These are from a quite long post with a bunch more data. Most of it seems bad, but at least a few have good elements, fewer kids drive, but also fewer die in car accidents.
Tim Lee points out that It seems like they're going to need to bring Waymo to highways as part of this, otherwise some of these distances will just be too long.
One thing I believe about bike lane barriers is "if it can't damage a car, it doesn't protect the bikes". If you're wondering how they clean the bike lanes, they have a smaller street sweeper just for bike lanes.
– Social media has driven Marc Andreessen insane (src)(cached)
– David Roberts goes on a rant, agreeing with my point yesterday about Jerusalem Demsas' article about 'cautious environmentalists': these are definitely just NIMBYs. (src)(cached)
– Sorta seems like Russia is preparing to claim ownership of Alaska? (src)(cached)
– Seems that pro-Biden tweets are getting tons of left-coded attacks, seems likely to be some sort of organized operation. (src)(cached)
– CEO is not a job that a superintelligent AI is going to be able to do much better. The day to day work just doesn't benefit. (src)(cached)
– Looks like a 20% inclusionary housing requirement in one city was enough to halt all multi family home development. So that's definitely too high! (src)(cached)
– New Blood test for Alzheimers has accuracy on par with advanced testing techniques. (src)(cached)
– Someone is experimenting with running a simulation of a million different individual agents interacting in an artificial city (src)(cached)
– Lebanese Sunni Muslim journalist describes how people started being anti semitic towards him because he opposed antisemitism. (src)(cached)
– Controversy around the 2023 Hugos, it's now come out that some authors were blocked from being nominated due to essentially Chinese censorship. Here's more coverage (src)(cached)
– Residents of Alameda are trying to use CEQA to stop In-N-Out from closing a location. Someone jokes that they're going to use CEQA to stop their wife from divorcing them. (These were both jokes, not just the divorce one) (src)(cached)
– Cervical Cancer in Scotland completely stopped by HPV vaccination (src)(cached)
– Professional Go players got way better since AlphaGo came on the scene (src)(cached)
– China's power over Taiwan is mostly it's power over all other countries (src)(cached)
– From McSweeney's: I’m Edgar Allan Poe’s landlord, and he will not be getting his security deposit back (src)
– Dorito's Vodka... the review says it's really quite impressive (src)