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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
2:12 AM · Sep 24, 2021
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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.
4:16 AM · Sep 24, 2021
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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…
1:04 PM · Sep 24, 2021
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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.org
Feasible actions to expand COVID-19 vaccine supply before the end of 2021
3:42 PM · Sep 24, 2021
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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.
5:41 PM · Sep 24, 2021
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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
3:50 PM · Sep 24, 2021
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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.com
Democrats Consider Adding Carbon Tax to Budget Bill
3:22 PM · Sep 24, 2021
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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.
2:57 PM · Sep 24, 2021
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The ability to do both things at once is so impressive to me.
