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brian_spiering
·27 days ago·discuss
In the USA, there was a person who was traveling around removing bolts. The person showed up in our local area. A couple of members of the climbing community had a conversation with the local police. The police had a concern about him creating a potentially dangerous situation of people trying a climb and expecting to find bolts only to find the bolts missing. The police went out of their way to arrest him. They got him on probation violation and had him extradited to his home state. The climbing community replaced all the removed bolts, and people went back to enjoying the rock climbing.

The local climbing community chose to take care of this quietly without media or internet drama.
brian_spiering
·6 months ago·discuss
I signed up for it (took about 5 minutes). I'm cautiously optimistic about it having positive return on that investment.

One of the best things I have done is sign up for DMAchoice and optoutprescreen.com which has completely stopped junk mail for me.
brian_spiering
·7 months ago·discuss
I got a the highest paid job I could find with the skills I have that I enjoyed "well-enough". I spent less than I earned. I made mostly low risk investments (with a handful of high risk investments). I consistently did those behaviors for many decades. I also got lucky that nothing bad happened to me.
brian_spiering
·7 months ago·discuss
The Art of War by Steven Pressfield. It addresses the fears associated with any new endeavor and how to create systems to dance with the fears.
brian_spiering
·7 months ago·discuss
The Sierra Nevada region has a similar history of using the "checkerboard" pattern to promote railroad building. Organizations like the Trust for Public Land and the Truckee Donner Land Trust that are systematically acquiring many of these checkerboard inholdings to preserved them from future development and open them to low-impact public recreation.
brian_spiering
·7 months ago·discuss
That is interesting because of the Halo effect. There is a cognitive bias that if a person is right in one area, they will be right in another unrelated area.

I try to temper my tendency to believe the Halo effect with Warren Buffett's notion of the Circle of Competence; there is often a very narrow domain where any person can be significantly knowledgeable.
brian_spiering
·10 months ago·discuss
Yes, there is hope to fully own a self driving vehicle as a consumer. One example is comma.ai, inc.
brian_spiering
·6 years ago·discuss
http://www.speedcoder.net/ is a good resource for improving programming type speed. You practice on actual source code for a variety of languages.