Favorites September 24th 2021

Conor Dougherty @ConorDougherty

Reading this story is like snorting a fat white rail of pure, uncut San Francisco: A family-owned local Mexican restaurant can't open a new location in North Beach under the city's anti-chain ordinance.

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle

JUST IN: El Farolito, the iconic San Francisco-born string of taquerias, cannot open a new location in North Beach under the city’s ban on chains, the city said Thursday. https://t.co/6PJeayneBj

They were a competitor in the 538 Burrito bracket

John Gruber @gruber

As someone who’s set up 5 new devices in the last week, my advice is to restore a new iPhone with the device-to-device transfer, not iCloud. Don’t worry if it says it might take a little longer. Device-to-device is better IMO because it moves over *all* your login credentials.

l concur with this advice, although it still does not handle enterprise apps correctly.

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

I agree with @mattyglesias here. Obviously talking about racism is a messaging decision. It's entirely possible to not talk about racism and still promote progressive policies that reduce racial inequality. slowboring.com/p/urbanrural-p…

The concept of raising and lowering the salience of issues based on whether they're good for your group or not is really useful.

Tristan Reed @TristanReed_

Three measures to accelerate Covid-19 vaccine regulatory approvals, optimize production capacity across firms, and adjust generous dosage thresholds are NOT zero-sum. We can expand supply before 2022 New blog with @MamtaMurthi cc: @ChadBown @ATabarrok

blogs.worldbank.orgFeasible actions to expand COVID-19 vaccine supply before the end of 2021For a 2nd challenging year, the United Nations General Assembly is meeting in the shadow of a pandemic. Fully vaccinating every country against COVID-19 is the urgent issue on the agenda

Lots of good ides here, even the WHO is in favor of fractional dosing, which we can do right now.

John Gruber @gruber

This video is an ad. Watch it and guess what it’s for. I’ll wait.

This usb-c thing with the EU is just so dumb.

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

In Berkeley, the boomers dont pay their property taxes and then accuses UC of being greedy for enrolling more students. Its really nefarious when you realize it.

CalMatters @CalMatters

State budget support for the University of California system has waned considerably since the 1980s. In turn, the UC relied more on tuition revenue. Today the UC's core funding for academics is made up almost equally from state dollars and student tuition https://t.co/BOk4WNprFw https://t.co/6lyIRBHVfj

Before prop 13, UC tuition was not this high, but year by year it ate into property tax revenue…

And here we are

Robinson Meyer @yayitsrob

If Manchin’s cold feet on a CEPP and Sinema’s hatred of corporate taxes but insistence on pay-fors conspire to give us a carbon fee… that would be so incredibly based. The funniest possible end to the past decade. A shitpost for the ages. Let’s do it.

nytimes.comDemocrats Consider Adding Carbon Tax to Budget BillA tax on carbon dioxide pollution could be the single most effective policy to tackle climate change. It could also be politically explosive.

this is exceptionally bad politics, but any economist will tell you it’s the most efficient way to reduce emissions.

Ted Lasso @TedLasso

Jim Henson taught us the only thing more powerful than believin’ is make-believin’. Happy birthday, Jim. We miss ya.

The ability to do both things at once is so impressive to me.

San Francisco Japanese Garden, 2021