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by swalling 1y ago
Asia and Africa have rich historical polyculture traditions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyculture?wprov=sfti1#Histor...
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by swalling 1y ago
Love this idea as a runner! Quick feedback: - the bottom toolbar obscures Zone 1 measurements unless you scroll. You should make it fixed (like iMessage input area or the bottom tabs for Gmail iOS) or make the toolbar hidden until on scroll
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by swalling 1y ago
The evidence that falsifies this idea is the fact that policies considered “progressive” in America are just called “universal status quo” in almost all countries with higher human development indexes and lower inequality. In fact some of t
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by swalling 1y ago
SF is already the second-most dense city in America. It’s dramatically more akin to NYC than Austin, LA, and so on. It’s just a lot smaller geographically.
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by swalling 1y ago
I agree the macroeconomics are important but to say that the architecture of local political power doesn’t matter is silly. Local elections have really direct consequences for social and economic policy in the city.
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by swalling 1y ago
It’s unclear from your comment whether you’re talking about things specific to SF or you’re just speaking in generalities. Examples would help.
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by swalling 1y ago
Lumping centrists who want to solve intractable livability problems with rich right-wing libertarians is the road to failure. Not everyone who wants to stop throwing mountains of money at nonprofits and ineffectual, corrupt city officials i
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by swalling 1y ago
You linked to an editorial not a peer-reviewed paper. Moreover it’s from 2014-2018 and is therefore missing a more updated understanding of coronary plaque composition in runners. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/P
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by swalling 1y ago
You don’t have to be communist to believe in maintaining public access to publicly-owned lands. Turns out National Parks, national forests, state parks, campgrounds, etc attract millions of people annually, and most of us are very glad that
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by swalling 1y ago
These cuts are particularly nasty because federal spending on public trail maintenance is already razor thin. A ton of the Pacific Crest Trail and other scenic trails are already primarily maintained by volunteer groups doing work like lo
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by swalling 1y ago
The other factor in Costa Rica is political stability and low military spending. After their civil war in 1949, they constitutionally abolished the military (Article 12) which not only prevents military juntas from emerging but also enables
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by swalling 2y ago
Elite marathon runners are in no way, shape, or form sprinting. It’s just that both are inconceivably fast to the average untrained person. Usain Bolt’s top foot speed was 44.72 km/h in the 100 meters. The fastest marathon was 20 km&#x
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by swalling 2y ago
“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible” https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio... Later in the piece he notoriously declares that “welfare beneficiaries” (a
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by swalling 2y ago
Dead wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_human_evolution
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by swalling 2y ago
I suspect these people are looking for any rationalization for their emotional desire for Portland to turn back the clock 10-20 years to being a slightly grungy and relatively inexpensive city. Like back in 2009 when I paid <$500 a month
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by swalling 2y ago
“If Wikipedia’s eyeballs are low, people wouldn’t contribute” People were contributing well before it was a top 10 website. That’s how it got kickstarted in the first place.
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by swalling 2y ago
Except Wikipedia is a non-profit and the content produced is under a free license. The founder of Wikipedia and the few employees are the least wealthy people to run a top 10 website.
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by swalling 2y ago
http://archive.today/N59nk
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by swalling 2y ago
Ah! I thought it was done, but that makes more sense now that I looked at https://www.pdxnext.com/Stories/Details/main-terminal-openin...
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by swalling 2y ago
The wood is pretty, but as someone who uses this terminal, the key improvement is that they raised the ceiling and significantly increased the amount of natural light. Here's a good photo of what it looked like before: https:/&#x
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by swalling 2y ago
The map that they produced is very easy to unintentionally misread. The map shows the predicted contamination of groundwater locations based on the models. It does not show the locations where the actual tap water source is predicted or k
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by swalling 2y ago
The warnings here are not theoretical. Multiple people have died following Wim Hof's advice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof#Method-related_deaths
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by swalling 2y ago
> Mental models of UV exposure are not always intuitive. 100%. On this front, the study notes something important that helps explain the lower overall mortality, which is that "Most melanoma is a disease of intermittent burning sun
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by swalling 2y ago
Higher ultraviolet light exposure is associated with lower mortality... for white people residing in the United Kingdom. The selected cohort of people is pretty specific from a global perspective. In particular, if you live in a higher UV
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by swalling 2y ago
It’s not just a lack of siblings, it’s also a smaller number of extended relations of a similar age, i.e. cousins. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cousins-decline-canada-1.7103...
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by swalling 2y ago
It's not just performance, it's also that the number of clicks to perform common actions is way too high because of feature bloat, extreme levels of customizability, and just plain bad design.
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by swalling 2y ago
This NPR map looks wrong in some places, I would just trust the actual USDA map https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/ For instance, the NPR source says that Portland, OR was reclassified as 9b, whereas the actual USDA map sa
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by swalling 2y ago
Subaru has had its EyeSight collision avoidance system in production vehicles since 2010. That's a long time to refine things.
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by swalling 2y ago
Yes this seems to be increasingly common, at least on the west coast. The suboptimal part is that the buyer typically gets hit with an out-of-network ATM fee for doing this, so the consumer is paying $2-5 for processing per transaction.
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by swalling 2y ago
Whatever happened to the idea of legal peer-to-peer lending? If I buy a book, it's my property to give away or resell. Why is it any different with an ebook?

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