Favorite Rejects 2022-08-14

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

This is why focusing on billionaires as a measure of a society's inequality is stupid.

Chris Freiman @cafreiman

Egalitarian socialists sometimes point to Norway as a model, yet it has more billionaires per capita than the US https://t.co/biVV54JyZB

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

India and Pakistan should definitely try to be friends. Continuing to oppose each other will not do any good for either country.

Bloomberg Economics @economics

Once you realize that the future can be a radical break from the present, says @tylercowen, the possibilities for the India-Pakistan relationship start to look very different https://t.co/aonPiczwai

Bay area nostalgia @professorbay

it’s called NIMBY

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

People who instinctively and relentlessly look for reasons to oppose solar and wind are simply technophobes. They are afraid of change, afraid of weird scary new technologies that make their world look different. In 1910 they'd have been scared of cars.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Many people are saying there should be one billion Americans.

Science Is Strategic @scienceisstrat1

China and the US have radically different demographic destinies, argues @nfergus in @opinion. The US has problems, but could fix them through immigration. China is facing demographic doom. Cc: @NickKristof @mattyglesias @elonmusk @billmaher https://t.co/crEFium1PF https://t.co/00rkZRKnec

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This is fascinating.

dynomight.netThe big alcohol study that didn’t happen: My primal scream of rageWhy did a huge alcohol RCT get cancelled? A strange story of science, academia, bureaucratic maneuvering, ambition, politics, capitalism, the deep state, secret emails, and slippery ethical slopes.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Kind of remarkable.

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

This is why we need an Operation Warp Speed for universal coronavirus vaccines (delivered via nasal sprays):

Mike Konczal @rortybomb

Dobbs and the criminalization of reproductive choice isn’t just going to change the dynamics for women voters.

Katie Paris @katiebparis

New Fox poll shows men moved +2D since May. But Dads moved +28. May August DIFF Men +13R +11R +2D Dads +20R +8D +28D Dads, what changed? Inquiring moms want to know. 👊

Kyle Wiens @kwiens

Sick Codes has jailbroken a John Deere, and this is just the beginning. Turns out our entire food system is built on outdated, unpatched Linux and Windows CE hardware with LTE modems.

Sy Brand @TartanLlama

10 things that every software developer should know 1. If you hit the computer really hard with a hammer it can't hurt you anymore

Brent Toderian @BrentToderian

Remember this picture every single time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970's via @fietsprofessor. The cities we admire made better choices regarding cars, and are still making them today. Better choices instead of excuses.

jonny klemchuk @jonnyklemchuk

Putin dies and goes to hell. After a while, he's given a day off. So he goes to a Moscow bar, orders a drink and asks the bartender: Is Crimea ours? Yes. And the Donbas? Also ours. Kyiv? We got that too. Satisfied, he drinks and asks: Thanks. How much do I owe you? 5 euros.

Ethan Mollick @emollick

The right model for drug development might be venture capital. This paper shows that drug companies avoid pursuing novel & breakthrough drugs as the risks of failure are too high. But a $15B fund investing in a portfolio of more risky drugs could earn returns and push research.