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There were other graphs about this today, but this one reminded me of Factorio.
I'm not saying lawyers in government are all bad, but, there are probably some downsides.
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It's wild that environmental review laws have become one of the biggest impediments to actions needed to protect the environment. Related to the previous item?
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"The lake bed contains high levels of arsenic and as more of it becomes exposed, wind storms carry that arsenic into the lungs of nearby residents." I suspect this is not good for Salt Lake City property values.
Cool to see Munroe writing for the NYT, I suspect it's because he has a book coming out soon. Sorta annoying that the images don't have alt text with hidden jokes.
Oh no, this is me!
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See, it's ok to feel schadenfreude about the crypto crash!
Threads
• Completely wild thread about a newly discovered side-channel attack on CPUs depending on modern variable cpu clock speeds to extract information.
What's going on with our politics and/or legal profession such that the US is such an outlier for # of legislators with law backgrounds? We have nearly a 2x higher rate of lawyers than the next country in Sen's graph