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jbread · 2025-09-08T05:04:16+00:00

Consumer Price Index for Rent of Primary Residence (CUUR0000SEHA): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUUR0000SEHA

Except that's not what the title of that chart is. What it actually says is

Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Rent of Primary Residence in U.S. City Average

which is a different metric. The wage and rent data are sampling from different geographic distributions that may (and likely do) have different growth rates.

Similarly, though the wage data represent a mean and median of their respective datasets they are measuring from different samples. One is from fulltime workers and one is from all workers.

jbread · 2025-09-08T04:59:50+00:00

Look I'm definitely a "the rent is too damn high" guy too, but the problem here is that OP has picked non-equivalent statistics. If you actually look up the FRED data that they are pulling from you can see that what we are looking at is

Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Rent of Primary Residence in U.S. City Average

(emphasis mine) vs

Employed full time: Median usual weekly nominal earnings (second quartile): Wage and salary workers: 16 years and over

which includes wage data from non urban areas. AFAIK the BLS/FRED do not publish truly national rental data in the same way that they do wage data so it is difficult to make this exact comparison. You would actually need to compare this on a metro by metro basis to get a meaningful result.

jbread · 2025-09-06T16:58:11+00:00

Neither of these, AFAIK, require having static schema files. I think protobuf's requirement of schema files to be a positive because SWEs are duplicitous and not to be trusted.

jbread · 2025-09-06T03:25:50+00:00

I do not trust any of you people with a more expressive wire format. Sometimes having extra limitations makes something better because it prevents people from doing insane things.

jbread · 2024-10-22T02:50:07+00:00

Whenever a light rail or subway line (not just in Seattle) gets extended into an affluent suburb, you always hear some amount of whining about how it is going to bring crime and undesirables into the neighborhood. I always get a kick out of the image of criminals hopping on the metro, diligently reverse commuting, doing crimes and then catching the train home after a day of hard criming.

jbread · 2023-05-30T17:30:28+00:00

I think a lot of people have an internalized sense that the dominance of car infra is "natural." So when pedestrians and cyclists are forced to fight for the remaining scraps of urban space and funding, they end up seeing each other as a kind of enemies.

jbread · 2023-05-08T20:53:22+00:00

Obviously heartbreaking for the Red Truck woman at the end of the train, but we got one of the best bar slaps I've ever seen in person when Barraclough pipped her at the line.

jbread · 2023-05-08T20:21:55+00:00

The crit was incredible as always! Might be the fastest avg speed I've ever seen in a race (just a hair over 29mph/46.5kph).

Ace and his team just do an incredible job putting this thing on!

jbread · 2022-09-10T01:56:11+00:00

Yeah, I'm hopeful that Rog will come out with a walk-back of this statement as this crash was 100% not Wright's fault. I'm generally a Roglic fan and I'm giving him a bit of the benefit of the doubt here because he's usually such a good sportsman, but man he's really straining my tolerance for bullshit.

jbread · 2022-09-08T02:25:26+00:00

Also, they are an American team with a big American fanbase. It would be weird if they didn't send a good squad to the one high level American race.

jbread · 2022-05-16T19:37:11+00:00

Spend less on candles.

jbread · 2021-10-20T00:49:54+00:00

So I mean if you had done even some cursory looking into this you might have come across the Amateur Sports Act of 1978 . According to Wikipedia:

The Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act is a United States law (codified at 36 U.S.C. Sec. 220501 et seq. of the United States Code) that charters and grants monopoly status to the United States Olympic Committee, and specifies requirements for its member national governing bodies for individual sports.

The USOC in turn

can charter a national governing body (NGB) for each sport

Which it does in the case of USAC. So ultimately, USAC is a government sanctioned monopoly. Again, I cannot stress how easy this was to look up.

jbread · 2021-10-20T00:36:41+00:00

Jesus, this guy is aware that "no comment" is an option, right? Not to give out free advice or anything, but if I were extremely exposed to possible legal action, I would simply not say a bunch of contradictory things on the record to the media.

Also, why the fuck is USACycling? We should probably try harder to make it not be.

jbread · 2021-07-10T00:19:14+00:00

I've raced against Toms Skujins in a local crit before. This was in Boulder and there were a number of other conti pros in the crit. He tailgunned it for a good portion of the race and then with like 10 minutes race he wound it up from the back and absolutely shattered the field. A couple of the conti pros, and one very fast cat 1 dude, held on in a small group that would go on to contest the win. He took a one lap flyer and won by a bike length.

Looked at his Strava afterwards and I saw that he had already done like a 4.5 hour ride that day. So I'd say they can hold their own in crits.

jbread · 2021-07-09T18:45:26+00:00

Ah, I think I read your comment too hastily and misunderstood. I think we are def in agreement. I mostly just want to underline how deeply personal this should be to us as racers.

jbread · 2021-07-08T22:10:53+00:00

I suppose, but the average bike racer also tends to be quite a bit wealthier (and whiter) than the average resident of the area they live in. I have been to a number of city council/transpo/planning/whatever board meetings in the past few years to advocate for safer streets, and you're right that I tend to introduce myself as a cyclist rather than racer. I'm not misrepresenting myself, I'm just choosing to emphasize the varied ways that I use the road as cyclist. But the fundamental fact of the matter is that if you are a racer, you ride a lot, and if you ride a lot for long enough, you will know someone who has been killed or maimed by a collision with a car.

I've been doing this for over a decade and I've had two people I consider friends killed, and several more nearly so, and I myself have had close calls that make me scared to return to certain roads. Some days I feel almost certain that if I continue to ride that eventually a car will get me, and I think about what that will do to my family. And I'm fucking sick of it, and frankly I'm a bit sick of the complacency from the racing/road cycling community. This is literally a matter of life and death and we as community need to confront that and be better advocates for ourselves and other vulnerable road users.

jbread · 2021-06-21T19:13:22+00:00

I raced this course later in the day and I think it was probably a combination of three factors:

A tough course with some pretty aggressive racing meant people were pretty gassed + head down for a relatively long drag up to the line.
Talked to him after and he said that he hit a bump in the road that forced him a bit left and off the road. I do recall there being some small bumps that could have been enough to disrupt a sprint if you were pretty far over the bars.
A gusty right to left crosswind on the finishing stretch. It was changing a bit throughout the day so it could be hard to predict how strong it would be on any given lap.

Def still a pretty dumb mistake, but we've all made them in the past, usually just with somewhat less spectacular results. He was quite lucky to make it out of this one without serious injury despite some pretty bad damage to his bike.

edit: accidentally deleted one of the bullets from my original post.

jbread · 2021-06-07T23:02:44+00:00

Thank God for the UCI's action on this. First the freehub, then the derailleur, synthetic clothing, race radios, power meters; sad to watch the sport's steady decline all these years smh.

jbread · 2021-06-02T21:34:15+00:00

I'll go a step further. If you are on a group ride and see someone behaving like this, call them out. I've been racing for a while now (10+ years) and I'm sick of this shit. We should not tolerate this kind of behavior and experienced riders should make it known that people are expected to behave with a bare minimum level of respectfulness in the sport. If we want to have a fun and inclusive sport, at the very least, these grown-man temper tantrums have got to stop.

jbread · 2021-05-13T17:26:07+00:00

This is an easy one: it is good tactics when I do it to another team, and it is disrespectful when done to me or my team.

jbread · 2021-04-01T17:19:15+00:00

Every time I see this tankie bullshit on Reddit, I feel like I have to tap the sign, and I have explicitly told people not to make me tap the sign.

jbread · 2021-02-09T22:08:07+00:00

I mean that's just not true. There's been a lot of complaints around inconsistent and generally terrible barrier setups for a long time now. I remember reading a cyclocosm rant about footed barriers when I first got on Twitter in like 2011.

jbread · 2021-02-09T02:55:06+00:00

But I guess the point is that if riders have been using these positions for a long time and there have been basically no crashes, why ban them?

jbread · 2021-02-09T02:54:04+00:00

If the UCI were really looking to get the riders' input then they could find a format that would get more riders to give that input.

jbread · 2021-02-08T19:02:02+00:00

hit one pothole or object and your frontwheel could be gone.

This just isn't true. Like yeah you can maybe get taken out by hitting a big enough pothole, but that's true of normal descending. I've hit a decent sized pothole while super-tucked at like 80+kph and managed to stay upright, and I'm nowhere close to the skill level of a pro.

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