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by cwal37 7y ago
Ha, no worries, wasn't taking a through line in Trick Mirror from what you wrote, but from the excerpts and reviews I've read elsewhere. I feel similarly close to her writing, in a specific way that's a bit electrifying when
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by cwal37 7y ago
Going along with the tangent, if you're into recent essay collections (as someone who has been very much looking forward to picking up Trick Mirror myself), you might like Impossible Owls by Brian Phillips which came out last year. I w
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by cwal37 7y ago
It's a bit more complicated. The door-to-door thing is retail choice, typically when people talk about "deregulated" electricity markets they're often referring to stuff at the generation/transmission level (wholesa
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by cwal37 7y ago
This paper[1] gets at it for one. From the abstract: " Consistent with the importance of exposure effects in career selection, women and disadvantaged youth are as underrepresented among high-impact inventors as they are among inventor
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The Cost of Convenience: Ridesharing and Traffic Fatalities [pdf](research.chicagobooth.edu)
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by cwal37 8y ago
Working my way through Alain Bertaud's Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities [1] at the moment and it's proving to be a really great resource for understanding this kind of thing and in the process marrying together a bu
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by cwal37 8y ago
The knock-on effects from this poorly considered legislation are ridiculous: The legalization of video gambling also triggered another shift in the state’s revenues, one that led to a drop in education funding. While the bulk of video gamb
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by cwal37 8y ago
Based entirely on the hashtags he uses when tweeting about them (since he didn't respond to the same questions there as far as I saw) I think it's a combination of QGIS and Blender.
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This blog post[1] from the developer helped me to understand this better. It's linked on the github page, but I wanted to provide the link for more direct clarity. Astonishingly, we can process 20 years’ worth of data, sampled every f
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by cwal37 8y ago
The Performance workers’ incentives favor rejection. They must process approximately one claim every four minutes, and reinstating someone who later gets suspended again counts against them, according to McCabe and others. So the system i
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Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder(reuters.com)
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The Huge World of Arrests: Why the War on Drugs Matters in Mass Incarceration(medium.com)
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A few of my faves. Non-Fiction By Adam Tooze: Crashed, and Wages of Destruction. Both excellent economic histories, the former covering the recent financial crisis and its aftermath, the latter on the Nazi economy. Tooze does an excellent
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by cwal37 8y ago
Should have known I couldn't mention housing prices without comparisons to the literally-the-most-extreme outlier bay area. The DC area isn't geographically constrained the same way, doesn't have the same concentration of hyp
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by cwal37 8y ago
Lots and lots and lots of dual-income lawyers and consultants. This is one of the areas where, on average, women have their first child at a very late age[1]. Lobbying across a wide array of industries but also defense contractors and such.
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by cwal37 8y ago
A lot of that is actually why I would recommend Knoxville over Nashvillle. It's smaller, but it has lower home prices, more access to nature (I went hiking in the Smokies or Cumberland plateau many weekends), less of the country kitsch
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by cwal37 8y ago
I actually assumed this article was a few years old since I've read several variants covering the exact same people and species. If you like this kind of thing, far and away my favorite piece I've ever read on un-extincting a spec
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by cwal37 8y ago
Crystal City is a nightmare from a commuting perspective only if you're dead set on driving, and even then it depends very much on where you're coming from. I've lived on the Yellow/Blue lines south of DCA, now I'm
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The Battle for the Home(stratechery.com)
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The Anne Arundel county stuff is BS, same old fear and segregation, crime remains low, and there's basically no evidence the rail is bringing people in to do more crime[1]. This isn't even the first time this has come up over the
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Enigma Machines(newyorker.com)
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Oil is not typically a major resource, but in cold winters in gas pipeline-constrained areas, i.e., New York and New England, there is quite a bit of oil generation. Even in high load summer days when gas is available but the load is much h
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The Ghosts of the Orphanage(buzzfeednews.com)
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Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor(newyorker.com)
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How E-Commerce Is Transforming Rural China(newyorker.com)
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How economists predicted the wrong financial crisis(prospectmagazine.co.uk)
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by cwal37 8y ago
In the DC area, an annual Capital Bikeshare membership is only $85. I recently started mixing some biking into my commute and thought about purchasing a bike, but the $400-500 I was looking at for something durable and well reviewed was har
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Something that stands out to me is the extent to which PE is in all kinds of different agencies through various sector-specific funds. I recognized several of the firms mentioned from the power sector, where they have a habit of acquiring s
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Thresholds of Violence(newyorker.com)
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"Right now the code says a structure must be engineered to have a 90 percent chance of avoiding total collapse. But many experts believe that is not enough. “Ten percent of buildings will collapse,” said Lucy Jones, the former leader

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