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by grvdrm 5y ago
As a recent Mazda buyer, absolutely love the Mazda approach. The physical interface makes sense to me. The buttons feel right and work with a near-perfect springiness.
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by grvdrm 5y ago
We have, but that's not something my team (actuarial) can accomplish without help/blessing/oversight from IT. I don't know all the details but we do have connections to some of our MGAs through XML dumps or perhaps real-
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by grvdrm 5y ago
> Ultimately, you get what you pay for, all our full stack devs are making 6 figures... While it might not be FAANG money they also almost never work overtime and the stress levels are relatively low. Yes, it's the blessing and the
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by grvdrm 5y ago
All good stuff, I agree with everything you said. Heavily researched the tread and competitors and then decided that it was idiotic to pay for something I could do outside every day, for free, even in the forthcoming Northeast cold. Have on
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by grvdrm 5y ago
Oh man, quite the history for me here. My dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer when I was 18/19 (freshman year in college). My mother was diagnosed with lymphoma when I was 21/22 (senior year). Both of them went through some com
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by grvdrm 5y ago
Have #2 on the way and a short list of names we like, but awesome! Good way to grab new suggestion in the case that one catches my attention more than the names we already like. Also, agree with the your comment elsewhere that this is somet
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by grvdrm 5y ago
Agree with your take. My hunch is many Peloton users are also members of either/both other apps and also physical gyms. My wife and I still have our Equinox memberships on freeze, thinking that it may make sense to restart them once we
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by grvdrm 5y ago
Absolutely - and for quite a long time (I work mainly property). There's not much (if any) appetite to completely rebuild 3rd-party geophysical vendor models. Those folks have 20+ years of work behind them and a different talent base (
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by grvdrm 5y ago
Certainly - let me try to share succinct version germane to my day-to-day - We regularly perform group/segment level risk roll-ups. Involves running computationally expensive (by insurance standards) in-house and third-party models tha
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by grvdrm 5y ago
I'm curious about experiences in other similar orgs: I work as a portfolio manager for a large reinsurance/insurance company but spend significant time in SQL, Python, Excel (not unexpected I'm sure). The Wapole platform in t
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by grvdrm 5y ago
And I’ll add that lots of people are still immature and not well informed after graduating and well into post college adulthood.
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by grvdrm 5y ago
Good to know and thanks! Looking forward to doing the same as I have a 2014 MBP that works and is in good condition.
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by grvdrm 5y ago
I agree with you. But the flip side is part of the value you provide is because of resource scarcity. In other words, you’re valuable because you do the job well, but automating / documenting is a drain on time that is often occupied b
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by grvdrm 5y ago
Wow. Haven’t seen this articulated in writing recently (maybe ever) but it is real because I hear it from senior mgmt. at my firm - “you can’t rotate to this position or try this other thing because you are very valuable where you are. Happ
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by grvdrm 5y ago
These look awesome!
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by grvdrm 5y ago
Curious: how repetitive is your listening history? I also notice that my Discover Weekly and Daily 1-5 playlists are recycling much of the same material. But I also frequently listen to my Liked Songs (< 40 songs) on shuffle, so I assume
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by grvdrm 5y ago
One point that resonates is the dual-headed theft/storage problem. I own a road bike that I would not lock up at my local train station (in a safe suburb just north of NYC). So, wanting to bike to the station means I need/want a c
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by grvdrm 5y ago
Thanks for the tip!
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by grvdrm 5y ago
I think you're making my point for me, but it is well said - breaking into simple ingredients like lentils and beans is a good start. For what it's worth, I'm not suggesting meat is any less of an offender. Just instead that
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by grvdrm 5y ago
This is pretty fascinating. Meat alternatives are sometimes packed full of other ingredients. I try to use a simple rule when I substitute one food for another: consume things with the fewest number of ingredients. Otherwise, is that altern
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by grvdrm 5y ago
I’m an analytics guy in the insurance/reinsurance industry. Most people think of that description as falling under the umbrella of the actuarial profession But there are lots of us that can code, understand numbers, and help execute
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by grvdrm 5y ago
Numerous high fives to you. Too few people willing to say that they aren’t interested in riding rockets and changing the world and instead just want to make money to support their families and enjoy life.
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by grvdrm 5y ago
The LJ community was so great. It was a quirky place that made me feel at home despite publicizing in the "open." It's a community I miss immensely as well. Does any site/platform mimic the magic of LJ?
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by grvdrm 5y ago
I admire you for saying that you genuinely enjoy/extract value from seeing "so-and-so from high school just had a baby, or whatever" on Facebook. I'm on the side of the others in that I don't feel like I lost anythi
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by grvdrm 5y ago
Fair enough. The way I thought through this was simply that you’d focus on the most basic version of the food: uncured pork (like tenderloin), chicken, beef, and some specialized variations like organs meats.
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by grvdrm 5y ago
Don't mean this as insult, but this can't make sense: "prosciutto or another cured meat" Am I crazy or are you just substituting something (i.e. a carb) with something else (cured meat) that comes with a different set of
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by grvdrm 5y ago
I deleted Facebook a few years ago. Great decision. I don't miss it at all. But of course - I can't remember anyone's birthday anymore.
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by grvdrm 5y ago
Question for parents commenting on this: rather than block the apps, have you instead just blocked access to the services instead? E.g. blocking Instagram/Facebook/TikTok URLs from passing through your network? May seem silly and&
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by grvdrm 5y ago
>I think it's being ahead of the curve. Setting the expectation for not only what they might run into out there, but what to expect when they get home. If anything you should combine the two approaches. Wholeheartedly agree with thi
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by grvdrm 5y ago
Absolutely - you achieve very close alignment of interests without knowing anything about the other folks in your clubs, and then you make some really great friends and/or more!

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