Favorite Rejects 2023-07-11

– AB2097 is having an effect in Palo Alto, new projects with no parking are already getting approved. (src)
– AB423 passed because Republicans helped move it forward, thank goodness. It's now a bipartisan bill (src)
– BYD now outsells Volkwagen in China (src)

– China today looks like Japan in the 90s, but more so (src)
– Is AI following a Gartner Hype Cycle? Maybe, but ChatGPT ran an analysis and found that very few technologies do (src)

– Napoleon Bonaparte was bad, he reversed emancipation, one of only two governments in history to do that. (src)
– Personal ovens were outlawed in France because of worries about fires (src)
– Record for human powered flight set at 60km in 2019. (src)
– FTC failed to block Microsoft from acquiring Activision. (src)