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Texas is deploying battery storage so fast that it's almost keeping up with the other 49 states... by itself!
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Sagar Setru
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Miscellaneous hobbies abound! Opinions my own.
New York, USA เข้าร่วม Haziran 2009
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Birth of the AI book. 🤖🤝🧑🏫 tylercowen.com/marginal-revol…
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Reminder that the United States could have been the world leader in 5G technology instead of China if we had just given *one guy* a green card when he needed one.
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Announcing TERAFAB: the next step towards becoming a galactic civilization twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Pretty astonishing. In Texas, between 10:00 am and 4:00 p.m., 80-90% of electricity comes from carbon free sources. And storage is already a significant contributor in the early morning and evening
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Yes! All construction—even ‘luxury’ construction—helps housing affordability. It creates moving chains that open up opportunities for lower earners and make more affordable units available.
Yoni Appelbaum@YAppelbaum
This is shaping up as the most consistent finding in housing studies: Building lots of luxury housing can reduce rents at the top of the market—but the people it helps most are renters struggling to afford even the least desirable units
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Sagar Setru รีทวีตแล้ว
This is shaping up as the most consistent finding in housing studies: Building lots of luxury housing can reduce rents at the top of the market—but the people it helps most are renters struggling to afford even the least desirable units
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Sagar Setru รีทวีตแล้ว
I have a guest essay in @nytimes today about autonomous vehicle safety. I wrote it because I’m tired of seeing children die. Done right, we can eliminate car crashes as a leading cause of death in the United States
@Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles. I spent weeks analyzing it because the results seemed too good to be true. 91% fewer serious-injury crashes. 92% less pedestrians hit. 96% fewer injury crashes at intersections. The list goes on.
39,000 Americans died in crashes last year. More than homicide, plane crashes, and natural disasters combined. The #2 killer of children and young adults. The #1 cause of spinal cord injury. We’ve accepted this as the price of mobility.
We don’t have to.
In medicine, when a treatment shows this level of benefit, we stop the trial early. Continuing to give patients the placebo becomes unethical. When an intervention works this clearly, you change what you do.
In driving, we’re all the control group.
Cities like DC and Boston are blocking deployment. And cities are not the only forces mobilizing to slow this progress.
It’s time we stop treating this like a tech moonshot and start treating it like a public health intervention that will save lives.
Link to article below.
👀 this video of Waymo cars evading crashes with people and vehicles. I especially note the ones that require it having a 360° view.
My sincere thanks to Alex Ellerbeck and @acsifferlin for their wisdom and sure hand in editing this piece.
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Sagar Setru รีทวีตแล้ว
Human beings evolved to walk 3-6 miles/day. In dense, walkable places we get the dose of walking our body needs to thrive and dozens of low stakes, interpersonal interactions our hearts need to be happy.
Isolation in a 3-ton steel pod is bad for us in every conceivable way.
Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist@UrbanCourtyard
Why does DENSITY make people so very HAPPY? Short answer is that density satisfies the human need for social connection. Humans are social animals; we are not evolved for car commuting to community. Long answer is that happiness is the psychological reward we get from participating in the social, cultural, and economic life of a dense neighborhood. It feels really good to live in a dense neighborhood, where you know a range of people, where you run into neighbors when you go for a walk, where you see familiar faces at local businesses, church, school, and so on. In dense neighborhoods, we feel the agglomerative, creative energy of being near opportunity, culture, and work. We are embedded in multigenerational social networks that lower stress, improve health, and fight loneliness. And their physical permanence--the built environment that enables density--gives us the sense that we are part of a living urban story that existed long before us and will continue long after us.
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🔥Bitcoin’s NODE WAR is exploding.
🔸Knots jumped from 12% → 25% of nodes in weeks
🔸Core devs under fire, credibility questioned
🔸Neutrality vs. filters could define #Bitcoin’s future
Core or Knots - where do you stand?
@graminitha1 breaks it down👇
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Citi Bike #32606, the most-used bike in New York City, was ridden 8,624 times in 806 days (about two years and two months), averaging 10 rides daily. It covered over 7,000 miles.
bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
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"Why don't you read the books you already own before buying new books" why don't you eat all the food in the house before going shopping? That's what you sound like. That's how crazy you sound right now
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The uniqueness of 6,174, also known as Kaprekar's constant
x.com/i/status/18855…
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Trump blocks NIH review. I’m on a study section to review cancer grants but received this email today:
NIH has paused all communication, as directed by the new administration (e.g. cnn.com/2025/01/21/hea… ), and that apparently includes a pause for all study section meetings
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