Mark Theeuwes
475 posts
Mark Theeuwes
@TheeuwesMark
Studying abroad to earn my Master's in Transportation Economics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 🇺🇸🇧🇪🇳🇱
Katılım Ocak 2022
20 Takip Edilen17 Takipçiler
@brianluidog "heating up a small amount of water is easier than a large amount" any other bit of wisdom you could bestow upon us?
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@fiat_money @StatisticUrban In no way is this post talking about government debt increasing bond yields. The core claim here is that the governments interest on its debt is growing as a portion of total expenditure
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Interest payments on US debt are now ~15% of the total budget, and ever-increasing. No end in sight.
But any serious deficit reduction would require broad tax hikes on the middle and upper classes AND major cuts to mandatory spending. Both parties hate that, so good luck.
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@someshameingame @AndyMasley @senatorshoshana Infrasound is specifically the sound you cannot hear. The ocean releases a constant 70-90dB infrasound, which kinda undermines most people's arguments of how bad it is to live around infrasound (you'd notice people near the beach getting sick from the noise)
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@AndyMasley @senatorshoshana Hi! I live a small beach block from the Atlantic Ocean. It's not that loud.
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This guy's saying that being exposed to inaudible infrasound is like living downwind from a nuclear bomb. I have terrible news about the ocean.
Yasha Levine@yashalevine
in a different age this guy would be writing substacks about how nuclear radiation is good for you. people living down wind of nevada testing range are actually healthier than average!
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@ClintFiore @lksngy Mate, you're walking for hours because you're a tourist. People who live here don't do that (also, we carry water lol)
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@lksngy Just out of your hand or what? How do you do it without a bottle when you’re out walking for hours.
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Is everyone in Europe dehydrated?
Nobody carries water bottles. Water is expensive everywhere and not free at most restaurants. Bathrooms are scarce and often cost money to use.
My theory is everyone is ok with this bleak situation because they’re all massively dehydrated, rarely pee, and don’t know the glory of what 1+ gallons of water consumed per day feels like to the human body.
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@sciantificnew Imagining that this ID capability would be used to punish bad racists instead of already oppressed minorities is straight up magical thinking IMO
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If banning social media for U16s means linking a profile to an ID to verify age then I think that's all the more reason to do it.
If you are worried about legal repercussions of what you are saying on SM then that's a pretty good hint that you probably shouldn't be saying it.
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@HabCorpLinguist @Anonpart3117493 It still had a lot of testing, it's just that the testing was done extremely quickly because of, you know, the whole global pandemic thing
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@Anonpart3117493 The whole program was the government relaxing its otherwise onerous testing requirements so private industry could develop a treatment and get it to market without the usual restrictions.
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Crazy how Operation Warp Speed was both good policy and a complete vindication of libertarian criticism of the administrative state inhibiting healthcare and basically no one wants to claim it as a victory for their coalition.
dylan matthews 🔸@dylanmatt
Wild to remember how long we expected the vaccine testing process to take in 2020
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@candyflipline @infomeh No way in hell it's called the cp company 😭😭
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@jxmnop Honestly I still think we're in the 15 to 20 stage, or even less. I think you're underestimating just how good it's going to get
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btw this is essentially what we're doing with LLMs, and it's why everything costs so much money. that little bump in the Florida panhandle is some obscure subfield of chemistry only a few dozen PhDs know exists.
Terrible Maps@TerribleMaps
How many edges does the U.S. need before it looks right?
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@lthlnkso @adammocklerr Vietnam didn't do irreparable damage to the global order like this might.
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This might actually be a bigger disaster for the United States than Vietnam.
Discourse News@Discourse__News
🚨 BREAKING: Iran confirms it will still toll the Strait of Hormuz even after Trump provides them $300 billion. (Source: Faytuks News)
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Obviously "the market is a bunch of dummies who can't tell SpaceX is a giant bubble and Elon Musk is a drooling imbecile whose brain is slowly turning into soup" would be a little too convenient for my priors, so I'm skeptical. But I can't fully shake the feeling. What gives?
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@burntbulb @Duderichy @del4rel Taxing stocks rather than flows is a bad idea because it forces people to divest from productive companies. These policies would act on a tax on every American industry
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@TheeuwesMark @Duderichy @del4rel Interesting, but I'm skeptical of "just tax gains better", it seems like wishful thinking-- "oh man, of course, we're doing bad policies and we should only do good policies".
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causing capital to lock up is EXTREMELY bad for the economy in the long run
Hank Green@hankgreen
Anyway, capital gains should be taxed like ordinary income.
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@burntbulb @Duderichy @del4rel "Wealth tax isn't distortionary"
Economists consistently regard it as an extremely distortionary tax because it incentivizes capital flight, unproductive portfolio shifts, and significant tax avoidance. See below:
imf.org/en/publication…
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@Duderichy @del4rel Honestly a wealth tax is probably the least-bad option if you're going to do this at all. At least it's not distortionary
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@hellspatisserie (I do not have gingivitis and I am a religious flosser)
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@hellspatisserie My absolute least favorite experience when living in America was the dentist. They would take 1 look at my teeth, say "oh we need to do a fluoride treatment and a gums cleaning" and then shove a clipboard in my face to sign off on $400 of.... some paste on my gums
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The United States is so immensely wealthy and living there feels like living somewhere 25 times less rich while you get constantly scammed and exploited in ways you didn’t even believe were possible
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@camstreet1 @hakflo @RokoMijic @hist_ai43533 HEAVY on the "with review" part. The political and bureaucratic costs of nuclear are absurdly high
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To nuclear specs and with quality control, review etc, it really does. In a different universe with rational planning and regulatory rules you might be right, but back here in the real world mass production is the only feasible solution to drive costs down and increase throughput massively
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Small modular nuclear reactors are a bad idea.
They're a technological solution to a political problem (too much regulation of nuclear power).
Nuclear reactors want to be big, because of the scaling of surface area and volume: you want more volume per unit surface area because surface area is a cost.
Douglas Carswell🇬🇧🇺🇸@DouglasCarswell
Can’t help thinking that which design of the new mini reactors we settle on is one of the big issues of our age
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@hankgreen Hank, I think you're a brilliant guy but this is truly a disastrous policy. Many EU countries have tried it and it never works well, if not because of capital flight but because it HEAVILY incentivizes spending rather than investing.
Listen to economists
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Anyway, capital gains should be taxed like ordinary income.
Hank Green@hankgreen
Anyway, capital gains should be taxed like ordinary income.
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fable might be gone, but it will forever be remembered in my claude api costs
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@Grim60696847085 @theemmacasey The Dutch fucking love this shit, though normally they would toast the bread first
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@theemmacasey I wouldn’t even call this a British sandwich, you can guarantee that people in other countries are eating cheese and raw vegetables in some kind of bread.
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I think the cold cheese and onion british sandwich probably tastes pretty good
Templarpilled@Templarpilled
I have a lot of respect for British cuisine, but the "cheese and onion roll" is really pushing it
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