1/Buildings in San Francisco that look like sand-colored rectangles: A thread
2/Let's start with Market Center, a tower complex that looks like it was designed by a 6-year-old boy learning to use the rectangle tool in Microsoft Paint:
3/Or 525 Market Street, which looks like the same kid's drawing, but several minutes later
4/Spear Tower shook up the format by...increasing the size of the windows slightly!
Gotta give em credit.
5/The Pacific Gas and Electric Building got really creative by...adding some slightly taller windows on the very top floor!
6/...But, their trick was quickly copied by the shameless imitators over at 650 California Street.
7/Please give credit to the purists at 123 Mission Street, who stubbornly went with the classic, simple, beautiful "sand-colored rectangle with small windows" look.
True beauty never goes out of style.
8/The good people at 100 Van Ness Avenue took this classic style and asked "How can we make it look just a little more like a prison?"
9/While the visionaries who designed 50 California Street asked: Why have little rectangles dotting the side of our sand-colored rectangle, when we can just have lines?
10/100 Pine Center and 45 Fremont Street both decided to mix things up by grouping the windows into small rows of 3 or 4.
11/Four Embarcadero Center looks like a sand-colored rectangle that was slashed by a bunch of monofilament wires, just before it falls apart into six much thinner sand-colored rectangles:
12/This building is called "The Paramount", but I really don't see how it's better than the other sand-colored rectangles SF has to offer.
13/The Providian Financial Building: NOT QUITE A RECTANGLE, HAHA FOOOLED YOOOOU
14/The Russ Building: Sand-Colored Rectangles, but Make It Gothic
15/McKesson Plaza: More of a dirt-colored rectangle, really
16/One Sansome Street: More of an off-white rectangle, really
17/Embarcadero West: Several sand-colored rectangles stuck together
18/595 Market Street: A sand-colored...hexagon? Octagon?
19/Three Embarcadero Center: You can't even see it among all the sand-colored rectangles
20/Anyway, as you gaze upon this forest of sand-colored rectangles, remember that the main building that people complain about in San Francisco is...
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Salesforce Tower.
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1/This thread argues that prizes like the Econ Nobel should be given based on the importance of the questions people *ask*, not on how sure we are that they got good *answers*.
2/We used to award Nobel Prizes to people for thinking long and hard about big issues. For example, Friedrich Hayek, who thought a lot about the causes of economic fluctuations and the political effects of the welfare state, won the prize in 1974.
1/People sometimes ask me how I form my ideas about the world! Well, folks, there are basically two ingredients: Song lyrics, and data.
Just read a bunch of papers and articles and stuff, and try to relate it to song lyrics.
2/Let's go through an example: How the song "Kyoto", by Phoebe Bridgers, illustrates some of the problems with the American development model (infrastructure, education, and health).
3/We start the song in Japan, where the narrator (presumably, Phoebe herself) is utterly uninterested in the country or its culture, but finds bullet trains, pay phones (!!), and chain convenience stores pretty convenient.
I feel like to effectively run as a strongman, you actually have to...be strong?
Trump ran face-first into COVID, failed to protect the nation from a pandemic, failed to get the military to be his enforcers, and presided under an unprecedented decline in American power.
For example: The coefficient of relative risk aversion. If people don't have CRRA preferences, this isn't a structural parameter; it changes when risk changes. So if preferences aren't CRRA and you decide rho=2, you're going to run into problems...
Of course, the example everyone is thinking about is TFP. A certain Nobel-winning business cycle model (which shall remain nameless) famously assumed that the TFP residual is exogenous and follows an AR(1) process. That turned out to be wrong in any number of ways...