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While the Zuck & Trenton/Sholto episodes are doing extremely well on YouTube, what I'm proudest of is that most of these views are actually from Sarah Paine content!

She is one of the greatest living historians, but her work wasn't really publicly well known

Why did rents increase in large cities even as populations fell?

NYC Comptroller suggests rents increased even as population fell due to household formation.

New renters had a 8.4% higher rooms per person: but it's 10.9% higher for remote workers
comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/commen…

Malarkey = Mal + Archy = villainous rule

I think people are misunderstanding why this charitable strategy has no effect. It's not bc these people are destined to live lives of high debt. It's because when these charities purchase the *cheapest* debt hoping to maximize their impact they're actually doing the opposite.

Ppl like “if you can’t afford a house in your city why don’t you move to a small town in a state you’ve never been to 100s of miles away from all your friends and family with no childcare options or anywhere to walk to and do your remote job alone in your affordable home office?”

When someone asked me “how hard could it be to design a game economy” I am just going to respond with this tweet.

I say this with trepidation bc I was a reply guy long before I was a content guy.

Any sizable comment board will eventually be dominated by the personality type that responds to new information by repeating their preconceptions out loud as a talisman against learning.

Well that was a fun week long stay at Texas Children’s. Always good to be back home.

Cities are often viewed as fertility-shredders, but it always depends on the historic and socioeconomic context. In 1970, the Mexico City metro area had almost 9 million inhabitants and a TFR of 5.5, the highest of any comparable metropolitan area in human history.

Pre-2020 you'd see a lot of 'we don't need to build more housing, we just need to spread good jobs across the country more', then that happened post-2020 and it obviously didn't solve the housing shortage, and yet you will still hear this sentiment all the time. It's infuriating!

People who don't think we have a housing supply problem,

How do you explain this graph?

If the problem isn't supply, what is it? Genuinely asking, for a debate where I have to argue against this.

ht jamie rumbelow

The remarkable thing about this is that Norway's population is only 5.5 million, meaning this is a quarterly profit of $20,000 _per person_ across an entire nation. cnbc.com/2024/04/18/wor…

What does this mean

'Allegations of market failures often reflect 'imagination failures' by analysts rather than a genuine incentive problem'

'Lighthouses were long used by economists as a textbook example of the free-rider problem—until Coase discovered that many lighthouses were supported by fees

Posting takes more effort and is harder than scrolling. This is one major reason our feeds are full of great content.

Airchat equalises this and makes producing easy, lowering the bar massively. This will lead to more bad content and much more filtering required by their algos.

There's no rule that walkable == urban. The American Conservative has been making this argument for years.

This is a key YIMBY point!

We cannot add more sqft of housing per American family by banning the construction of more sqft of housing

When families start overcrowding in tightly zoned areas, we need to instead let them spread out into their own homes by adding more units

So Humane's product sucks but they still did a good job because it is hard to do new things?

We already have a solution for this, when people fail but tried wholeheartedly

It makes no sense that so many major American cities have 20-50% of their land be mostly empty surface parking when there is a housing crisis. The government should be doing all it can to incentivize building high density housing and mixed use development. This is an emergency.

Flixel 5.7.0 is released!