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·anno scorso·discuss
Asia and Africa have rich historical polyculture traditions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyculture?wprov=sfti1#Histor...
swalling
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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·3 anni fa·discuss
Some engineers and designers simply cannot stomach the idea that they aren’t actually geniuses. This guy comparing great visionary engineers to Picasso immediately sounds like one of those people that pretty much anyone (in any role) hates working with due to their massive ego.

There are many many bad PMs who are either dead weight or actively drag down their teams. But most eng and design teams are so much more inept and slow without any PM that even a mediocre one clearly improves velocity (if not effectiveness).
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·3 anni fa·discuss
It really sucks, but the reason why review happened is because there is an onslaught of people who show up to write promotional articles, many of them paid by PR agencies and reputation management firms.

The previous system of doing post-publish review of new articles had an even worse backlog because it let a huge volume of shit into the front door.

The root cause of this is Wikipedia’s huge influence in Google SEO and knowledge graph. As the open web is dying, it’s one of the few reliable ways to dump information straight to the top of Google SERPs. When I write new Wikipedia articles it is often indexed to the first page of results in minutes.