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First of all, I will point out that he brings up the “context” of facts as a vehicle for an agenda early in the book. The book can essentially be described as a critical reading and overview of the IPCC reports.

And, yes, I do not agree with every point he makes. I think some of the things he says are misleading. That said, he does raise points that climate action advocates, myself included, need to address. For instance, our faulty climate models. This is not climate denial. It’s climate action, from a realistic perspective.

Most of Koonin’s sources are directly from the IPCC reports, in fact they are what the book is based around.

I recommend the book “Unsettled” by Steven Koonan for a more empirical look at how these computer models work, and the deficiencies of trying to predict catastrophe with them. For instance, every climate model is wildly off when it tries to predict the climate changes starting in 1950.

This article reads like a typical scare piece. The truth is, there’s just so many feedback loops in climate that we just don’t know what’s “responsible” for any particular event. It may not even be a reasonable question to ask.

There are things we know: greenhouse gases are rising because of human activity, and their presence will cause an increase in global average temperature at equilibrium. Beyond that, there is so much we can’t predict.

For instance, higher temps will cause more water vapor in the air, and therefore more cloud cover. That increases the earth’s albedo by some percentage, which is a powerful effect. Enough to hold off further warming for a while? We don’t know. No climate models agree.

I'll share my experience as a proud SF resident of 6 years. The quality of life here decreased dramatically through 2020 for obvious reasons. Now, it seems like the city is much more alive. Restaurants, bars, etc are all open, parks are packed. The weather is still great. My coworkers are moving back to the Bay Area now, and we're all very excited to get to hang out again. Overall I'm much happier now than I was 6 months ago.

That being said, the most upsetting thing has been the loss of my friends who have left SF over the last year and a half to move other places. Losing your friends and community is much worse than losing a coffee shop. This is, to me, the biggest downside of SF: it's a temporary stopover for most people, and your roots will always be lain in thin soil.

Not my project, but Github Copilot is a good example of using the latest AI technology to solve a practical, real problem that couldn't be solved without it

https://copilot.github.com

The YC accelerator is really set up to encourage the founders' best qualities and to drive them forward in a supporting environment. The shape and culture of any YC company is almost entirely due to the founders, not YC.

We are using Kanel[1] for this right now — is there an advantage to using this instead?

[1]: https://github.com/kristiandupont/kanel

That's a relief. Thanks for the context!

I love the MNT Reform and almost placed an order, but now I’m sort-of glad I decided not to. I’m not sure I can justify spending over $1k for a machine that struggles to run the Grammarly browser extension.

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No comment on sex differences in general, but aren’t we past the point where we think of the brain as “separate” from the rest of the body? Microbiomes, hormones, exercise... all of the parts of the body seem to be deeply interconnected and can’t exist separately or really be isolated at all - including the brain. Am I right here?

> People aren't talking about the "weird" or quirky aspects of SF

Someone has to stand up for these aspects of the city, and I guess today it's my turn.

All I can say is that my experience is much different than yours.

I certainly never said that homelessness is “just life.” I’m just realistic. San Francisco will probably always have this problem to some extent, and it’s our responsibility as San Franciscans to help alleviate it as much as possible.

None of this has to do with my original point about San Francisco’s recent changes, which I have personally experienced as having a much higher density of artists.

If you’re imagining crime and homelessness, that’s not exactly what I mean by “weirdness” – those are problems that San Francisco needs to fix... and will probably always need to fix.

I may as well represent a different perspective here.

I am not leaving San Francisco. It's beautiful here. I'm excited to see it get weirder. I will always choose to live somewhere that is exciting over somewhere that will be the same forever. Everything about San Francisco has always been "temporary." This city is boom/bust, constantly changing. It's interesting, having a front-row seat to the ways that people and culture change over time.

Some of the most interesting, most cherished times for native San Franciscans was the 60s/70s, when crime was way higher than today, there was no real tech presence, and the art scene here was booming. It was expensive then, too. It's probably always going to be expensive to live here.

If you're here, you can probably already feel the city starting to get into the bust times, the times when the culture really starts to get shaken up and things start evolving into something new. It's not for everyone, but for a certain kind of person — it's better than anywhere else.

You probably won't agree with me, and that's okay. I don't expect, or want, everyone to. But the changes I've seen in SF recently — personally, I like them. There's so much potential.

EDIT: The level of hostility in the comments here is a little staggering. Please, readers, consider that others may have a different perspective than you. Obviously, I am not condoning any further human suffering. If that's all that you can see in my comment, consider if the cynicism in your comment may effect others.

Without evidence to support these claims, I feel like what you’ve said just sounds like more fear-stoking.

It’s also likely that Reddit has become more international, and the world at large leans more left than the current US. Couple that with mostly-US news stories, and it’s not surprising to me that Reddit is often quite angry.

Without evidence to support accusations to widespread government propaganda, I’m going to have to go with the simpler of the two options.

Situation: there are now n+1 competing standards.

https://xkcd.com/927/

In the article they make it fairly clear that the survey was about people’s experiences driving in San Francisco, not general living etc.

It says in the article that these questions were specifically in reference to driving around San Francisco in a car, not general safety.

It says in the article that these questions were specifically in reference to driving around San Francisco in a car.

Worth nothing that the article clarifies that this is in reference to driving — as in "nearly a quarter didn't feel safe on San Francisco's roads at all"

I hope you're right.

I agree that this is the one thing I'm unsure about. But: a lot of people once said this same argument about cryptocurrency and were amazed at how technically literate drug dealers could actually be, given the right incentives.

Regardless, as of recently they are making everything a one-click process: https://tlon.io

I don't disagree, but for what it's worth, they are recently making it a lot easier to get on: https://tlon.io

My money is on urbit becoming a haven for these people. If you're constantly getting de-platformed, Urbit has a lot going for you. Decentralized, unregulated, unmoderated chat that’s hard to get into and fully anonymous, with a "burn it down" attitude throughout. I've been in there, they already welcome similar types. Symbolic imagery in the form of "sigils" already is a way to show support for certain concepts/places/people in a highly reproducible but obscure way. It really feels like it's only a matter of time.

You're already seeing it with tweets like this from within the community: https://twitter.com/default_friend/status/134769644628863386...

... can't you just run `$ caffeinate -d` in terminal?

One thing I do know is that putting tons of huge wind farms off of the coast of California would likely be a disaster for migratory birds that travel the pacific flyway down the coast, many of which are not found anywhere else in the world.

I'm not sure, but it's worth pointing out that more and more of Apple's revenue is coming from software services, not hardware.

If you are looking for ways to help, here are a few:

1. Rewild/plant natives where you can, such as your yard or if allowed, easements or verges, ideally from pollinator-safe plant nurseries or places which care for very local species

2. Advocate for wild spaces, wildlife corridors and wildlife bridges and underpasses, particularly on migration routes for small species (guarding frog movements for three weeks a year is pretty neat)

3. Volunteer with local wetlands/trails associations/reserves for whatever their ecologists decide needs doing.

4. Reduce your carbon footprint, and then offset the rest. We are working on helping people do this (and take action on climate change in other ways) at https://projectwren.com