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1. Perhaps people do not view love as zero-sum.
2. The growing strategic significance of Greenland.
3. Changing building materials to improve carbon outcomes?
4. “The Danish West Indies—comprising the islands of St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix—were sold by Denmark to the United States in 1917. After decades of on-and-off negotiations between the two countries, the U.S. and Denmark signed the Treaty of the Danish West Indies on August 4, 1916, and the formal transfer took place on March 31, 1917. The purchase price was $25 million in gold.” (o1)
5. Brian Albrecht on fire insurance and price controls. Excellent and important thread, for instance: “Over the last 5 years, CA ranks 50th in speed of rate approvals. The avg delay is 236 days for homeowners and 226 days for auto insurance.”
6. China building solar power in space?
7. Zvi reviews the AI segments of my podcast with Dwarkesh. Note in his remarks there is a confusion between government consumption and government spending. p.s. Zvi says he is long the market and is doing well — good! I’ll just repeat my periodic observation that there is nothing — literally nothing — in either the peer-reviewed literature or in market prices — to support the doomster position.
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