In the 2010s, a municipality in the Wellington metropolitan area in New Zealand upzoned 80% of its residential land to allow medium- and high-density housing. It led to a substantial increase in housing supply and a 21% reduction in rents relative to similar municipalities.

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Have you ever thought about the price we (or the planet) pay for artificial intelligence (AI)? 🤔

Switzerland recently unveiled a supercomputer designed to handle the growing data needs of scientific research and advanced AI systems. While these machines could help tackle climate change, they are themselves big energy guzzlers. ⚡

So, the big question is: how sustainable is Switzerland’s latest technological leap? 👉https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/science/whats-the-environmental-cost-of-switzerlands-new-supercomputer/88720218

TIL every person who has become a centibillionaire (a net worth of usually $100 billion, €100 billion, or £100 billion), first became one in 2017 or later except for Bill Gates who first reached the threshold in 1999. [source, comments]

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RIP David Lynch

September 11, 2001 there was one American in space. This is the picture he took from the International Space Station
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Starregisseur David Lynch gestorben: Er war der grösste Visionär des Kinos https://www.watson.ch/!148805307