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If you like this 'musical architecture' check out the artist's site for more.
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This is very exciting! He followed up with a link to an article about the tax system of the Danish Faroe Islands, which is apparently very efficient.
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This is all discussion of the Institute of Traffic Engineers manual of Parking Generation which has been garbage for decades. from the thread: "So we're clear: this manual says you can use two observations and predict parking occupancy at an adult cabaret down to *one one-hundredth* of a parking space. Kids, don't let them tell you zoning isn't science. It doesn't have beakers, but it has precision!" OmniZaddy called this other graph a "human rights violation"
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If I'm understanding the underlying paper correctly, this was based on self-assessed rating of how often they did each activity. I'm a bit surprised 'talking about problems at work' is so feminine.
I really like this picture, it's from when Boris Yeltsin made a surprise stop at a Grocery store and realized that the material abundance in the United States was real. One follow-up "In Massachusetts in 1776, a dozen eggs cost 56 cents. A typical wage for a laborer was about 40 cents a day."
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A good follow-up would be that if you manage to build up a city that completely surrounds another city, that's it, they're annexed. I agree with one commenter who said we have too many local governments that should just be HOAs.
Threads
• Have you heard anyone say that the Fed raising interest rates will actually increase inflation? Perhaps a well known and usually respected science fiction author? Here's a thread that actually takes the question seriously and explains clearly how we can be pretty sure such a view is backwards. TL;DR: High interest rates actually lower inflation and central banks have successfully controlled inflation using interest rates for decades.
• Tim Lee was particularly annoyed about articles saying that the quality of modern goods has gone down, which is just wrong. This desk history is a great example. Believe it or not, cars last much longer than they used to!
• Great thread from Joey Politano about how unexpectedly strong the US labor market is. TL;DR: Recession seeming ever less likely, also apparently residential construction employment was revised up significantly.