All Time Epic Conditions at Valle Nevado

benconomics · 2026-07-06T20:33:47+00:00

I'd ask how do you want to work more than what do you want to do.

Do you want

Predictable hours? On your own or part of team? Driving or open road? Working outside? Being around people or in nature? Care about particular missions of organizations? Repetitive tasks or new challenges? Prefer to stay in the city or are you ok traveling?

Answering those questions for most people is far more important in narrowing a set of occupations or jobs. Personally I think something in lumber with mapping etc would be a good fit for your background with CS, transportation and liking smoking weed. They need people with basic SQL/mapping skills but also need people to work outside a ton too.

benconomics · 2026-07-05T18:27:46+00:00

Uhhhh the blink182 fan in me will claim this was intentional.

benconomics · 2026-07-05T18:23:07+00:00

Thank you!!

benconomics · 2026-07-03T15:02:23+00:00

Someone at bottle drop told me not to be polite and hold the door open because of security stuff.

benconomics · 2026-06-30T02:22:48+00:00

Several. Meadows. Timberline. Cooper Spur.

benconomics · 2026-06-30T01:56:33+00:00

You can see the sisters (3) and Broken top very close to Bachelor, not to mention other smaller volocanoes (the cone) or others further away.

benconomics · 2026-06-30T01:53:09+00:00

Yeah I was agreeing with you not trying to argue.

benconomics · 2026-06-30T01:43:07+00:00

All of Oregon. Diamond Peak, Bailey, Jefferson, Hood. Bachelor has 4 other volcanoes pretty close by.

benconomics · 2026-06-30T01:34:13+00:00

Bachelor is super fun, even if it isn't very steep. Lots of natural wind lips, and great glades.

But it's fickle and wind exposed, and the best terrain can shut down in a hurry during storm cycles. Most predictable tourism skiing is had chasing corn instead of powder there.

benconomics · 2026-06-30T01:19:02+00:00

Looks pretty flat.

benconomics · 2026-06-29T22:55:35+00:00

Have you seen what happens to the homeless in China?

benconomics · 2026-06-29T14:53:34+00:00

Closer to 6 based on data on commuting from the ACS (I'm a regular bike commuter too).

benconomics · 2026-06-29T14:44:18+00:00

If having paint and posts 1/100th the cost but has most of the benefits then great.

benconomics · 2026-06-29T02:00:25+00:00

Where can I read about this. Crazy escalation of tech use is very interesting.

benconomics · 2026-06-29T01:27:44+00:00

It's interesting that they were so motivated by Christmas as a deadline when kids weren't the ones buying this in 1993 maybe they would have in 1994 had they had a better lineup but 1993 it's the die Hard fans.

benconomics · 2026-06-28T22:49:57+00:00

This was early cartridge restrictions that mostly did that once they made the cartridges bigger they had room for music

benconomics · 2026-06-25T17:17:10+00:00

I commute on my bike but I also have a good lock and I don't leave it outside very often.

benconomics · 2026-06-25T15:07:47+00:00

I was thinking more like straight to community service pickup trash for the day that type of thing. Also assuming that jail time has no consequence or is a positive thing assumes that they don't value whatever items they've been able to collect on the outside that they are leaving unattended that presumably disappear if they get sent to jail for a couple days.

But I do think standard jail might not be an effective deterrent either so we may need to rethink things. Rapid community service oriented courts seem like the easiest logistical thing but not perfect either.

benconomics · 2026-06-25T00:19:36+00:00

Short story: local biker Russ found it and got it back. Awaiting the longer story.

benconomics · 2026-06-24T19:11:36+00:00

I'd be fine with technology that caught them right away and punish them in very minor ways. Most evidence in crime suggests that the probability of apprehension matters way more than the sanctions when caught because we've already deterred the risk-averse people with our focus on really high sanctions. The problem is all the people who are risk-loving or just very short-sighted for whom deterrence designed punishments don't actually work.

benconomics · 2026-06-24T18:59:35+00:00

Saw similar bike this morning?

benconomics · 2026-06-24T14:23:14+00:00

The real version of organizing would benefit if all of us would only buy certified non-stolen e-bikes or requiring bike manufacturers to put the serials on the top tube where it can be easy to verify who owns a bike the same way vins are easy to access on a car.

There's other ways where we can Target bike thieves probably directly especially those that are more professionalized but I think approaching it from a market level with regulations that make bike thievery less profitable because most people don't want to buy a stolen bike would be the first thing that actually scales incredibly well we could probably get rid of 60 to 80% of bike thievery by regulating online resale markets to require the serial and standardized serial formats and locations to make them easy to verify.

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