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Comment by kevindong | Hacker News Reader

Growing up, my Chinese family didn't really celebrate Christmas. Consequently, we would always travel for family vacations on Christmas day. Christmas day flights were generally slightly cheaper than non-Christmas day flights, which was nice.

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I also like how the writer asked for the daily number of unique users but got bandwidth usage instead.

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If it wasn’t for your people, my people would starve on Christmas.

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/25/573415894/why-do-jewish-peopl...

:-)

Believe it or not, this topic of "where do Jews eat on Christmas" actually came up in a light-hearted way during a Supreme Court nominee hearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tku61sKhPGo

I wouldn't believe it if you had told me before but thanks for sharing that tidbit! Having worked a few Christmas and Christmas Eve nights at Chinese restaurants in the past, I appreciated it.

The description on that video is a doozy

I'm guessing they didn't have the number of unique users logged anywhere, and figured that their bandwidth logs were the next best thing. Rather refreshing to see that sort of thinking from a government bureaucracy rather than simply having an answer sent back of "unique users? Sorry, we don't track that".

I once got a $5 flight from Fort Lauderdale to New York on Christmas Day

Do you remember how you found it?

Yea, a promotional email from Jet Blue

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