Favorites January 10th 2023
Electric cars, electric planes, and asking Calvin's dad questions
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Apparently Germany's subsidies for electric cars have reduced in 2023, but they're going to continue for at least a few more years. I guess part of the question is how much of a network effect there is in charging infrastructure build-out. (Also, how quickly will gas infrastructure actually get decomissioned)
It hallucinates facts and citations, one comparison I saw was to blog comments, not entirely useful, but also quite suspect. Our relationship with information we read from ChatGPT requires further consideration, more so than Wikipedia, but directionally similar.
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180 Miles of flight for $19 seems pretty good.
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CBO scoring is out for the Republican IRS defunding bill, surprise, net deficit of 100 billion dollars. I did not realize that Americans actually view the IRS relatively favorably. Oh, and Republicans are excited about cutting medicaid too!
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I'm concerned, like Kai Ryssdal, that a significant amount of California's extra water reserves are being stored in the crawlspace under my house.
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Sorry, that whole story about Roman Concrete the other day was blown way out of proportion. The linked Construction Physics article was excellent.
Threads
• Gov. Hochul of New York laid out a land use / housing plan. Here's a thread about it. TL;DR: transit oriented development, ambitious yearly total housing targets for municipalities, and a builder's remedy if they don't achieve them. Looks great, although text of the proposed bill is not yet out.