actionablefiber

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by actionablefiber 6mo ago
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 algorithmic cont
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by actionablefiber 2y ago
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.
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by actionablefiber 2y ago
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&quo
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by actionablefiber 2y ago
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 calls that mutate
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by actionablefiber 2y ago
A lot of sitcom tropes involve behaviors that are repulsive in real life.
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by actionablefiber 2y ago
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 that (without them knowing or anyone telling them)
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by actionablefiber 2y ago
SBF didn't have anyone bigger to flip on.
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by actionablefiber 2y ago
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 finance before switching
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by actionablefiber 2y ago
> 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 a
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by actionablefiber 2y ago
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 covid
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by actionablefiber 2y ago
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 bad for
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by actionablefiber 2y ago
> 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 mean? This is pretty common? I've always found it
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
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 who lack/lose the
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
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.
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
For the sake of your local dogs I wish you many more boring calls where you have nothing to contribute.
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
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 get used t
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
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 the bad infr
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
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 Manhattan and decent portions of Brooklyn/Queens/th
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
> 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's really fundamentally not the same. With
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
Presumably if the technology is good, there is some competitive advantage in retaining sole control over it, or licensing it out.
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
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 interest rates. Except IBM also takes plenty of upside if inte
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
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 particular
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
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 tens or hundreds or thousands of hours into Anki during their j
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
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 since you can do the reviews while on the go, while huddle
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
> 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 bigger fish
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
What’s the “Very Bad” scenario? Limited liability stops being limited?
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
Long-term Bed Bath shareholders lost everything. Evidently their returns were not boosted by the buybacks.
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
Borrowing money to buy back stock is the opposite of funding: it's de-funding. It's the acquisition of liabilities with no offsetting acquisition of assets or future cash flows.
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
One can, but I think it is better to dream.
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
> 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 dorm

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