blabberwocky

For a brief moment, that car becomes worth a lot more. But as other manufacturers put FSD-capable vehicles on the road, values might in fact fall as overall capacity skyrockets. What is certain is that the cost of a ride will drop.

I think some part of the luxury experience is the intentionality involved in buying a physical magazine.

I’ve been a subscriber to a number of publications that might be considered luxury media - think the Financial Times, Times Literary Supplement, and New York Review of Books, and more popular (“middlebrow”) titles like the Economist and New Yorker. In almost every case where there wasn’t some utilitarian value proposition, I found myself opening the covers (or apps) less and less over time while still getting unreasonably excited when buying single issues at airport newsstands and such.

What’s the best course of action for you/the person being impersonated, if the platform doesn’t fix the (systemic) problem? Put up a big notice on LinkedIn declaring that you are not on these platforms?

This is pretty true throughout Asia. Bangkok’s probably best for western food. But nothing like NY.

SG has a few decent options once you get over the fact that you’re paying four times the price for a slice of pizza (or, god forbid, cote de boeuf). Ironically the best Cantonese food (IMHO) is in the American club.

Having lived in both New York and Singapore, I can’t say I’d recommend Singapore to anyone who loves NY for the aspects you mention (but there are other reasons to love SG!). I think the scale of opportunities for recreation, arts, and really just a diversity of experience is vastly different. In APAC, I’d suggest Hong Kong (where I’ve also lived) instead, though that is even more like London than NY.

I think the distinction is semantic. The customer is paying for a feature set and usable spec which he receives. It’s not as if the customer pays some price expecting to use the heated seats and doesn’t get to do so.

There’s an argument that this unnecessarily reduces everyone’s fuel efficiency due to the greater weight of the hardware, etc., but again this is more or less already captured in the advertised spec.

That’s just noise cancelling headphones. But, come to think of it, that should be a slider on this site, to turn down all the other sounds…

Unfortunately, the writing here presents scant literary values to support its own message. This is itself an example of writing that could have better been conveyed as three bullet points on a powerpoint slide. It’s “three things not to do”, not any one compelling reason to write (e.g., because it’s a transcendental experience and illustrating why that is).

“You don’t have to be crazy to enjoy Wagner, but it helps” because he was mad, his greatest supporters were mad, and his fanbase remains obsessive if not mad :)

Yes, it’s now a major business for the big PE firms (which today are really diversified investment managers) with AUMs that can significantly exceed that of (traditional) corporate PE. But its their credit vehicles that invest in credit. So their corporate PE funds might do buyouts or growth equity or whatever, but won’t generally be direct-lending or buying securitized debt.

LBOs haven’t been the defining structure of PE for a while now, though leverage is still a key ingredient. The massive growth of the “PE industry” over the last decade has really been on the credit side (which does include equity plays, e.g., in real assets and distressed debt that leads to equity positions) despite the low interest rate environment.

This doesn’t seem morally unambiguous at all, and in fact society reached the opposite conclusion for many centuries in outlawing suicide but allowing some killing of others (e.g., the executioner tasked with killing the person convicted of attempting suicide).

An equally compelling principle might be that the only person I know to be worth saving is myself.