Favorites January 17th 2024
This is from a thread of excerpts from a Financial Times article, the graph here is for the UK, but the one for the US is almost as bad. Both countries should be trying to build more homes.
From the article, they found that this new class of antibiotic only worked on this single pathogen, but that's actually a good thing: they think they know how to create equivalents that target each type of bacteria, so that taking it doesn't knock out your gut biome.
As he says in a follow up, we shouldn't stop people from living in detached homes on big lots, but there isn't really a rational basis to ban smaller homes or smaller lots.
Flotsam and Jetsam
– The Boeing issues with the 737 are definitely bad, but US commercial airline fatalities have fallen to zero despite a massive increase in the number of plane trips over the last 30 years (src)
– Effective altruists don't talk about Israel/Gaza because their whole deal is to find neglected problems and focus on them. Israel/Gaza is very well covered. (src)
– A majority of undecided voters literally don't believe that Trump is going to get nominated, that's probably good for Biden. (src)
– Interesting chart of global allegiances (src)
– Video from XKCD: What If the earth stopped turning but the atmosphere didn't (src)
– Sorta seems like the Mar-a-lago case is going nowhere because of Judge Cannon (src)
– Surprise, wind turbines don't kill very many birds, article from The Economist says oil/gas drilling kills more birds than wind turbines (src)
– The US leads the world is fewest number of surgical items left inside patients after surgery, so that's good. (src)
– A way to detect the source of Apple AirDrop files has been discovered, and the hole is being actively exploited by the CCP, which makes it harder for Apple to fix it. (src)
– This year the beginning of the design of the Boeing 737 will be closer to the Wright brothers flight than to the present day. (src)
– Amazon spends more on R&D than all of France, including both public and private spending (src)
– Folks, the UK is way to the right of the Biden administration. Even their left wing parties are getting xenophobic (src)
– Folks were wondering how a new pedestrian-friendly intersection would fare in the snow, and now we have video, it works fine, even in the snow. (src)
– Article from the Council on Foreign Relations on details of why a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be difficult (src)
– Words with the largest gender split in rate of recognition (src)
– Great community note on delaying invasions for weather (src)
– Paris is making streets in front of schools pedestrian-only (src)