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by sturgill 8y ago
"We can't afford that" was the default phrase growing up. I didn't push back, but I also didn't really learn (so to speak). Every one of my siblings (myself included) followed a similar pattern: as soon as we starte
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by sturgill 8y ago
Both my wife and I grew up quite poor (for US standards). We didn’t quite fit in at university and had a hard time relating to our peers who grew up with money (my wife’s parents encouraged her to not go to school but just stay and marry lo
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by sturgill 8y ago
I prefer both options: opt-in by obscurity.
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by sturgill 8y ago
One of my favorite lines of the Bible are these simple words from Jesus Himself: "They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick." It turns out that most of us are more like the Pharisees that Jesus railed agains
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by sturgill 8y ago
My issues weren't with drugs or alcohol (there are plenty of other things to get addicted to in this life). Nor am I judging myself harshly. I'm a data guy and love that math doesn't have feelings. When you are adequately edu
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by sturgill 8y ago
Even that I'm on the fence about. It can be perfectly appropriate to punish people for making poor choices while at the same time helping them overcome some of the natural consequences of those choices. I don't know where I stand
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by sturgill 8y ago
Addiction is a disease. And I also think it can be a moral failing to play around with addictive substances. I say this as one who has a long family history of addiction and who has struggled with his own addictions: I was wrong to get invo
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by sturgill 8y ago
With three kids, a two story house plus basement? Yes. And I imagine you probably carry a listening device with built-in locator that surveillance states can use to track your every move any way. All for the convenience of being able to mak
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by sturgill 8y ago
First world problems, but “Alexa, broadcast ‘dinner is ready’” is just amazing. Or, “Alexa, drop in on [child’s] room” to remind them about X. Also timers, light switches, and playing music to the surround sound from a Bluetooth connection
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by sturgill 8y ago
There isn't an easy or quick fix for it. Though there are small towns in America that are predominantly Muslim (lots of refugees relocated to specific locations). But this is completely reasonable: if I were an ex-pat living abroad, it
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by sturgill 8y ago
There are certainly more opportunities in cities to be part of a wider expanse of recreational activities / groups. There are "more things to do." We never repeated weekend family activities in NYC (outside of things in our n
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by sturgill 8y ago
I was off the F-line at 15 St PPW. The commute into Manhattan was not usually too bad. The commute home was terrible (my stop was 23rd St and the trains were usually quite full by the time they got to me). Life is about trade offs. We did o
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by sturgill 8y ago
I was in Brooklyn for 2.5 years living in South Slope just off of Prospect Park. Now I’m in a suburb of Birmingham, AL. I basically live in a forest. Have a 5 bedroom / 6 bathroom home that is significantly cheaper than my 3 bedroom &#
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by sturgill 8y ago
Another shout out to Ally. Not affiliated with them; have just used them for many, many years. They reimburse ATM fees (used to be unlimited; now capped per month); no minimum balances; and have interest checking. The only times I get frust
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by sturgill 8y ago
I’d disagree in that you can buy an MP3 and listen forever using whatever device. But Spotify isn’t required to sell you MP3s (or guarantee perpetual playback). And, it turns out, that people (in aggregate) really like the Spotify model.
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by sturgill 8y ago
For me, those two points are inseparable. But I’ve also spent the last several years of my career focusing on maximizing profits within consumer subscribeables... There are only so many ways to make money: ads, once off charges, term paymen
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by sturgill 8y ago
“You’ve found market price when buyers complain but still pay.” Subscription revenue is great business. And the optimization of price to maximize profits is a set of fun math problems. It sounds to me like the author doesn’t love how much h
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by sturgill 8y ago
If you're a big multinational, these uncertainties are a cost of doing business. You have a dedicated team of in-house attorneys and many other high priced lawyers on retainer. If the worst happens, you start private negotiations on se
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by sturgill 8y ago
"...then you are likely covered." "it's looking unlikely..." "...run this site from a limited company..." I can understand why a small project that isn't immediately profitable can take a look at the
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by sturgill 8y ago
Also their marginal cost of delivery approaches zero. High fixed costs in creating the software and almost negligible marginal costs. The return on capital can be astronomical. Online services have “real consequences.” But not of the type a
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by sturgill 8y ago
I manage most of this with Ally.com. Each bill has its own savings account (most with automatic payment set up on the account side). My direct deposit is automatically transferred on a recurring basis into that pay period’s portion of each
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by sturgill 9y ago
I just relocated to Alabama from NYC and one of the only things I miss is Prime Now. I’m happy to pay a small premium to get something “now” without having to leave the house. Cables / electronics / “just thinking of you” presents
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by sturgill 9y ago
I’d recommend the event producer send a UUID that is then the primary key on the events table. The producer should also send the timestamp the event occurred. I could be missing something, but that seems to solve both the duplicate event fi
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by sturgill 9y ago
And when did Brendan Eich make public comments? When he privately donated to a cause? You can be dismissed from leading a company today by privately supporting conservative causes. And there’s very little threat of a liberal CEO being dismi
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by sturgill 9y ago
This exists in all human interactions. A simple example, take this political posturing: "This bill is too complicated; we haven't had time to read it. This is too important to be rushed." Reference to health care or tax refor
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by sturgill 9y ago
I can personally speak to the fact that Barton means what he says. When Sputnik first came out in Beta, I bought a developer edition that had some keyboard issues. I dropped a casual note on Twitter and Barton went out of his way to make su
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by sturgill 9y ago
Having a trusted group of advisors is strongly recommended. Confusing everyone in your office as your professional advisor is ill advised. Find people that have had success in fields that interest you and cultivate relationships with them.
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by sturgill 9y ago
Most of our use case is storing raw event data: user clicked on X; interacted with feature Y; was bucketed into test group Z; audit logs for subscription data points (joined, upgraded, downgraded, paid, payment denied, etc). Basically every
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by sturgill 9y ago
Redundancy across providers. BigQuery storage costs very little. It was implemented first and we introduced Redshift later to deal with data issues we didn't want to handle long-term in ETL. It didn't make sense to kill off the bi
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by sturgill 9y ago
We dual write event data to BigQuery and Redshift. BigQuery is incredibly cheap at the storage level, but can be pricey to run queries against large datasets. Personally I am not a fan of paying per-query. Historically BigQuery data was imm

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