Kevin Burke

@derivativeburke

My twitter nickname used to be bad. It's still bad.

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  1. 13 hours ago

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  2. 15 hours ago

    One thing I like about this map is it makes it abundantly clear how silly it would be to spend $5 billion building BART from Diridon to Santa Clara. That route is already served by 3 other rail lines

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    20 hours ago

    Judging by the 45 minute drive through line up for a coffee at Starbucks, I don’t think the world is ready for the anticipated post-Covid carpocalypse.

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    May 8

    Second White House staffer to test positive for covid this week. They’d be dealing with a major outbreak if not for constant testing that isn’t available to other businesses being told it’s safe to open back up.

    NEWS: Pence flight to Iowa delayed an hour after a staffer tested positive for coronavirus, I’m told. Some aides disembarked AF2. Wheels up now for Iowa.
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  5. 21 hours ago

    There's an error in VLC 3.0.10 for Mac (the latest version) that causes the audio to stop after unpausing. Eventually the program crashes. Maybe don't upgrade if you haven't already

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    23 hours ago

    This was the week when we realized there will not be a coordinated federal response to this disaster and that the virus will continue to rage in the US through New Year’s

    SAYS MAJORITY OF STAFF TO WORK FROM HOME UNTIL 2021 - BLOOMBERG, CITING EMAIL
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    May 8

    MUST READ: This, by , on what could be the biggest single injustice in our broken criminal justice system: qualified immunity for police violence, which is effectively a one-free-bad-act pass. I'm not kidding–if you're unfamiliar, it's horrific:

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    May 8

    Who's getting hurt in this downturn? It's those on low wages. Here's data not from the BLS, but from a recent paper by Erik Hurst & colleagues.

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    Mar 19

    Currently, many cities have yuge areas of commercial zoning where office buildings and stores are OK, but housing isn’t. would allow homes in these areas if 20% of them are affordable. This covers a lot of land in Silicon Valley (see purple areas on map below) 10/

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    May 7

    Something really Sisyphean about reading a news story about a House investigative report that presents its conclusions about something that was a known and observable baseline fact about events that happened in public three months ago

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    May 7

    "Business owners" shouldn't go to "jail" for "violating" the law, because "jail" is for "criminals." This is basically all of right-wing ideology in one tweet.

    Throwing Texans in jail whose biz's shut down through no fault of their own is wrong. I am eliminating jail for violating an order, retroactive to April 2, superseding local orders. Criminals shouldn’t be released to prevent COVID-19 just to put business owners in their place.
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  12. May 7

    If you take the supply constraint as a given and more people need housing then you have, then you're going to get a lot of stories about "unfair" situations and demand to change who wins and loses. But the only long run solution are policies that increase the number of winners.

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  13. May 7

    The reason you see price gouging arguments made about the housing market is because the supply situation is so messed up. No one complains about speculation in Texas because they build like 3x as much housing per person as we do in CA, so prices are more stable.

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  14. May 7

    Price gouging rules are only really useful in the short run where there are severe supply constraints, like when a hurricane is about to hit your city. In the long run higher prices help increase supply (people repurpose factories or buy storage equipment or whatever)

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    May 7

    Do you maintain an OpenAPI spec? If so, let’s chat.

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  16. May 7

    Ah! Well, at least San Francisco didn’t just vote to tie office space production - our primary method of generating new revenue - to how many affordable homes we built.

    Along with the massive $54bn deficit, California is projecting 21% drop in new housing permits. Lawmakers are requesting billions in rental assistance, homelessness help and low-income housing dollars. The outlook for those request seems bleak at best.
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    May 7

    BTW, Trump has figured this out! By focusing on case counts, the media creates disincentives to do more testing because it makes the numbers look superficially worse. One reason (not the only one) why we're not pushing for testing as much as we should.

    A la the cruise ship >> “He essentially made the same calculation on Wednesday by saying that more testing only reveals more infections and therefore increases the numbers. ‘In a way, by doing all this testing we make ourselves look bad,’ he said.”
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  18. May 7

    Scaling test capacity to 2 million per week would not cost this much, leave aside the magnitude of losses in the private sector

    California governor projects a staggering $54.3 billion state deficit and 18% unemployment rate because of coronavirus.
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  19. May 6

    My advice to Better Cupertino would be to try spending money on activities that have a higher rate of return than having their ass handed to them in court, like a seed round for a lead paint startup, or Bernie Madoff's investment fund.

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  20. May 6

    This is incredible, I can't imagine spending so much money to be humiliated like this.

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