Favorites April 30th 2023

June 2021, San Francisco

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As Yglesias notes looking at this chart, over the last 20 years, 80 is the new 70 in terms of cognitive capabilities.

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This is a great argument for a vacancy tax, do it to simply get the issue off the table.

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According to the article they've also trained sea lions.

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Presumably before the 1970s the serial killers simply weren't caught.

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The music is really something.

Threads

• Short thread by Lawrence Summers about how industrial policy has to be applied carefully. Some of the policies we have developed in the name of resiliance have made us less resiliant. TL;DR: Baby Formula, Jones Act.