Patrick Siegman@PatrickSiegman
Nothing generates headlines like selling a parking space for as much as it cost to build it.
abc7news.com
For $90K this premium parking spot in SF can be yours, a discount from its previous price
10:08 PM · Sep 10, 2022
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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…
3:05 AM · Sep 11, 2022
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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…
8:01 AM · Sep 11, 2022
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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.com
The American Guided Rockets Helping Ukraine Destroy Russian Forces
4:46 PM · Sep 11, 2022
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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...
1:38 AM · Sep 12, 2022
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