Alon

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10 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read

Thirst-posting: I ran out of water last night, and the 24/7 Spätis closed overnight because of corona restrictions.

I finished a large bottle of water this morning on the way back from Aldi.

I think the restriction is only on overnight booze sales, but the Spätis just closed. I guess they don't make money on chocolate? :(

P.S. Indoor dining and boozing remain legal until 11 at night, because priorities.

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Alon

11 Oct

1. Is Nordic culture really collectivist? Some examples of how it really isn't by any common non-Nordic standards.

2. The method I'm using is to compare pairs of non-Nordic cultures, like the US and Germany, and see where the Nordics fit.

3. Exhibit 1: in the US, stores open 7 days a week; in Germany, they close on Sundays, justified on social and religious grounds.

Alon

10 Oct

Empirically? Probably nothing. Race does not correlate with crime in the US after you correct for poverty rates.

https://twitter.com/JeffRWLawyer/status/1314921215094595590

And the black-white income gap in the US is... maybe 25%? So about the same as Italy-Germany.

NCVS! The ratio depends on how you count - it's higher for multiple-offender crime. Averaged over victims, it's 2.

https://twitter.com/Iansmitchell/status/1315026239837663232

Alon

9 Oct

1. Mini-thread on excess deaths and an error in @OurWorldInData re corona. They added South Korea, which looks like this:

2. In other words, per the tracker, South Korea has 20% excess deaths for people aged 85+, and has since before the crisis started.

3. @OurWorldInData also thinks Korea had more excess deaths than Germany interwave. (Ignore the last few weeks, the data is laggy.)

Alon

19 Jun

1. Since people who follow me keep dunking on this map, please note it's a map of existing and under-construction metros as of 2003.

2. Moreover, it aims to imitate the structure of the London Underground map, not to make a generic map connecting world cities with metros.

3. If you want to dunk, note that the definitions get weird, e.g. Baghdad is included despite never having had a metro system.

Alon

11 Feb

1. I'm trying to work out financial ROIs on American high-speed lines, and boy do the lines radiating out of Chicago all suck.

2. My methodology uses advanced algorithms and techniques by people like this one (art credit: the late William O'Connor).

3. You take the populations of the 2 metro areas connected, in millions. You multiply. You raise to the 0.8th power. You divide by 4.

Alon

2 Dec 19

1. Vancouver has 344,440 jobs. Let's call it 360,000 in 100 km^2 - gerrymandering a more compact zone with more jobs should be possible.

2. In the US, I have this data at the block level thanks to OnTheMap, so gerrymandering 100 km^2 (100 = Paris) city center blobs is easy.

3. In Atlanta, we can make a 100 km^2 zone covering downtown, the CDC, and Buckhead. It has 406,000 jobs.

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