Favorites July 23 2021
suldrew@suldrew
Hey Siri, why are Bay Area cities closing schools while property values are at all time highs?
Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv
In 1960, 15.9% of Cupertino's population was under 5 years old. Can you guess what that number is today? And whether that's higher or lower than the County number?
Fun with data from https://t.co/unTBvlCkFW https://t.co/bFJ1bcsLMD
9:00 PM · Jul 22, 2021
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This is what you point to when people say that we can't have more homes because we don't have space for the students.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The thing is the mechanical impact of gerrymandering is just much much larger than the impact of any of these ballot access restrictions, and you can’t “out-organize” skewed maps.
You can legislate against them.
Liz Goodwin @lizcgoodwin
“In private calls with voting rights groups and civil rights leaders, White House officials and close allies of the president have expressed confidence that it is possible to ‘out-organize voter suppression’” https://t.co/EBGD2o9wDR
12:03 PM · Jul 23, 2021
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Anti Gerrymandering is where it's at, voter suppression is bad, but defeating it shouldn't be our primary goal
Caleb Watney@calebwatney
Wow. The UK is really getting aggressive about recruiting high-skill immigrants.
Can you imagine if the US created something like this?
Sam Dumitriu @Sam_Dumitriu
If you have graduated from a top global university then you will be free to move to the UK without a job offer under the new 'High Potential Individual Visa'. https://t.co/MbSVIp389V
1:58 PM · Jul 23, 2021
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Especially for who want to flee Hong Kong!
Nate Silver@NateSilver538
180-190 million Americans have already received at least one vaccine dose and we'll easily top 200 million soon especially once vaccines are authorized for children under 12. There's a good chance we'll need boosters at some point. If not hopefully we can send these doses abroad.
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper
awesome. maybe we can dump them into the sea in some kind of danse macabre ceremony https://t.co/ExMlWxla1Y
9:19 PM · Jul 23, 2021
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Ideally we donate these doses faster than with the Astrazeneca we let sit in a warehouse for months.
Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
YES 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
imightbewrong.substack.com/p/in-defense-o…
imightbewrong.substack.com
In Defense of Dumb Nationalist Bullshit
1:11 AM · Jul 24, 2021
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Another article from the guy who wrote the analysis of the situation in Chad. I promise there's actual useful/interesting stuff in here.
Katherine Blunt@KatherineBlunt
A secretive, four-year-old startup says it has solved the big puzzle in energy: building an cheap, long-duration battery (less than $20/kwh!)
@russellgold's last WSJ story is one you want to read.
wsj.com/articles/start… via @WSJ
wsj.com
WSJ News Exclusive | Startup Claims Breakthrough in Long-Duration Batteries
11:48 AM · Jul 22, 2021
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That's compared to $50 to $80 per kwh, a huge improvement! Too heavy for vehicles, but perfect for grid storage.
