Join 📚 Izzy's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Izzy's read, .
Some 85 percent of the aggregate decline in the urban Black population happened within census tracts that did not gentrify. The Black households that left for the suburbs, moreover, tended to be higher income than those left behind.
What’s Causing Black Flight?
theatlantic.com
Ethereum uses 113 terawatt-hours per year—as much power as the Netherlands, according to Digiconomist. A single Ethereum transaction can consume as much power as an average US household uses in more than a week. Bitcoin’s energy consumption is even worse.
Why Ethereum Is Switching to Proof of Stake and How It Will Work
technologyreview.com
Harvard professor Robert Putnam documents a marked decline in American social capital, and notes that commute time is more predictive than almost any other variable he measured in determining civic engagement. He states that "each ten additional minutes in daily commuting time cuts involvement in community affairs by ten percent-fewer public meetings attended, fewer committees chaired, fewer petitions signed, fewer church services attended, and so on.”
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise