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It might be too soon to call it abandoned, but I was very intrigued by the Austral [1] language. The spec [2] is worth reading, it has an unusual clarity of thought and originality…

if anything is fungible, surely mushrooms are...

This is really cool! If the author is around, I notice in the README you mention the GNU units program, which I use quite a bit. I'm curious if you've made any notable divergences …

a few clarifications (in the industry but not involved with this deal): * carbon removal credits are a subset of carbon credits * they are generally considered higher-quality than …

I love this essay. Anna Weiner's book Uncanny Valley has a great line about it as well: > "it's like no one even read 'The Tyranny of Structurelessness,'" said an engineer who had …

I agree that this is likely missing data systematically. However note the difference between carbon offsets vs carbon removals. I don't know what kinds of offsets Google bought but…

I actually hesitated before posting for exactly this reason, and I don't think you're wrong to be sensitive to this. But you'll notice that there's actually no real political conte…

Ha, no, just a fun exercise sparked by a conversation with a friend. It also doesn't take the road network into account, just county adjacencies.

Vaguely related, a few years ago I made a map of "how to drive from SF to NYC while passing through the minimum number of Republican-voting counties": https://github.com/louispotok…

(OP but not author: the original seems to only have releases for windows, there's a python fork here: https://github.com/dlenski/wp2git )

This was the bit that got me: > People have this aspirational idea of building a vast, oppressively colossal, deeply interlinked knowledge graph to the point that it almost mirrors…

If I'm reading your comment correctly, you may not be aware that methane abatement is also eligible for carbon crediting programs, which operate under the framework of "global warm…

Maybe virtual assistant?

1. Incredible line. 2. That 6% is based on the most recent IPCC report which estimates 1.4 GT from HFCs, and another ~1.4 from CFCs+HCFCs, so 2.8 total. OWID seems to get its data …

Tradewater is great, they are one of the original inspirations for this approach. The key differences are geography (they are mostly US-focused) and that they pursue stockpiles of …