Nate Abbott

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Common sense starting to trickle into SF politics https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-supervisors-israel-hamas-resolution-19257192.php

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What is the current best webcam out there for zoom meetings (assuming you're not using a DSLR)? Anyone using continuity camera as their daily driver?

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I’m going to put the fact that a human just crawled into the engine of our plane as an early sign our flight may be delayed

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RIP to the best phone Apple has made in a decade https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/the-iphone-13-mini-is-dead-leaving-small-phone-lovers-in-a-lurch/

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My wife is an awesome strength coach and skier and is teaching a ski conditioning class this fall! If you’re into skiing you should check it out (and tell your friends): https://open.substack.com/pub/mountainfitsf/p/ski-conditioning-course-in-person?r=513re&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Amazing that one of the most popular decongestants on the market (hundreds of billions of doses sold? Maybe more?) was found to be ineffective. Placebo effect continues to be a top 3 most fascinating thing to me! https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/decongestant-cold-medicine-ineffective-f68df3f7?st=yka7oiucz9k364d

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It’s insane how anti-progress forces have managed to infiltrate every part of SF. The latest madness is the SF bike coalition coming out against the *only* cars that are pretty much guaranteed not to kill cyclists. https://sfbike.org/news/the-sf-bicycle-coalitions-stance-on-robotaxi-expansion/

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OK I haven't played video games in 25 years, but nostalgia for my favorite game growing up might get me off the sidelines. So stoked for this: https://www.marathonthegame.com/

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I wish Yglesias would stop doing partisan dunks on Twitter because his policy proposals are actually very moderate and pragmatic. Here's his deficit reduction plan -- neither party is even remotely close to anything functional like this:

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Big news for electric aviation: https://www.catl.com/en/news/6015.html

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The delta between FB metaverse spend and the original iphone is staggering. https://i.imgur.com/VDLkK99.jpg

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Karma is the best song on Midnights

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🌶️ take: Karma is the best track on the new Swift album

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Six Seasons is by far the best cookbook I've ever bought. Recipes aren't hard and are exceptionally delicious.

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Any kid carrier e-bike experts on here? Trying to figure out if the Tern premium is worth paying or whether I should get a Rad Power bike

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The part of San Francisco the media doesn’t want you to see https://i.imgur.com/mDBIbvp.jpg

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I think the joint Satya/Zuckerberg interview today in Stratechery cements Ben Thomson as the new king of tech media (if he wasn't there already).

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Good take from Ark about early deflation signals https://ark-invest.com/articles/market-commentary/open-letter-to-the-fed/

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Since we're getting a rate hike this week...one under-appreciated piece of the inflation debate is how we *measure* inflation. Housing dominates the Core CPI, but their preferred metric lags the market significantly (h/t Yglesias). https://i.imgur.com/sWo3qWA.png

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What's the chance of antitrust issues with Figma/Adobe given how aggressive the government has been with other tech acquisitions?

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