Favorites March 31st 2024

December 2023, The Museum of American Heritage

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Worth remembering that California is still considering how we'll accomplish electrification of all of our rail, and foolishly, hydrogen fuel cell rail is currently a frontrunner. Why! Why would you carry the fuel if you're going to use electric motors with a fixed track.

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Right out of Oryx and Crake, although I think that book intended to imply this sort of thing would be dystopian.

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One response: "Microbenchmarks save lives"

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Important to know whether you've got dirt or weird dirt

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Andor's anti-fascist message is not a first for the series.

Flotsam and Jetsam

– Recommendations for phones/social media and kids (src)(cached)
– Burlington Vermont overhauled their zoning and it's now quite permissive. (src)(cached)
– New AI technology for detecting cancer earlier. (src)(cached)
– Chinese military training site has a replica of Taiwan's presidential palace. (src)(cached)
– California now has a Fast Food minimum wage of $20/hour, but more importantly, they've also added sectoral bargaining, which has worked well in other countries for aligning long term incentives. (src)(cached)
– Rich people get mad when there are problems with people in and around homeless shelters, but of course it's a tiny proportion of people who are responsible for all the complaints. The city should be focusing on handling those cases so that neighborhoods don't turn on the entire concept of providing services to the homeless. (src)(cached)
– Russia saying they're cutting oil production to align with OPEC agreements, but they really can't afford that, what's probably happening is that Ukraine's strikes on oil refineries have been effective. (src)(cached)
– Iran attempted to have a journalist in London killed, and they nearly succeeded. (src)(cached)
– Francis Ford Coppola has a new movie, and everyone who's seen it thinks it''s very bad (src)(cached)
– I suspect that Apple didn't pay for the Siri product placement in Curb your Enthusiasm. (src)(cached)
• Article with some details about the ongoing standoff on the India/China border (src)(cached)