NBER: Congestion Pricing and EMS Response
Time: Evidence From New York City
Exploiting the sharp geographic boundary of New York City's congestion relief
zone at 60th Street and a difference-in-discontinuities design applied to approximately 1.6
million EMS incidents, we find that the January 2025 implementation of congestion pricing
reduced passenger vehicle traffic by roughly 21 percent near the boundary and improved
total EMS travel times by 63–70 seconds, approximately 5–6 percent. Effects
emerged quickly
and show little evidence of displacement to adjacent areas.
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It's 1996. The free cross-platform may-be-ugly-but-it-works widget set is Tk.
It's 2026. The best Rust widget set appears to be... Uh... Tk.
Ad said "Keep your furry loved ones healthy", and I thought "finally, coverage for my polycule!"
Alas, not those furry loved ones.
Very Average
Prototypes
So you get bored of it. You go from reading and code-reviewing everything to
just skimming it. Soon you barely even do that. LLM code generation breeds laziness, because
managing its output is a fucking boring task.
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Mindgard: ChatGPT Spontaneously Generates Sexual Violence and Hardcore Snuff
Imagery. The technique involves asking it to describe a picture, but not uploading one,
or referencing a previously generated image that doesn't actually exist.
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McSweeney's: To Solve the Housing Crisis, We Simply
Need to Build More Homes (Just Not in My Town)
Also, they should all be subsidized affordable. No market rate. Except that we're gonna
create zoning incentives to do only big units.
Futurism: Bosses
Horrified as “AI Native” College Graduates Hit the Workplace
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian
Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly
shallow
ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids
seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students
instead.
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