The afternoon's closing of the browser tabs:
- Markets in everything: pretending to be other people so they can have a vax pass and you can have eight shots. Some people are willing to pay $200 to have a 60x increase in their odds of real bad stuff when they catch Covid. FFS.
- The TVA is getting back into nuclear power. One of these units, the BWRX-300, looks to have a generation cost around NZD $75/MWh. That's getting into viable-in-NZ territory.
- With zero notice, Statistics New Zealand killed NZ.Stat: the interface for access HES and a few other datasets. Infoshare is thankfully still available. I'm talking with other folks about setting up an external mirror of Infoshare, in case SNZ does this kind of thing again. Crazy. Will be writing my Newsroom column next week on it. Statistics New Zealand found however many millions of dollars it took to run a roadshow across the country on whether and how they should be measuring spiritual wellbeing, but wound up five versions behind on core systems. Priorities man.
- RBNZ running inflation at 5.9% lets Labour claim generosity with a 6% minimum wage hike.
- Councils that like to plead poverty oughtn't put resource into this kind of thing.
- Superb piece by James Graham summarising the lit on rent control. I expect to point to it a lot in future.
- Shutting down immigration did not kickstart the Oz economy: Grattan institute.
- More evidence that moderate alcohol consumption is associated with higher wellbeing later in life.
- UK rules mean Reddit and Twitter will either have to block adult content in the UK entirely, or come up with an age verification setup. Couldn't they just answer some simple questions that only adults can answer instead?
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