Favorites August 31st 2023

Google Bayview, September 2022

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The scale on the X axis is such a short period! Chinese imports have fallen so fast! Also, I'm sorta surprised both Mexico and Canada are so low, given NAFTA.

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Impressive and haunting typographic design. Somehow I had not heard about this shooting till now.

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Know your fictional settings

Longer Reads

• Thread explaining how Direct Laser Deposition works. TL;DR 3D printing using metal powder and lasers, can be used to repair expensive / complex structures. (src)
• Really great analysis of the details of every fully driverless accident so far. (src)
• Analysis of a detailed breakdown of 2022 election in Pennsylvania. TL;DR: persuasion worked, and Republicans chose really bad candidates. (src)

Flotsam and Jetsam

– Drone racing is surprisingly similar to modern drone warfare. "The Last Starfighter is real in the age of drones." (src)
– Yet more evidence that filtering works, affluent people move into new homes making space in cheaper homes for slightly less rich people, and on and on. (src)

– Taiwanese citizens have recently been banned from the UN building in NYC. (src)
– California ballot measure banning AHF from any further ballot measures (src)
– Sorta looks like the automakers and fossil fuel industry are getting into a PR war (src)
– Putin asking North Korea for weapons. (src)

– Drone plane that carries military quadcopters (src)
– Higher minimum wages reduce college enrollment at the margin. Surprisingly this is good because the marginal student is least likely to graduate. (src)
– China's new official map angered India, Malaysia, The Philippines, and Indonesia (src)
– UK Parliament gets closer to describing Taiwan as a country (src)
– Americans worked fewer hours per year than the French till about 1975. (src)
– US has fewer cancer deaths per capita than other OECD countries. It's because we screen so much. (src)
– There were only 1280 breeding pairs of humans 800,000 years ago. (src)
– Single Stair design in France, gorgeous (src)

– Use value vs Exchange value, the implications for retail theft, and the counterargument from Fat Tony on The Simpsons (src)
– Novo Nordisk is now Europe's second largest public company by market cap (src)

– X (Formerly Twitter) has fallen quite a bit on the download rankings. (src)
– Good news: newly discovered covid mutation looks like it may be less dangerous (src)