Favorites December 10th 2021
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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
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Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_
And since the funding is set to expire during what will probably be a Republican legislature, it won't last very long anyway.
All that zero-emission steel?
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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.
He suggests guaranteed purchase agreements, once again, individual large states could also probably move the needle on this.
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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!
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Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion
Wow, look at that.
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What does building state capacity look like? It looks like this: bentflyvbjerg.medium.com/madridss-modul…
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State capacity 🤤
![Twitter avatar for @emollick](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/emollick.jpg)
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…
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Gotta tell you, I do like the direction of that graph
![Twitter avatar for @dz](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/dz.jpg)
Keanu's laugh in response to NFTs in this @verge interview is everything I wanted for Christmas
youtube.com/watch?v=0OK80e…
This is also my feeling about NFTs