Favorite Rejects 2023-07-31

– 'Other Bets' at Google remain unprofitable. (src)

– AIs are more accurate than most radiologists (src)

– Allowing townhomes to be built helped Houston collect more taxes (src)
– Biden administration is switching to a different lawyer for handling voting rights. (src)
– China's Gini coefficient is way worse than the US' (src)
– France has automated enforcement of parking with license plate readers on police cars (src)
– Germany deindustrializing (src)
– Germany really screwed up by not doing fiscal stimulus during the 2008 recession (src)
– Glenn Greenwald has dumb legal opinions (src)
– Introduction to AI course for teachers and students (src)
– Matt Yglesias likes Harris' book (src)
– Remaining Twitter employees are about to get their RSU cliff (src)
– Renewables are on course to surpass coal worldwide for electricity generation (src)
– Rumors of an LLM based assistant from google (src)
– Star Wars / LOTR joke combo (src)
– US Carbon emissions are really falling quite fast (src)