darkwizard42 (u/darkwizard42)

darkwizard42 commented on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan 404media.co/women-dating-... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza

JohnMakin · a month ago

Painting this as a "gossip" app seems extraordinarily reductive. Women have a good incentive to share info about and to one another for safety beyond "gossip."

darkwizard42 · a month ago

Is it reductive? It also has good incentive for someone jilted or misinterpreting something to suddenly tarnish someone's reputation with little recourse for the other party. It is a one-sided review app for people in a way that people affected may never even know!

darkwizard42 commented on GLP-1s are breaking life insurance glp1digest.com/p/how-glp-... · Posted by u/alexslobodnik

aqme28 · 2 months ago

You’re thinking too highly about the incentives of the US healthcare system. Since insurance is tied to your employer (and therefore changing every few years), and most people die on Medicare, there’s not much incentive for insurance companies to pay for preventative care that won’t actually help you for several decades.

darkwizard42 · 2 months ago

Actually from what I have heard, GLP-1 are maybe the first category of drugs which have impact within the median tenure of people on a medical plan (~2 years). It is so significant that you can see ROI within that window which justifies in subsidizing/encouraging patients to use it.

Doesn't disagree with your original claim that there is low incentive for any private insurance to care regarding longevity, but figured I could add some color

darkwizard42 commented on Volvo delivers 5,000th electric semi electrek.co/2025/06/29/vo... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

flask_manager · 2 months ago

Awkward headline, since its not really much of a milestone. The first couple in a region are interesting, hitting significant proportions a year is interesting, a cumulative (relatively) small number is not that interesting.

darkwizard42 · 2 months ago

Given large fleet operators like JB Hunt operate about 30K vehicles, this is a pretty significant number.

darkwizard42 commented on Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team wired.com/story/mark-zuck... · Posted by u/mji

paxys · 2 months ago

Also Alexandr Wang, Nat Friedman.

darkwizard42 · 2 months ago

This list is specifically about the poaching from OpenAI / DM I believe

darkwizard42 commented on The $25k car is going extinct? media.hubspot.com/why-the... · Posted by u/pseudolus

gmac · 2 months ago

Getting a loan for a car seems quite natural to me. A car provides service flows over a long period, so why not pay for it over a similarly long period? In the first year or two the car's value is probably below the outstanding loan amount, but beyond that it's likely to rise above it, so you're free to sell and walk away from the arrangement.

Granted, high interest rates might make this a bad deal, but the principle seems sound. I bought my previous car on a 7-year bank loan at 2.5% and didn't regret it.

darkwizard42 · 2 months ago

Given that the car drops nearly 50% value as it leaves the lot, I'm not sure how this every pencils out before maybe 10 years 100k+ miles...Maybe these days given how hot the used car market is (driven by the expensive nature of newer vehicles), but again this is a chicken/egg problem.

Your loan is exceedingly abnormal or from a past time as the average loan % in the US is much higher on that time scale.

darkwizard42 commented on I salvaged $6k of luxury items discarded by Duke students indyweek.com/culture/duke... · Posted by u/drvladb

the__alchemist · 3 months ago

I wonder what we need to do to make buying and selling used items convenient. My experience has been that the bid/ask spread is too large, and liquidity too low to be practical. And if you're giving something away, no one will take it. No explanation; just observations. I want to not throw things out and buy new, but haven't found a workflow that works. (I'm in an apt building near the one listed in the article; more of a young-professionals/mixed vibe though.)

For transient university housing as in the article, I imagine the dynamic shits due to the volume of temporary items being cycled through.

darkwizard42 · 3 months ago

I honestly find DENSITY is the core problem with getting rid of things easily. I've sold nearly everything from a 6-person sectional to a small 10 pack of Chinese tea and everything sells OR you can find a home for it on the local Buy Nothing. Usually I get pickups within 1-2 days on all these things.

It is a great case for more city style density (even in Brooklyn which is closer to 3-4 story walk-ups)

darkwizard42 commented on Changes since congestion pricing started in New York nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/Vinnl

steadicat · 4 months ago

You’re kind of proving the point here. NYC has fewer car owners and yet NYC doesn’t have a single pedestrian street or street closed to through traffic. Sounds like a city that can’t imagine itself without cars even though it’s completely realistic.

darkwizard42 · 4 months ago

I don't think they were trying to disprove the point. They admit that the US is largely car centric EXCEPT NYC, which is why congestion pricing has worked well. Also, car ownership rates are probably extremely correlated with density/efficiency of public transportation.

There is probably no other city in the US where you can truly eschew car ownership (this includes metro "dense" regions like San Francisco, Washington DC, Boston). Maybe you could include Chicago where there is a heavy amount of density/walkability in most of central Chicago neighborhoods.

darkwizard42 commented on Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode wired.com/story/airbnb-is... · Posted by u/thomasjudge

zouhair · 4 months ago

No, I don't care about hotels or hotel prices. People need places to live. You can deal with Hotel prices a bit high. There are millions of people in rich countries right now having hard time paying rent or finding any.

darkwizard42 · 4 months ago

This is wholesale resolved by building more housing (which Airbnbs or short term rentals do not make a meaningful dent in anyway).

darkwizard42 commented on Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode wired.com/story/airbnb-is... · Posted by u/thomasjudge

bsimpson · 4 months ago

With lodging, they have the risk of people finding a listing off-platform and paying cash, but because lodging is such a key aspect of a trip, people are often willing to pay the premium to have everything vetted/supported by Airbnb.

With personal services, they're risking having that problem at a lot bigger scale: are you willing to pay your barber or masseuse 18% extra to cover Airbnb's commission? I suspect a lot of people would use Airbnb to find a reputable provider, and then make contact off-platform.

darkwizard42 · 4 months ago

People said the same thing about Wag. Ultimately if the platform acts as good lead gen and offers other protections and benefits it will work out!

darkwizard42 commented on Ghost students are creating problems for California colleges sfgate.com/bayarea/articl... · Posted by u/jakemontero24

KerrAvon · 4 months ago

I don't think you even need to go that far -- the problem seems to be on the side of the verification of financial aid being too lenient, right? How is that vetting breaking down? The typical financial aid forms and process is a pain in the neck. Money people usually require all sorts of documentation before they actually send you money.

darkwizard42 · 4 months ago

Probably. But I suspect for the average person community college is trying to help, more documentation is more onerous and actually harder to get right. Instead an in person verification would be less costly for them to engage in and more understandable.