Andrew McCubbin

Space Plasma Physics. 🌈

[Andrew McCubbin @acub_one]

@TMillionAdviser @talmonsmith @awealthofcs You're wrong on at least one of those, not that eggs are a particularly good indicator of inflation in general due to market shocks primarily due to culling.

[Andrew McCubbin @acub_one]

@AndrewNotDrew7 Basic life skills definitely don't make you crazy, would be a way a bigger issue if you had an unknown spare key already....

[Andrew McCubbin @acub_one]

@AlysaStuhr @AlexanderPayton @chadfelixg Philosophical or legal tragedy? I don't think any of those three things are inherently morally repugnant, especially if it's simply allowing someone else to willingly take on the burden of doing the work of the parent and providing a loving home and easing burden on the state.

[Andrew McCubbin @acub_one]

@IcedMeatba3620 @Kylestevie1 @PatrickHeizer What's considered "nearby"? Also maybe city governments should figure out how to get out of the way to make housing writ large more affordable nearby if that's your contention!

[Andrew McCubbin @acub_one]

@IcedMeatba3620 @PatrickHeizer That's not true, labor cost is disconnected from property values, just about always has been. If labor productivity goes up, housing costs should go down. The issue is government labor doesn't increase productivity in the market relative to its burden on it.

[Patrick Jaicomo @pjaicomo]

@EricBurlison You should pass a law that makes it possible to sue federal officials when they violate the Constitution.

[Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi]

Whenever people say 12 story midrises are denser than "towers in a park", I agree

But then I ask them--what if you put the towers *on top of the midrises*, with the parks on the roofs of the midrises?

Then the Midrise Bros get mad & change topics

[Jonathan Gorard @getjonwithit]

Now that I'm back in Princeton following the @DARPA expMath kickoff event, I'm beginning to collect my thoughts on the future of autoformalization, AI for Math, and AI for Science more broadly. Here's where I've got to.

"On productive and unproductive frictions"

[Andrew McCubbin @acub_one]

MSRP doesn't mean anything.

[Michael Fiore - Garden Center @Michaelfiore]

I don’t know if I’m supposed to post this, because it has wholesale price information, but screw it:

This is the reality of owning a business that competes directly with big box stores.

I go to a buying show, find a product I like and want to carry in my store. My wholesale supplier tells me it will cost me $37.61 per bottle, but the MSRP $63.99.

Ok, decent markup. It’s a good product, wait let me just check something real quick. Lowe’s sells this exact same product for $5 LESS than what my wholesale distributor wants to sell it to me for!

That’s right, if I tried to price match Lowe’s I’d be LOSING $5 per every bottle sold.

I can try to squeeze my distributor and get a few bucks taken off per bottle, but even still, I have to make a markup on the products I sell or else I go out of business.

So if I do decide to carry this product and sell it for more than what Lowe’s does people will accuse me of price gouging customers. Lose lose situation.

This is why we focus so much on carrying products that big box stores do not carry, but that gets harder every single year.

I could keep going, but this is long enough already. I’ll cover more topics in the future. Rant over.

[Andrew McCubbin @acub_one]

@maxdubler Maybe the sad thing is that they are all quite boring too!

[Andrew McCubbin @acub_one]

How much generation capacity has the council approved and promoted? Any?

[Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle]

I've been hearing lots of complaints about high Pepco bills recently, and D.C. councilmembers are sharing in the pain.

"I just got an $1,100 Pepco bill so I am beyond pissed with utilities right now. My house is at 68 degrees," said @CMRobertWhiteDC.

For @CMLewisGeorgeW4: $899.

[Andrew McCubbin @acub_one]

Iowa City, IA tried this, then got slapped by the state legislature.

[Jason, @jasonc_nc]

“Fishers, Indiana… last month capped rental homes at 10% of any neighborhood.”

Explain to me how this is legal.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

Insane. Cops in this Alabama town systemically slapped people with fake traffic violations & bogus charges to bankroll the government—fines & forfeitures made up *50 percent* of the town budget, totaling $487 per person. Policing for profit.

[Andrew McCubbin @acub_one]

Wild.

[Reza Chowdhury @RezaC1]

$53,932.59 per unit.

[Andrew McCubbin @acub_one]

@PatrickHeizer Most of Maryland's roads are in fact not "nice." It costs much more per lane mile in MD to improve roads than average as well. Not sure where you are getting any sense of efficiency in how MD does any of those things, as a measure in competency.
https://t.co/RQGHqF5WAd

[Andrew McCubbin @acub_one]

DC schools were closed all last week, so not sure this would matter for school safety.

[Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle]

I’ll go ahead and note that this speed camera is located within a block of three schools, and a fourth school is about four blocks away. I don’t know that speeding here should be encouraged or joked about.

[Zoomer Alcibiades @HellenicVibes]

We need Operation Paperclip for Iranian apartment architects

[Andrew McCubbin @acub_one]

@AlexanderPayton @bendreyfuss We also don't really have tea time here. Coffee is the drink of choice in the US. With our plethora of cheap drip coffee makers that were entering the market in mass production not too far off that of micros.

[Andrew McCubbin @acub_one]

@AlexanderPayton @bendreyfuss That's not really the reason why kettles aren't used much here. Yes, electric kettles in the UK are more power dense due to voltage, but the heritage and ubiquity of micros in the US is what makes them the go to, vs having an extra counter top appliance that does no better.