Favorite Rejects 2023-07-01

– JWST images of the gas giants (src cached)
– Yglesias is left of 90% of Americans. (src cached)
– NYTimes hack for how to escape student debt: Death (src cached)
– Seems plausible that AI can get better on synthetic data. (src cached)
– Structuring pandemic aid as 'loans' was very good PR. (src cached)
– The Chad web scraper (src cached)
– Affirmative action polls pretty poorly if explained clearly, probably good for Democratic party if it ends. (src cached)
– Now is the moment of greatest latent possibility. (src cached)
– CA High Speed rail is bragging about maybe finishing the paperwork in 2 years. (src cached)
– New US housing is much less accessible than new housing in Europe. (src cached)
– Turn on subtitles if you want people in your house to learn better english, especially kids. (src cached)
– Canada's federal political party system is quite well structured. (src cached)
– RFK makes a lot of money from an Anti-vax organization (src cached)
– Tokyo engineers are sometimes massively overqualified, but that's not actually a good thing, it's misallocation of talent. (src cached)
– Despite race-based admissions being disallowed for decades in California, racists still think black students at UCs are diversity admits. (src cached)
– Veil of ignorance works well to get people to be more moral (src cached)
– Supreme court is cool with cases where no one has standing, but only if it's about social issues. (src cached)