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Read Chip Wars [1]. The cost to stand up an advanced chip fab has reached tens of billions of dollars. It’s so capital intensive that even the US Department of Defense has exited the game.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_War:_The_Fight_for_the_...

Whenever someone cites the fact that there are millions of vacant homes across the US as evidence of either oversupply or an inequitable distribution, they're almost always misunderstanding that real estate has a "natural vacancy rate" of ~6%.

With real estate, there is inherently time in which it lays empty between tenants moving in and out or being sold. When a place like California has over a million of vacant homes, that still makes for a vacancy rate below the "natural vacancy rate"!

The other big category of vacant housing is in places that are depopulating due to lack of jobs. We could be giving decaying homes in the Rust Belt, but they'd be more of a liability to the new owner than anything else.

> Google offers quotes

Today it almost exclusively offers quotes from content marketing intended to sell you something. It's like trying to learn by reading the ads in a catalog.

The last sentence of the second paragraph literally reads, "The organization at the center of one of the industry’s most epic feuds and divorces is cloaked in secrecy ... which is, by design, the central value proposition of the entire family-office industry."

> Producing meat in the lab “will never be done with anything remotely like the economics you need for food,” Pat Brown, founder of the plant-based meat company Impossible Foods, told the Post last year.

Whether correct or not, this kind of reporting always seems silly to me. You're not interviewing an impartial expert on the subject, you're getting a quote from a direct competitor. Of course, they're going to say something along these lines. This important nuance will be lost on most readers.

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Disappointing that an article like this wouldn’t mention one of the main reasons children are given less autonomy in the US: our built environment. The vast majority of our children grow up in neighborhoods in which one can’t easily be a pedestrian at any age. Low density communities, in which almost all trips have to be taken in cars, are of course not friendly to non-drivers.

Japan builds dense, mixed use neighborhoods. As a result, children are empowered to walk to the store or a friend’s house.

Except unsurprisingly it did take the status page a few minutes to catch up to Twitter and HN.

Unfortunately, moving from ICE to EV isn't a silver bullet. Look up non-exhaust emissions (NEE). When car tires and brakes wear down, they spit out particulate matter pollution. The OECD estimates NEE will constitute the majority of road emissions by 2035 [1], and it already constitutes the majority of particulate matter emissions on the road today [2]. EVs even make the problem a bit harder to solve, by being heavier than similar sized ICE vehicles.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/environment/non-exhaust-particulate-emi...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13522...

As someone with a couple side projects kicking around, enjoy posts like this. Would you be willing to share what kind of ad revenue a tool like this can generate with 1M views per month?

StreetEasy is far and away my favorite real estate platform and it’s a shame they only serve NYC.

Or you take the view that if a city is investing in transportation infrastructure, it should focus on public transportation instead of building infrastructure for private vehicles that degrade the urban experience.

Road wear scales n^4 with vehicle weight [1]. If tire wear is anything similar, it makes an additional strong argument that we should be using fewer (mass transit) and lighter (bicycles) vehicles.

[1] https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/tswstudy/Vol3-Chapter5.pdf

Frustrating that it no longer shows the latest commit message at the top by default.

Generative Phoenix suburbs

Have you read Bertaud? His central thesis is how urban economics, as measured by data collection, must inform urban planning. Sidewalk Lab’s plans were very congruent with his ideas.

> It's not a great place to live if you want to have a comfortable middle class lifestyle. It might have been that 30+ years ago, but not anymore.

NYC had 2245 murders in 1990 and 290 murders last year. Every category of crime has fallen dramatically over that time period. NYC is less affordable today, but it's without a doubt more "comfortable" and livable for all income levels.

To say the final bill was impotent is unfair. It still removed parking requirements within 1/4 mile of transit stops and reduced it 0.5 automobiles elsewhere. It exempted projects from density maximums and some FAR maximums.

In effect, it would've converted a lot of the Bay Area's SFH into much denser condominiums.

Also the video discusses previous work starting at 4:40, so I'm confused what OP is complaining about unless the MarI/O guy re-uploaded with this attribution.

https://youtu.be/qv6UVOQ0F44?t=4m40s

Seriously. Looks like the cousin of an early 2000s Sony CD Walkman.