Links and tweets, 2022-09-14

by Jason Crawford · September 14, 2022 · 1 min read

Links

• Low stone walls called “kites” are believed to have been used for hunting and may date to 8000 BC (h/t @SamoBurja)
• Health insurers just published a trillion prices (h/t Marginal Revolution). There’s a startup to be built in making this data accessible and useful

Tweets & retweets

• We are on the verge of eradicating extreme poverty, but the system that has brought this change is extremely unpopular (@JonSteinsson)
• Star Trek portrays humanity as a beautiful, optimistic, and open race that that has our brightest days ahead (@rlorenc)
• Singapore is launching a new program to recruit the world’s top scientific/technical talent (@calebwatney)
• “We ran the experiment of email being a truly open P2P protocol… That experiment failed” (@patio11)
• “I love and admire my species, living and dead” –Steve Jobs

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