travisluis

I too miss the dew point feature. The best replacement for Dark Sky I've found is this 10-day view of Weather Underground that's unfortunately only available on their website—I just bookmark the website on my phone home screen. https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/tx/austin/30.27,-97...

Private policing predates public policing,[0] and so asserting that this is is a new development is not really correct. The same is true, incidentally, of firefighting: private insurance companies formed their own private brigades to protect their policyholders' property.[1] Lots of things that we tend to think of as "naturally" public services have only very recently taken that form.

[0] See p. 1193 et seq. of this article: https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/default/fi...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_firefighting#Early_...

> And the insurance market.

No. Insurance is subject to the "insurable interest" doctrine, which generally prohibits using insurance as naked speculation. There are also far more backstops, reserve requirements, government guarantees, etc., designed to prevent this kind of implosion. Not saying it doesn't happen, but we've had since the South Sea Bubble to learn how to regulate insurance to prevent this kind of thing.

The key difference is that insurance is generally regulated from a consumer protection perspective, since many insurance lines are sold directly to unsophisticated consumers. CDSs are, by contrast, sold primarily these days to sophisticated financial speculators, who are presumably fully aware of the kinds of risk involved.

How does this differ from Twine?

Any views on Vanta vs Tugboat Logic vs Laika? I’m trying to choose among them am leaning towards Tugboat Logic. It’s policies seem more thoroughly drafted and they let you test drive the platform, which none of the others allow. Vanta has more integrations but doesn’t currently do Jamf from what I can tell.

You'd expect the force majeure clause in this contract[1] to include pandemics.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bg_1m1C05YqTJzp5MBZMhlRE...

Second workflowy. There are other zoomable nested lists (e.g., dynalist), but they're too slow. Workflowy forces minimalism, which ensures your data is portable and that the handling of it is fast.

Adding colored tags[2] and the Workflowy Code Formatter extension[1] makes it really great.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/workflowy-code-for...

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/painter-for-workfl...

Can Notion do infinitely zoomable lists, a la workflowy? As far as I can tell, it cannot.

Can anybody explain the important differences between this and Briar/Bramble[1]?

[1] https://dymaxion.org/essays/briarvision.html previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18027949

Part II of this essay is also great: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/03/14/memoirs-of-an...