Interested in Internet Interconnection and City Planning.
Mankato, MN
Joined September 2009
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“The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.”
— Thomas Sowell
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FFS please stop "seeking public comment" and please stop "bringing stakeholders to the table" and please just fucking build the fucking thing.
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The biggest flex nobody talks about is having quiet neighbors who just mind their own business.
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austin let developers build a ridiculous number of apartments and rents went down for years straight. no task force, no blue ribbon commission. turns out the supply curve was real the whole time
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the city requires two parking spaces per apartment, a garage space costs $50k to build, so fewer units pencil out, so rent goes up, so people move somewhere cheaper and farther, so they need a car. the parking requirement manufactures the demand for the parking requirement
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every new luxury building is somebody’s affordable apartment in 20 years. that’s how literally every older apartment you can afford right now came to exist. someone built it new and someone complained it was too fancy
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"Do You Not Support LGBT Rights?" "We Sell Chicken."
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I will admit, I thought the Roadster hype was excessive and claims that it will "fly" absurd. At best I thought we'd see a very fast car that might achieve some sort of temporary lift at a high speed.
But my brain can't even process what I witnessed.
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Warren Buffett says investors can spend too much time trying to predict short-term numbers.xitter.cf/watoulsky/status/21073…
Instead of obsessing over how many iPhones will be sold next quarter, he says investors should focus on understanding the underlying business.
“Nobody buys a farm based on whether they think it’s going to rain next year or not.”
Think like a business owner, not a weather forecaster.
Jay Hanke retweeted
What’s the evidence on rent control?
I charted the findings from 112 studies:
Great for rent-controlled tenants ✅
But:
Pushes up rents for other people ❌
Pushes down new housing construction ❌
Pushes down building quality ❌
Jay Hanke retweeted
The odds of a child getting kidnapped are about 1 in a million.
The lifetime odds of dying in a traffic crash are about 1 in 93 compared to other ways.
Parents act like these stats are reversed. They're paranoid about rare kidnappings and naive about the common driving.
Jay Hanke retweeted
Another convoy is on the move.
BlueBirds 14, 15, and 16 have left our Texas facility and are on the road to Cape Canaveral.
Next stop: orbit. 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
The largest commercial communications arrays ever deployed in low Earth orbit. A scalable platform to deliver space-based cellular broadband connectivity directly to standard phones, support secure government applications, and deliver a new third layer of connectivity.
In Midland, Texas, production continues to advance through BlueBird 50, with more than 20 spacecraft structures now being integrated as part of our assembly process.
One constellation. Connectivity. Resilience. Security. Built in Texas. 🇺🇸🌎📶📱
#ASTSpaceMobile #Broadband #ConnectingtheUnconnected #BlueBirds
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The funny thing about libertarian stereotypes is that you can’t find any libertarians who fit the stereotype.
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The reason you end up with education experts saying absurd things like "it's developmentally inappropriate for a child to learn letters at age 3"
is because *some* kids are genuinely not developmentally ready to learn letters at age 3
But there is an implicit and unquestionable assumption in education that all kids are the same
and so if it's developmentally inappropriate for some kids to learn letters at 3, then we must declare that it's developmentally inappropriate for all kids to learn letters at 3.
God forbid we should say something like:
"Some kids might be ready to read at age 3 and enjoying chapter books before they arrive at kindergarten. Other kids might not be ready to learn to read until age 6.
So let's make sure we have a classroom ready to support and challenge those kindergarteners who can already read Harry Potter and make sure they keep progressing
And lets make sure we have a classroom ready to support and challenge those kindergarteners who are just barely ready to begin learning their letters."
IMHO, one of the worst things about the K-12 education system in the United States is the implicit goal of having the students come out the same.
For instance, for the advanced students, the K-12 establishment is fighting PSEO (aka dual-enrollment). It is hard for me to imagine the value proposition of keeping the top 5% of kids in high school for the last 2 years when they are academically ahead of many sophomores in university.