chema's comments

Dude, like you, I'm also Mexican. My parents live in Guanajuato state. My entire family has been affected by what's been happening in Mexico. I never argued that the entities are monolithic block, which would be an absurd claim to make. I was correcting your claim that "Mexico is starting to actually fight against narcos", which is a factually wrong claim. You can claim they weren't doing enough, or doing it incorrectly, which I would agree with, but that's very different from implying that nothing was being done. Just see this article published yesterday on the U.S./Mexican collaboration between 2001 and 2016 that lead to El Chapo's captures:

https://www.newsweek.com/secret-us-drones-led-arrest-notorio...

> Did you know that Mexico is starting to actually fight against narcos? For 40 years, maybe more, there wasn't even a mention of that in the Mexican Government.

This is plain wrong. There's literally a Wikipedia page created 18 years ago documenting the well-publicized Mexican Drug War between the Mexican government (supported by various governments) against all the cartels. Literally thousands of soldiers and police killed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_drug_war

This would be similar to the French model, which allows youths born in France (except in Mayotte) to non-French parents between the ages of 13 and 16 to become naturalized by decree if they have lived in France for at least five years since the age of 8 and have parental permission. Still quite restrictive and presents obvious challenges to integration, but it remains more permissive than what this administration is proposing.

As for the underlying issue, I'm not sure, but I suspect it might be related to the so-called "$5M gold card." Perhaps the goal is to make citizenship more exclusive and drive up its perceived value?

French nationality law (in French, obviously): https://www.immigration.interieur.gouv.fr/Integration-et-Acc...

I've been waiting for something like this. I've got most of my emails, text messages and social media posts since 1997. One day I'm going to load it all up on something like this.

Maybe I am in the minority, but I've been a Proton user since 2016 and a paying customer since 2017 and I'm excited about this acquisition. I use AnyType for note taking, but Standard Notes is a solid alternative and I am excited to see an expanded ecosystem. Makes me very happy to keep keep paying for my $18/month Visionary plan.

This is the problem with the huge wealth inequality that billionaires and centi-millionaires represent. Anyone is welcome to have political opinions; some will be good, some will be bad. But these folks can leverage their wealth to project their ideas across the voting population. They can effectively drown out other opinions and perspectives because money buys ad time and mailer after mailer and armies of canvassers and paid staff that others cannot match.

Most calendars still use internal cycles. These two calendars are more comparable to the astronomical Julian Day.

I am glad to see Schon DSGN there. I got myself a brass "Pocket Six" a few years ago and it is amazing. I use it daily. It is small and write like a dream. The owner now makes his own nib, which looks amazing. Highly recommended.

The Long Count, part of the calendar, was in use until quite recently and may still be used in parts of Guatemala, so there is some continuity.

Absolutely. Years ago I made what is essentially a Unix time / Maya Long Count converter and I was very pleased with how similar they were in concept (i.e. counting seconds or days from a particular epoch) with the only major difference being the base 10 vs base 20.

https://github.com/chema/long-count

I have lived in SF for 11 years. I have worked for nonprofits and ran small businesses, on top of being a renter, so I'm not raking in the big bucks. Before moving here, I lived in Switzerland, Mexico, Canada and the South. I have had less "quality of life" issues here than elsewhere. Sure, some neighborhoods are plagued by homelessness and drug users, but honestly so are some places in Switzerland. Transit is great (could be better), education is too and there's a great sense of community pretty much anywhere. I really don't understand why folks are so upset.

That's certainly a factor. Commercial corridors became commercial corridors in SF because they were more accessible for horse and carriage back in the 1850-90s since they were flat, the same reason why they are the ideal bike routes around the hills today.

We can't do anything about these geographic bottlenecks though and the fact is that people are biking more and more, despite the hills. Better transit is probably the key, but I have a tough time seeing cars as a long-term solution.

All the same constraints apply to San Francisco! What little parking exists is expensive and traffic is so bad that getting around by bike is nine times out of ten faster than driving or even transit. That's why SF making (slow) progress.

The real challenge is outside of the dense urban areas, where most people biking are the poor or the undocumented. It's going to require a cultural shift.

Neighborhood greenways and bike boulevards are becoming more and more common in the US and within professional bike advocacy circles.

The reason why these treatments aren't front and center is because people are being hurt and killed on high-speed arterials, where the best choice is protected bike lanes. Different tools for different problems.

It is maddening, but I also understand where some Polk merchants are coming from. They're being asked to stake their livelihood on a relatively radical proposal, at least by American standards.

I would like to see the City create some sort of financial incentive (like a tax credit) to bring them on board when it comes to safety improvements. In the long run, it would pay for itself.

I've worked with Gary in the past but thanks for the bringing him up, I'm going to reach to him and have a beer!

These lessons are a constant part of dialogue here in the US, particularly in cities like SF and NY. I would even call them universal.

The challenge is convincing folks that they are applicable to their street. Most people here are so attached to the car as the only viable form of transportation that they do not see bikes or transit as complete transportation alternatives, despite the best formed arguments.

History should be more than being "reminded". Few American could name the three largest Native nations today, much less 100 years ago, or what their systems of government, leaders, or social structures were.

I learned a lot in school about the Puritans, and Ancient Europe and even Egypt and Asian history, but little to nothing about the people who lived in California less than 200 years ago.

Very interesting visualization. It complements the recent release of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, an excellent introduction to a consistently ignored aspect of US History.

http://www.beacon.org/An-Indigenous-Peoples-History-of-the-U...

Norse presence in Artic North America is neither controversial or new. This discovery isn't terribly surprising, considering their settlements in Newfoundland and Greenland. That said, there's no evidence to suggest there was any meaningful exchange between the Norse and sub-Artic indigenous nations.

The sweet potato, on the other hand, does indicate at least some incidental exchange between the Americas and Polynesia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_potato#Origin.2C_distrib...