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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 re…

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" an…

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 t…

A lot of sitcom tropes involve behaviors that are repulsive in real life.

My family (parents, siblings) are asking me "How did our T-mobile phone bill balloon so much in the past decade?" and I can point to the slow creep and the plan changes they made t…

SBF didn't have anyone bigger to flip on.

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 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, sig…

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 becaus…

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…

> Why not go even further? Itemize the marginal cost of maintaining your property's parking lot for those customers who visit your business by car? Aka... charge for parking? I mea…

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 s…

Uber Pool is back after a pandemic-induced hiatus. The main draw isn't the potential for an interesting conversation but the fact that it's cheaper.

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…

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 s…

Nit: Most food delivery workers in NYC are on e-bikes or mopeds. There are surely some drivers but it is prohibitively difficult to use a car for food deliveries in nearly all of M…

> Riding a bike is not fun if you're doing it to commute - having to do it in all weathers, in traffic that feels unsafe, even if you don't feel like it and got poor sleep etc. It'…

Presumably if the technology is good, there is some competitive advantage in retaining sole control over it, or licensing it out.

So they're basically switching employees from an investment plan where the employees profit from falling interest rates to an investment plan where IBM profits from falling interes…

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 pronunciat…

Yes but doing reviews on a phone can get tedious under some circumstances. Since a lot of people, particularly med students but really any dedicated learner who uses Anki, puts ten…

One of the most popular applications for these controllers, at least in the circles I run in, is doing flashcard reviews in Anki. It's super convenient if you have a controller sin…

> 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 beca…