Favorites April 12th 2022
These are probably the best 'popularist' YIMBY policies to push for loudly.
I had never seen rooftop solar broken out from utility-scale solar like this before. Here's the full analysis. I found this whole thread while reading a separate argument about whether it matters if a new energy system is 'more democratic'.
Yikes, this is uh... not what I would have expected. Here's the full paper.
A ton of people have been playing with OpenAI's GPT-3 today, Randall Munroe was having a lot of fun. He also used it for conversations with Obama, Emily Dickinson, Joan of Arc, and of course, Ba’al the Soul-Eater.
The federal reserve should definitely be raising the interest rate a lot faster.
This clip was just super cute, and sending kids this young on errands is apparently not that uncommon in Japan.
Pre pandemic, Pfizer was making 200M vaccine doses per year, in 2021 they made 3 billion, on a completely new platform. It wasn't just science, it was logistics as well. In the US we don't notice our triumphs, too often we dwell on our failures.
The Spinlaunch concept is absolutely wild, here's a video of the tests. A bit of a bummer that it puts so many limits on payload (Can't be big or fragile)
