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by kevstev 5y ago
I think its about the build quality, the service, the instructors, and the integration. I mean maybe you can get a separate bike with a resistance knob that matches peloton's numbers, and track your workouts with an Apple watch, Fitbit
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by kevstev 5y ago
For my wife, it was partly a social thing- her friends did it, and she is in sales and this actually became a popular thing to take clients to. She had expensed over $10K in classes her peak year. She became friends with some of the people
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by kevstev 5y ago
These are competing with fitness studios like Soul Cycle- which charges $40+ a class after shoe rental and water. The bike is more like $2000 at least for the standard bike, not $3000. My wife bought one in November 2019, and both joined th
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by kevstev 5y ago
Its entirely possible I just wasn't in the loop. I worked for Walmart at the time, so it seemed natural to give Amazon a shot. Previously I worked at many meat grinders in finance and was familiar with that type of culture. Being on th
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by kevstev 5y ago
I feel like most of these stories are just coming out recently, in the last year or so. Maybe things hit a tipping point during the pandemic? I interviewed there about 4.5 years ago, and I didn't know any of this, and while there were
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by kevstev 5y ago
This was pretty common before the financial crisis, though the typical contract length was a year back then. The idea is that it was a 2 way street- the consultant is committing to your company as much as you are committing to them. And if
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by kevstev 5y ago
I have never ever worked a job where 9-6 was not the standard, and I don't really know anyone who took an entire hour for lunch either, at least not as a regular thing. This is in NYC. Do 9-5 jobs really exist these days?
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by kevstev 5y ago
I worked at an Investment Bank that did stack ranking and I worked with very smart people. So smart they figured out that helping out new guys on the team did absolutely nothing for them- any time spent not working on their specific OKRs wa
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by kevstev 5y ago
Well another way to frame this is "X% are willing to quit their jobs if they can find a better offer" but only a fraction of that actually manage to find that something better. Not being able to do so could be due to those employe
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by kevstev 5y ago
I disagree there- I mean I work way more hours when I wfh than when I am in the office because I can tolerate it because I don't have a family at home who I am far from. I come down and see the wife when I get coffee and that is my &qu
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by kevstev 5y ago
Thanks for summing up how I feel about this so succinctly. I have tried to understand the history and the issues between these two groups and there is honestly there is so much that each side can victim claim for and be pointed out as an ag
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by kevstev 5y ago
This is rare that it actually works from what I understand. I had installers come and replace my tv/receiver and gave them a hard time when they wanted to use a universal remote instead of the lg remote which was pretty slick. I figure
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by kevstev 5y ago
The Morning paper: https://blog.acolyer.org/ Shocked this has not been mentioned yet. It's on hiatus "for now" but I hope this comes back, this was by far my favorite.
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by kevstev 5y ago
Yeah I mean the effects of gamma aren't controversial, but the whole concept of being able to move the market with social media posts to force it to skyrocket, that is more dubious to me. The GME stuff was essentially as far as that co
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by kevstev 5y ago
FWIW I never heard the term "Gamma Squeeze" until it was thrown around in context of GME. I used to work in Options Market Making. I am not saying the concept didn't exist, but this seems largely an idea that has never proven
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by kevstev 5y ago
I am continually astounded that the quad core sandy bridge core-i7 I bought in January 2011 is still completely serviceable for pretty much all tasks outside of gaming. The bezel and overall form factor is clownishly large by todays standar
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by kevstev 5y ago
That's an interesting take- how long do you think it takes before an average tenure becomes detrimental? Honestly, I haven't worked in environments where you have people there for 10 years, and even 5 is a real rarity in my experi
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by kevstev 6y ago
Iirc, the actual captain does not pilot through the harbor, there are specific pilots that take your vessel through. So it seems unlikely that there would be any liability to the ship crew or owner.
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by kevstev 6y ago
I have essentially replaced my morning commute with reading time. I read almost entirely non-fiction and textbooks/technical books. I had a backlog that had been growing over the years that I am now nearly through. On the rare occasion
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by kevstev 6y ago
> you mentioned that your coworkers still caught covid despite wore mask at all times. No claim was ever made that they are 100% effective. Vaccines are not 100% effective either, this does not mean they are ineffective. > Could still
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by kevstev 6y ago
you make it sound like this functionality is now dead and you are grieving it. Feedly offers all of this, its what I migrated to after Google Reader.
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by kevstev 6y ago
How does this disprove that masks are not effective? There was almost zero influenza this year as well: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm How do you have any idea what the numbers would have been without ma
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by kevstev 6y ago
Its not just about death with Covid- one of my coworkers- who on the brief times he came to the office since this started last March- wore a mask at all times, even at his desk- caught covid in early November. He is a long hauler and now ha
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by kevstev 6y ago
You don't believe the risk of spreading covid is small in an enclosed space? Especially when so many of us now work in open floor plans? My first job in an open floor plan (really a trading floor setup), we would literally watch colds
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by kevstev 6y ago
I had a recruiter a few years ago pitch me about an amazing opportunity at a series F company that he wouldn't name in the initial pitch email. I didn't see that as an advantage at all. That's 6 rounds of investors who are al
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by kevstev 6y ago
When I first got a laptop with 8gb of ram 10 years ago, I thought it was an absurd amount, and to be honest it was- ever since I have never wanted for ram on my personal computers. I'm not quite sure where why people seem to be clamori
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by kevstev 6y ago
Yeah in my last job, I used my manager power to overrule on using an ORM. In every company I have ever been in, some major outage has occurred due to a seemingly innocuous change causing a DB operation to go from O(N) to O(N^2)+ and its rea
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by kevstev 6y ago
So I actually find that microservices should actually help tremendously here? Service A starts throwing 500s. Service A has a bunch of well defined API calls it makes with known, and logged, requests and responses. These responses should be
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by kevstev 6y ago
I just do it over the garbage can, the cannister is removable and just flips open up top. I guess some dust escapes, but its mostly contained. The cannister being clear, its also very transparent as to when its full and needs to be emptied.
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by kevstev 6y ago
Do you have any more info to back this? I am honestly curious- I bought a Dyson Animal about 12 years ago now, and its still going strong, and is the best vacuum I have ever used. Not having to keep bags around is nice too. Our usecase is r

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