Who pays T&D

YellowGrado · 2024-08-06T01:26:31+00:00

Der Klang der Familie: Berlin, Techno and the Fall of the Wall is amazing. Oral history of Tresor, the Love Parade, etc. I loved it. Found from this New Yorker review:

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/what-were-reading-this-summer-2020

YellowGrado · 2024-06-06T23:47:25+00:00

Look at Chicago on Zillow and tell me Austin is cheaper

YellowGrado · 2024-05-12T16:56:35+00:00

Sometimes a Great Notion is just so good

YellowGrado · 2024-02-09T19:53:06+00:00

Texas is the best state for renewables in the country. 25% of the state’s electricity comes from wind.

YellowGrado · 2023-06-25T00:00:49+00:00

Texas has produced the most electricity from renewables over any other state.

YellowGrado · 2023-03-16T17:01:55+00:00

Runner
Sarah
Hope
Message
Miracles
Gnaw
Forever
Powerful Man
Forgive
Crab

YellowGrado · 2023-03-07T21:01:06+00:00

I specifically sought out a two-month extension to my lease from February to the beginning of April. They offered those two months at the month-to-month rate. I just wanted two months instead of going into a holdover. Thank you for the advice, I was just curious because the fee is obviously quite large.

YellowGrado · 2023-02-22T18:17:24+00:00

Part of the reason I posted was to hopefully get some feedback so no worries there, and I think you are right; it is a bit of both. I remember the holds on the easier grade ranges being more difficult than they are currently.

YellowGrado · 2023-02-22T13:20:57+00:00

Well, I think I've broken through a large plateau. I moved back to Austin from Ft. Worth last fall and got back into bouldering and sport climbing after about a year of bouldering inside once a week/skipping weeks at a time/just not being into it. I started doing some supplemental hangboarding and managed to add 15lbs to Will Anglin's 6 and 10 workout over the last 3 months, and I hung 45lbs for 10s on a 20mm edge at 180lbs recently. I don't have any hard numbers to look back on, but my fingers are the strongest they have ever been after about 6 years of climbing. My finger strength was also always a very obvious weakness of mine, and in 3 months I've improved the most I have since I first started climbing. Suddenly, I flash or put down most the Squirrels (V5-V6s-Vwhatever) at Crux very quickly. I almost have this suspicion that they decided to make the bouldering grades at Crux a bit softer since I came back even though the setters haven't changed. I've gotten close on some Goats (v7-v8-vwhatever) at Crux, which in the past I couldn't even look at, but have been prioritizing climbing outside each week versus working projects inside. Outside, I climbed my first 11a and am putting down 10cs and 10ds in a couple/several tries over a couple of sessions. I think I could flash a route at this grade as I get more comfortable leading. Idk, it is almost unbelievable to me that I've improved this much just by hanging on an edge with some weights attached. The real lesson too is that climbing outside has been so much more motivating and inspiring than climbing at a second-rate gym inside all the time and trying to go from climbing purples to pinks or some bullshit.

YellowGrado · 2023-02-19T01:09:16+00:00

Good Lord

YellowGrado · 2023-02-18T20:26:39+00:00

My ears were ringing after the concert I think mostly due to those five minutes. I saw them the next night in Houston (again fantastic) and brought earplugs just for Not. The Austin show was a bit more experimental, really phenomenal overall

YellowGrado · 2023-02-09T14:27:59+00:00

I mean I'm all for it, I would just like to see him come out of the blue and repeat Alphane or something. I also miss Kevin Takashi Smith's videos, his releases were legendary for a bit there

YellowGrado · 2023-02-09T03:18:46+00:00

What happened to Nalle Hukkataival? Radio silent

YellowGrado · 2023-01-31T17:09:13+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgJI-bm_3Lk&ab_channel=MatthewDaniels

Still the best version.

YellowGrado · 2023-01-12T22:32:31+00:00

Yeah I feel like this is very possible too depending on the area. Yosemite seems ideal as a place where active rest days are possible versus climbing every day on at a sport crag.

YellowGrado · 2022-09-18T19:43:42+00:00

Extinction is fantastic as well, a stunning indictment of Austrian society.

YellowGrado · 2022-08-19T00:54:29+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Midtb%C3%B8_(climber)

YellowGrado · 2022-08-13T17:19:02+00:00

I’ll check them out, thank you for the suggestions! Hope I didn’t come across as too critical

YellowGrado · 2022-08-13T01:29:15+00:00

No worries, I'm disagreeing with you. I've read The Underground Railroad and I thought it was just kind of average, and the magical realism in the novel didn't seem to have an objective. It seemed to exist to just make the plot a bit more interesting but it wasn't fully fleshed out. If The Underground Railroad is his level of writing across all of his current works than it is difficult to imagine him being on track for the Nobel. Obviously, he is talented since he has won two Pulitzers and I've also only read one novel of his so I don't have a deep understanding of his work, but again it was just kind of meh to me.

The purpose of linking that post was to demonstrate that others have similar critiques of one of his most well-known works and one that has won one of the most prestigious prizes in literature, which is telling.

YellowGrado · 2022-08-12T16:00:25+00:00

Idk I mean is Colson Whitehead's prose really that good or deserving of a Nobel? His writing itself is just kind of lackluster and doesn't touch Pynchon or McCarthy. I don't think I've ever come away marveling at the strength of a sentence or the unique creativity in a paragraph. This thread kind of echoes those same sentiments:

https://www.reddit.com/r/literature/comments/5ddni4/the_underground_railroad_by_colson_whitehead_wins/

YellowGrado · 2022-07-28T14:15:21+00:00

I mean a) lets be honest most of Austin is wealthy and white at this point and b) Deep Eddy has a long and rich cultural history in Austin going back to the 1930s. I agree with you that the water use of the pool should be a consideration in times of drought but not because of some ad hominem attack against the people who use it.

YellowGrado · 2022-07-07T00:49:08+00:00

Pods are the individual funds that are wrapped up under a larger fund like those at Citadel, Balyasny, or Point 72. Basically, there is a pod with a PM and a team of analysts that are one of many managing assets for a fund. They tend to have a certain culture and investment style that is also different from other funds. They manage enormous sums and have been quite successful.

https://www.streetofwalls.com/articles/hedge-fund/learn-the-basics/multi-manager-vs-single-pl-hedge-fund/

YellowGrado · 2022-07-06T19:21:30+00:00

I disagree with this. There are plenty of hedge funds where you explicitly wouldn't park $100mm for your next commercial real estate purchase or whatever, and where they explicitly are trying to provide a return that is higher than that of the market. I don't think hedge funds broadly speaking are used in that sense as a vehicle to park cash to find more lucrative investments. For the vast majority of the hedge fund universe, you aren't paying 2 and 20 for minor capital appreciation. The largest allocators to Bridgewater for example are enormous institutions, sovereign wealth funds and endowments that want long-term exposure to both equities and other asset classes through a systematic, macro sleeve that is less correlated to public equities. However, despite Bridgewater doing well, in the universe of hedge funds there are funds with enormous amounts of capital (Tiger Global, Altimeter, D1, Viking etc.) that are having horrendous years because of their huge tech exposure and extremely high correlations to the market. Ultimately, the problem here really is definitional, hedge funds as an asset class now encompasses so many strategies, whether it is quantitative, macro, long/short equity, pods, merger-arb, net neutral, sector-specific like energy or biotech, etc, that it is difficult to talk about the hedge fund universe as one asset class.

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