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Raising awareness of the vital campaign issue of choosing the right colorspace in InDesign
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The McMansion jokes were good tho
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The deputy mayors, commissioners, and directors appointed by the mayor make a big difference to the day to day running of the city. Adams has done a very mixed job in picking good ones and you can 100% tell which departments are running better and worse as a result.
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I’m not saying that! I’m saying that his answer is, to me, bad, because it makes me think that he believes a mayor is just some kind of super-legislator with a higher public profile.
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yes but…a certain Michael Bloomberg comes to mind?
Running a US attorney’s office also involves some management and execution?
I’m not saying being a career legislator is disqualifying but i wish he could convey what it is that is different about the jobs!
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To pick a Zohran specific example: he wants the city to run grocery stores. I think this is pretty dumb! You know what would convince me otherwise? If he did it, and it worked really well! But this requires management and execution, skills, which he hasn’t even tried to claim to possess
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Part of Tim Cook’s job is convincing people to buy iPhones. But:
- this job is easier if iPhones are good
- making them good is also his job
Not saying that being a politician is the same as being a CEO but hopefully you get the point I’m making here!
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City of yes for housing opportunity
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Trash containerization
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Indeed, significantly less bad than I remembered it being. Apologies! Deleting
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I’m not saying the mayor doesn’t have a bully pulpit, just that it’s by far not the most important part of their job. To the extent Adams has done good things it’s by finding good commissioners and letting them cook, not by using his bully pulpit
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In his answer, the accomplishments he mentions are convincing other people to pay for and do things that he wants to make happen. To me that’s the opposite of the mayor’s job.
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Mayor as bully pulpit is only a good answer from someone who has no idea what the mayor does. You’re the boss of 300,000 employees! Surely that’s a hard and important job!
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I guess I just think that that was baked in: at least since Delta, nobody has ever had a viable plan for preventing everyone in the world from getting covid multiple times, and keeping schools closed an extra 1 or 2 or 6 or 12 months didn’t change that
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But the policy of keeping everything shut down, while coherent, was clearly extremely unpopular which is why nobody tried it.
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The whole rest of the economy was open! People were eating in restaurants and working in offices!
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I do think it’s reasonable for it to depend on how teachers were prioritized, but the thing is, lots of people with kids had to work out of the house in Feb 2021. What were their kids doing, and what made it any safer than a school?
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Oh sorry I was confused, I thought _you_ were saying later. Yes my preferred policy would have been for schools to be fully open in starting in Feb 2021 or so.
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And this is what I think is the crux: after vaccines were widely available, what is the policy objective to school closure? You can flatten the curve, sure, but hospitals weren’t being overwhelmed, and no new treatments are on the horizon. So what good is that?
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Yes, I am saying it’s good that they opened when they did! Even with Delta. Again, NYC didn’t (nor did anyone else) make serious policy efforts to actually lock down in-person economic activity, and closing schools should be the last resort not the first.
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NYC schools weren’t fully open till September 2021. The policy decision I would revisit — in my jurisdiction specifically — is the one to keep schools closed while indoor dining was open. Among other things, servers and cooks have kids too!
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Wait what? It’s absolutely possible to argue that school closure averted many deaths *in 2020* but that remote learning *in mid-late 2021* was an obviously bad tradeoff. I note that the studies you’re citing mostly mention the effect of closing schools at the very start of COVID.
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In context pretty clearly an analogy
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If this is the cope we need to make it happen, bring on the cope
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Sorry, Sam is right here, Voting Theory Knowers will tell you it is absolutely possible to vote strategically in RCV
(And indeed in all voting systems other than dictatorship and random selection)
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Well yes and no. Property taxes on single family in NYC can be quite low. And once you have unclear title it’s easy to enter into a gray area where in theory there’s positive equity in the property but you can’t sell it or borrow against it.
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This is not just a CA problem. Here in New York, vacant lots and boarded up houses usually mean title issues, mostly caused by bad estate planning.
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That is a super weird garden store tho
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MMA fans devastated
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Jesus was talking about the Pharisees in a factional context so it’s not surprising outsiders would take his critiques and apply them more strictly and broadly than he ever meant to
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Henry has been getting in trouble over his work communications for some time now, just ask Elliott Spitzer. At least he’s got a brand!
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I mean you could build a passive usb c wall wart that sent dangerous voltage down the cable when it shouldn’t, but you could also build one that caught on fire when you plugged it in.
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This is how Matt gets out his anger so his newsletter stays calm
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And that little boy that nobody liked grew up to be…Roy Cohn.
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If you figure that one out let me know lol. I’m just glad our daughter will still eat broccoli so she doesn’t get like rickets or whatever
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Also for us it turned out hunger was a major tantrum trigger for our daughter. Once we started keeping emergency Ritz crackers around, tantrum frequency was reduced a lot
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Ours went through a big tantrum phase around then. Important to remember that crying and screaming isn’t going to damage them. If you have to put them in a crib in dark room and close the door for a few minutes (with you on the other side) they’ll be ok and you can recover
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I think it was the same folks actually, they had a flyer about the museum too
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There is some toxic nimby discourse in Chinatown. A few years ago I ran into a protest of the Tombs rebuild — “why do they have to build this in Chinatown? Must be racism!” Or idk because it’s next to the court??
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PVG has to be one of the worst
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If I see a picture of a building and there are no other buildings in the background that’s a pretty good clue it’s not sustainable