there is no medical basis for such a long period. And last month they asked for a sample expansion that will delay further. 1/2
10:26 PM · Aug 14, 2021
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We're at a record number of children hospitalized with COVID-19 right now.
Arindrajit Dube@arindube
@PJakiela @eeshani_kandpal @estebanjq3 @franciscome @US_FDA The cost/benefit calculations used by the FDA to decide on how best to authorize vaccines for kids reflects the reality that the FDA has has no idea how to do those calculations, or even start thinking seriously about them.
11:26 PM · Aug 14, 2021
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Who is asking for extra delay on this? Anti-vaxers? Is wasting months going to somehow change minds? Because it’s definitely going to cost lives.
Aaron 🥑🚈🚰🏀@aceckhouse
San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle
San Francisco remains dead last in its share of youths under 18 among the top 100 most populous cities in the U.S.
Children made up 13.4% of the city’s population in 2010, and now they make up just 13%. https://t.co/iXjCkpvKFs
1:35 AM · Aug 15, 2021
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The high price of living in SF is a policy choice the city made. Luckily, we can also un-make it.
Bloomberg Economics@economics
China has been expert at provoking the U.S. just enough to avoid war. Can the U.S. turn that strategy against Beijing? (via @bopinion)
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Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
8:17 AM · Aug 13, 2021
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I had not heard of the Salami Slicing strategy, but it points to an aspect of the situation I had not thought much about previously.
Bloomberg Opinion@bopinion
Technology has made climate change a solveable economic problem, but the fossil fuel industry still has the clout to slow progress, writes @Noahpinion
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Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
3:14 PM · Aug 10, 2021
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A good article from Noah Smith. Regarding China, he's trying again to goad Xi into action on emissions.
