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by saryant 11y ago
I'm not quite sure these days. This hobby has gotten far more complicated than it was when I started. Ben's blog and The Points Guy are probably the best intros. I'm not a fan of TPG but he writes a lot of articles on the
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by saryant 11y ago
I spend more time than I should in the churning/FF communities (all of which are centered around FlyerTalk). It's fun. Ben's blog is one of the few I follow, most aren't that great. Frequent Miler is a solid resource,
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by saryant 11y ago
/r/churning isn't a great resource, to be frank. Flyertalk is far and away superior.
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by saryant 11y ago
Roosevelt seized Japanese assets and most Allies did the same. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/united-states-fre...
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by saryant 11y ago
Seems like credit card records were compromised as well. Harder to fake a name with those (though someone could've used a prepaid Visa card or the like).
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by saryant 11y ago
But do pension funds actually have that much invested in that asset class? Around $48 billion went into VC in 2014 but in the US alone there is $18 trillion in pension assets.
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by saryant 11y ago
I think most people know if they're linking to paywalled content. Knowing what the Great Firewall is blocking today is not nearly as simple. I, for one, have no clue if The Economist is blocked in China or not.
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by saryant 11y ago
Counterpoints: Rockefeller. Carnegie. Jobs. Several of my entrepreneur friends.
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by saryant 11y ago
It's not really an FAQ, just another article.
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by saryant 11y ago
Other than a few top posts, our bureaucracy is non-partisan and doesn't change with the whims of the White House.
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by saryant 11y ago
ElasticSearch is trivial to set up, especially if we're talking about a small project like a hackathon. It's not without its problems but ES's first-fifteen-minutes story is pretty good.
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by saryant 11y ago
You can redeem with Star Alliance, which serves 193 countries (i.e., almost everywhere).
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by saryant 11y ago
Not really. Frequent fliers know you can redeem United miles for flights on any *A carrier.
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by saryant 11y ago
Why would they need to get it from United when the government already has it through TSA SecureFlight?
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by saryant 11y ago
Not quite. If the original collection is modified, the "immutable" view will reflect that change. Plus, you can't statically know if the collection you're passed is immutable or not. Trying to modify it will just blow
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by saryant 11y ago
Java doesn't have immutable collections in its standard library. If if a java.util.* collection is declared final, you can still modify its contents.
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by saryant 11y ago
Immutable values can be safely shared across concurrent contexts.
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by saryant 11y ago
Regardless of the actual numbers (I have no idea what they are), I wouldn't expect the CEO of Reddit to effectively announce to prospective advertisers that their user base was a bunch of racists.
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by saryant 11y ago
That doesn't really hold water. You can choose which subs you're subscribed to.
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by saryant 11y ago
Hopefully they're more competent. I've had bad experiences with Ubiquity. Deposits going to the wrong accounts, rollovers initiated without permission, discrepancies in the website.
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by saryant 11y ago
There's is smarter than that. Private browsing won't always get around their paywall.
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by saryant 11y ago
I used to work for one of the big consulting firms. We were required to use a corporate Amex but our expense software wasn't integrated, so we still had to copy over every single transaction manually. At least they let us keep the poi
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by saryant 11y ago
Depends. Many employers allow their employees to accrue Amex points off corporate cards. Paid for most of a vacation with those a few jobs ago.
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by saryant 11y ago
Isn't the rail line from Denver to Boulder supposed to be completed in something like 2044? IOW, never?
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by saryant 11y ago
State governments cannot enter bankruptcy. It's prohibited by both the federal bankruptcy code and the Constitution (states can't repudiate their debt under the contracts clause).
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by saryant 11y ago
SHARES crashes every few months like this, that's not news.
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by saryant 11y ago
I downvoted and flagged his comment not just for the sentiment but for the tone and disrespectful language. I realize that poster is pissed off and that's understandable given what his country is going through but I felt that specific
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by saryant 11y ago
Yes, absolutely unfair. To cherry-pick select ignominies from WWII while ignoring the larger efforts in Germany to recognize the horrors committed by the Nazi regime is intellectually dishonest. WWII was a tragedy. You're pissed and
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by saryant 11y ago
I think that's an unfair characterization. We're talking about a country that requires its schoolchildren to tour the remnants of a genocide committed only 70 years ago. To say that Germany "neglects their atrocities" i
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by saryant 11y ago
> > Pays for your highways/stadiums/schools and other public works > I thought my taxes pay for that :) . Do you mean "finances" as "machinery which helps moving money"? I think there are several defin

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