javanissen

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by javanissen 20d ago
We already know that most of the increase, even in diagnosis of level 3 autism, is due to diagnostic shifting/switching (as explained pretty well here: https://youtu.be/BdpSfrD3Nzs ). We also know there are reasonably w
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by javanissen 20d ago
This is one view. Another view is that maintaining economic interdependence between countries — aside from making both countries richer via specialization and comparative advantage — is a great way to incentivize cooperation and prevent the
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by javanissen 20d ago
It doesn’t really matter what Ricardo said in 1817: every US academic economist surveyed in 2018 by the Kent Clark Center disagreed that US aluminum and steel tariffs would increase the welfare of the American people ([0]), and this is with
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by javanissen 21d ago
Tariffs (and retaliatory tariffs) can be universally economically negative and still be rationally pursued by individual politicians. For example: if Donald Trump tariffs the country you are in charge of, you are likely willing to pay the e
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by javanissen 3mo ago
When investors buy housing they almost always rent it out, increasing the supply of rentals and decreasing rent prices relative to the alternative universe in which no new housing is built.
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by javanissen 4mo ago
> people who currently live in the place I currently live in Manhattan, have lived here for years, and I support relaxing zoning at least to the point where most Manhattan neighborhoods can ~double their building heights. YIMBYs are ever
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by javanissen 4mo ago
> these mostly vacant buildings in a city with a housing affordability problem Vacancy rates are extremely low in NYC at 1.4%. Anything below 5% indicates drastic under-supply of housing. I don’t think that vacant real estate for billion
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by javanissen 4mo ago
Relaxing the zoning requirements that unnaturally force huge swaths of the city to be under-built would fix this without sprawling housing into existing greenspace.
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by javanissen 4mo ago
> A more objective statement would be "USSAID-funded programs have plausibly contributed to averting tens of millions of deaths over two decades. PEPFAR's ~25M is the best-evidenced single component and the abrupt 2025 dismantl
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by javanissen 4mo ago
There are 3.7M existing units in NYC, and I meant it as a 54% increase in overall housing units([0]), but that's on me for not clarifying that I did not mean "apartments" specifically and intended instead to say "housing
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by javanissen 4mo ago
No, which is why there are very few vacant units in NYC: 1.4%-ish percent of total supply, whereas the rule of thumb I've heard is that around 5% is the sign of a reasonable equilibrium. (In a well-functioning real estate market there
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by javanissen 4mo ago
> Can you provide the citation for higher density in the early 20th century? It was a quick google search and the value was taken from the Gemini result, which is not great practice. Thank you for asking for citations. Unironically! Good
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by javanissen 4mo ago
> Almost by definition you cannot out build the demand for housing. Would love to see some justification for this claim, which tacitly suggests that adding, say, 2M extra apartments over baseline would have zero effect on our housing mar
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by javanissen 4mo ago
> bunk beds… $5000/month The market prices full one-bedrooms at less than this in most of Manhattan. Flophouse beds would cost a fraction of this and they would get cheaper the more of them you have. They’d also slow the growth of r
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by javanissen 4mo ago
Do you live here? I do, and I’m astounded by the number of 1- to 3-story buildings and surface parking lots (!) dotted throughout Manhattan, especially outside of the skyscraper clusters in midtown and downtown. There is an unbelievable sho
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by javanissen 4mo ago
This is your point of view. Atul Gawande’s point of view is that USAID has saved >92M lives and that its discontinuation has killed hundreds of thousands, almost all of them in the Global South, and the evidence for this claim is peer-re
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by javanissen 6mo ago
Thanks for pointing that out, here’s the archived version: https://archive.is/U12Hg
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by javanissen 6mo ago
Gift link: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/03/08/w...
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Would America be in recession without the super-rich?(economist.com)
9 points by javanissen 6mo ago|3 comments
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by javanissen 8mo ago
I think the real exhortation is to develop a multi-pronged strategy for managing depression. I didn't feel like my depressed life got durably better until I had both exercise and therapy, and there are still times where things aren&#x2
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by javanissen 8mo ago
Is the huge risk being involuntarily committed? If so, that is a risk that is very dependent on local laws. I would be much more cautious about seeking mental health care in Florida, where the Baker Act makes it very easy, than in Connectic
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by javanissen 11mo ago
I am such a fan of minimal, text-forward, straight to the point website designs like this. I feel like it makes it easier to quickly determine whether the text content is worth reading.
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by javanissen 1y ago
Sub-3% inflation [0] and 3% annualized GDP growth [1] sure doesn’t seem like stagflation to me. Not everything is sunshine and flowers but we shouldn’t throw around terms when they don’t apply. [0] https://www.bls.gov/news.r
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by javanissen 1y ago
Illegal immigrants commit fewer crimes than US citizens and therefore decrease overall crime rates: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG...
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by javanissen 1y ago
I see a few phenomena here: 1) The US was rebuilt after WW2 to be highly car-centric, with disastrous results for pedestrian safety. It is actually more dangerous for children to move in public because of this automobile centricity in >9
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by javanissen 2y ago
Because renting a room in SF costs more than $700. I understand asking $700 for this feels icky, but the only reason they can do it is because of the insane scarcity of housing in SF. If we want this to not be a competitive option, the way
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Economic Culture Wars (1996)(slate.com)
4 points by javanissen 2y ago|0 comments
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by javanissen 2y ago
I agree. My desired tone for my comment was less “CrowdStrike is evil” and more “the universe, through its indifference to you, can be very cruel and absurd”
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by javanissen 2y ago
A girl I went to school with in the American South is now a reporter in the Midwest. She was supposed to go home for a brief visit to see her family, but Delta canceled her flight due to the CrowdStrike outage. A few days later her father w
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by javanissen 2y ago
The Economist has published several critiques of ESG investing: - ESG is overbroad and contradictory, and funds that select investments solely based on emissions criteria would serve investors better [0] - ESG is ineffective because it is r

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