Monday assorted links

1. Are they clearing street food out of Bangkok? (NYT)

2. It is actually O’Sullivan’s First Law, not Conquest’s Second Law.

3. Tiny nuclear reactors.

4. Does tough grading keep women out of STEM?

5. Firefighting expenditures in the western U.S.: “The expected net present value of this subsidy can exceed 20% of a home’s value.”

6. “The effect of the Swiss tax and Warren tax on wealth inequality is miniscule, lowering the Gini coefficient by at most 0.0005 Gini points.“