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Environmental review is the most common way the feds delay new transit projects. Why? Litigation makes agencies risk averse, leading to never-ending review and re-review
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David Watson 🥑
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“We got sued one time so now we make every project go through all these extra hoops to prevent lawsuits from ever happening again”

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"All of the fear about AI causing mass unemployment serves to distract from the very real threat of continued job loss through dumb trade and immigration policies." Well, yes.
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I think this guy is smart, but comparing globalization to tech advancement strikes me as very wrong. In the 90s and 2000s, the argument was that job losses from globalization were all about automation. You’d hear people say “it’s not trade, it’s the robots.” This story was so x.com/lwoodhouse/sta…
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“'how did this ambitious, smart, super-online, home-schooled libertarian kid who won a scientific-A.I. prize end up illegally gutting USAID and the N.I.H.?'” The answer, of course, is that he’s ambitious, smart, super-online, home-schooled, and libertarian"
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Here's where the economy stands, with the Trump admin threatening economists who report bad news Outside of the pandemic: - the unemployment rate for college graduates over 25 is rising fast and is higher now than any year since 2014; - job growth in the past three months is the
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