Tim Black

[Tim Black @BlackTieTim]

Spending NYE with the wife, some great food and oh yeah, Snoopy snoop snoop #SnoopNYE

[Tim Black @BlackTieTim]

@devonzuegel Do you think Uber still could have done better with the rollout? What if they instead raised general prices and offered an "off-peak" discount?

[Tim Black @BlackTieTim]

What a great story. Two strategies: startup & gov vs big pharma - both wildly successful. Let's continue to dream big! https://t.co/ZiNvNyEjuH

[Tim Black @BlackTieTim]

@KMRalph @trnsprtst @USDOT Maybe more cost/process research? @alon_levy's work has been eye-opening and it seems like these are solvable problems

[Tim Black @BlackTieTim]

@Gladwell Given the success Swedes have had with Vision Zero in reducing road fatalities using a passive approach, do you think you were a bit too hard on Haddon in your article "Wrong Turn"?

[Tim Black @BlackTieTim]

We've only been somewhat successful at flattening the curve, but this suggests that the benefits from those efforts are real and substantial. Drop from 25% to 7% mortality among seriously ill (after controlling for demographics) https://t.co/0fPFNm3zk1 https://t.co/0fPFNm3zk1

[Tim Black @BlackTieTim]

@IDoTheThinking Why not bike lanes as well? Fwys have so much real estate, I think you could have enough to make barrier-w/-tree separated lanes. It would be fun to fly through a city like that, and what views!

[Tim Black @BlackTieTim]

@mouthofmorrison Those are good

[Tim Black @BlackTieTim]

@wgeary It would also help reduce negative externalities wrt safety https://t.co/KJHFocTHr2

[Tim Black @BlackTieTim]

@ShaneDPhillips Not too long ago Villaragosa DID get around 380k trees planted in the city - short of his 1M goal, but still quite a bit of progress

[Tim Black @BlackTieTim]

@TimHarter1 @bikinginla @BreezeBikeShare @lyft Are Bird & Lyft devices not allowed to be sponsored?

[Tim Black @BlackTieTim]

@mattyglesias @mattyglesias does one have a stronger case for statehood than the other? Perhaps it seems a bit odd when they are both lumped together in advocacy

[Tim Black @BlackTieTim]

@mattyglesias I'd love to learn more about improving local gov efficacy. As frmr bureaucrat, it was a bit of a bummer in the @tylercowen interview hearing you were resigned to the usa always having slightly crappy public service w/out ideas for improvement

[Tim Black @BlackTieTim]

@mattyglesias Bias / Variance Trade-off in Modelling

[Tim Black @BlackTieTim]

@mattyglesias General agglomeration benefits of new-ish knowledge-based economy not satisfying enough? Aside from covid, the past 2 decades have been great for big, diverse cities

[Tim Black @BlackTieTim]

@safrazie @CarterRubin There was a brief moment when Google maps colored private green space differently from public green spaces, but then they reverted back. Not sure why

[Tim Black @BlackTieTim]

She said yes!

[siobhan @siointerrupted]

CALL TO ACTION: I have created a small document detailing the current situation and what you can do to help. You can find it here. Your international students need you NOW! https://t.co/eyN6Bnsp3H

[Tim Black @BlackTieTim]

Her arg was not just quantity - also the type of policing. Too few highly-trained homicide detectives (solving real cases) and yet too many doing "gang-busting" and "drug enforcement"

[Scott Shane @ScottShaneNYT]

Amen. The major conclusion of Jill Leovy's Ghettoside. She argues here for the counterintuitive idea -- especially at the moment -- that poor black neighborhoods are actually neglected by law enforcement. Hence Baltimore's abysmal homicide clearance rate in 2019: 32 percent.

[Tim Black @BlackTieTim]

@aaronmdrobinson You mean this? https://t.co/Yk19Nak3ok