100% of my teaching, regardless of format, is in an 8-week format. It’s fine, and more importantly, it’s what the market demands.
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100% of my teaching, regardless of format, is in an 8-week format. It’s fine, and more importantly, it’s what the market demands.
This is where Quarto is super helpful. The cost of changing compilers is almost zero.
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Feeding metadata into a file via a yml file cleans up the front matter so much. So much easier.
After messing around with Typst for a day, it is such a breath of fresh air over compiling via Tex. Whew.
The first page of a syllabus created using Quarto rendered by Latex.
The first page of a syllabus created using Quarto rendered by Typst.
Not bad (Latex, left; Typst, right. Both via Quarto).
Annndddd….it was an error from running a pre-release version of Quarto.
Fun Quarto -> Typst problem: When defining a variable based on Quarto metadata, Typst only acknowledges the first word in a string. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to fix that.
Like `#let var = “{{ < meta long-var >}}”` where long-var: “Foo foo” will only return “Foo”.
One of the bigger revelations in my public finance class is that not all property taxes are collected in the year they’re levied.
In honor of my bike ride along the BNSF tonight…
Yes, this is a sub-post/whatever. Don’t do option 1. It’s bad.
I see the new Mac and Mac-adjacent embargoes just went down.
I imagine there’s a pretty significant reverse commute from the gentrified parts of the city center (or adjacent) to the northern areas (Buckhead or further north).
That’s the N-S split in ATL. Tech and high end office jobs largely to the north; warehousing and manufacturing on the south (not pictured). Perhaps not surprisingly, it’s also largely the racial split (and has been since as long as I can remember).
Map of the North Atlanta suburbs with regional job centers circled in Red.
Based on my incredibly outdated recollection, all of these circled areas support their own mini-real estate markets and traffic patterns independent of DT commutes. Sure, people still commute in to downtown, but far more people never leave nearby these places. I’m sure there are more now.
Yeah, that’s a big thing. Downtown ATL has not been the center of gravity for employment in a very long time (it wasn’t when I was in HS 25 years ago in the north ATL suburbs). You could reframe the entity of “Edge Cities” about Atlanta.
That 0.5% of the time where you have to go under the hood to make something work is increasingly painful over time.
I’ve tested this out, and it’s great. It’s made me realize that I need to figure out a better syllabus template. The one I have looks great but isn’t super accessible (mostly because reliance on the `titling` latex package isn’t compatible with UA-1, and it’s unclear if it ever will be).
It turns out the work still needs to be done. As it has always been. See prior attempts at shrinking the federal workforce that led to rehires and a massive expansion of contract employment (You wonder how big consulting firms got so big? Partially via your tax dollars.).
There’s a lot here, but mostly it requires undoing 30ish years of contracting out large portions of the federal government, DOD mostly (largely due to the Federal Workforce Restructuring Act of 1994 that placed caps on federal FTEs). That’s no small process.
Related: There should be a lot more research on HOAs; however, there’s almost no data on them. I once tried to look up how much (nationally) HOAs collect in fees vs. municipal property taxes—a simple comparison. You can’t do it.
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The former impairs the ability to increase spending to offset tax changes (it’s basically a tax revolt). The latter increases the ability to do that. 2/2
You can increase the progressivity of a tax in 2 ways. Decrease the bottom a lot (bad: removes revenue, increases volatility) or increase the top slightly (largely good: increases revenue, particularly at a scale where tax avoidance by migration is not very effective). 1/2
Oh, I see.
You could make a very reasoned argument that small, rural places, like Moweaqua, should not have a police department, but rather the county sheriff’s office should cover the village.
Law enforcement regionalization isn’t discussed enough (barely at all).
I agree, but I am also unsure ↓ HOA fees will not ↑ property taxes. HOA spending and municipal spending are strategic substitutes. That said, bringing this kind of spending back into the public sphere is good, IMO, but there are not slack resources to do that without tax increases.
I love that Pogi went so early at Strada that the US coverage has no time where he isn’t off the front. This was expected but still. #cycling
