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5 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The jury unanimously recommends banning the practice of "city planning"
City planners are their own constituency

Each generation decrees that what its predecessors built was racist, and sets about planning something new...
First there was "slum clearance", later euphemized as "revitalization"

Then grids of public housing grew out of fashion, and planners discovered "mixed use" developments

Lately there's been a fetish for "organic spaces" with Old World fractal dimensionality
Maybe planners will realize that the trapezoidal blocks and cutesy alleys that they take Instagram pics of on vacation will just "happen" if they step aside

But how many guilds voluntarily disband?

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4 Jun
Pupil dilation and constriction reflect memory storage and retrieval

Is this related to the fact that we squint a little when trying to recall some fact?

I also notice that when completing a timed pattern puzzle, I let my eyes go open and wide initially. Related?
Apparently pupil size corresponds activity of the locus coeruleus, which plays some sort of regulating role in brain function

h/t @michaelbyrne for alerting me to this data
More on locus coeruleus function
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1 Jun
1\ Hospitals across the world were empty, even as the media told us they were full

Don't believe me? This thread is a compilation of data showing just how empty the hospitals were

To start with, here's the US. Empty all year
2\ Here's the New York City Presbyterian hospital system, ostensibly ground zero for the US COVID-19 outbreak:
3\ Here's German hospitals. Also empty.

h/t @ImDarrenDunn2
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27 May
1\ It is well to ridicule those who dip into the third world for a few instagram moments and come away with a "transformative" experience

So I would like to submit myself for ridicule!
2\ I flew into Dubai last month to meet, of all people, a Twitter friend

He hired a guide, and we drove into the desert for one of those curated came rides

It was amazing!
3\ And it was all the cliches you'd expect

The dry heat was a "force pressing down on you" etc. etc.

But it really was eye opening

Every. Single. Thing. in the desert lives on the knife's edge of existence
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23 May
Listening to an Amy Chua book lament that capitalism has only let a few crumbs fall to the world's poor

While literally driving by African cow herders on their smart phones
Even if it were true, which it is not, that capitalism mostly enriches the rich, Steve Jobs' table scraps did more for an entire continent than it did for itself in 10,000 years
Chua argues that ethnically homogenous China's lack of economic persecution is the exception that proves the rule of "market dominant minorities" catalyzing their own extermination

Uhhh, there was this thing called the Cultural Revolution...

She mistook a disproof for a proof
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16 May
1\ So the guy that discovered that solar doesn't work and that electric cars don't make money just discovered that $BTC is slow and expensive

Let's talk about why his proposed "fix" won't work
2\ A distributed network is only as safe as the cost to attack it, which means that miners/validators must be paid to be honest by users via transaction fees and/or seigniorage (inflation)

Crypto fans don't want inflation so let's assume Musk's dream coin will only have fees
3\ Let's also assume we want a $100B annual security budget. That's 2.5x $BTC's current security budget (but still paltry compared to the US' $700B military spend)

Musk proposes 100x more transaction throughput than $BTC, or ~10B transactions per year
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11 May
There are many types of personality, but only one type of intelligence

What would it be like to live in a world reversed: a single personality, but many intelligences?
I still see modish pieces about "fluid" vs "crystallized" intelligence. Apparently fluid intelligence is just g in disguise, and crystallized is just picked up by culture loaded tests?
Carl Friedrich Gout?
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