Tweets for the Week of 2021-06-27 to 2021-07-03

@cityatlas My understanding was that their plumbing was more municipal, rather than building level. That you'd have… https://t.co/qGldmRGtIf in reply to cityatlas 20:31:37, 2021-07-03
@MarketUrbanism @holz_bau Or so we thought! in reply to MarketUrbanism 20:29:46, 2021-07-03
@MarketUrbanism @holz_bau But then we do often put shades on the *inside* of the windows in the US where they do ve… https://t.co/V7Kg0fIhZ5 in reply to MarketUrbanism 20:17:58, 2021-07-03
This part also didn't pan out so well:
"If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, compete… https://t.co/pd3wIh379z in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:11:09, 2021-07-03
@yvryimby When The Revolution Comes, Comrade. in reply to yvryimby 20:09:11, 2021-07-03
We want to ignore inconvenient science collectively. At the same time we often look to science for things it can't… https://t.co/9Cwi5NTE2M in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:08:33, 2021-07-03
"Of which the last will easily look after itself, given the first three" Uhh…
Population will probably stabilize… https://t.co/0imSMyisyy in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:03:32, 2021-07-03
1. Stabilizing population,
2. avoiding wars & civil unrest,
3. "our willingness to entrust to science the direction… https://t.co/uLFm3jv5JL in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:59:56, 2021-07-03
In his 1930 essay "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren" Keynes thought that "the pace at which we can reac… https://t.co/Ku0B3LDJ9e in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:55:38, 2021-07-03
@yvryimby Oh for sure, low capital cost, short lifespan buildings could also be fine, esp. if they're made of low e… https://t.co/uuzIxsYoco in reply to yvryimby 19:36:14, 2021-07-03
@holz_bau My god WHY ARE EXTERNAL SHADES NOT A THING IN THE US ANYWHERE. It's so dumb. in reply to holz_bau 19:30:18, 2021-07-03
Land values can make this economically difficult, since reducing construction & maintenance costs may be only a mod… https://t.co/DuEa0Ccor1 in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:18:19, 2021-07-03
Another option would be to radically reduce the cost of constructing and maintaining high quality buildings, e.g. t… https://t.co/1vxczEfv2x in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:16:28, 2021-07-03
@cityatlas I do wonder what it would take to make "modern" buildings last 500 years, with plumbing and wiring and i… https://t.co/5rLHJDOJjZ in reply to cityatlas 19:12:36, 2021-07-03
On the other hand, many independent group-equity housing cooperatives in the US choose to defer maintenance until t… https://t.co/27Gty3koZf in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:11:01, 2021-07-03
Another option is prioritizing much longer lived, lower maintenance buildings. I'm sure we could make buildings tha… https://t.co/4fDdqNf5G5 in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:04:29, 2021-07-03
@CHThiem The humans are just struggling with the whole long-term planning thing all around it seems. in reply to CHThiem 18:57:47, 2021-07-03
If the underlying land value inflates, you can borrow against it to pay for maintenance, but when this is successfu… https://t.co/xTGtCPvk9d in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:50:19, 2021-07-03
You've got to put a couple of percent of the replacement value of a building toward maintenance *every year* on ave… https://t.co/WYMU1amqpg in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:47:06, 2021-07-03
There are wildly different ways to understand what work is, some of which were maybe more our norm for our first ~3… https://t.co/nlqkTa9m5d in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:27:03, 2021-07-03
"Work: A Deep History from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots" https://t.co/JeVywgtRHA in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:23:50, 2021-07-03
"Everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance." — Kurt Vonnegut
We don't really know if the condom… https://t.co/jrDk849Ho9 16:04:38, 2021-07-03
"Abundance doesn't come from endless production; it comes from effectively regulating what you want."
https://t.co/1dzmvyq58D 15:39:49, 2021-07-03
To what extent will people choose sides on climate, not just in terms of *consumption* but in what they dedicate th… https://t.co/AeTLgTSkS5 12:32:35, 2021-07-03
@dwallacewells Isn't there an Elinor Ostrom quote that goes something like "That which is possible in practice, is possible in theory." in reply to dwallacewells 09:50:03, 2021-07-03
@erinoverturf *cough* @ericmbudd in reply to erinoverturf 09:45:47, 2021-07-03
@chrisnelder I guess maybe they could help keep the platform from catching on fire? But man, wow. in reply to chrisnelder 15:53:42, 2021-07-02
So curious what is the role of the firefighting boats here exactly? https://t.co/rwPcBGs69w 15:49:55, 2021-07-02
@CHThiem En contra de este, por ejemplo… https://t.co/9DP4uMZVKI in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:48:24, 2021-07-02
@CHThiem Weird, nothing appears to be on fire. in reply to CHThiem 15:45:58, 2021-07-02
RT @MLopezSanMartin: 🚨 Incendio registrado en aguas del Golfo de México
A 400 metros de la plataforma Ku-Charly (dentro del Activo Integr… 15:44:52, 2021-07-02
It's like someone accidentally opened a portal connecting the elemental planes of water and fire. https://t.co/Z3uS2tQ3Sp 15:43:54, 2021-07-02
Definitely looking forward to being able to see wtf is going on with our dataframes (graphically!) deep in the guts… https://t.co/44J2VoZWkk 15:35:05, 2021-07-02
I just realized I biked through Lytton in the summer of 2016. I sat by the back door of the library after hours and… https://t.co/BWFqKvshoa 13:48:57, 2021-07-02
Working out a rental contract in a foreign language makes it easy to understand why AirBnB has been so successful. 07:36:38, 2021-07-02
@BradHuntting @ericmbudd What if I also hate the code I am *currently* writing? in reply to BradHuntting 06:16:09, 2021-07-02
It's normal to read every word of a rental contract, correct errors, ask for changes, and ensure that the written l… https://t.co/9udC2uDU2h 21:38:09, 2021-07-01
https://t.co/MJ8cZmFRvD in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:49:46, 2021-07-01
I mean I guess carbon pricing *is* important to Exxon's plan for addressing climate change which is to do absolutel… https://t.co/FXyQC4JUFW 08:39:54, 2021-07-01
Does everyone eventually come to hate the software they've written? Or is that just me? 02:41:37, 2021-07-01
RT @PCUNoregon: No one should ever die at work. We are heartbroken and outraged about the death of a farmworker due to heat-illness. Oregon… 02:33:50, 2021-07-01
If you flip a coin 24 times and get nothing but heads, how likely is it that that the coin is fair? https://t.co/6RKhE83EbT 22:54:37, 2021-06-30
It's like that kid from the Far Side, hovering over the ants with a magnifying glass. https://t.co/aT8KhKAk3i 22:38:20, 2021-06-30
@LauraLoeSeattle @Danielhep @ericmbudd https://t.co/y26Ac4RPwJ in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:41:29, 2021-06-30
@LauraLoeSeattle @Danielhep @ericmbudd Alas this is now a Mexican urbanist account. in reply to LauraLoeSeattle 15:39:40, 2021-06-30
@errolmorris Also his OpDoc on The Demon in the Freezer (aka Smallpox), still relevant: https://t.co/rht4Ka51r1 in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:49:09, 2021-06-30
@murphstahoe I just feel like it would be more informative, understandable, and accurate to say "These extreme temp… https://t.co/Ss8tC1HY8o in reply to murphstahoe 14:13:30, 2021-06-30
A great example of when normal distributions and the probabilities they imply are completely meaningless and inappr… https://t.co/goKQlGRMpH 14:05:53, 2021-06-30
It's worth revisiting this series of @errolmorris essays about interviewing Rumsfeld.
https://t.co/cXEsP85m9e https://t.co/cbojCQxOMQ 13:59:42, 2021-06-30
RT @evacide: This take is the right take. Never forget. https://t.co/ofk8coPjRL 13:48:08, 2021-06-30
@OnerousLetterLi https://t.co/3AuDSQkUKz in reply to OnerousLetterLi 13:47:28, 2021-06-30
@yuvipanda Maybe it's time to upgrade to Postgres 13. in reply to yuvipanda 13:44:55, 2021-06-30
Hey what can you say, lying works! Over and over and over and over and over again! https://t.co/bhq85Wr92q 13:43:30, 2021-06-30
@GalaxyKate "You mean Minecraft?" in reply to GalaxyKate 20:49:21, 2021-06-29
@LibSkrat IIRC control-shift-right-click will get you the standard firefox context menu including screenshots. in reply to LibSkrat 11:34:27, 2021-06-29
RT @ZaneSelvans: I love seeing everyone excited about this, and maybe I'm being dumb, but doesn't Congress have to vote on this stuff? Is t… 08:08:03, 2021-06-29
@AlexSteffen Puff, puff, give, motherfucker! in reply to AlexSteffen 21:09:38, 2021-06-28
@choldgraf @github Whut? I've searched for this and never found it before? in reply to choldgraf 21:00:05, 2021-06-28
this is not the Hot Girl Summer anybody was looking forward to. https://t.co/bpVYupLfdS 20:57:09, 2021-06-28
Got up at 6 and walked to a vaccination site just outside of town. Waited all morning in an orderly, self-organized… https://t.co/jFfaASMmua 15:42:16, 2021-06-28

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