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The linked blog post literally just says "reads". The word "rows" does not appear in the blog post! You have to click through, yes it's clear once you do, but i'd say it's a valid complaint about the blog post

Disagree, GP's expectations are perfectly reasonable

Their pricing page starts out by saying "Transparent pricing you can understand"! I shouldn't have to read a several thousand word FAQ, and then still come away wondering if cached pages still count as rows read

Cached page reads are free on Aurora, this makes a huge difference in pricing if it isn't the case on planetscale

> RDS hosts sitting around when you have no traffic, costing you huge sums for a service that is basically `apt-get install mysql-server` on top of EC2.

rds gives you automatic backups, automatic failover with DNS, easy upgrades, IAM authentication, an API for manipulating your database instances, and more.

As ceo it damages your company's credibility when you say it's just `apt-get install mysql-server`. Please do better.

You're mixing up I/O-based pricing with rows-based pricing. Aurora is priced based on I/O operations, with 16KB pages: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/faqs/

If you're doing a range scan query and your rows are reasonably-sized, you can conceivably get tens of rows to maybe even a few hundred rows per single I/O operation. Or even 0 I/O operations if the pages are already in memory in the buffer pool cache.

Planetscale prices based on rows.. And scanning a few FAQs I don't see anything about cached rows being free, but maybe i missed it.

I came to the same conclusion. At my job I learned that one of the important disclosures in his leaked documents wasn't true, it simply did not exist and there was no possible way for it to exist, pretty conclusively*. While this doesn't prove he was a foreign agent, it is certainly very suspicious.

I'm not willing to say more, and I don't expect my comment will convince anyone here. But I assume there are a fair number of other HN readers working at big tech in positions where they can look into some of the claims in the leaked docs themselves, and draw their own conclusions.

* well, assuming no functioning government quantum computers a decade ago, and assuming P != NP.

I fully agree with GP, my experiences with Chase have been quite poor even in the NYC region.

Ahead of buying a home in ~2015, I was holding a lot of cash, and Chase upgraded me to Chase Private Client. Seemed good at the time, perks like free museum visits and such, and they said I could retain the status for at least a year even after reducing my account balances.

Private Client sucked. My "private banker" was irritating at best. Constant sales pressure shilling their investment products, which had a 1% management fee, on top of being a basket of a hundred different actively-managed mutual funds which also had their own high fees. Hard pass.

I looked up my "private banker" on LinkedIn and he was literally a parking attendant at his previous role.

I moved out of NY not long after this, and switched out of Private Client, although I did keep a small amount in a lower Chase tier.

A while into the pandemic, I started getting emails from Chase about how "my local branch" was closing (always some random Chase location in Manhattan). Happened repeatedly for different branches, sometimes ones I'd only visited a single time while running errands somewhere in the city. This despite the fact that when I moved out of NY many years ago, I fully updated my address in Chase's systems, and they should surely know I do not live in NY anymore.

Clearly I didn't explain my point very well. I'm responding specifically to the author's throwing shade on big tech's focus on profits. He mentions this five times:

* "It was all about one thing… MONEY!"

* "Why all the tracking? Well, again it comes down to one thing…money."

* "If you’re more likely to click, they make more money."

* "As with social media, it’s all about money."

* "Do you know why, dear reader? You guessed it…MONEY!"

To me, this just seems like a ridiculous thing to harp on when the author works for a massive financial institution. Is BoA's motivation not all about money? Why would you expect big tech companies, or big companies in any industry, to be any different?

I wasn't implying they're big tech, or tech at all. I'm saying it's hypocritical because BoA is a big company that just wants to make money, and sometimes does horrible things [1][2]. Yet the author lobs profanities at tech companies for doing the same?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America#Controversies

[2] https://www.americanbanker.com/news/ex-bank-of-america-emplo...

> seems a wee bit hypocritical

Also the fact the author appears to work for Bank of America... hard to take seriously his complaints about big tech just wanting to make money, in light of that.

Among other blatantly offensive things, he directly said "If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself." Certainly sounds to me like he's attributing these actions to me and all other Jewish people.

Stop blaming "the media". If the head of diversity of one of the largest corporations in the world doesn't understand the difference between a Jewish person and an Israeli, they are not qualified for their position.

I'm Jewish, and I personally found the post to be offensive and anti-semitic.

Israel is not my "homeland". I've never been to Israel, let alone lived there. My parents have never been to Israel. You'd have to go back over 2000 years to find an ancestor of mine who lived in Israel. I have no connection whatsoever with the actions of the Israeli government. So if you attribute their actions to me, simply because I am Jewish, that is by definition racist and anti-semitic.

Imagine if the non-black head of diversity at a major US corporation wrote a post titled "If I were Black", directly tying the actions of modern-day African governments to all African Americans. Or a post titled "If I were Catholic" doing the same thing to all US Catholics based on actions of the Vatican or even just the Pope. This sort of thing happened in the US decades ago and was acceptable then, but is not even remotely acceptable now, nor was it acceptable when this post was written.

> which has since been removed

Literally within the past day, along with the rest of his entire blog. This post was still online yesterday!

I also don't see any form of public acknowledgement or apology anywhere on his site or twitter. Perhaps he made one but I just can't find it. I'm not sure how people are affirmatively concluding that his views have changed so substantially since this post.

> Taken out of context

The full post speaks for itself. Nothing is taken out of context here; he's directly making offensive statements about all Jewish people based on stereotypes and actions of the Israeli government, which literally has no relation to the majority of Jewish people in the world.

Parents can be profoundly weird about this sort of thing.

I've had a couple meaningful equity events -- not as large as OP's but same order of magnitude in combination -- and have discussed this with my parents several times over the years. Despite otherwise being of sound mind, they're incapable of remembering it. It's the strangest thing.

I've been semi-retired since my mid 30s. My parents honestly seem to believe I'm unemployed and just can't get a job. They keep offering me money. Recently they keep mentioning how it's such a good time to finally buy a home since mortgage rates are low. This despite the fact I live in a large nice condo that I paid for in cash years ago. They've visited several times.

No matter how many times I try explaining my situation to them, they just can't retain it. It really bothers me. I've given up and just change the subject any time it comes up now.

Overnight windfalls are great, don't get me wrong. But they can certainly impact your family relationships in negative ways.

A couple of months ago, in a public chatroom for DBAs, one of GitLab's engineering leads made some very insulting comments about Facebook engineers & eng practices. Pretty ironic.

I want to feel bad for GibLab, but it's really, really hard when they hire people like that.

I can't verify this, but I was told that the lead investor is Peter Thiel / Founders Fund. Seems believable, since it's consistent with his investment thesis.