Favorites June 2nd 2024
Yes, as I understand it, he literally means: "Mine by just melting everything and sorting it out afterwards". This is an excerpt from a rather long article about all the cool stuff we can do with the ridiculous amount of clean electricity that we'll have from solar in the near future.
I'm no fabric stain expert, but I'd expect that the key is a background that varies in 'splochy' ways. I assume the lines don't do much to hide stains, but maybe I'm wrong?
Apple's profit margin is famously high, but it's still like 30%. Here's a link to the paper.
That's real cute, they definitely skate better than I do, but they have a much lower center of gravity.
Longer Reads
• In April the US added almost 4k MW of solar, wind, battery, and *nuclear* capacity. 1 MW of CO2 emitting sources. Thread has more details. (src)(cached)
• Thread summarizing the connection between avoiding unnecessary highways through SF and why SF now can't get any homes built. Here's the full article. (src)(cached)
Flotsam and Jetsam
– Some might argue that authoritarianism helped Japan/Taiwan/South Korea climb the development ladder, but it's worth noting that the vast majority of those countries' growth happened after they became democratic countries. (src)(cached)
– California Prop 13 tax subsidies go to high income households, not seniors with low fixed income. If we wanted to help seniors on fixed income, we should have done that instead. (src)(cached)
– Good to know that while there are a lot of natural disasters happening, often due to climate change, so far we've been successful at keeping actual deaths from rising significantly. (src)(cached)
– Protests vs university affordability scatterplot (src)(cached)
– Cambrige found a way to recycle concrete back into cement with an all-electric process, while simultaneously producing steel, doesn't even increase the cost of production. If you want more, they made a youtube video about it. (src)(cached)
– Argument that smartphones aren't causing mental health problems among teens: Obamacare changed how HHS screened girls for depression. (src)(cached)
– Axios is trying to redefine inflation, and it's very stupid (src)(cached)
– There may never have been a decline in US interstate migration rates, it was a statistical mirage. (src)(cached)
– Hausfather argues that atmospheric aerosol injection people are overstating it's effectiveness. But of course his explanation of it's limits only serves to highlight that it really would make a great stopgap measure. (src)(cached)
– That income dip amongst millenials from ages 20 to 25 probably permanently shifted folks' worldviews. (src)(cached)
– Apparently the Sky voice that sounds like Scarlett Johansson has actually been around since September of 2023. It was adding emotion to it that made it problematic. (src)(cached)
– Great article about recently popular "rapid regional rail", essentially suburban high speed rail. Well suited for the US. (src)(cached)
– Polling makes it pretty clear that the UK will eventually rejoin the EU. (src)(cached)
– Short thread discussing strategies for figuring out which US ports to improve. (It's the ones that are at capacity and geographically strategic) (src)(cached)
– Institute for progress went through all the NEPA reform proposals and made a cheat-sheet for what each one addresses. By this measure, "Set a time limit on injunctive relief" is the only option that checks all the boxes. (src)(cached)
– Advances in durable remission of asthma in mice, encouraging results in Alzheimer pill. (src)
– When you bring kids from 5 school days per week down to 4, they get less numerate and less literate. Surprise! (src)(cached)
– An unasked for, in-depth critique of the State Farm iPhone app. (src)