Favorites October 3rd 2021

Tim de Silva @timdesilva

Some nice concrete examples here illustrating the difference between thinking in partial versus general equilibrium..

Full Stack Economics @fullstackecon

Uber and Lyft might be helping the environment in the long run, by encouraging developers to build less parking and spurring greater density. @binarybits responds to @drvolts below: https://t.co/9Jze6qROJ5

It's a great article, the key takeaway for me: "There’s a middle range where a neighborhood is dense enough for parking shortages to become a concern, but not yet dense enough that it’s convenient to get around in other ways.", Uber/Lyft help break this deadlock.

Kim-Mai Cutler @kimmaicutler

“Job applicants said they were excited to join a company that took employee safety seriously. United has received 20,000 applications for about 2,000 flight attendant positions, a much higher ratio than before the pandemic.”

The New York Times @nytimes

Scott Kirby, the chief executive of United Airlines, decided that it was time to require employees to get vaccinated after learning two employees had died of Covid-19. The effort, one of the largest of its kind, worked. https://t.co/pqvTyHsEnj

I can't believe the other airlines are taking so long to implement vaccine mandates. They work.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This sure seems bad

wsj.comChina’s Power Shortfalls Begin to Ripple Around the WorldElectricity crunch adds to a global energy squeeze that risks upsetting the post-pandemic economic recovery

A follow-up to the coal shortage I mentioned yesterday.

Jennifer Ouellette @JenLucPiquant

The decreasing cost of renewables unlikely to plateau anytime soon

arstechnica.comThe decreasing cost of renewables unlikely to plateau anytime soonEarly price forecasts underestimated how good we’d get at making green energy

And a very timely follow-up about the falling price of renewable energy.

Colin McMillen @mcmillen

mine is more of a conspiracy theory, which is: i think cilantro actually tastes like soap to everyone, but some people (myself included) just don't mind the taste of soap all that much? https://t.co/dnWFVXszIg

Katie S. Phang @KatiePhang

What is your most controversial food opinion? 😱 I’ll go first: I hate dark chocolate.

Now this is a conspiracy I can get behind

Aaron 🥑🚈🚰🏀 @aceckhouse

balconies & porches should be exempt from FAR & setbacks

I'm also a fan of architectural arcades.

August 2020

That’s an architectural arcade, if you’re wondering.