wgerard

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by wgerard 7y ago
> Teens in subsaharan Africa can own stock, so can most Americans is that true? I thought most states had age requirements for trading securities, usually the age of majority. Unless you're not trying to say that "most american
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by wgerard 7y ago
> is that they tend to still focus on the "trick", quiz or algorithms parts of engineering. FWIW, this was exactly what we were against at Headlight, as is Woven and (presumably) Byteboard as well. There are plenty of practic
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by wgerard 7y ago
So many feelings on this. My co-founder and I worked on this problem for awhile ( https://www.headlightlabs.com ) before pivoting to something else. Truthfully, I came away a bit jaded about the whole culture around technical inte
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by wgerard 7y ago
I don't work at a cloud provider, but I think the reasoning is: It's a common pattern in malicious actors to immediately spin up several droplets and immediately peg the CPU on each one. There are, obviously, non-malicious actors
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by wgerard 7y ago
I think that's exactly the controversy, no? It appears they removed the game from all regions despite only violating a trademark in China.
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by wgerard 7y ago
You can plan around it, but that doesn't make it any less stressful necessarily during an activity that's already of varying degrees of stressful (traveling). If I lose all my clothes in my luggage that isn't really a huge de
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by wgerard 7y ago
> But I'll just add another casual observation that people travel with way too much shit. One thing I started doing after trips is doing a "post-mortem" of sorts, basically: 1) How much did I use this item I packed? 2) Wou
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by wgerard 7y ago
> I suppose that makes me an outlier, but the ~$25 is worth taking all the stress out of queueing at the gate and trying to get on as quickly as possible. Your time/value equation might be different. I think the math just starts cha
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by wgerard 7y ago
Another interesting wrench I've noticed: People who've lost their checked bags at some point. I know a few people who had their checked luggage lost by the airline, and the aftermath was so painful that they basically refuse to ch
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by wgerard 7y ago
> These characters are tiny and cartoon like but the voices of them suffering in this made me feel so bad and similar to stuff happening the real world I thought we should take the mission out of the game - I think they toned it down a b
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by wgerard 8y ago
> An entire generation has been romanticized that if you "do what you love" you'll end up a billionaire. She's 56, so... which generation is that?
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by wgerard 8y ago
Don't take this as a tacit defense of whichever son it was by any means, but: There are plenty of situations where the interaction between the government <-> constituents is very much like a business <-> customer relation
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by wgerard 8y ago
The places where you're promised total comp like that (e.g. FAANG) are not the places laying people off in this article.
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by wgerard 8y ago
> We've already had a look inside his head, because he joked with his friends about how naive the people giving their information to him were for trusting, and how they were dumb fucks that he looked forward to fucking in the ear. Y
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by wgerard 8y ago
> What the CN government is doing is far creepier. Individual personal entries. Yes, thankfully there are no systems in place for the US government to verify/track someone's age (and thus infer their ability to bear children).
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by wgerard 8y ago
Here you go: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/cspan/childbearing/20120817_... Took 5 seconds to find on google. Unless you're going to move the goalposts.
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by wgerard 8y ago
TLDR; First-class is disappearing in favor of business-class (which is good enough for many of the previous first-class fliers) or private flights (which are becoming more affordable).
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by wgerard 8y ago
> TBH, those vendors sound seriously sketchy absent some credible explanation for why they think they need to charge more for a wedding. I mean, you can just ask why if you're curious. Most of them are sole proprietorships. It'
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by wgerard 8y ago
> I think it's up to the customer to decide how the use the purchased product or service, since when do you owe an explanation to a vendor where or how their product will be used? It goes both ways. The vendor can also decide they d
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by wgerard 8y ago
Yeah, I think my point was more: If you're being price conscious and aren't willing to have a more non-traditional (e.g. no/minimal flowers) wedding in June, your best bet is to have your large traditional wedding in November
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by wgerard 8y ago
I don't think the two industries are at all comparable.
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by wgerard 8y ago
People don't haggle on prices because largely in western culture we just assume the price is the price and we can either pay it or go somewhere else. I imagine a fair amount of haggling goes on in cultures where that's a standard
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by wgerard 8y ago
Also a very fair point.
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by wgerard 8y ago
I still don't think this follows. You can go to a specialized cake vendor and still get a 2 9s cake - many people do, in fact, for special non-wedding events (for, say, a 60th birthday). That cake will still be significantly less expen
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by wgerard 8y ago
> The point is not perfection; the point is that a wedding is supposed to show affluence I would argue strongly that these two things are highly related. Nobody attaches a physical price tag to their cake at the wedding - it looks immacu
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by wgerard 8y ago
Hmm, I don't feel like your conclusion follows from your premises. > I don't know if I believe the price goes up that much because of the fear of [an overly zealous wedding party member] > But for a wedding cake, people want
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by wgerard 8y ago
Yeah, to me this is the biggest pro-tip if you want to save a ton of money but still want a big traditional wedding: Get married in the winter.
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by wgerard 8y ago
That can be a really dangerous game to play, fwiw. If a vendor figures out you're lying to them ("gee, I wonder why this birthday party wants boutonnieres and corsages") they can (and probably will) just bail on you and leave
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by wgerard 8y ago
I spent some time researching this mostly because I was curious, but basically the answer to "why are weddings so expensive" and also "why is it so hard to disrupt the wedding industry" are largely the same in my opinion
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by wgerard 8y ago
Eh, while that's theoretically true, nobody's gonna invest the kind of resources you're talking about to catch someone accused of e.g. petty larceny. Though I get your point is more about crimes that would, well, be worth try

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