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Asia and Africa have rich historical polyculture traditions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyculture?wprov=sfti1#Histor...

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

- it doesn’t seem to import my past Health data and workouts at all? Even after I approved Apple Health permissions the app looks empty

- in general the information architecture is not quite right. Setup (is this necessary btw? An onboarding splash screen might help) and info are things I would infrequently use so they should probably live as smaller icons in the title area off to the right. Then you can just let the user swipe between Zones and Workout history as two primary views, with more of a split button style tab.

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 the fastest growing cities in America, like Austin and Denver, are also famously progressive (not that they are perfect). Seems doubtful even total hegemony by conservatives would fix SF’s problems in short order. The common sense solutions do not fall exclusively on one end of the spectrum or the other.

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.

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.

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.

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 is a Peter Thiel/Elon Musk fascist. The more that the left continues to force ideological purity tests like this, the more it will fail.

It also seems silly to move to a city internationally known for a specific influential industry and then lament that influence. If you hate entertainment industry people, don’t live in LA. If you hate commercial fishing, don’t live in Dutch Harbor. You’re at least 10-20 years late to fight tech being influential in SF.

There are a lot of places to live in this world. Vote with your feet. Conservatives certainly have, migrating en masse to Texas, Florida, Idaho. If you want to see what a place that has actually swung hard right looks like, it’s not SF where the city government is still captured wholly by Democrats and the Board of Supervisors has anti-development NIMBYs and members of the Democratic Socialists of America.

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/PMC11012899/

You should probably lace up your running shoes given that obesity and inactivity will for sure kill you.

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 access is for everyone. As taxpayers we in fact pay for that public infrastructure, just like we pay for roads.

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 log clearing, brush removal, and tread work. Trail users ourselves—hikers, mountain bikers, or trail runners—already put in hundreds of volunteer hours every season doing the basic trail work, and that's just regular seasonal maintenance. Significant work rebuilding parts of the Appalachian Trail and PCT after wildfires or hurricanes will likely not happen this year, or for years to come, unless volunteers fill in more gaps.

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 spending on healthcare in a low GDP country.

All that said, Blue Zones are fake, driven by cohort effects and poor record keeping. https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/49/27/

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/h.

“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 well-known racist dog whistle about Black people) and letting women vote are both impediments to his libertarian dreams of dismantling democratic government.

Dead wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_human_evolution

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 for a room in a shared single family home in a slightly dangerous outer NE neighborhood. Probably the most visible change since that period is the explosion of multistory development in SE and NE.

Unfortunately for them, an urban doom loop will not be kind to all the things that made Portland livable to begin with. The budget deficits looming city-wide are grim. On the housing front, our only hope is that the statewide ban on single family zoning plus urban growth boundaries will continue to structurally encourage density via infill.

“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.

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.

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...

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://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portland_Internation...

The major functional drawback is that wayfinding for both arrivals and departures is much worse. The overall flow of foot traffic is way more confusing than say, the newer terminals at SFO.

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 known to be contaminated.

For example, many large cities (San Francisco, Seattle, Portland) either do not use groundwater sources from within city limits, or only use it as a secondary source. Unless you use a private well, this map is therefore not super useful for understanding whether PFAS contamination of tap water should be a concern for you. The map likewise doesn't take into account water treatment or filtering.

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

> 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 exposure, particularly in childhood."

In other words, skin cancer doesn't increase exponentially with total lifetime UV exposure, unlike say, regular alcohol use or smoking. It's much riskier to get burned repeatedly in early childhood than it is to have regular moderate levels of sun exposure long term while avoiding being burned.

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 location (i.e. closer to the equator), intentionally increasing sun exposure like they measured in this study may not be necessary or helpful. For instance, the entire lower 48 states in the USA are below the same latitude as the UK.

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...

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.

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 says that depending on your elevation, it's still either 8a or 8b.

Subaru has had its EyeSight collision avoidance system in production vehicles since 2010. That's a long time to refine things.

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.

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?