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People in and around the acela corridor drive significantly less than the national average.

the actual cost of a trip between times square and the national mall is about $200 all things considered based on the ~0.80 federal mileage reimbursement rate for 250 miles. that t…

$1 in Jan 2005 is only 1.69 today, not $4 because the velocity of money has decreased dramatically as it has pooled towards the top of the income/wealth spectrum where it doesn't g…

Inflation is completely possible with no change in money supply. This is handled in economics with the idea of the "velocity of money" which conceptually captures the large range o…

seems comparable to chess where it's well established that a human + a computer is much more skilled than either one individually

The ars article the post links too is much more informative https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/the-harrowing-story-of...

It would be really interesting if they had used a control for gender by also comparing results to something like 1, people of all genders who had experienced some sort of violent e…

if you haven't destroyed your mtb after 10 years of riding you might not need a mountain bike at all.

I would be very suspicious that some combination of different tires and different geometry between the bikes your comparing is much more responsible for that perceived difference t…

they can also be stiffer in some directions and more flexible in others, which is a huge underestimated advantage compared to metal bikes.

yeah this isn't a real concern

my 25 year old aluminum hard tail begs me to share that while this is factually correct, the lifetime for an alloy bike frame isn't a real practical limitation, just a talking poin…

I'm curious what you think the vibration dampening properties of steel are. It's very notable to me that high quality steel bikes almost always come with a carbon fork if not suspe…

they dampen vibrations better than steel and titanium too tbh. I've never understood the "ride feel" thing about metal frames. Metal tubes are very resonant. that ride feel is just…

I don't believe this personally, but I bet that many people with MBA's would tell you that this was what their MBA was about.

not very much room... the companies weren't all that separate and fedex profited off the alleged fraud >>> FedEx started auctioning old vans off through its fleet company, Holman F…

wholesale auctions operate with a surprising amount of trust, often buyers never actually see the car, they buy based on the specs and description. The vehicle is then shipped to t…

what?

I guess to me I'm (1) surprised that you think the social status affirmation dynamic is more at play for people buying new bikes than people riding 40 year "steel is real" bikes. (…

an embarrassing article for the author. could have left it as >> the bicycle itself has managed to elude environmental critique ... "because" >> Cycling is one of the most sustaina…

why are the states against it?

Considering what college admissions in the US has turned into today, I've wondered for a few years whether a prestigious university could benefit by specifying that 5 or 10 percent…

the point isn't that stealing is ok, it's that the people who claim to care about "stealing" care about one very specific type of stealing by one group of people and don't care abo…

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/5/7/21247602...

from FRED: "The efficiency at which labor hours are utilized in producing output of goods and services, measured as output per hour of labor." The solow residual is technically tot…