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Today I learned that the East side of most American cities is poorer than the West side because of the Industrial Revolution.
Factories produced pollution, and winds in the US tend to move West to East. Wealthy people, wanting to avoid pollution carried by the wind, stayed West.
I learned more about why women living in the same space have menstrual synchronization: it speaks to our physiology; humans give off particles, absorbed by those around us (interesting how this works with stress and cortisol too)- The sex steroid hormones leak out of our sweat and through our particles, other women around us frequently can absorb t... See more
In 2004, with the introduction of automated traffic lights, New York City disabled most of its 3,250 crosswalk buttons (it was cheaper than removing them), but pedestrians continue to press them, under the illusion that it changes the light so they can cross.”
I don’t know who needs to hear this but… Craigslist has being running for the last 20+ years with a team of ~50 people.
Wild stat: Finland has 3.3 million saunas for a population of 5.6 million (a sauna for every two people).
Why is life expectancy so long in Hong Kong? Life expectancy in Hong Kong is 84.23 years, more than five years longer than the US and the highest in the world. Hong Kong is not that wealthy (median household income is $38,000 USD); it’s somewhat polluted; people don’t obviously eat what seems like a healthy diet; and they don’t seem to exercise a g... See more
Tyler Cowen • Work on these things - Marginal REVOLUTION
WHOA. OnlyFans generated $5.6bn in gross payments, $1.1bn in revenue and a $525m profit in 2022.
The number of “creators” increased +47% to 3.2 million, and the number of “fans” +27% to 239 million (!).
The owner paid himself a $338m dividend.
In 1993, there were just 23,000 websites and less than 40 million users. In 2018, there are roughly a billion websites, and more than three billion users.
Jack Self • THE BIG FLAT NOW: Power, Flatness, and Nowness in the Third Millennium
“37 percent of the world’s population, 2.9 billion people, have never used the Internet.“