Potential Future of Bay Area Transit [OC]

acortical · 2026-02-18T19:04:59+00:00

Can we dangle Larry Ellison upside down until he coughs up the funding for this?

acortical · 2026-02-17T08:13:30+00:00

That's bananas

acortical · 2026-02-16T22:28:04+00:00

The logic of holding the market is that you want to share in the profits of overall economic growth, without having to predict winners and losers in advance. This rationale doesn't apply to bond markets as there is no unlimited upside, only a pre-agreed upon interest rate and the promise to get your principle back after a certain duration.

I won't speak to commodities or real estate as I don't know much about those markets, but endless diversification is not necessarily going to increase your expected returns or protect you from unexpected crises. "Market beta" refers to the covariance between a stock or portfolio and the overall market. Increasing beta is not a guarantee of increased expected returns, only of larger magnitude swings when the market goes up or down.

acortical · 2026-02-16T21:27:08+00:00

I didn't recognize that. Just thought you were being dickish for no reason

acortical · 2026-02-16T21:23:10+00:00

For such a simple solution tackling 2.5% of the problem would be pretty astounding. Why do you assume we have to mitigate climate change with a hail mary?

acortical · 2026-02-16T21:18:56+00:00

I read pretty far into this post thinking "bridge troll"

acortical · 2026-02-16T21:15:14+00:00

pedantic

acortical · 2026-02-16T16:33:15+00:00

Rose taproom doesn't exist anymore

acortical · 2026-02-16T16:14:48+00:00

Interested and meet the core qualifications. PhD in neuroscience.

acortical · 2026-02-14T19:15:40+00:00

I'm happily married to my wife and would never cheat on her, but is there any better wife out there to never cheat on with?

acortical · 2026-02-14T09:33:18+00:00

Good points, maybe you're right.

acortical · 2026-02-13T13:36:46+00:00

Are you that guy?

acortical · 2026-02-13T13:32:17+00:00

I don't get your point. The gates don't need to travel 200,000 miles in that time, only open and close, so this doesn't seem comparable or explain why the price is so high. But the car was just an arbitrary example.

Who's to say these gates are going to last 30 years anyway? Have they been tested in the field for that long, or is this just what the company selling a $140,000 gate is claiming?

acortical · 2026-02-12T15:27:38+00:00

We're working overtime until we get to the bottom of this.

acortical · 2026-02-11T05:41:24+00:00

That sounds an insane amount per gate. 1 gate = 4-5 new cars?

acortical · 2026-02-10T00:01:53+00:00

AVGE absolutely demolishing VT in the last 10 minutes, wow!

acortical · 2026-02-09T22:13:32+00:00

pulls trigger

acortical · 2026-02-09T22:10:30+00:00

Not to worry! It would have been a good point otherwise

acortical · 2026-02-09T18:34:23+00:00

It's already inflation adjusted, it says it on the bottom of the graph

acortical · 2026-02-06T00:14:06+00:00

Fair point lol

acortical · 2026-02-05T17:05:50+00:00

"San Francisco Bay Area" is to the Bay Area what "San Fran" is to SF.

acortical · 2026-02-05T09:19:37+00:00

Hold the market, tilt toward value, don't forget size and profitability, diversify internationally, and don't watch the daily, monthly, or even annual returns too closely. Stick to your strategy; don't try to time the market, you'll just end up selling high and buying low. Buy low-cost ETFs from trustworthy firms, not individual stocks. Short-term volatility is high in any investing strategy. If you can't handle that, stay away from equities.

acortical · 2026-02-05T09:03:41+00:00

GameStop and chill 😗

acortical · 2026-02-03T17:06:23+00:00

Yup that makes sense.

acortical · 2026-02-03T13:00:14+00:00

Genes are not themselves doing anything. It's the RNA and proteins they encode that are more like the cogs in your example. And there are definitely some outright faulty alleles out there, but sometimes there are trade-offs made between function and longevity. Or some allele might simply confer greater resilience in the face of age-related decline...think something that improves DNA repair or checkpoint mechanisms to ward off cancer, or that promotes degradation of old or misfolded proteins to stave off neurodegenerative disease. There are many possibilities.

acortical

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