Favorites April 4th 2024
This is the start of a great thread. No other city followed LA, and it's super dangerous to land a helicopter on a burning building anyway. The one time a helipad was ever used for this, the building was on fire because it didn't have sprinklers. But this is also an allegory, for dual staircase requirements, which also don't really increase fire safety.
If private companies can spend billions developing weight loss drugs, the federal government should be willing to spend billions to get more and better vaccines.
In the 90s, monetary policy and the national debt were widely understood to be related to interest rates, is it so much to ask that people also know about monetary policy?
Longer Reads
• Article with some details about the ongoing standoff on the India/China border (src)(cached)
Flotsam and Jetsam
– Jamie Dimon continues to practice message discipline, trying to get Trump elected. (src)(cached)
– Indications are that rebuilding the bridge in Baltimore will take years, but a ton of that is going to be spent trying to make decisions about what to do. But maybe it can all be done faster. (src)(cached)
– I knew that it cost a lot to develop Ozempic, I did not realize it was 2 billion dollars per year. (src)(cached)
– If you're looking for evidence that China is an adversary nation, they continue to attempt to hack and compromise our infrastructure. (src)(cached)
– I didn't quite realize how harsh the Civilian Conservation Corps was. Military discipline, men only, wages garnished... everyone would hate it if it were proposed today. (src)(cached)
– We should get neighborhood coffeeshops legalized statewide, a bill like this got through one side of the Washington legislature unanimously before NIMBYs heard about it and got it blocked. (src)(cached)
– Some lawmakers considering modifying Tiktok bill to further regulate unrelated social media companies. That's dumb, and it'll make the bill unconstitutional. (src)(cached)
– Good news, now that the CHIPS act money was released to TSMC, suddenly their project is ahead of schedule. They complained until they got what they wanted. (src)(cached)