Jonathan Nolan
@Jonathan_Nolan_
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I put up a mini-site today at https://t.co/7DAPRPxBc7 to help you compare the world’s cities. You can see how many people live near a city, or use my favourite metric: "population weighted density" to get an accurate measure of how dense a city is to live in.
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The way this will go down is that special lanes will be created for narrow + faster autonomous vehicles, and driving a regular car will get slower and more frustrating until most give up.
I like Waymo, but the moment that this argument switches, as it inevitably will, from “we have a cool new technology that works and is available everywhere and saves lives” to “you must now be banned from driving your own car,” I will become a foe.
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Property owner: Please sirs, my windows leak. Heritage consultant: "sometimes a perceived or actual design flaw (e.g. resulting from experimental or untested building technology) can actually be a key part of the significance of a place"
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Most haters of the Vegas loop hate cars in general which obscures the fact that even as a road tunnel it sucks. The promise of high vph in a tight tunnel hasn’t been kept.
One-hour timelapse (60x speed) of Central Station during @SEMASHOW. This is one of eight (soon to be 14!) Loop Stations which operated at this awesome @LVCVA event. On the day shown, Vegas Loop safely transported 29,755 passengers.
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Payers should and do set policy and direction, but the American system of payers employing a huge workforce to assess every case is unheard of.
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One of the most important aspects of public systems is that they largely leave case-by-case decisions about what is ‘necessary’ to clinicians. If you align incentives with clinicians they tend to do a good job!
The fact is, we don't really have a perfect solution for deciding what care is necessary and what isn't, but having a well-informed, well-regulated insurer do it — whether that insurer is private companies or a single public payer — still seems to be the least-bad way to do it.
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I think the methodology of the new paper is better, but regardless they did the thing! https://t.co/9VqoxFI02T
grattan.edu.au
Original research on the housing preferences of Australians shows that the housing they would choose is a much more varied mix than either Sydney or Melbourne currently provides. The report also...
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Grattan did a whole survey!
Did anyone check whether that was the housing Australians actually want? Or did it just suit their preexisting worldviews? Mhmm.
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Time to tweet about a great new-ish paper from Christina Patterson (disclosure: my wife!), @p_ganong, @pascaljnoel, @JoeVavra, and @AlexWeinberg_ that I think is in a sweet spot of “things economists don’t think about enough” and “true and important” – earnings fluctuations! 1/n
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This metric is not particularly sensitive to the cutoff chosen:
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I'm not sure Australia's population is particularly concentrated in Sydney and Melbourne. Australia feels concentrated because we're such a geographically big country, but we're only 70th percentile of similar countries. https://t.co/RfZ6I7WDM6
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hot take: YIMBYs from Ezra down are too obsessed with the structure of government. NIMBYism's rise was largely democratic and so will be its fall. https://t.co/3j9SpkiQlJ
These are two sides of the same coin - England is so Nimby in part because its state is so centralised. If Flitwick's local authority could fund its services by allowing loads more houses to be built instead of increasing council tax, those houses would have been built years ago.
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A while back, before I built my "population within a circle for the whole world" tool, I built a "population and the associated density within concentric for anywhere in Great Britain" tool. It's still online it still works. But,... https://t.co/bh5CUqjwuo
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@edglaeser3075 Capital City Zone should extend from Footscray to Camberwell and from Thornbury to South Melbourne
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1. Housing that’s robust for people with challenging behaviours. 2. Regular psychiatric review. 3. Involuntary treatment orders that are well managed and enforced. 4. Income support so people can afford necessities and are not forced to steal. This stuff is not hard!
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There’s a certain part of American twitter that wants to present a false dichotomy between prisons/homelessness and mental institutions. It’s giving real ‘we’ve tried nothing and nothing works’ energy. Most countries have solved this problem without either! It’s not hard!
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Biggest surprise with my first academic article was the number of papers that **mis-cited** it. People seem to cite 20 articles in their lit review without keeping track of which one says what. https://t.co/OZf8vT9Qco
When the typical academic article gets published, not only do ZERO people read it. Even the author usually breathes a sigh of relief: "I'll never have to think about THAT again!"
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