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@mattyglesias Add to this that housing is all about location. How would desirable coastal housing be allocated against less desirable inland housing or urban housing against rural housing? Would people be allowed to move?

You could have a society where everyone lives in public housing but you would still “have a landlord,” it would just be some kind of public agency.

@DKThomp I have never eaten a raw, unprocessed olive. I doubt that many have!

Two things about ultra-processed food 1) It's not a scientific category. UPF refer to category 4 foods, under the NOVA classification system, which was proposed by some food researchers at the University of Sao Paulo almost 20 years ago, and it's wild that nobody has come up with anything better. Category 1 is raw stuff (olives), Category 2 is minimally processed (olive oil), Cat 3 is stuff you can easily make at home (say, basic olive oil cake), and Cat 4 is stuff made by food industry (a smoothie w/ whey protein ... or Lay's potato chips). The evidence is weak to non-existent that UPFs are universally and intrinsically bad for you. Whole bread with one preservative, or thickened greek yogurt is "ultra-processed." A lot of UPFs are just fine. 2) There is one dominant reason why UPFs are bad for you. They get you to eat more calories. That's like 90% of the problem. Foods w/ higher caloric density are over-consumed bc eaters don't feel full. It's the "holy shit I can't believe I ate all those potato chips without thinking" effect. People tend to not mindlessly over-eat raw olives. Nutrition is complicated, and there's a lot we don't know, but practically everything we know with a high degree of certainty points toward one conclusion: People in chronic caloric surplus gain weight. Eat fewer calories.

@japan_nobunaga Someone needs to bring the vegetables. For a Thanksgiving or Christmas potluck, my dish was green bean casserole. Always popular among those who will eat green food!

USA. A potluck. Everyone brings one dish. I have never been so out of my depth in my life. I was invited to a gathering. "Just bring a dish to share," they said. Simple words. I did not sleep for three days. Because I understood instantly what this was. A summit. Every guest, a lord of their own house, arriving bearing tribute. And tribute is judged. Tribute is ranked. To bring the wrong dish to the wrong table is to fall in standing before your peers, possibly forever. So I prepared. I made my finest dish. I carried it to the door with two hands and a straight back, braced for the weighing of my worth. The first lord arrived with a bowl of orange powder noodles. Macaroni and cheese. The crowd roared. He set it down at the center of the table. The CENTER. I noted this. The center is the seat of power. The second lord brought a tower of small brown meat orbs in red sauce. "Meatballs," he announced, like a man laying down a sword. They were placed beside the macaroni. A strong showing. An alliance, perhaps. I studied the table like a battlefield map. Potato salad: defensive, reliable, old money. A vegetable tray, untouched, clearly a hostage offering no one expected to win. And then a woman walked in, raised a flat box overhead, and the entire room turned and CHEERED. Pizza. She had brought pizza. Store-bought. Still in the box. I was stunned. She had not even cooked it. And yet the people rejoiced as if a king had entered. I revised my entire understanding of the hierarchy on the spot. Effort means nothing here. Only the roar of the crowd decides rank. I placed my dish down, humbly, near the napkins. A peasant's position. I accepted it. And then a man tapped my shoulder, pointed at my dish, and said the words that changed everything. "Whoa, did you make this? This is amazing. Everybody, you GOTTA try this guy's thing." The room turned. The room came. The room ATE. My dish vanished in ninety seconds. The pizza woman herself took a second helping and looked at me with respect. I had won the summit. By accident. With a dish I placed by the napkins. I understand nothing about this country. I have never been happier. I am hosting the next one. So tell me, America. Is there a system to the potluck? A secret rank? A hidden law? I have decided there is not. You just bring the thing you love, and everyone eats it, and somehow everybody wins. It is the most insane way to hold a war. I will fight in every single one.

@simonwesterlund @The_Nybbler @EuroWynner No enforced speed limit!

@The_Nybbler @EuroWynner No speed limit?

The American mind cannot comprehend the freedom of this sign

@mattyglesias Boston is great. In Montreal, they wear boots and high-water pants!

@LHSummers @DNC You have fallen for the "our party" fallacy.

I am profoundly alarmed about the future of the @DNC and the country by yesterday’s NYC anointment of a candidate who failed to disavow a "globalize the intifada" slogan and advocated Trotskyite economic policies. I fear it is evidence that our party is following the most problematic aspects of Britain's Labor Party. It didn’t work there, and it won’t work here. @Harvard and other universities' moral weakness after Oct 7 in condoning hateful, anti-Israeli, and even antisemitic, rhetoric and activity opened the Overton window in ways that contributed to yesterday’s outcome. I hope candidate @ZohranKMamdani , who showed great ability to learn and adapt during his campaign, will continue to evolve in ways that provide much needed reassurance to people committed to a free from prejudice, market economy as an American ideal. An important task for Mamdani now is to provide reassurance that his moral energy and formidable political skills can be productively directed for the City of New York at this difficult moment.

@robinhanson Sssh! Only the smart people understand this.

People are eager to be the first to get off a plane, as that saves time. But then why aren't they as eager to be the last person to get on a plane? Instead the right to get on plane first is handed out as as privilege. Why not instead make a privilege to get on plane last?

@marvinmusk Hi

@zillowgonewild The driveway/ walkway is something that only an AI could love.

What do we think

@OwenGregorian If 3D printing is flexible, why are all the houses the same?

Texas town unveils largest 3D-printed neighborhood with identical eco-friendly homes - but buyers are left shocked by prices | Daily Mail The largest 3D-printed neighborhood ever built has popped up in Texas - but the houses come with a shocking price tag. Each of the 100 single-story three-to-four-bedroom homes in the Wolf Ranch community of Georgetown, northern Austin, costs between $450,000 to $600,000. Coincidentally, the $450,000 cost is also the median price of a regular brick-and-mortar home in the Lone Star State capital, according to Redfin data. But for some, the ingenuity of the Wolf Ranch neighborhood warrants the cost. Lawrence Nourzad, a 32-year-old business development director, and his girlfriend Angela Hontas, a 29-year-old creative strategist, purchased a Wolf Ranch home earlier this summer. 'It feels like a fortress,' Nourzad said, adding that he was confident it would be resilient to most tornados. The walls also provide strong insulation from the Texas heat, the couple said, keeping the interior temperature cool even when the air conditioner wasn't on full blast. There was one other thing the 3D-printed walls seemed to protect against, however: a solid wireless internet connection. 'Obviously these are really strong, thick walls. And that's what provides a lot of value for us as homeowners and keeps this thing really well-insulated in a Texas summer, but signal doesn't transfer through these walls very well,' Nourzad said. To alleviate this issue, an official said most Wolf Ranch homeowners use mesh internet routers, which broadcast a signal from multiple units placed throughout a home, versus a traditional router that sends a signal from one device. The houses are printed using the 45-foot-wide, 4.75-ton Vulcan machine, which pipes layer by layer to build the residential homes. This summer, the robotic printer from ICON is finishing the last few of 100 3D-printed houses in Wolf Ranch. ICON began printing the walls of what it says is the world's largest 3D-printed community in November 2022. Compared to traditional construction, the company says that 3D printing homes is faster, less expensive, requires fewer workers, and minimizes construction material waste. 'It brings a lot of efficiency to the trade market,' said ICON senior project manager Conner Jenkins. 'So, where there were maybe five different crews coming in to build a wall system, we now have one crew and one robot.' Read more: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

@BrianRoemmele In other news, Intel stock is 30% off its high.

Intel Unveils Massive AI System That Mimics the Human Brain — Intel has created the largest artificial intelligence (AI) system ever built that is designed to function like the human brain. Dubbed "Hala Point," this neuromorphic computer contains over 1 billion artificial neurons and 128 billion artificial synapses spread across 1,152 specialized AI chips called Loihi 2 processors. Neuromorphic computing takes inspiration from the architecture of the brain, using interconnected artificial neurons and synapses rather than the conventional binary processors found in modern computers. Data flows through these neuron-like nodes in parallel, mimicking how the brain processes information. The key advantages of this brain-inspired approach are massive parallelism and extreme energy efficiency compared to conventional AI hardware like GPUs and CPUs. Intel claims Hala Point can perform AI workloads 50 times faster while using 100 times less energy than equivalent traditional computing systems. With a staggering 20 quadrillion operations per second of performance, Hala Point demonstrates the potential of large-scale neuromorphic computing for accelerating AI research and applications. It initially will be deployed at Sandia National Laboratories to tackle problems across device physics, computing architecture, and computer science. While still an early research prototype, systems like Hala Point could eventually enable continuous learning AI models that can dynamically incorporate new data, overcoming the massive training requirements of current approaches. Intel sees neuromorphic computing as a potential game-changer that more faithfully recreates how human cognition operates.

@Rainmaker1973 But grams are a measure of mass not weight! Is this on Earth? I need to know.

You don't need much physics to solve this. How much does the weight weigh?

@WallStreetSilv Some crazy rules in Canada.

Should This Be Allowed? 🚨

@Rainmaker1973 Sometimes a great strength is also a great flaw.

A monument to respect and discipline in Japan x.com/i/status/17490…

@nntaleb This may be a big cultural difference between your upbringing and middle class America.

When a host tells you "make youself at home", it is usually to remind you that you are only a guest, the home is not yours, and you should very carefully in obeying the house rules.

@engineers_feed A cell is almost always close to 1.5 volts. A battery having > 1.5 volts is made up of a combination of cells. This explains why battery voltage is often 1.5, 6, or 9 volts.

My whole life has been a lie

@newscientist Since taurine is found in meat, do I need a supplement or a steak?

Taurine supplements extended mice's lifespans and helped monkeys to stay healthy as they aged, however, studies are yet to be carried out in people. #Echobox=1686494640" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/237764…

@NPR Why do 10 men die in the workplace for every woman? Does this explain the gender pay gap?

Women have to work nearly 15 months to earn what a man earns in 12. And that's been true for decades. n.pr/3mU8Q6r

@newscientist Because most people are right handed, the shifter for lower gears is on the right and the control cable is on the right.

"Why are the gears and chain always on the right-hand side of bicycles?" We want your answers - the best ones will be featured in our magazine. Reply below or email lastword@newscientist.com newscientist.com/lastword/mg257…

@WhiteHouse More improper partisan propaganda from a taxpayer funded organization.

The Trump tax cuts already added $2 trillion to the deficit. Now, Congressional Republicans are pushing to make those cuts permanent – without paying for them. This would add $2.7 trillion to the deficit and give the wealthiest Americans an average tax cut of $175,000 a year.