Tyler

Software Engineer.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

Civilian supersonic flight returns... Tuesday.

Having worked toward this moment for over a decade, this feels surreal. A few reflections 🧵?

[Keegan - Smartest Boy Urbanist™️ @keegan_tweets]

This is amazing because in between the bluster Trump has actually zero'd in exactly on all of California's problems:
*The Groups
*Local Govt Incompetence
*Rouge State Agencies
*Need for permitting reform
*Failures of Insurance Reform

[Tyler @Thrden]

something culture warriors don’t get is that companies going “woke” often corresponds to shifting business strategy (i.e. moving into new markets) . Civ is gonna sell lots of little DLCs, & people will be a lot more interested in buying england than mississippi.

[Sherman McCoy @wasphyxiation]

Shipping Civ VII without England/Britain (unless you count the Normans) is like shipping it without Rome or Egypt. England is the number two most important civilization in world history, second only to Rome. The game is incomplete without them

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

My episode with Naval War College historian Sarah Paine on Japan has been age-restricted on @YouTube . No appeal. This seems like a mistake to me.

It’s fine to want to safeguard young people, but kamikaze pilots aren’t a practical inspiration for any of my audience (you’d hope).

US high schools already trust students to learn about kamikazes and seppuku (see reply)

History contains some bad things! I don’t think Youtube endorses hiding this. I’m pretty committed to not censoring my guests and hope someone in the right place sees this.

[Tyler @Thrden]

@mattyglesias one of the better explanations I’ve read is that Affirmative Action was a form of reparations — unacknowledged as such given the political difficulties of a reparations program.

[Tyler @Thrden]

@dwarkesh_sp Apple also doesn’t have to deal with internal mortal competition to chair the company, or lower level positions. The lower stakes let them act in a responsive rather than reactionary manner, encouraging internal innovation rather than murdering its progenitors.

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

Curtis Yarvin is mistaken when he says that Apple can produce iPhones because it's a monarchy. There are millions of firms ("monarchies") in the world that can't produce anything nearly as impressive as iPhones, from the laundromat down the street to Boeing.

Apple is the result of a decades long evolutionary process facilitated by the market which uplifts the very best culture, talent, processes, and ideas in the entire world. And the moment Apple slips, it'll get replaced (the average lifespan of a Fortune 500 is 15 years).

Governments just don't work this way. Xi Jinping isn't competing again a million counterfactual Chinese leaders who didn't do Zero-COVID, avoided deflation, didn't kill the tech industry, and were awake to AGI. He can fuck up as much as he wants.

If a monarch happens to be competent, like Lee Kuan Yew, it's merely by chance, not due to some intrinsic selection mechanism of monarchy that we can replicate. You are just as likely to get brutal dictators like Mao and Stalin by chance - this is not a reasonable gamble to take with the lives of hundreds of millions of citizens.

Apple is indeed a wonderfully competent organization - if we want more of the world to be run competently, we should delegate more functions to the market, which is constantly and ruthlessly sizing down incompetence.

To be clear, ton of incompetent businesses exist, but they loose access to capital, talent, and power rapidly, which is reallocated to those who can deliver. They don't drag down the fortunes of entire countries and kill millions of people, which has happened again and again in authoritarian systems.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

The formula for a new Golden Age:
- Zoning Reform
- Permitting Reform
- NEPA Reform
- Nuclear Reform
- Parking Reform
- Abolish Jones Act
- Legalize Kei Trucks

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

TikTok is a test of whether America is still a country, or just a country-shaped playground for totalitarian powers.

[Tyler @Thrden]

@Noahpinion Honestly, it’s a disturbing trend of greater executive power. Our legislative bodies have abdicated their legal responsibilities in favor of playing the culture war (likely because NIMBY-ism is making it impossible to effectively build).

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

one last act of cowardice for the road for ol’ Joe Biden

[Tyler @Thrden]

@Noahpinion If only we had the political willpower to actually enforce the ban.

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

the senior software engineer whem junior asks about security and vulnerabilities in the code

[Tyler @Thrden]

Canadian economy is basically rentier. urban land use, mineral extraction, oil, lumber, etc. it’s easier Canadian elites to support policies to make them individually rich enough to be on par with American elites, but are largely sabotaging the population.

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

Think tariffs are harmful? Per @nationalbank Canada's interprovincial trade barriers are equivalent to a 21% tariff. Removing them could raise Canadian GDP per capita by 3.8%. Let's demand our leaders fix this.
https://t.co/2A7kOitJhW

[Tyler @Thrden]

@Noahpinion IMO this is predicated on good management of big cities. in the 08 cycle, “global cities” were the best part of the economy, now it (seems to be) texas & florida. People look at a political movements ability to provide material good.

[Tyler @Thrden]

inability to map basic conceptual models to their real world application is why people think math isn’t real. tbh i’m not sure this is teachable.

[madeofmistake @madeofmistak3]

@politicalmath i've never used negative numbers outside of class

[Tyler @Thrden]

it’s housing. or rather, the inability for the most ardent liberals to identify the ways in which the city governments have helped them in material ways. people like helping special interest groups (immigrants, homeless, etc.), but not if the core priorities are ignored

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Agreed. Conservatism in general is a lot more popular than Trump specifically. Democrats who would never dream of supporting Trump are becoming more conservative with respect to urban issues and cultural issues.

[Tyler @Thrden]

i hate that he’s right

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Manhattan used to be full of working-class families, and too many have had to move out as housing prices went up.

We're going to build 100,000 new homes in the next decade to reach a total of 1 MILLION homes in Manhattan.

Our vision is called “The Manhattan Plan.”

[Tyler @Thrden]

@Noahpinion it’s a secular world, it just took the right a bit longer to catch on. post-christianity is here in America. (we) Christians are unlikely to figure out how to be a politically effective minority for a long time.

[Tyler @Thrden]

@JJ_McCullough it makes more sense if you recognize that by 2024 center-left parties like the democrats or liberals are the “conservatives” in the sense that they maintain the status quo, with minor “woke” movements leftward.