Favorite Rejects 2022-01-16

Alex Lee 李天明 @alex_lee

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EVs are the future of cars, but cars are not the future

urbanmountain @urbanmountainv

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“Doubling block size corresponded with a tripling of (pedestrian) fatalities” from Walkable City by Jeff Speck

zeynep tufekci @zeynep

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Here’s the childhood immunization schedule that helps ensure we are not like those families I read about in history, where losing multiple children to childhood illnesses wasn’t uncommon. Many vaccines are three dose series with occasional later boosters. This is a gift.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

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This is correct. Leaving TPP really hurt the U.S.' position in Asia. Trump was stupid to do it. Bernie or Hillary would have been stupid to do it too.

nationalinterest.orgSecuritized Competition with China Is Working Against AmericaAn overemphasis on security has produced a U.S. strategy that is increasingly incompatible with the economic basis of Sino-American competition.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

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A good way to own the Russians is to promote electrification of vehicles and building heat + renewables, geothermal, and nuclear electricity.

Adam Tooze @adam_tooze

Comparative advantage. It may be reductive to describe Russia as a petrostate, but as far as its trade account is concerned it is certainly raw materials that dominate - oil, gas and other commodities. https://t.co/cz9mPh8rBI https://t.co/Ems3D9QmiI

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

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“Wall Street speculators” have been very clear that they are counting on the zoning rules @AOC is fighting to preserve the value of their investment. https://t.co/cRo6l7AflS

Damien Goodmon @damienISgoodmon

@Curbed @AOC @DianaBudds And in the process @aoc has sided with Wall Street speculators, gentrifiers & developers, & against a massive coalition of BIPOC-led housing justice orgs who take the opposite position that blanket upzoning low-income communities can fuel displacement. https://t.co/L7iX41IGdn

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

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Invitation Homes explains that they seek out locations that they anticipate will have population and income growth that is not matched by new supply.

PoundPoundPoundHat @Popehat

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I bought a copy of the Bible and now I’m God. https://t.co/eSrI9gvhRy

Spice DAO (🏜,🏜) @TheSpiceDAO

We won the auction for €2.66M. Now our mission is to: 1. Make the book public (to the extent permitted by law) 2. Produce an original animated limited series inspired by the book and sell it to a streaming service 3. Support derivative projects from the community https://t.co/g4QnF6YZBp

Gary Brannan @garybrannan

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I have genuinely spent 10 minutes starting at this but, no, it really DOES appear to be true that a bunch of cryptobros just spent €2.6 MILLION - 100x the asking price - for a book at auction in the mistaken belief that they would therefore own the copyright in it. https://t.co/2HmaGWHKWF

Spice DAO (🏜,🏜) @TheSpiceDAO

We won the auction for €2.66M. Now our mission is to: 1. Make the book public (to the extent permitted by law) 2. Produce an original animated limited series inspired by the book and sell it to a streaming service 3. Support derivative projects from the community https://t.co/g4QnF6YZBp