May 9th 2024
Yikes, I did not realize how poorly Ireland was doing on this metric. And as much as you hear about Auckland succeeding, it appears the country is not doing great overall.
Not even clear what joke or comment to make about this except, try to avoid eating undercooked meat, wash any wild-picked fruit thoroughly.
Wikipedia:“The Osborne effect is a social phenomenon of customers canceling or deferring orders for the current, soon-to-be-obsolete product as an unexpected drawback of a company's announcing a future product prematurely. It is an example of cannibalization.”
It's absolutely crazy to announce that you're going to announce a product that replaces your current product in a year. Who would buy the current product! Anyway, I guess I'll hold off ob my Switch purchase.
Flotsam and Jetsam
– US interest payments on debt are up, we're headed towards austerity (src)(cached)
– Economics papers replicate at a higher rate when they're published in journals that require you to submit code and data, but still not 100%. (src)(cached)
– Apple sales expectations for the Vision Pro remain at ~400k for 2024, neither up nor down from initial estimates. (src)
– Barbara Lee is quite progressive, but despite that she worked with Bush to help people worldwide with HIV/AIDS. It's good to win elections and then use that power to effect incremental positive change. (src)(cached)
– The rate of unwanted sexual advances towards minors on instagram is crazy high (src)(cached)
– College students really don't care that much about Israel/Palestine. (src)(cached)
– Due to the CHIPS act, TSMC says they're going to be building leading-edge factories in the US. (src)(cached)
– Murder was up under Trump, it's back down under Biden. I'm not convinced POTUS has that much influence over crime rates, but Trump certainly claims he did. By the way, we measure murder because it's a crime you can't downgrade. (src)(cached)
– New project where the power company provides a battery to homeowners as a way of helping smooth out demand. Better utilization than utility-scale batteries. (src)(cached)
– TikTok's claim that they're really a US company is at odds with their new claim that they're subject to Chinese law and therefore can't be divested. The app is banned in China! (src)(cached)
– The strategic petroleum reserve seems to have been successfully used to break the oil price fixing cartel (src)(cached)
– The way to change minds is by telling people facts about the status quo (src)(cached)
– Some home confinement GPS systems aren't being monitored outside business hours. How dumb is that? (src)(cached)
– Voters continue to have trouble with figuring out who was president of the US in which years. (src)(cached)
– I shared previously that batteries are taking off in California to handle peak demand, here's just one more graph that caught my eye. (src)(cached)
– AlphaFold 3 announced, seems like it can model even more stuff now? (src)(cached)
– Biden is blocking military shipments to Israel if they keep doing more offensives. Ronald Regan used a similar approach in the 80s. (src)(cached)