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Accurately labeling a potentially infinite list is an interesting problem we humans seem to have created for ourselves.

In practice Greek letters are much like regular numbering and soon become unintelligible. There’s a reason they still include India in the title here.

Maybe we should switch to naming hurricanes after desserts.

My understanding is that many in the Native American community self identify as ‘Indian’. Or have historically, I’m sure the younger generation is moving away from it.

The FT quotes: ‘120,000 a year for bat surveillance’.

Seems negligible as an outsider.

I sat at a lunch table with Eric at an Event Apart SF a couple years ago, super friendly guy. Really recommend that conference I had a great time.

I have to tell you as an American and kinda grumpy one at that, if you get a smile and hi on the sidewalk as we pass each other it’s purely out of love for mankind.

CSS actually does have functions. ‘linear-gradient()’ is one that returns a background image. You also have the choice of interacting with your style sheets via the css object model similar to the way you interact with the DOM, this is the basis of most css in js tech.

If you can’t tell, I’m a CSS shill.

I wonder, how exactly do we determine the ideal amount of biodiversity for the planet / a given region?

Outside of ideas like ‘we should not exterminate entire species’ and ‘we should not hunt so much that we ruin hunting grounds for future generations’ it does not seem obvious to me.

I guess maybe we are so far gone that the only thought is to damage control.

It’s mind blowing the author chose to include that phrase given the rest of the article is pretty well written.

I know three people who separately just moved to sac from the east bay. And a couple who are thinking about it... didn’t realize this was a trend.

As someone who grew up in Sac, don’t do it guys! It might be a quick drive but it’s a different California.

While we do call them crypto currencies I don’t think crypto market is really comparable to the currency market. Maybe more like a precious metals etf or something.

This is exactly the reason the fed is ok with current inflation readings. Huge debt bubble in the American middle and working class, along with a low growth economy. The only way to get rid of the debt currently is to inflate it away.

You still have to make a literal phone call to unsubscribe from WSJ.

The last thing you wrote is something I indirectly think about quite a lot. Imagine a place (call it heaven if you want) where time and death don’t exist. What could you possibly care about?

Just want to say as someone who does a lot of hardware techno jamming this was SO FUN.