Topic
infrastructure
- We Live Like Royalty and Don't Know It
Charles Mann on the unseen, unappreciated wonders of modern infrastructure: The great European cathedrals were built over generations by thousands of people and sustained entire communities. Similarly, the electric gr…
- Ruataniwha Dam
Ruataniwha Dam , New Zealand. Filming location for a future dystopian sci-fi film.
- Weekend Reading: LightSpeed, Kubernetes, and a Car-Free Market Street
📱 Project LightSpeed: Rewriting the Messenger Codebase A technical piece describing the goals for Facebook’s rewrite of the Messenger app. Interesting to see them avoiding their own React Native for this, and doing t…
- Why Don't We Know More About the Subway Cost Disease?
Alex Tabarrok linked to this detailed deck from Alon Levy picking apart the possible reasoning for why NYC subway construction is so much more than other urban centers around the world. Levy is to be lauded for his pi…
- A Globe of Connections
Borders in today’s world are remarkably static, ever-present lines we all get used to separating territories as if there are hard barriers to interaction between the multicolored countries of your average political ma…