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Hola!


Enjoy the time with your little one. They’ll soon grow up before you know it and then you’ll get time back for tinkering, but by then will miss the time you had with your first born.


Thanks :)

It is a tremendous blessing. But it's also the most intense time of my life.


How is the name of the site pronounced? “Mah-wim-ball”?

Google’s name was so ubiquitous it became a verb, Duck Duck Go is a smart memorable name.

Mwmbl is a challenging product name, even if the .org domain name was available.


This particular letter-sequence is an extremely unfortunate choice and should be reconsidered imho.



Why not call it Mumble then?

I was also confused by the name. That's not necessarily a good first impression.


Eye watering to you, close to a normal wage for most of the population at most nonprofits, especially in tech roles.


But those people cannot make FAANG money. Apparently OP has that option, so their opportunity cost is enormous compared to your average graduate.


Good Here is a directory of social impact organisations at https://goodhere.org/ with a heavy lean towards organisations tackling climate change.


UK homeless charity Centrepoint created an experience in this vein - “In their shoes”: http://centrepoint.org.uk/intheirshoes


Related, for UK-based users and being discussed on HN now: “No fixed address bank accounts” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31302310


Does this perpetuate the idea that companies can pollute now and simply “buy” their way out? Isn’t this especially true if a lot of carbon removal technologies are unproven, or proven at a minuscule scale of what is needed?

I’m all for initiatives addressing the climate crisis at this size and scale, but not if this follows a similar path to the carbon credits and carbon offsetting markets we have now.

See this FT article for example: “Carbon offset transactions surge despite environmental concerns” https://www.ft.com/content/5ca87325-0baf-47fb-85e0-b1e4746f4...


I imagine for companies like those funding this, it's part of their bigger-picture plan to offset their carbon emissions, aiming for net zero and whatnot.


London has 4X top flight football (soccer) clubs that are known the world over: Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, West Ham.

Paris has Paris St Germain, who currently own two of the most recent top international players on the world stage.

Both cities also have lots of too-tier clubs from other sports, e.g. rugby.

These cities do have plenty of other attractions beside sports though to attract tourists and investment, so without these teams the cities would likely be fine.


I was fortunate enough to be involved with a modern secular community that aimed to become a non-religious church: Sunday Assembly.

Take the best bits of religion, including purpose, structure, community, and tradition, but make it available for non-believers.

We even got so far as making the interview stage of Y Combinator:

https://benrmatthews.com/meeting-heroes-y-combinator-intervi...

During the interview, Sanderson (Sunday Assembly co-founder) had a brilliant back and forth with Sam Altman, but ultimately the idea didn’t stand.

I still think the ethos of Sunday Assembly has merit.


I've attended a few Unitarian Universalist services, and they're very open to "non-believers", as well as pretty much any type of personal belief. They seemed to be much more interested in community and rite than to forcing dogma. Still, while they were certainly a friendly and pleasant group of people, I found it all a bit too fuzzy with objective truth to be my cup if tea. I don't have anything like Sunday Assembly in my area, and occasionally thought of trying to start some kind of weekly humanist gathering. Rather than the UU message that "any belief is welcome", I wanted to convey more of a "everyone is welcome, personal religious beliefs aside" message. Where we could just work on humanistic goals together.


There's an old joke: Catholics believe in transubstantiation. Baptists believe in the Rapture. Unitarian Universalists believe in donuts on Sunday.


This is very interesting to me. I am just "Saturday browsing" but plan to try to read what I can about your community. My first impression is surprise that the group was trying to raise venture capital :) I will find out more as I read i guess.


MIT - it says on the repo


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