Favorites April 14th 2024
It looks like iOS announcements this year at WWDC are going to be very exciting
If you're wondering, committee consultants were refered to by one commenter as 'glorified interns'. This does not seem like a good way to run a democracy. Students at California universities are desparately looking for places to live.
He wrote a very long article that I have not yet read with lots of details, but this is very exciting.
A two point gain among Republicans is probably not worth a ten point loss among Democrats.
Longer Reads
• Inclusionary zoning never really worked for it's purpose. (src)(cached)
Flotsam and Jetsam
– The UK's GDP per capita is falling, despite the fact that they're at the forefront of AI and Pharmaceuticals, "It's an advanced society immiserating itself with bad land use policy and inadequate infrastructure" (src)(cached)
– "Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists In Paris" (src)(cached)
– Ontario had a massive massive increase in non-permanent residents, and will likely soon have massive out-migration as they leave. (src)(cached)
– Guy says that no AI will ever solve his simple puzzle, and it's then solved in less than 24 hours. (src)(cached)
– An open weights model is now getting close to beating GPT-4 on certain measures. (src)(cached)
– I was not aware that Google's Gemini has now got 25% of the traffic of ChatGPT (src)(cached)
– China is a surprisingly unequal society, you'd think under communism there'd be a bit more redistribution (src)(cached)
– Cities and downtowns have more than recovered from the population loss during the Pandemic (src)(cached)
– Women's basketball is more popular in the US than it used to be. (src)(cached)
– Russian honeypot techniques don't work on French spies, their wives already assume they're cheating. (src)(cached)
– "A self-identified expert is much more likely to be legit if their subject is niche, narrow, and unprestigious." (src)(cached)
– Shipbuilders are unable to hire enough workers because McDonalds and Amazon warehouses pay more (src)(cached)
– Development restrictions in the California costal zone don't apply to things rich people want to do. (src)(cached)
– The emptier strip malls should really be redeveloped into housing (src)(cached)
– Household appliances have massively reduced the amount of household work since 1900. (src)(cached)
