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That’s where I’m at. I wish my (hypothetical; future) kids could have the same church experience and community as I had, but I don’t know how I’d pull that without personally being a believer.

Oh dang this is a good take. I live on a city block that has no fewer than 300 people, but we have at least three options for third places depending on your criteria. If we had just one in reasonable travel distance, and people couldn’t self-select, perhaps we’d be more neighborly

When people talk about third spaces, they usually mean a place you can casually show up to at 6pm (with or without family members), take a seat, and maybe chat with some familiar faces. As someone who grew up going to church, I feel like my church was neither my parents’ third place nor my own! It was simply a place we went to on Wednesdays and Sundays to worship our God. We would hang out afterwards, but that was limited to 0.2857 of our free afternoons/evenings.

I think the article gets it right in that the collapse of American third places goes beyond just church attendance. Ideal third places are things like guild halls, bars, parks; places where you can show up and no one asks why you’re there or what you did today. The leveling and inclusive aspect is key: you need to be able to bring anyone who might otherwise need a third place, and they must be greeted as just another conversation member.

This is how high school Super Smash Brothers days were at Blaine’s house: unlocked door, say hi

I’ve got ten years until mine starts adjusting, fingers crossed!

Black-Scholes uses the heat equation, is that what you’re thinking of?

I don’t subvocalize and haven’t for many years, but when I did (and more so now), the speed-limiting factor was never the time it took to read the word, but to comprehend what’s on the page in the sense of understanding it. You can probably get away with 200+ pages per hour if you’re not reading for comprehension, but it’s hard to imagine getting anything out of a difficult text at that speed.

You could, however, functionally live on the transit system if it were free (or cheap enough, or fares unenforced), as we see in New York or Philadelphia. Granted, that’s a problem of enforcement and other social ills as much as it is one of a cheap system.

That’s astounding. Are there similar figures available for other recent huge builders (e.g. China, both road infrastructure and dams etc)

Most mortgages still get packaged and sold in the form of ABS or to Fannie and Freddie. I think you’d end up with an inability to package them unless you could convince the feds and asset managers that they can consistently survive the lifetime of the mortgage.

Tax policy also acts much more slowly for individuals. Beyond that, I don’t think this is US-specific issue. Are there any countries at the moment trying to address near-term inflation via fiscal policy?

Can you say more about not being allowed on the internet? Why and how you think it affected you?

It’s hard for me to fathom someone at age 12 in 2015 with a somewhat cosmopolitan background (playing games, using an RPi), not being allowed on the internet, period.

He was one of my favorite professors (had him for CS238/AA238)! I still remember some of his project assignments fondly. I got a SISL shirt for being in the top three of the leaderboard on one of them. Inspired me to interview at Lincoln Labs (which I did not land, probably for the best :P)