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by vwoolf 4y ago
Maybe this will create the voting bloc needed to get charter- and voucher-based schools off the ground, and out of the hands of unions. Public-sector monopolies don't have a great track record.
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by vwoolf 4y ago
It's like 50 years of holding back the housing market and denying people the right to build on their land has had the intended impact https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/mac.20170388 The outcome
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Ukraine Sounds Alarm on Chinese Drones, Opening Skies to U.S. Startups(wsj.com)
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by vwoolf 5y ago
The Bay Area is unaffordable because most cities haven't allowed anywhere near enough housing to be built by land owners over the last five decades: https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/ . Re
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How to Coach a Builder(genagorlin.substack.com)
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Heroes Are Not Replicable (2007)(marginalrevolution.com)
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'People, ideas, machines' II: catastrophic thinking on nuclear weapons(dominiccummings.substack.com)
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Electric Bikes Are Booming (Again)(bloomberg.com)
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by vwoolf 5y ago
A person who wants to use Linux can use Linux.
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Academe Is a Hotbed of Craven Snitches(chronicle.com)
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by vwoolf 5y ago
The biggest problem around homelessness, by far, is regulatory barriers to building housing, not innovations in tracking or other areas. https://www.slowboring.com/p/homelessness-housing This is "looking for lost
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Closing in on 5000 book reviews at The Complete Review(complete-review.com)
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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem(sightline.org)
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The More Density We Build, the More Valuable “Neighborhood Character” Will Be(freddiedeboer.substack.com)
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Writing Matters(marginalrevolution.com)
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Climate Politics for the Real World(slowboring.com)
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by vwoolf 5y ago
even the ones who were forced to move due to costs The policies you advocate are the ones that raise the cost of housing by limiting supply. Your own preferred policies force people to move, who can't afford the rent.
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by vwoolf 5y ago
If you want to control a given parcel of land, buy it. If you don't own it, then you shouldn't get to control it. You're telling other people what they should or should not be able to build and, in the process, are creating s
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by vwoolf 5y ago
This essay is consistent with my feelings. In particular, the ending paragraphs: "Ultimately, my fondest wish is that I lived somewhere where I didn't want or need a car at all. I hate cars. I hate driving. I really hate other peo
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The Ford Mustang Mach-E and the danger of electric cars(volts.wtf)
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An Academic Grudge Turned into a MeToo Panic(reason.com)
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The Two-Income Trap (2014)(slatestarcodex.com)
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Algorithmic Evolution(goodtosell.substack.com)
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by vwoolf 5y ago
This is also how teaching went for me. I found out why teachers have attendance policies, quizzes, and all the other things that, as a student, seemed inane, if not counterproductive, to me. While those things sometimes are, and can be over
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HelloFresh: Mealkits Can Work After All(thediff.co)
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Escaping American tribalism: Only personal bravery can end polarisation(unherd.com)
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Psychcrisis.org: Towards a humane psychiatric crisis system(psychcrisis.org)
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by vwoolf 5y ago
Did you miss all the M1 MacBook Pro hoopla? https://hn.algolia.com/?q=macbook+pro+14%22
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A conversation with Sam Bankman-Fried on arbitrage and altruism(conversationswithtyler.com)
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Progress Studies in Mathematics(virginica.substack.com)
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