Favorites May 2nd 2023

April 2023, Washington DC (duh)

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Hopefully we're looking at a situation where the cause of different so somehow it only applies to relatively large banks. Because that pile of little pebbles last time is concerning.

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As Yann LeCun notes, technological change has always been relatively slow to change employment patterns.

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Maybe German diplomats think Russia would stop after attacking ask their bordering countries, so it's fine to not defend Ukraine

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Extremely dystopian stuff. YA novel level dystopia even.

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All the best housing policies all at once, YIMBY speedrun

Threads

• Discussion about how Pakistan has fared worse than Bangladesh despite lower measures of corruption and graft. TL;DR: graft isn't as bad if it happens to align incentives. Pay bribes in equity rather than cash (corporate taxes also achieve incentive alignment).

• Thread discussing Russia's aviation troubles due to sanctions. TL;DR: consumer ticket prices up 15-30% despite significant government subsidies.