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@reillybrennan The Odyssey, The Bible, and Hamlet (or other WS) would have the most leverage for understanding other (western) works so are as close as you might get to universally useful. If a person could *only* read three books the answer would change

What are three books every bookshelf needs?

@erikbryn Bike lanes & road edges simplify the autonomy problem and allow for the speeds, distances, and payload size necessary to make the economics work for the vast majority of instant delivery

Yep. My car would not be of much use without roads.

@AlbrechtChris @starsandrobots @RefractionAI Indeed and, with thousands of deliveries from snowy, bucolic Michigan to the hot and frenzied streets of Central Texas, we know it works

Open question: why did most delivery robots seem to standardize on being the size of a large toy monster truck and using sidewalks, instead of taking a cargo tricycle form factor and braving traffic (in the US) with the bicycles?

The single best policy for another American Century is to roll out the red carpet for 100 million of the most talented immigrants in the world. Talent is evenly distributed; it is one of the great own goals of all time that so much of it wants to be the US and we say no.

@DanChapmanDPT Will this experience change the way you treat it or the way you engage patients with it? If so, are there implications for the other conditions you treat but haven’t experienced?

@DanChapmanDPT What about time with me??

We see different paths to getting there but one place @RefractionAI and @nurobots are aligned is in the imperative to democratize on-demand delivery. 5 years from now we'll wonder how delivery could ever have been a luxury service, and that will be thanks to robots.

Texas spends 97% of its transpo budget on infrastructure for cars. What would this look like if the goal was to maximize movement of people and their stuff rather than cars? texasobserver.org/the-road-home

@SarahTaber_bww My cousin is in robotics and he told me that after decades researching ways to make robots more relatable and friendly looking they eventually had to accept that whatever complex animatronics they built it never beat a regular machine with some googly eyes slapped on it.

@reillybrennan Compared to Topo Chico, the rest are swill.

What is the best sparkling water brand and flavor?

New career highpoint: we (@RefractionAI) made it into @tylercowen @MargRev. Robots make streets safer, cleaner, and just plain better for everyone. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

@jcarbiv @PMoserEcon @san_muly There are few public policy questions where the benefits are so numerous and the tradeoffs so few as with immigration. On the list of ways we shoot ourselves in the foot, this is at the top.

“When President Coolidge signed the Johnson-Reed Act into law in 1924... Not only did patenting drop by 2/3... but US-born researchers became less creative as well, experiencing a 62% decline in patenting” ⁦@PMoserEcon⁩ ⁦@san_muly⁩ evonomics.com/why-immigratio…

@HawleyMO @simonschuster You stood on the Senate floor and repeated blatant lies that misled, not represent, your constituents. You disregarded one of the greatest gifts this country can give - the chance to serve - and did so in a way that disgraces you and weakens our Republic.

My statement on the woke mob at @simonschuster

Sen. @HawleyMO has violated his oath to protect our Constitution. He needs to resign, now >> hawleyresign.com #hawleyresign

Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy.

Josh Hawley has condemned me more forcefully for disagreeing with him on Section 230.

"In 2020, during what will be the 10th year of Cuomo’s governorship, it appears that a new train hall in the Farley Building will, in fact, open to the public, and Penn Station itself will undergo a face-lift....

...Spitzer’s tussle with Jim Dolan had proved that a governor of New York, no matter how determined, can’t force Madison Square Garden to move. When it comes to New York City’s most important gateway, the most powerful figure in New York state holds a fairly weak hand."

With Moynihan Hall opening tomorrow, now's a great time to return to the incredible @politico piece on the decades-long struggle to replace or renovate Penn Station: “the greatest act of civic vandalism in the city’s history.” politico.com/news/magazine/…