Mandatory car safety seats prevented 140 births for every life they saved. Safetyism sucks the life from our culture, figuratively and literally.

Kalshi officially beat the CFTC. Appeal withdrawn, case dismissed. Election prediction markets are legal!

Super useful vocabulary to describe a bunch of distributed systems. The sign of a good mental model is that it clarifies your thought processes.

New blog post on the mental model I've used when working through complex or confusing papers on transactional systems. https://t.co/iPUZTRhBZR

the only thing that will actually prompt a full recovery is Congress reasserting its power over taxation so the markets can actually be sure we won't do this song and dance again in a few months.

@NateSilver538 It's essentially Critical Trade Theory. Any trade imbalance between two countries is de facto evidence of systemic unfair trade practices.

"Months after wildfires devastated Los Angeles, only four building permits have been issued to homeowners to rebuild their properties so far, and call me conspiratorial, but I’m starting to suspect this is intentional." - @NellieBowles @TheFP https://t.co/661FFSCTp2

Friends who travel to South Asia talk a lot about the incredible, charming, quirky tiny businesses that you find everywhere, run out of homes - themed tea shops and craft shops and antique shops and mini-bakeries, a testament to the diversity of human interests and fascinations.

In Colorado, we are laser-focused on cutting housing costs and increasing the supply of new housing that Coloradans can afford. In my State of the State address, I called for Smart Stair reform to increase the supply of housing people can afford in the neighborhoods where people

All the videos are up at https://t.co/Ez6KVOQoke now.

The notion that people don't have to make trade-offs and can simply hold out for getting 100% of what they want is one of the most damaging ideas that's been downloaded into the heads of young people.

It's always incredible to me when people imply that NEPA is needed to protect the public interest. Very often, NEPA lawsuits are brought with explicit anti-humanistic intent. As an example, one of the top NEPA plaintiffs is the Center for Biological Diversity. The first quote

For too long, the blockers and Nimbys have strangled our chances of cheaper energy, growth and jobs, leaving us hostage to Putin. I'm putting an end to it. We are changing the rules on nuclear to deliver cleaner, more affordable energy across the UK.

Putting aside the urge to dunk on Newsom, I do think this is a great precedent. Any time we want to do anything with any urgency, whether it is rebuilding from fires or building a border wall, we waive a bunch of laws and regulations. Well hang on, those laws and regulations

Direct democracy can be good, but letting voters directly decide incredibly complex policies like property taxes and insurance rates in the form of a binary measure that ties the legislature's hands even decades in the future has been an unmitigated disaster for California.

Ayn Rand was insightful in understanding how much capitalism suffers from a lack of a clear moral defense. Nearly everything good depends on the profit motive, yet it is considered a shameful thing. Policy attitudes and society’s moral outlook are deeply incoherent as a result.

Busting myths about car insurance, as a former actuary: Myth 1: Car insurers make huge profits. Actually, profits are generally around 4% of premiums, by design. About 80% of all the money taken in is paid out for claims, 16% covers operating expenses, and 4% is profit. If

It used to be automatic for startups to incorporate in Delaware. That will stop being the case if activist judges start overruling shareholders.

Denver homeowners can skip the rezoning hearings: ADUs are now allowed in neighborhoods citywide after a City Council vote on Monday night

@NielsHoven Most people have never hit their cognitive ceiling nor have they hit their effort ceiling. The first ceiling most people hit is clarity and consistency of intention, and so it can seem that’s the only real variable.