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Your point about orphaned records resonates with me, but for a much simpler (or stupider) "use case". I took a domestic flight earlier this year and foolishly showed my British passport as ID. I had returned to the country the day before, it just happened to be in my pocket. My green card was clipped to the front of it. After checking the identification page, the TSA agent flipped through the pages of entry stamps, visas, etc. There, they found all my old US work visas, which have long since expired. The agent was convinced that, since I have expired visas, I must be here illegally and would have to "come with [her]". I pointed out that I have a valid green card, so I'm here legally, and that of course every visa in the book has expired because - well that's what they do. It took 30 minutes, multiple staff being called over, supervisors, etc before I was allowed to continue. At every step, the presence of the expired visas was a mark against me. Never got an apology or recognition that they were wrong, just eventually told I could be on my way. I truly fear that overzealous thugs will use any "evidence" to prove their presuppositions, like your orphaned records. (I've naturalized since then, and carry my passport card around religiously, for all the good it may do...)

I tried launching something similar 15 years ago, admittedly as a noob to both tech and business. Here's hoping you succeed, it's sorely needed!

I’d love to know how it went for you and if there’s anything we can learn from your experiences - you’re right that it’s sorely needed! The statistics are getting worse and worse and worse… please feel free to email any thoughts or ideas based on your launch to team @ domain !

This is wonderful! I'm working on a large spatial audio art installation for Burning Man this year (https://oddsockmachine.github.io/ and https://www.instagram.com/oddsockmachine/). In mine, most of the audio moves around the space, but I'd love to borrow concepts from this and have the listener move through the audio field. (That'll have to go on the biiig backlog for version 2!)

Your writing is very reminiscent of Aldo Leopold's in 'A Sand County Almanac' (which is an equal delight to read)

Thanks! It's not my usual writing style, but I read that book years ago and am probably channeling some bits of Leopold today. :-)

I love that book. It's an all time favorite, and an inspiration.

I think you mean Cunningham's Law...

I always knew it as oddsockmachine's law.

Performance art of many HN exchanges on non-startup/cs topics.

Or maybe Cole's Law

Also the museum in Alameda CA, which does a good job of walking you through the history of the ban.

I'd love to hear more about your boat!

Might not count as the great plains, but Mark Sheppard's New Forest Farm in Wisconsin is a good demonstration of a similar approach in a different context.

https://newforestfarm.us/about/

Not to belittle the difficulty, but as someone who just drove from WY to WI over the last couple days... east of the Mississippi is drastically wetter than western MN+.

Yeh, there's a chicken and egg situation…

Having trees increases rainfall but need to grow the trees with little rainfall first!

SF Bicycle Coalition is suggesting that it's fine: https://twitter.com/sfbike/status/1239658920718643200

I’m sure they’re experts in this area and definitely an authority on the matter. SF has a massive homeless problem, how “happy” do you think that virus is in the city atm?