Steve Coast
stevecoast.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2012
Steve Coast, founder of OpenStreetMap, writes about maps, navigation, startups, and technology trends.
What HN saysHN links it for his views on OpenStreetMap's readiness for navigation and his support of what3words; commenters mostly cite it as the founder's own account.
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- 1The World Will Only Get Weirder3 people · 12 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 2OpenStreetMap is now navigation-ready2 people · 364 points · first shared 2014 · 131 comments on HN
- 3Using genetic algorithms to generate negative training data2 people · 4 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 4It’s Time to Make OpenStreetMap Your Only Street Map1 people · 525 points · first shared 2014 · 248 comments on HN
- 5Cardboard economics1 people · 14 points · first shared 2014 · 14 comments on HN
- 6OpenGeocoder.net - Project by Steve Coast1 people · 5 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 7Surface Phone1 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 8Platform as a Service1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 9The world will only get weirder (2015)1 people · 3 points · first shared 2026 · 1 comments on HN
- 10Amazon’s Phone Failure1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · 3 comments on HN
- 11Building Streetview rigs with iPhones and 3D printing1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 12How Amazon is Winning1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 13Simplify your Messaging1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 14BlogContactOSM Stats OpenStreetMap Stats Kickstarter1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 15EBay Intellectual Property Enforcement1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
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avar · 2017-10-29
Steve Coast, OpenStreetMap founder and what3words employee on why what3words is a good thing: https://stevecoast.com/2016/03/25/why-i-like-what3words/
exolymph · 2016-01-06
Here's his blog post about it: http://stevecoast.com/2015/09/15/open-company/
Vik1ng · 2014-05-19
Steve Coast the founder of OpenStreetMap who now works at Telnav also wrote about this on this on his homepage:
http://stevecoast.com/2014/05/19/why-openstreetmap-is-now-navigation-r…
SteveCoast · 2019-01-24
Exactly, and put better than I could.
It appears that the simplicity of the explanation is itself a problem. Surely - all these chronic diseases can't be that simply explained? Dr. Wahls essentially claims carbs are the root cause of MS, which she cured in herself (with the corollary that carbs eliminate other nutrition). Dr. Fung claims it's the root cause of diabetes. Prof Seyfried claims it's the root cause of cancer. It surely can't be that simple?
Reading all their work, and others, I'm struck that it's very much a five-whys scenario[1].
Also there are two points wrapped up in the original response. One is about the cause, but there's a bigger issue about the avoidance of the problem in a first place. If someone never eats refined carbs and therefor avoids the root cause, why would they care about the details of the cause? We care about the details insomuch as we would like to treat the disease, but today we can't do that. On the other hand we do know with a lot of certainty that eating well, fasting and exercising are good for us and avoid the problems in the first place. For some reason, that doesn't matter as much.
The downside with treating the disease is that you also enable it, like how we "treat" T2 diabetes by essentially just giving you more diabetes via insulin shots.
[1] - https://stevecoast.com/2015/03/27/the-world-will-only-get-weirder/