Favorites July 23 2021
Hey Siri, why are Bay Area cities closing schools while property values are at all time highs?
Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv
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.
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
Anti Gerrymandering is where it's at, voter suppression is bad, but defeating it shouldn't be our primary goal
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
Especially for who want to flee Hong Kong!
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
Ideally we donate these doses faster than with the Astrazeneca we let sit in a warehouse for months.
Another article from the guy who wrote the analysis of the situation in Chad. I promise there's actual useful/interesting stuff in here.
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
That's compared to $50 to $80 per kwh, a huge improvement! Too heavy for vehicles, but perfect for grid storage.
