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Anyone have the back story here?

I don't have views on the credibility of specific technologies but I've hoped that these could be viable in places like coastal California where fog provides quite a bit of air moisture but it never rains--do you not agree with that?

I'm sorry you feel this way! I've felt very lonely in the past and it was among my hardest times--though I'm sure my version of it was different and doesn't have specific applicability, just figured I'd share.

You asked on "tips for giving yourself attention". Can you elaborate on what you mean by that? Are there examples you could give us of what that is like, to help us think of other ideas?

One piece of art that I loved that is about this topic is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs. Like most art it doesn't really answer your question directly with concrete suggestions, but maybe it will be worth watching anyway.

Not sure if this the same experience as the person you asked the question of, but I went to Catholic school growing up, altar boy, youth group, the whole works. And I'd consider myself atheist, or agnostic maybe is better. But I call myself "culturally Catholic" because so much of how I grew up is still a part of me: a focus on finding universality in experience ("catholic" christian historically grew out of an attempt to find universality in the christian belief, and I think today amid globalization it still does that remarkably well); an impulse toward social justice; a tolerance of hypocrisy and inconsistency.

And like the prior poster said, many/most Catholics disagree with the Pope--I think something like 85% of American Catholics disagree with the official views on birth control and abortion and homosexuality--but that doesn't stop us from calling ourselves Catholic.

I really liked Drawing By Seeing by John Torreano when I picked it up in college: https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Seeing-Abrams-Studio-Torreano...

Thanks for this thread! I’ve been meaning to ask around for recommendations like this for a while now.

This podcast helped me understand just how significant an accomplishment the Madden video game was—I recommend!

https://overcast.fm/+dxvETG06k

I think CapIQ is most common, but don't think they do individual subscriptions.

I felt it was beautiful but I don’t think you should feel dumb you didn’t also think it was beautiful! I think it’s not a set of facts, where there are right and wrong interpretations, so research paper might be the wrong analogy.

For me, I think she made me feel what it would be like to work toward an achievement, to fail, and to look back and contemplate on the idea that maybe the achievement was arbitrary and as simplistic and fantastical as a fairy tale.

I understand, conceptually, that people work toward achievements and respond to incentives like more money or promotion or power. And I understand, logically, that people often mis-identify what outcomes matter to them, and are instead working toward something that won’t ever provide satisfaction, all while the work exhausts them.

But I rarely contemplate that idea, marinate in it, feel it. She made me feel it. And she also made me realize that I’m also doing the same thing, and that I likely will some day look back on my life right now and contemplate that maybe everything I’m working for is simplistic and fantastical and not going to accomplish whatever it is I really want. I’m curious, could you share some writing that made you feel something, and it made you feel?

Fun to see Ada Palmer posted here! One of my favorite essays by her is The Shape of Rome, which tells Rome’s history through its architecture. It is a fascinating history of course but her writing is what stood out to me: it felt fast, almost breezy, while still conveying the sense of just how much time had passed between events.

I wish more history writing were like it, and if folks have recommendations I’d appreciate it.

https://www.exurbe.com/the-shape-of-rome/

I had this same experience, and switched to Credit Karma out of spite toward Turbo Tax. It was fine: https://www.creditkarma.com/tax

Ah, of course.

What happened with Dark Sky? I have used it for years and it seems just as good as ever. And it’s one of the few iPhone apps I give full location information to so I like that it’s owned by Apple since they have that info anyway.

This is super useful, thank you!

I use Spectacle to do this, like it a lot: https://www.spectacleapp.com

You're doing great work! I'd love to try it next year. If I do, what do you recommend for filing my federal?

Last time I tried fast mail they didn’t really support labels, only folders. Is that still the case, or is there a good workaround?

We don’t even need to think long term—EVs (even charged with fossil power) are already cleaner than gas cars in most cases:

https://blog.ucsusa.org/dave-reichmuth/new-numbers-are-in-an...

And—to your point—they get cleaner every year.

We can't perfectly suppress fire on a natural landscape. And the act of trying increases the risk that when a fire does start it will become huge and uncontrollable because small trees and forest undergrowth—which would have burned in a small fire if we’d not suppressed them--act as kindling that speeds the ignition of mature trees.

More frequent removals of biomass through controlled burns and selective timber harvest can reduce the risk that a hugely catastrophic wildfire occurs. Hotter and bigger fires consume disproportionately more carbon than a series of "normal" fires, particularly in the soil. So more regular and controlled burns improve the landscape's ability to act as a greenhouse gas sink.

I worked with a forester in Oregon on this issue (at the time my work was focused on greenhouse gas accounting). It all gets a lot more complicated and messy, but there's good progress going on right now to try to move toward a more sensible fire management regime rather than the pure suppression. It's also better for animal habitat and human safety.

http://www.oregon.gov/ODF/BOARD/docs/2011_March/BOFATTCH_201...

I'd add a few points: 1) management fees typically decline after the first few years of the Fund, rather than staying at 2% for the entire 10 years. This is to reflect the fact that partners are expected to do more work during the sourcing and diligence portion of a Fund's life (typically defined as an "investment period" after which they're not allowed to make new investments), and that helping portfolio companies and helping achieve exits takes less time / staff / expense. The GP also typically raises subsequent funds once the investment period is over, the management fees of which helps to fund their overall budget.

2) On the carried interest often the VC fund can only earn that after they've returned a certain amount to Limited Partners (called a "preferred return", and typically ~8%; if they don't return an 8% IRR to LPs, they only get the management fee and whatever they earn on their own out-of-pocket contribution.

In general I'd just add that this is a highly negotiated point for each Fund and differs from firm to firm and fund to fund.

Source: I work as an advisor to investors who participate as LPs in VC funds.

Interesting. One concern I'd have is that I actually find the segmentation of data / sms / voice to be a feature because it corresponds well to my priorities. For example, I can turn off auto-sync to save battery power or to decrease distractions from my phone, but still have SMS and be available. If people really want to get a hold of me asap (and they're important enough to me to have my cell number) they will text me.

Of course there are alternate ways to allow users to do this--Google circles and Facebook lists come to mind--but they all are a pain to maintain, use.

I work in energy investing and we're seeing a lot of growth in emerging market solar paired with LEDs that's bringing electricity to formerly off-grid areas. It's great news generally but bad for light pollution specifically, which is sad. It'd be great if there were a way to get these companies to sell only fully shielded lights.

Interesting! Do you know how they value the negative PR cost? My understanding is that "brand value" is notoriously hard to measure, which made me think it would be difficult to include in the type of cost/benefit comparison you refer to (the $.05 vs $.01 per pound cost).

It has to do with whether the wood is decomposing in the presence of oxygen or not--the bacteria that cause decomposition in anaerobic environments emit more methane than the bacteria that cause decomposition in aerobic environments.

Does anyone know about the methane emissions associated with this? It sounds like a cool / compelling way for individuals to sequester carbon but methane emissions from decomposition of the wood if they're anaerobic may dwarf the carbon gains (because methane is ~28x worse of a greenhouse gas than CO2).

A bit of a tangent but: I like Earnest Hemmingway's advice to only stop your work when you know exactly where to pick up again. I don't do great but when I follow the advice I find that it helps me get into flow more quickly.

"You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again."

I think that's a good observation about how this approach differs: it's not just a technical hack, but a behavioral one as well--the user experience with the tool is to simply do the warmups that they want to be doing anyway. I like that a lot, but it still feels like the tool is missing something to really successfully accomplish that.

It's okay, you can be happy.

It's confusing because it's a temporary stay of a temporary injunction, but other news reports suggest that Google will be selling again next week.

(See Update 3 below)

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/3/3136336/galaxy-nexus-no-lon...

I actually had added the Galaxy Nexus to my shopping cart yesterday and then tried to buy today but couldn't. It was only in reading this that I realized why.

Does anyone have any insights into how many days/weeks before Google will be able to sell it again?

Could you talk a bit about why you're doing that?