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In the mountain sports community Ibuprofen is jokingly referred to as "Vitamin I". I know a lot of people who take it regularly to push through the soreness of multiple days of physical activity.

Did you read the article you're responding to? It's historical data, which is as literal money in the bank as you can get. What's the point of saying "oh sure, but this is skewed by Amazon/Microsoft TC, base salaries are actually much lower" in this context?

This is backward looking data. It's what people earned, not some pie-in-the-sky projection of future IPO windfalls.

I don't know why there is always this nitpick. I just take it for granted that when someone talks about tech "salaries" they mean "total comp". Virtually everyone in my peer group makes more than half of their total comp from non-salary compensation. Sure that portion varies somewhat due to market forces, but there seems little point in discussing base salaries.

Presumably from stories like this one earlier this week: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/seattle-tech-workers-earn-279k...

Ouch. Either I need to stop commenting while in a conference call or I'm going senile. Or both.

Your comment got me interested in where the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (alma mater to Copernicus) placed in these standings which led me to this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in...

I bought a Purple mattress a few years ago. It was debilitatingly uncomfortable. After three nights I gave up and called them for a return. Their customer service spent quite a long time trying to convince me to keep trying: their pitch/theory was that their mattress is so extremely comfortable and all other mattresses are so extremely uncomfortable that the body gets used to that discomfort and it will take a few weeks or more to switch over to accepting the comfort of Purple. After repeatedly saying no thank you and eventually having to explain to them quite bluntly that their theory was complete horseshit, they processed the return... the "return" was a Salvation Army truck, which, when it arrived, already had two brand new Casper mattresses in it. I asked the guys in the truck if this was normal and they said "yeah, we get at least 1-2 of these every day".

FWIW, I bought an IKEA foam mattress + memory foam topper for about 1/3rd of what the Purple cost and it's been very comfortable for a few years now.

I'm not sure what the condescending "uh" is about. All of the brands I listed do have websites so you can trivially confirm their premium shells use Gore-Tex. Here are the ones you tried to fact-check:

https://www.outdoorresearch.com/us/mens-hemispheres-jacket-2...

https://www.blackdiamondequipment.com/en/mens-jackets-shells...

https://www.marmot.com/mens-alpinist-jacket-30370.html

TNF still uses Gore-Tex as well, but I didn't include them in my original list - they went mass market about 20 years ago and while less experienced people still buy it based on name recognition, you'll rarely see TNF worn by unsponsored people in the backcountry.

All the A-list mountain brands' top-of-the-line shells are currently made with Gore-Tex. I just did a quick scan and Arc'teryx, Black Diamond, Haglöfs, Marmot, Norrøna, Outdoor Research, Patagonia, and Rab all do. I can't find a single brand that I'd consider buying a technical shell from that doesn't. The same holds for boots: Asolo, La Sportiva, Lowa, Scarpa, Vasque, and Zamberlan all use Gore-Tex.

> adoption continues to increase over time

I see this statement over and over and wonder what it's backed by. Anecdotally it feels like adoption at the "businesses that take Bitcoin" level has been dropping steadily for the past few years - announcements of "X will start taking Bitcoin" have all but dried up and many of the businesses that did take it seem to have given up, especially so at the local level in locations that I am familiar with. I have no insight into adoption at the person-to-person private transaction level. Is there some reasonably balanced source that has a good analysis of adoption or is transaction rate being used as a proxy for adoption in these claims of increase?

Why is it disingenuous?

What if the OP sold and immediately bought another asset that had similarly appreciated? What if they sold, changed their mind, and immediately re-bought the same asset? In both these cases the "made" 25K (or somewhat less if we factor in cap gains tax) is in a similarly precarious position to the just-keep-holding case.

Is it the case that to have "made money" you need to take that money permanently out of play? Does that in turn mean then when you invest money that money shouldn't count toward your net worth because it might lose value in the future?

It surely depends on what you consider "the outdoors" and what your baseline for proximity is, but speaking as someone whose definition of outdoor recreation skews towards mountain sports in both summer and winter I would not consider SF to be proximate to the outdoors and would recommend looking further north (Portland, Seattle, Vancouver) if you want to live somewhere urban-ish and have quick, regular access to the backcountry.

Isn't this only for mutual funds? AFAIK, Schwab is the only major old-school brokerage that currently offers fractional shares.

The video was shot in the Richmond Center parking lot [1]. That Tesla is (unfortunately) displaying above-average driving skill for that location.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@49.1646475,-123.1373743,18z

I don't think cooler/trendier is the reason major companies with established long-term offices use WeWork. I spent a few months in a WeWork office - which was more uncomfortable than it was cool or trendy - as an employee of such a company and the reason was mundane: needing temporary space for a subset of the workforce during an office remodel. I'd wager for most big name clients the draw is the short-term/low-commitment nature of the offering rather than cooler trendiness of Class C office space that's been tarted up with a thin layer of Silicon Valley chic.

This has been beaten to death in other threads related to this over the past several weeks, but the short answer to your question is "by putting money toward infrastructure upgrades instead of toward paying out dividends".

I had to laugh a little at "their impact on performance remains unexamined" as the bicycle touring crowd has used plain boiled potatoes as a common fueling snack for as long as I can remember. When I did the Seattle-to-Portland ride 15 or so years ago all of the aid stations had tubs of them to hand out. This study seems to be yet another instance of Taleb's "lecturing birds how to fly" phenomenon.

That is a good point that may offset to some extent. From the glimpses I've had of grocery store stocking - especially when it comes to produce - I think Costco is still more packaging-per-volume for the things I buy. Costco also still has an additional third layer of boxing for most items between the sellable packaging and the pallet. For example the boxes of tomatoes I mentioned are additionally housed in a 6-unit box and it's those boxes that are stacked on the pallets. I supposed the final outcome depends on what one buys - processed/frozen food probably has a better packaging efficiency at Costco.

But then I'd miss out on the 4% back from my Costco Visa for that gasoline. And even _just that 4%_ pays for the membership in my case. :D

(My next-best card in terms of rebate on gas is 1.5%, so assuming an additional 2.5% from Costco, I need to buy $2400 in gas to have the full membership covered by just the gas rebate - not even counting the additional savings from the lower price of gas).

I'm a big fan of Costco, but packaging is one area where I'm not sure how well it works out from an environmental footprint perspective. Buying milk? 3 standard cartons in a big cardboard box. Tomatoes? 4 lbs in a cardboard box wrapped in plastic where you would have used the same amount of plastic minus the box at a supermarket. Many of the items they sell are in the standard packaging then packaged in one additional layer of multi-unit packaging. I understand the need for it due to requiring stacking the items in large quantities plus efficiency of checkout and I optimistically hope that supply chain efficiency offsets the additional packaging but I'm not sure what the reality is.

I'm sure it varies from area to area but here in the Seattle area I've found that as compared to the standard supermarkets (meaning Safeway, QFC, Fred Meyer), Costco sells prime grade beef at the same price as supermarkets sell choice grade and organic chicken at the same price as supermarkets sell conventional. But what really gives Costco's meat department the edge is that their meat looks so much better/fresher than the supermarkets.

It's a similar story for organic produce, eggs, and so on. Items like cheese, dried fruit and nuts are about half the price of comparable quality elsewhere. And then there's items like olive oil where Costco sells at a great price with the added bonus that you get actual olive oil and not some blend of unknown origin.

But if you live near enough to a Costco and own a car, the real killer-app is their gasoline. In my area, it is 50-60 cents a gallon cheaper than gas stations. From this alone my membership would more than pay for itself even if I never stepped inside the store.

The company that issues Tether can issue it without receiving any USD. If that issuance is large enough, they can make a killing in absolute terms.

Though the OP misspelled cachet, so I guess it should be "The brand for a while had some cash, eh?" :)

At Amazon, for their legendary door desks, the solution was almost this. You'd open a facilities ticket and eventually a guy with a glue gun and slices of 4x4s in various heights would show up. He'd pick the slice height necessary to get your desk to the right height, place a drop of glue on each slice, crawl under your desk and raise it with his shoulders while sliding the slices into place under the legs.

Which flavor is "tea flavor"? Black, pu-erh, oolong, green, white? For black, is it Assam, Ceylon, Darjeeling, etc, etc? Why should the specific flavor blend that Lipton's tasters put together for their Yellow Label be good enough for everybody?

The pizzas that are ordered for a group in the US are generally 16-18 inches (40-45cm). They are usually not as thin-crusted as Italian-style pizzas are, and they usually have more cheese and toppings. Depending on toppings a complete pizza can be more than 4000 calories.

> There's a real business model somewhere in here.

https://petapixel.com/2019/05/22/the-chinese-instagram-villa...

> To be honest, I don't get the mania for processed meat substitutes...

It seems you didn't even bother to read the article to check if it would make good segue into your vegan epiphany story: there is no mention of processed meat substitutes.

It also seems like the hamburger you tried was quite poorly prepared if hot dogs made a more compelling case for eating meat.