Favorites April 12th 2022
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These are probably the best 'popularist' YIMBY policies to push for loudly.
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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.
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This clip was just super cute, and sending kids this young on errands is apparently not that uncommon in Japan.
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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.
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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)