Tyson complains about meat shortages. Left: continuation of front page article detailing how major food manufacturers, including Tyson Foods, failed to protect plant workers. Right: full-page Tyson ad discussing its commitment to worker safety.
Author: Gregor J. Rothfuss
Relief Checks Are Terrible
the financial infrastructure in the us is complete garbage. here’s how to fix it:
- Task the IRS with creating a permanent database of payment details
- implement nationwide real-time retail-payments
- Provide free accounts to people who need them
Parole hell
what an awful parole app looks like: bad geofences, alerts every 30 min throughout the night, etc.
Revenge Of The Negabarrels
So in an oil market that sputters at $60 a barrel, faints at $40, and vanishes at $20, what do negabarrels cost to produce? In 2004, Winning the Oil Endgame detailed how negabarrels costing $17 in today’s $ could save half of US oil. In 2011, our Reinventing Fire synthesis updated how saving all US oil by 2050, with far greater mobility, could cost $20 per barrel saved in US transport or $14 just in autos. Today’s efficient autos can save a barrel for less than $7. That will fall below 0 in a few more years as superior electric cars match or beat gasoline cars on sticker price alone.
Tesla Mega Casting
this is a tiny example how tesla is 10 years ahead of other car manufacturers, and they’re only getting started. future models will be far more streamlined, with fewer opportunities for problems to crop up.
Quarantine Jargon
Go for the low-hanging fruit, whenever it’s available again—it’s been out of stock for weeks.
Recognize art
If Everyone – Including The Women – Looks Like Putin, Then It’s Van Eyck
Ban parties not business
It looks like the biggest transmission danger is large droplets exchanged by people talking loudly in large gatherings, in closed quarters, and where many different people interact. Yes, it may be transmitted in other ways, but this is the fat tail, and start with the fat tail. The even greater news: practically no GDP is lost if you ban the super spreading activities on his list.
When Tailwinds Vanish
there’s no more users or minutes in the day, so tech will have to pivot to lower growth, lower margin industries.
Digital WPA
Instead of paying people to dig and then fill ditches we could pay people to help train machine-learning apps, enter data, subtitle videos. take surveys, maybe even fold proteins to disrupt viruses. Another high-potential area is document digitization
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