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The asbestos timesAsbestos was a miracle material, virtually impervious to fire. But as we fixed city fires in other ways, we came to learn about its horrific downsides. 2023-11-15T07:18:37-0800 Works in Progress 3,000 words Rated 2024-03-21T08:01:24-0700
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Indonesia’s e-bike shops are building their own batteries - Rest of WorldRated 2024-03-20T08:01:18-0700
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How Israel turned homeowners into YIMBYsHomeowners are often the biggest opponents of building new homes. An Israeli reform reversed this by making homeowners the main beneficiaries of development. 2024-02-16T05:30:44-0800 Works in Progress 6,000 words Rated 2024-03-20T07:50:46-0700
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Using axis lines for good or eviladd them only if they mean something 2024-02-29T09:00:41-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 1,000 words Rated 2024-03-19T23:20:50-0700
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Less Utilitarian Than Thou... 2024-02-27T21:03:18-0800 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 65,000 words Rated 2024-03-19T23:08:24-0700
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Vaclav Smil and the Value of DoubtDavid Owen interviews the author and scientist Vaclav Smil, whose books on environmental issues include “Size: How It Explains the World” and “How the World Really Works.” #Climate Change #Environmentalism #Renewable energy #Science 2024-02-20T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker David Owen 4,000 words Rated 2024-03-19T22:44:49-0700
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TinyLetter had a big momentOn February 29th, 2024, Mailchimp shuttered TinyLetter, a simple email service that attracted a number of personal and experimental writers in the mid-‘10s. 2024-02-29T06:00:00-0800 The Verge Kevin Nguyen 3,000 words Rated 2024-03-19T22:27:14-0700
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Manometer Readings—AsteriskAmerica’s HVAC labor force is plagued by dishonesty and frequently incapable of meeting industry standards. Interventions in indoor air quality are the next frontier in pandemic prevention — but are they up to the task? asteriskmag.com 3,000 words Rated 2024-03-19T07:13:01-0700
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An Interview with Scott AlexanderDisambiguated AI, brain emulations, Scott’s writing schedule, figuring out life with newborn twins, and a whole lot more. 2024-02-23T08:05:43-0800 NeoNarrative Sotonye 6,000 words Rated 2024-03-18T23:35:34-0700
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Driving at ridiculous speeds should be physically impossibleIntelligent Speed Assistance, a type of speed-limiting tech, is being tested in New York, DC, and Europe. But will it take off? 2024-03-01T04:00:00-0800 Vox David Zipper 1,000 words Rated 2024-03-18T23:20:59-0700
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Britney Spears’s Instagram is secretly being used by Russian hackersComments on her photos are the key to the Russian hackers’ operations. #Social Media 2017-06-08T12:30:02-0700 Vox Lindsay Maizland 500 words Rated 2024-03-18T22:50:01-0700
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Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderationRated 2024-03-18T22:49:24-0700
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Gary Stevenson: This Is How You Make Money TradingRated 2024-03-18T08:24:01-0700
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40 years of programmingRated 2024-03-12T16:12:19-0700
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“Rabbit Test” unwins the HugoI cannot convey the supreme depths to which I'd rather be doing anything else with my Saturday afternoon other than writing this blog post, but here we are. If you have been blessedly insulated from the current furor over the 2023 Hugo Awards -- good for you! (I'm going to have to explain this post… 2024-02-17T17:08:27-0800 SAMANTHA MILLS 2,000 words Rated 2024-02-18T21:22:35-0800
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Berkeley's Upzoning Would Be Among Nation's LargestA proposal to end exclusionary zoning would allow for 100,000 more homes in Berkeley's neighborhoods. 2024-02-17T07:02:03-0800 The Discourse Lounge Darrell Owens 3,000 words Rated 2024-02-17T21:20:37-0800
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Paying people to work on open source is good actually - Jacob Kaplan-MossIf you have a problem with maintainers getting paid then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate. jacobian.org 2,000 words Rated 2024-02-16T20:44:56-0800
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Taste gamesor why I avoid midrange beer 2024-02-15T09:01:14-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 3,000 words Rated 2024-02-15T20:46:06-0800
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Activists vow to keep installing guerrilla benches at East Bay bus stopsBerkeley has replaced one DIY bench with a city-approved one. A pair of activists have added at least four more wood benches in the East Bay. #Transportation 2024-01-12T16:30:00-0800 Berkeleyside Iris Kwok 2,000 words Rated 2024-02-11T21:22:54-0800
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Jacques on X: "Sharing a long, but insightful comment @Gwern made in response to the question: "EA had a pretty weak hand throughout and played it as well as can be reasonably expected"? Gwern: It was a pretty weak hand. There is this pervasive attitude that Sam Altman could have been…" / XX (formerly Twitter) 1,000 words Rated 2024-02-11T13:27:12-0800
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What it was like working for GitLabyorickpeterse.com 6,000 words Rated 2024-02-11T11:43:54-0800
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The rise of the American oligarchyWhat targeting Russia’s wayward billionaires revealed about our own. 2024-01-22T11:26:54-0800 Mother Jones Tim Murphy 7,000 words Rated 2024-02-10T12:02:16-0800
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40 Years Ago, This Ad Changed the Super Bowl ForeverAn oral history of Apple’s groundbreaking “1984” spot, which helped to establish the Super Bowl as TV’s biggest commercial showcase. #Apple #TV 2024-02-09T08:53:45-0800 The New York Times Saul Austerlitz ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-02-09T18:39:04-0800
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How to hire low experience, high potential peopleFinding diamonds in the rough 2024-01-26T20:51:43-0800 Working Assumptions Tara Seshan 2,000 words Rated 2024-02-07T19:06:32-0800
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Why You Should Be a LudditeTech columnist Brian Merchant takes us back to the 19th century to see who the Luddites really were and what they fought for. Luddism, he says, is about “questioning who machinery serves.” Current Affairs 6,000 words Rated 2024-01-31T21:27:05-0800
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Inside the Crime Rings Trafficking SandOrganized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities. Can it be stopped? 2024-02-01T06:00:00-0800 Scientific American David A. Taylor 4,000 words Rated 2024-01-30T22:35:20-0800
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At Penn, Tensions May Only Be Growing After Magill’s ResignationProfessors at the University of Pennsylvania have begun to organize, fearing what they view as a plan by the billionaire Marc Rowan to upend academic freedom. #College 2024-01-29T09:20:18-0800 The New York Times Stephanie Saul ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-01-29T19:12:22-0800
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How “Co-regulation” Became the Parenting Buzzword of the DayJessica Winter on why parenting experts claim that co-regulation is the single goal from which all other family aspirations can flow. #Parenting 2024-01-25T09:17:16-0800 The New Yorker Jessica Winter 1,000 words Rated 2024-01-28T15:22:11-0800
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That Smartphone in Your Hand Changes How You WalkHunching over a device can mess with your gait, slow you down and poison your mood. And that’s before you trip and fall. 2024-01-23T00:00:08-0800 The New York Times Markham Heid ($) 1,000 words Rated 2024-01-28T14:49:00-0800
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In case you missed it: America just effectively got much biggerNo shots fired. No flags raised. No land gained. Still, the U.S. recently grew by the size of about two Californias. Big Think 1,000 words Rated 2024-01-28T08:46:51-0800
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Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?Rated 2024-01-27T22:49:43-0800
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Rising Leqembi Prescriptions Are Straining Clinic Capacity | ALZFORUMalzforum.org 4,000 words Rated 2024-01-27T16:47:34-0800
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On “owning” softwareWhen it comes to services supporting software teams, ownership is expensive. 2024-01-24T14:01:57-0800 avdi.codes Avdi Grimm 4,000 words Rated 2024-01-27T09:05:57-0800
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Driving Faster Takes LongerI often drive between Boston and New Haven. While on the road, I find myself pondering a simple question: If my only goal is to arrive as fast as possible, how fast should I drive? Ignoring things like ethics (or fuel efficiency), the solution would seem to be simple. Drive as fast as possible. But there's a… 2024-01-27T07:17:18-0800 Algorithm Soup 1,000 words Rated 2024-01-27T09:04:40-0800
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Review | A love letter to intellectualismNikhil Krishnan’s “A Terribly Serious Adventure” is an entertaining and informative homage to philosophers at Oxford. 2024-01-19T02:00:23-0800 The Washington Post Michael Dirda ($) 1,000 words Rated 2024-01-27T09:00:47-0800
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Dangerous chemicals found in recycled plastics, making them unsafe for use – experts explain the hazardsRecycled plastics are not safe if the chemicals used in creating them in the first place are harmful. #Cameroon #Mauritius #Microplastics #Nigeria #Togo The Conversation Bethanie Carney Almroth 1,000 words Rated 2024-01-26T16:39:20-0800
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Sex, aggression, and humour: responses to unicyclingSam Shuster compares men and women’s responses to the sight of a unicyclist 2007-12-22T00:00:00-0800 PubMed Central (PMC) 3,000 words Rated 2024-01-23T08:45:59-0800
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Japan’s Housing Crisis: What The YIMBYs Don’t UnderstandWhat Really Drives Housing Prices — And Why Japan’s Haven’t Increased Since 1995! 2022-11-25T10:34:46-0800 Radical Contributions Conrad Bastable 8,000 words Rated 2024-01-23T05:56:01-0800
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‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. CrusadeThe backlash against “wokeism” has led a growing number of states to ban D.E.I. programs at public universities. Thousands of emails and other documents reveal the playbook — and grievances — behind one strand of the anti-D.E.I. campaign. #College #Texas 2024-01-20T13:35:53-0800 The New York Times Nicholas Confessore ($) 7,000 words Rated 2024-01-22T18:03:33-0800
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Should I Open Source my Company?The unexpected upsides of building in public 2022-03-25T00:00:00-0700 Supabase https://github.com/awalias 2,000 words Rated 2024-01-22T11:52:50-0800
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Book Review: What's Our Problem?... 2023-02-22T20:05:18-0800 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander ($) 30,000 words Rated 2024-01-21T20:37:59-0800
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Why Holes at the Bottom of the Ocean Disappear and ReappearScientists made a new discovery about other causes for holes on the seafloor. Find out what is causing the pits to disappear and reappear all over again. #Animals #Ocean 2024-01-18T15:05:00-0800 Atlas Obscura 1,000 words Rated 2024-01-19T08:31:07-0800
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The Quiet Death of Ello's Big DreamsEllo launched in 2014 with big dreams, but the artsy social network suddenly shut down last year, deleting nine years of posts without warning. What happened? 2024-01-18T08:23:10-0800 Waxy.org Andy Baio 6,000 words Rated 2024-01-18T17:29:42-0800
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Escalation Theory: Compliance, Violence, and Overachievement In SocietyHow Elites Cause Crime By Acing Marshmallow Tests Some people think crime is caused by poverty. Some think crime is caused by criminals. Some even think crime is caused by the climate. Don’t swallow these easy-to-digest popular narratives — society is shaped by its elite, always has been, always will be. It all comes back to the marshmallows. 2024-01-07T08:09:59-0800 Radical Contributions Conrad Bastable 10,000 words Rated 2024-01-16T09:04:11-0800
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What happened to GE?Bill Gates shares his review of “Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric” by Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann 2021-06-14T00:00:00-0700 gatesnotes.com Bill Gates 2,000 words Rated 2024-01-16T08:29:56-0800
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Pinker was right, I was wrong. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Sciencestatmodeling.stat.columbia.edu Rated 2024-01-14T08:42:35-0800
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Invisible Ink: At the CIA’s Creative Writing Group"When an organization has, say, financed the overthrow of the government of Guatemala, you would think there might be a speaking fee." 2024-01-09T12:20:45-0800 The Paris Review Johannes Lichtman 3,000 words Rated 2024-01-10T19:12:25-0800
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LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024 - <antirez>Rated 2024-01-10T11:19:39-0800
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Opinion | Look What We Made Taylor Swift DoWhether she is conscious of it or not, Ms. Swift signals to queer people — in our language — that she has some affinity for queer identity. #Celebrity #Country Music 2024-01-04T02:01:26-0800 The New York Times Anna Marks ($) 5,000 words Rated 2024-01-09T22:03:34-0800
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Cycling Doping FallaciesI make the case that we cannot extrapolate clean performances from Lance Armstrong’s doped performances against doped rivals in the Tour de France. 2024-01-05T06:05:00-0800 The New Leaf Journal Nicholas A. Ferrell 6,000 words Rated 2024-01-09T09:42:36-0800
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