Favorites December 10th 2021
Aaron 🥑🚈🚰🏀@aceckhouse
this seems very much like a case where the inability to cut any element from BBB is destructive of the deliverable quality of each element
Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_
The BBB proposal is neither universal pre-k nor universal childcare—it's effectively blue state childcare and blue state pre-k. Good for kids and families in blue states, status quo for kids and families in red states. https://t.co/YxlGW2uNiF
5:42 AM · Dec 10, 2021
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And since the funding is set to expire during what will probably be a Republican legislature, it won't last very long anyway.
Adam Tooze@adam_tooze
Investment in hydrogen production has exploded.
thedailyshot.com/2021/12/08/cou…
12:45 PM · Dec 10, 2021
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All that zero-emission steel?
Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
One of the most interesting facts in @JamesTFrith's latest battery survey is that the batteries in Chinese buses are about 1/3 the cost of those in Western buses. Makes me wonder if this would be a good place for the US federal government to play catchup.
bloomberg.com
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
5:15 PM · Dec 10, 2021
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He suggests guaranteed purchase agreements, once again, individual large states could also probably move the needle on this.
Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
I talk about income and education a lot, but one other way Hispanic Americans are catching up to (and overtaking) White Americans is in terms of low incarceration rates.
The Hispanic population is MUCH younger than the White population, but the rate of jail is now lower!
Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion
Progressives need to tell a positive story about immigrants fighting their way upward into the middle class and winning a place in the American tapestry.
Because frankly, that story is true.
https://t.co/xeFfoSj9Sr
8:19 PM · Dec 10, 2021
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Wow, look at that.
Michael Tae Sweeney@mtsw
What does building state capacity look like? It looks like this: bentflyvbjerg.medium.com/madridss-modul…
7:10 PM · Dec 10, 2021
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State capacity 🤤
Ethan Mollick@emollick
This study gives one of the most powerful illustrations of technical progress: our increasing laziness.
Throughout the world, as countries developed, the average worker went from spending 50% of their life working in 1856 to around 20% working in 1981. pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4461…
9:05 PM · Dec 10, 2021
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Gotta tell you, I do like the direction of that graph
David Zhou@dz
Keanu's laugh in response to NFTs in this @verge interview is everything I wanted for Christmas
youtube.com/watch?v=0OK80e…
9:52 PM · Dec 10, 2021
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This is also my feeling about NFTs
