The salary you need to afford the median priced home in major U.S. metros. #dataviz reddit.com/r/dataisbeauti…

Elon Musk's Boring Co completed a one-mile prototype tunnel for $10 million, far less than subway projects. latimes.com/local/lanow/la…

China's one-child policy will have a far-reaching impact on its society for years to come. Our most popular video of 2018

Elon Musk dreams of one day opening a high-speed tunnel system under L.A. to ease congestion. Here's a look at his company's first test tunnel. cnb.cx/2CnnWbf

Matt Ridley on how Gov't works to keep housing expensive: - Zoning - Mortgage Lending - Price Controls (Property Taxes?)

Many goods undergo deflation rather than inflation. The goods most subject to inflation (education, healthcare, housing) are those that receive the most federal subsidies.

Epic list of productivity resources from @sparksremarks! - buff.ly/2I7iLPA

The 100 best books of the 21st century theguardian.com/books/2019/sep…

LOCALISM The higher you go the more incompetence/reckelessness (with small exceptions). If this virus ever teaches anything, it is localism. You Your family Your town Your region/county/state Federal Gov: CDC The UN/World Health Organization (WHO)

The only two ways to coordinate human societies at scale are free markets and physical power. Any ideology rejecting free markets is just advocating for power. Socialism, communism, and fascism all converge to the same endpoint - rule by the biggest thug.

All systems insulated from feedback from free markets or natural forces eventually get corrupted.

chaotic good

This elephant was caught on camera tidying up trash: x.com/GetFactual/sta…

This is what mind control looks like.

Been chatting to my wife while twitter was down. She seems nice.

Causes of death - Reality vs. Google vs. Media. #dataviz #health reddit.com/r/dataisbeauti…

2) You do not build political systems based on wishful thinking (s.a. lets "eliminate" corruption). You build systems ROBUST to the assumption that humans are flawed, self-serving, & prone to suckerdom (let's make sure corruption/lobbying/thinkthanking don't have a big payoff). x.com/nntaleb/status…

Arnav Kapur, a student in MIT’s Media Lab, has developed a system to surf the internet with his mind. He silently Googled our questions and heard the answers through vibrations transmitted through his skull and into his inner ear.