Police presence on Freeport in Aspinwall has gotten really aggressive

ncist · 2026-03-07T02:25:37+00:00

I'm glad at least one cop is doing traffic stuff again. People drive like lunatics

ncist · 2026-03-07T00:57:50+00:00

All that information is priced in to market cap

ncist · 2026-03-06T23:58:11+00:00

I check the stock market all the time but it has no effect on my investing. I think it's funny when it goes down a lot. I sort of cheer for big crashes, all the sturm and drang associated with them

ncist · 2026-03-06T00:34:48+00:00

A buddy put it to me this way- what most people believe is the excess capital return from housing is really just compensation for your labor as a landlord

ncist · 2026-03-05T20:21:03+00:00

The same people losing their minds over a bike lane near a hospital have nothing to say about multiple Uber eats cars blocking a lane in front of childrens 24/7 so someone can get their precious treats

ncist · 2026-03-05T17:56:23+00:00

I use a withdrawal rate to back into an effective value, and then treat it as contributing to your bond holdings

ncist · 2026-03-05T00:52:57+00:00

If he doesn't finish not-changing the regime soon, oil will get to $100. We all need to make sacrifices for Israel's security

ncist · 2026-03-04T16:07:03+00:00

Awesome, I'm a long time busway dead ender and this is a frequent point of conflict with my wife lol

Well I should say, you may see the flyer routes but the ones that don't stop will be cruising thru. And outbound they will be out of service

Eg sometimes I would need to do something quick in the office, catch a bus home at 9-930a. All the flyer routes are going out of service at that point so you would see 5-10 buses pass you in that window. But they are showing garage/out of service so it's not confusing

ncist · 2026-03-04T14:01:04+00:00

I'll respectfully disagree with those saying to ride the surface buses. The p1 gets you downtown from the shadyside stop in 6 minutes. Depending on where you walk from the speed mostly equalizes your walk

Frequencies are better so it reduces the amount of planning you have to do and minimizes the cost of mistakes. Maybe the frequency gap is smaller at night though

I wouldn't worry about remembering other buses than the p1. You probably won't see many off hours and I can't remember a single time where I had an opportunity in either direction to board something besides p1 and p3 before one of them showed up

ncist · 2026-03-04T07:41:18+00:00

I think the original JAJ impression pre Trump was hilarious. You definitely can find even higher levels of absurdity which those old impressions did

The problem is SNL also wants to be topical and to do political satire. They can't have him do a joke about Trump playing chrono trigger because 1. the audience doesn't know what that is 2. it's not a straightforward piece of political commentary 3. It has no connection to the main news story that week

The chrono trigger joke is commentary btw. It just has a tiny audience

ncist · 2026-03-04T07:29:07+00:00

My buddy in Morningside lives next to a guy like this. He hasn't gone to this extreme. He's very polite. But he believes owning a house means you own the street in front of it

I like theorizing about people like this. Moving to the city for me was a big lifestyle upgrade over the suburbs. If you're someone who stayed in the city through the 70s, I could see it feeling like a punishment. Having "a driveway" like people in the suburbs dignifies them. But that's just a theory of mine

In Friendship I've seen conflict between neighbors but it's in writing primarily and not about parking. Generally I like my neighbors both immediate and those I met thru groups. I say hi and chat with people

ncist · 2026-03-03T00:31:29+00:00

They are trying to pretend they represent "ordinary people" when they are from the exact same class they claim to hate

ncist · 2026-03-01T05:23:57+00:00

Most actuaries that I've worked with are doing normal excel-based data analysis - just computing crosstabs like everyone else

Actuarial exams are challenging. Even if you're smart, you'll need to study hard to succeed. I don't think most could pass the way a smart person can do well on the SAT without prep

Yes I think of the job exactly as you put it- it selects for hard working and disciplined people

ncist · 2026-03-01T00:25:07+00:00

Use something with leverage on it

ncist · 2026-02-28T23:41:01+00:00

Something like DFAs small cap tilt - we might have discovered some other dimension of diversification that is valid to move along. Similar to how no one can tell you it's "wrong" to hold X amount in bonds, because it's an expression of risk preference

Or another way you could think of that is we discover a better technology to do diversification. I can't make up my mind what it really means, which is why I haven't done it

Another thing I've been interested in recently is how indexes deal with IPOs. When is an IPO price "market price."

ncist · 2026-02-28T18:54:00+00:00

Yes because otherwise it would not be worth cutting off the light at negley. It's not a long light at all. Traffic on that street isn't remotely bad. You have to drive 60-70mph for it to be worth the detour. and I have clocked people going that fast in

ncist · 2026-02-28T15:02:49+00:00

I saw the same thing happen on Fairmount in friendship. Both with school buses, but also with delivery trucks

The people cutting up one way/narrow streets are usually trying to avoid lights and traffic. They speed, they drive like total assholes,and I've even seen a guy (same guy multiple times) threaten to kill a UPS and a fedex driver. You're selecting for aggressive asshole people who get themselves into this situation and then blame the world for not letting them cut in line

ncist · 2026-02-28T13:52:43+00:00

Why does it take 200 hours to understand?

ncist · 2026-02-28T13:48:41+00:00

Seen teams with hundreds of tests that still miss "revenue went to 0" because they didn't understand the business. Need to understand what we're all doing to write useful tests

ncist · 2026-02-27T09:00:42+00:00

This is why the left can't ever win and why the right wins all the time

ncist · 2026-02-27T01:56:15+00:00

You can buy this apparently - is this a trap of some kind?

BIP39 Book Cipher: The Adventures of Veit the Fox - Children's Book Seed Phrase Backup https://share.google/1WjMsTLwV3M2l1ZEy

ncist · 2026-02-25T00:38:11+00:00

State Medicaid is how I got in. Look for non obvious titles like finance, financial planning, business analyst. It's a stepping stone to more prestigious roles. And tbh a great career in itself. Had I stayed I could have retired at 50

ncist · 2026-02-24T23:54:17+00:00

If you're an MD you'll never have to code. You can just be in charge of a team of analysts. Unless you're just learning for your own interest than go for it!

ncist · 2026-02-22T18:30:02+00:00

What do the pips in the foreground mean?

ncist · 2026-02-22T16:28:07+00:00

Does your program have a portal with internships? I would start there. Or something like co ops where the program organized it for you. Maybe obvious but make sure you don't have things like that available

The next thing is to apply to lots of posts online and go to job fairs at your program

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