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Favorites August 29th 2023

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January 2023, Mountain View
 See new posts Conversation Alex @awong_SF San Francisco has the longest permitting time in the country and the second most expensive construction costs in the world.  Something has to give. axios.com Why new apartment construction has slowed down in the San Francisco metro area Developers have started construction on 229 apartments in the San Francisco area during the first half of this year.
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Silicon valley has also slowed down in new apartment construction, my hope is that the newest state laws will take a while to have a significant effect. But either way, we should have passed SB 827.

 See new posts Conversation Mark Nelson @energybants Greenpeace made defeating nuclear power its most important cause.  That cause was wrong, and young people are getting angry when they discover it.  Now Greenpeace is the rich corporation hurting the environment.  And environmental activists are coming for them.  It's a new world. Quote Ia Aanstoot @ia_aanstoot · Aug 28 Today I am launching the campaign #DearGreenpeace with @letsreplanet which asks @Greenpeace to drop their opposition to nuclear energy & support young people in securing their future.  Sign my petition http://deargreenpeace.org  Why nuclear gives me hope for a better future.🧵
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She's got a long thread about why Greenpeace is in the wrong, and a petition.

 Nick Benson @nick_benson THE RESULTS ARE IN: First year of 24/7 speed cameras leads to declines in speeding, injuries, and fatalities during expanded hours:   ⬇️ Speeding down average of 30%  ⬇️ Fatalities down 25%  https://nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2023/speed-cameras-first-year.shtml
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It's good to see that they reduce speeding, but obviously the reduction in injuries is even more important. The ideal would be that you’re collecting no tickets and no one is speeding or getting injured.

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Another win for microeconomics! I’ll have you know, I sold my previous car with a Vickrey auction. And yes, one of the bidders refused to participate because it was too complicated.

Longer Reads

• Study from 2019 shows that cynicism is associated with lower intelligence by multiple measures, despite study participants expecting the opposite.

• Thread summarizing new paper "Unconditional cash transfers reduce homelessness"

Flotsam and Jetsam

– Continued excitement about fracking for clean energy (src)
– The reduction in land use per person for agriculture has continued into the present in a way I had not realized. If we can get access to more energy, we can continue to reduce land use. (src)
– New trailer out for a film about Bayard Rustin, he also predicted in 1970 that localism and naive participatory democracy would have objectively conservative outcomes. (src)
– Russian Embassy approvingly posted a map in which Crimea isn't part of Russia and Taiwan isn't part of China. Whoopsie. (src)
– Estimate of the total cost of getting to all renewable energy for New York says that long term battery storage lowers total costs by almost 30% (src)
– GPAs inflation at Harvard is pretty average is now 3.8 (src)

Image

– China approaching US per capita CO2 emissions, burns majority of all coal worldwide. (src)
– Sierra club blocking legislation that will help keep sequoia trees alive (by allowing controlled burns) (src)
– Fine Tuned versions of Code Llama are performing very well (src)
– Republicans think red states are successful because of low taxes, no it's because of lower housing costs due to less restrictions on building. (src)
– First ten drugs for medicare price negotiation announced (src)
– ADA is the only reason strollers work in so many places (src)
– Home prices are way up, classic COVID frying pan graph. (src)
– "When Italian bureaucrats get paid higher salaries they are less likely to take bribes, which makes them more likely to be murdered by the mafia." (src)
– China has some very large "cities" but it's all a question of how you draw municipal boundaries, the land area of some of these cities is massive. (src)
– Democrats need to internalize that we now benefit from money in politics, lower turnout, and to some extent, corporate influence in politics. It's very strange. (src)

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