Favorites September 11th 2022

March 2022, Toronto

Patrick Siegman @PatrickSiegman

Nothing generates headlines like selling a parking space for as much as it cost to build it.

abc7news.comFor $90K this premium parking spot in SF can be yours, a discount from its previous priceIt’s listed at $90,000. However, that’s actually $10,000 less than what it was previously priced.

While people aren't always rational actors, bundling parking spots with apartments guarantees that we can't make a rational decision about owning a car. I hope we see more unbundled parking soon.

Ethan Mollick @emollick

Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else. This paper find that for every 1,000 pounds a car weighs over a Toyota Corolla, the chance of killing another person goes up by 46%! Heavier vehicles lead to 28k more US deaths. doi.org/10.1093/restud…

Kevin Erdmann points out: "there’s a tax deduction self employed people can take on new cars, but the cars have to weigh at least 6,000 lbs", some of our tax writeoffs are pretty stupid.

Elad Nehorai @EladNehorai

The New York Times exposé of Hasidic schools is out, and it’s more devastating than probably most of us even imagined. Every sentence is an indictment. This graph alone is utterly shocking. The failure rates of 50,000 students… it’s child abuse. nytimes.com/2022/09/11/nyr…

Click through for a summary thread, definitely makes me wonder what's going on with Amish schooling.

Mykola Bielieskov @MBielieskov

nytimes.com/2022/09/09/us/… UA Armed Forces system of fires’ crown jewel. Unparalleled thing in its class in terms of precision/manoeuvrability. Since most of targets on which frontline depend is within 100-120 km range in depth UA ability to strike them with GMLRS change war course.

nytimes.comThe American Guided Rockets Helping Ukraine Destroy Russian ForcesThe Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System can hit targets 50 miles away with 200 pounds of explosives.

They're probably going to need more ammo for these things to finish retaking their country.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

A good visual reminder that although Ukraine's offensive was awesome, it only cleared the Russians out of a modest portion of the occupied territory. Much remains to do...