Yeah, I’ve looked at that and done the points guy, transfers, spend X in 4 months get XX points but was hoping there was a general guide to flying in economy without losing your fucking mind lol
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For example, I’ve flown BA and AA to LHR direct & it was an awful flight (tiny seats & super uncomfortable) & would’ve paid more $$$ for a better airline but I couldn’t find a reliable website to help me understand who generally has better seats (pitch, width, etc) and all that.
I’ve resorted to my own spreadsheets for flights (I know…) where I put the different info down & then compare prices. It’s not awful but damn, it’s a bit time consuming.
For context, I’m not an overweight individual I’m just willing to pay extra to not be crammed into a tiny seat with no pitch for 12+ hours.
Hazies typically have 1/2 to 1/8th the amount of IBUs (bitterness) to older school “west coast” IPAs which is why they don’t get the same benefit as older school IPAs which traveled better + had more stability due to the hops.
They are not one of the easiest beers to make, but in fact one of the hardest. They’re very susceptible to oxygen ingress and the high hopping rates can cause diacetyl production + hop creep which can ruin the beer.
They’re also one of the most expensive beers to make based on the cost of hops and the typical amount of hops used per barrel produced.
They do not stay the most stable on shelves / truck as they can fade quickly and are heat sensitive. Heat can quickly cause off flavors in IPAs. If you keep an IPA, especially a hazy, longer than 6-8 weeks you’re going to have an inferior tasting product so you have to turn them quickly via taproom pours & hyping up can sales. There’s a reason why no one ships IPAs overseas like they do with Belgian & German styles. They don’t travel well.
Breweries brew them because they’re a very popular style and they can charge $18-24 for a 4 pack where-as a lager or lower ABV beer cannot typically sell for the same price. They can also increase the grain by ~30% and make a double IPA which can sell for closer to $24 for a 4-pack.
This is why you see six-packs for $15-18 of lagers or similar styles, the customer expectation is different.
I can understand not liking IPAs or thinking they’re overdone but they aren’t the easiest style nor the most shelf stable.
They had 105b plans prepared, filed and approved by outside entities. You can see in the SEC documents and company filings all of the sales were pursuant to those plans, which are also commonly done to cover tax obligations throughout the year due to the vesting of stock.
KPMG passed SVB’s audit and several top financial firms had SVB’s default risk at around 2.5%.
The executives didn’t expect a “run on the bank” and those longer-term assets had been underwater for awhile & the financial market knew but expected they would be fine when they came to maturity.
They booked a loss to shift funds into shorter-term securities with higher yields to hedge and hindsight is 20/20 but they should’ve hedged sooner.
Overall, I don’t believe there was anything nefarious here & if we dislike the 105b rules, as many do, that should be the outcome of this review - that they need to change.
They give great pricing to iFixIt and there you go, the margin they may lose on the phones through this is off-set to an extent via the common parts they’re now supplying.
They also know if they don’t provide the parts, which is to say they need to produce the top 5-10 components in a single fashion instead of an assembly line, someone else will so they seem to be getting ahead of the game.
They are actually modeling the car industry because folks are insanely specific about wanting OEM parts to the extent you have to specify in many contracts you can use OEM or equal quality 3rd party parts.
There are even some warranties (which cost more) that specify they will only use OEM parts so Google probably also sees they can charge a premium for “OEM” similar to the auto industry.
(I work in Auto)
Everytime the bank tries to switch away from COBOL they run into problems ranging from code latency to lack of support for certain features in the new language among other issues thus far.
I really don’t know what the banks that run cobol mainframes are going to do as most have ignored the Father Time problem where cobol programmers aren’t getting any younger and the language, in my opinion, is miserable compared to the “magic” of newer era languages.
My pops also has made less money then I did as an engineer at a tech co with 3 years experience so banks aren’t valuing the work these folks do very much either.
I’ve told my pops he can do consulting once he retires and make a killing because there’s gonna be a major shortage of cobol folks and a massive amount of mainframe code out there that needs maintenance or a transition into a newer era language.
Edit: - The author is wrong here
“If you need to change old programs, hiring experienced programmers and teaching them COBOL is the cheap part.”
There is not a surplus of developers or entry level folks willing to learn cobol over another entry level language, so it’s not cheap and it’s not “easy”.
Add in the $10 doctor visit co-pay 2x / week when getting the shot, that’s $80/month already.
So $960 + 850 is $1910, so I’d save $710 using these drops instead of the shots.
If there’s a way to spend $25/month on this for my dogs I’d be all in!
Calling them scumbags because of their T&Cs instead of asking for why they have such language in there is counterproductive in any civil conversation.
Maybe there’s precedence they’re following or it was an overzealous lawyer writing it and they haven’t taken a second look because you know, getting a business off the ground is hard work.
Especially as Arizona has become more and more liberal/left leaning, you got less folks viewing it as hostile & enjoying the fact you have a lot of hiking/outdoor activities, rivers, lakes and camping all within a short driving distance.
When you got major companies like Twitter, google, Facebook, and others already saying WFH is a permanent option that’s put pressure on others to figure out how to make it work.
Talent is needed at many, many companies and if the talent is a.) needed and b.) good enough the company will make “exceptions” to the rule.
Enough companies make enough exceptions and it’s a mainstay policy.
Overall, the other part is that companies that now offer remote work as a permanent option may not have to pay SF salaries so that’s a bonus to the company. It’ll go both ways, the company can say I’m not requiring you to live in high COL area and we have an office in X city, we pay 10% above the market average of ~35-40 cities so they’re still competitive on pay (assumption being that most companies move to this model, FAANG may overpay still but that’s always been the case) so now what do you do?
Going public, despite profits made, really sucks the soul out of a company.
Twilio and Segment’s visions align pretty well so I think that played a role as well. Outside of golden handcuffs, a large portion of their employees are liquid immediately as opposed to an IPO with a 6-12 month lockup for employees plus the rise/fall of a stock price during that time.
All in all, I think they made the right choice to sell instead of going for an IPO.
Overall, I got the sense this was a person who aligned with their founder in selling themselves as badasses.
Not like didn’t make any sense because folks didn’t like the programming stack choices or anything it just literally didn’t make sense what they were trying to do.
Because of that experience, I make it a point that every single candidate deserves a yes or no response and the company I work for has kept that up.
After taxes and everything, it’s not “enough” to never need to work again but yes, I would say I’m very fortunate to not have money as the concern as long as I’m not irresponsible with it.
The point was more that it easily could’ve been another $0 and in theory, the company could fail taking that $1-3M down considerably.
The salary most HNers make is way above the median and is enough to live a very comfortable life. I honestly can’t tell you if the money was worth the personal pain of the last 10 or so years, truly I don’t think it is.
I’ve worked for 5 startups now and my equity payout has been 0, 0, 0, 0, and now I stand I make low 7 figures from the equity on this last company (publicly traded now).
During those startups the following happened: - I saw my nieces and nephews so little they forgot my name. They were young, sure, but it still stung when they look at you like a stranger
- Messed up a 8+ year relationship with my significant other and we haven’t talked in years
- Let my student debt pile up to take on more equity than salary (dumbass idea for the record)
- Lost friends along the way because I could never do anything
- Missed many family/friends birthdays as I was working
- Worked 80 hour weeks for a long time
What did I feel after I saw my equity/stock rise to above 7 figures? Stupidity. I gave up a lot on my journey and money can’t get it back, in fact, the money I stand to earn doesn’t enable me to do much more than what my salary already does. I can travel, eat well, have luxury goods if I want (I’m not that type of person but anyways), and so forth.
My point being that this was a.) self-inflicted and b.) not worth the combined opportunity cost of all of those years.
So for every “friend” who made lots of money at Uber or other places, there’s a story like me or a story where someone’s never made anything from equity because profitable exits are fucking hard
Like no, hard no. OKRs are great, I personally love them but if your company has deeper issues a set of OKRs won’t help and likely hurt as it obfuscates the underlying issues that exist.
The really interesting thing to watch will be commercial real estate, but those leases are longer & either impossible or expensive to break. We’ll see how the remote culture change impacts commercial real restate and if companies stop signing new leases & don’t renew them either once they run their course.