It's increasingly a pet theory of mine that the uncontrolled concentration of wealth into the hands of the richest, their subsequent existential ennui, and their disconnect from reality owing to media consolidation and…
We had a perfectly functioning economy prior to car domination and all the alternatives have progressed by incredible leaps and bounds in the time since as well.
I've been to two funerals in as many years for personal friends who died when drivers killed them with their cars. I'll make sure to throw in a good word for "emergent freedoms" and "the progress of civilization" at the…
I think it's important to think of Excel as a tool for modelling reality and not a tool for changing it. IMO Excel should not be producing data feeds that other tools expect real time access to, nor should it make API…
A lot of sitcom tropes involve behaviors that are repulsive in real life.
Tons of people who get degrees in technical fields work outside that field. There are many people who have have spent at least part of their studies or career in hard science, SWE, IT, management consulting, law or…
> It tries to make you 'competitive' so hard. I've found that it's really what you make of it. My city has a bunch of cycling subcultures - social slow rolls, fast road riding, sightseeing and exploration, commuting and…
Overall, I eat out less, but "drink out" more and never get more than one drink at the establishment. I can't claim to be able to uniquely isolate any of my behavior to fees because a lot has changed in my life. Before…
I'd like to believe this is true but in my metropolitan area, it's quite common to see e.g. a covid recovery fee, inflation recovery fee, iniative 82 service fee, and autograt when you are checking out. It's extremely…
It is sort of like claiming Netflix is a membership-selling company that happens to run a streaming service. Though you could make this argument for gyms, which are notorious for selling a lot of memberships to people…
For the sake of your local dogs I wish you many more boring calls where you have nothing to contribute.
Bike lane hardening is surely good, but this is a press release from almost two years ago that promised to harden half of the city's bike lanes, which still hasn't happened or even come close to happening. One thing you…
It's sad and infuriating that in the United States, you can point out blatantly dangerous infrastructure and fight for safety improvements, and it won't make any difference until someone actually goes out and exploits…
Presumably if the technology is good, there is some competitive advantage in retaining sole control over it, or licensing it out.
I make my own decks. Nearly all of it is word + pronunciation (for Chinese/Japanese) + definition + example sentences, with additional fields for words that have several pronunciations/definitions. I don't have any…
> He is probably going against the advice of his lawyers because he thinks he is smarter than them. I think it's a hail Mary. All his buddies were offered deals to flip on him because he was the big fish. There's no…
Long-term Bed Bath shareholders lost everything. Evidently their returns were not boosted by the buybacks.
One can, but I think it is better to dream.
> The rebuttals to his design are basically just "every room needs a window", without any real justification. Do you think he didn't think of that? That he just forgot to put windows in? I think Munger should build a…
That's what Google+ was, too. People who already had online communities on four websites temporarily added a fifth to hedge their bets until it was clear that G+ was not destined for greatness.
Ok, but what do you do then? Fundamentally the issue is that cars are huge visibility blockers. It is completely inconceivable that a cyclist could stop or slow to let a pedestrian cross, and the driver behind them…
> That pedestrian deaths were higher at some point in the past is what's the real story here. I deeply disagree with this take. I am living in a world in which boxes of metal fly around my unprotected flesh at high…
The number was 4,109 in 2009[1]. In 2022 the number is 7,509, per TFA. We are in the middle of an alarming rebound that has significantly outpaced population growth.…
> bigger cars often total smaller ones And if you have the misfortune of getting hit by a bigger car while not being in a car yourself, you are likely to be critically injured, permanently disabled, or dead. The way to…
> And property owners are people who are quite literally invested in the community, even more so than full-time renters. I don't agree on this point. They are invested in a plot of land, not the people. A house that…
It's increasingly a pet theory of mine that the uncontrolled concentration of wealth into the hands of the richest, their subsequent existential ennui, and their disconnect from reality owing to media consolidation and…
We had a perfectly functioning economy prior to car domination and all the alternatives have progressed by incredible leaps and bounds in the time since as well.
I've been to two funerals in as many years for personal friends who died when drivers killed them with their cars. I'll make sure to throw in a good word for "emergent freedoms" and "the progress of civilization" at the…
I think it's important to think of Excel as a tool for modelling reality and not a tool for changing it. IMO Excel should not be producing data feeds that other tools expect real time access to, nor should it make API…
A lot of sitcom tropes involve behaviors that are repulsive in real life.
Tons of people who get degrees in technical fields work outside that field. There are many people who have have spent at least part of their studies or career in hard science, SWE, IT, management consulting, law or…
> It tries to make you 'competitive' so hard. I've found that it's really what you make of it. My city has a bunch of cycling subcultures - social slow rolls, fast road riding, sightseeing and exploration, commuting and…
Overall, I eat out less, but "drink out" more and never get more than one drink at the establishment. I can't claim to be able to uniquely isolate any of my behavior to fees because a lot has changed in my life. Before…
I'd like to believe this is true but in my metropolitan area, it's quite common to see e.g. a covid recovery fee, inflation recovery fee, iniative 82 service fee, and autograt when you are checking out. It's extremely…
It is sort of like claiming Netflix is a membership-selling company that happens to run a streaming service. Though you could make this argument for gyms, which are notorious for selling a lot of memberships to people…
For the sake of your local dogs I wish you many more boring calls where you have nothing to contribute.
Bike lane hardening is surely good, but this is a press release from almost two years ago that promised to harden half of the city's bike lanes, which still hasn't happened or even come close to happening. One thing you…
It's sad and infuriating that in the United States, you can point out blatantly dangerous infrastructure and fight for safety improvements, and it won't make any difference until someone actually goes out and exploits…
Presumably if the technology is good, there is some competitive advantage in retaining sole control over it, or licensing it out.
I make my own decks. Nearly all of it is word + pronunciation (for Chinese/Japanese) + definition + example sentences, with additional fields for words that have several pronunciations/definitions. I don't have any…
> He is probably going against the advice of his lawyers because he thinks he is smarter than them. I think it's a hail Mary. All his buddies were offered deals to flip on him because he was the big fish. There's no…
Long-term Bed Bath shareholders lost everything. Evidently their returns were not boosted by the buybacks.
One can, but I think it is better to dream.
> The rebuttals to his design are basically just "every room needs a window", without any real justification. Do you think he didn't think of that? That he just forgot to put windows in? I think Munger should build a…
That's what Google+ was, too. People who already had online communities on four websites temporarily added a fifth to hedge their bets until it was clear that G+ was not destined for greatness.
Ok, but what do you do then? Fundamentally the issue is that cars are huge visibility blockers. It is completely inconceivable that a cyclist could stop or slow to let a pedestrian cross, and the driver behind them…
> That pedestrian deaths were higher at some point in the past is what's the real story here. I deeply disagree with this take. I am living in a world in which boxes of metal fly around my unprotected flesh at high…
The number was 4,109 in 2009[1]. In 2022 the number is 7,509, per TFA. We are in the middle of an alarming rebound that has significantly outpaced population growth.…
> bigger cars often total smaller ones And if you have the misfortune of getting hit by a bigger car while not being in a car yourself, you are likely to be critically injured, permanently disabled, or dead. The way to…
> And property owners are people who are quite literally invested in the community, even more so than full-time renters. I don't agree on this point. They are invested in a plot of land, not the people. A house that…