Things I learned lately 12 Apr

• At least five different published studies have found British Columbia's carbon tax, introduced in 2008, has cut overall emissions, reduced per capita gasoline use by 7%, improved average vehicle efficiency by 4%, cut residential natural gas use by 7% and diesel use by more than 3%. Meanwhile, BC enjoyed about 3% annual economic growth between 2012 and 2017. Other jurisdictions that have successfully used carbon taxes to reduce emissions include Sweden, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, several U.S. states, the U.K. and the European Union.
• Every time a Tesla owner intervenes and re-takes control of a Tesla after it's been in autopilot mode, it anonymously sends that data to Tesla so that they can study the situation and determine if there is a way to make the car smarter to avoid those types of interventions in the future.
• The rise in cryptocurrency mining has created a shortage of high end graphic cards for computers between December 2017 and February 2018. Most stores were sold out.
• The cereal character Cap'n Crunch is the product of Rocky and Bullwinkle creator Jay Ward.