General rule... you have zero obligation to merge any code to your repo, much less bad code, or very large hard-to-review submissions.
I think that it's bad manners for someone to submit a big PR without prior experience with the project. Someone needs to earn trust over time. They might start out with a few small PRs and gradually build up to the point where you might trust them with a larger change. But even so, a 4k-line PR is very unreasonable.
I think what this misses is that insurers handle the hassle of dealing with negotiated rates.
As an example, if you go to the ER and get a strep test, you might be billed $500, and insurance will pay $7 (as ridiculous as this sounds). If you go at this on your own, they'll probably bill you $100 and tell you they are giving you an 80% discount. With lots of phone calls, you can maybe get them down to $50.
This is all obviously crazy. But it makes it such that you really do want insurance if you can afford it. More so, even if you are a billionaire and can afford to self insure, it still makes sense to have health insurance (whereas property or life insurance probably don't make sense for you).
Also, don't forget that insurance premiums are often tax deductible for wealthy people, so the actual amount paid is less.
Dental insurance is even worse. My dental insurance has ridiculously low limits, but it gets you access to the "real" negotiated rates rather than whatever silliness "retail price" is.
I tried going without when I switched jobs to an employer that doesn't offer it, but one cleaning as a "cash payer" cost more than the annual premiums to buy insurance privately.
Executive order 14221 (passed in 2021, [0]) was supposed to provide transparency about what the actual negotiated rates were. The idea was that it would be a lot harder for hospitals to engage in price discrimination when they had to publish what everyone was paying.
The actual effect has been... mixed. IIUC, the hospitals mostly haven't complied with the order, or they're maliciously complying while trying to keep their real rates secret.
> I almost always book the minimum flight, basic economy, whether or not I am paying. There is so little to be gained from moving up compared to the price.
I recently had a five month period where I took a plane ride every single week for work. A “frequent traveler” so to speak.
To me, the big difference between basic economy and regular is the ability to cancel (for a credit) up until the flight takes off. When you travel once in a while, this isn’t worth that much. When you travel every week, it’s huge. For example, when I travel (round trip) 3-5 times a year (which is my normal cadence), I’m not gonna really care if I booked an 8pm flight but last minute decided that I have time to get on a 6pm. An extra two hours not-at-home is no big deal, maybe even a good thing. When you travel every week, the ability to change later minute is huge (and contrary to popular belief, I found that it is often the case that last minute flights are the same price or cheaper, depending on the route, though it can also be wildly more expensive).
In addition to changing my mind about when to leave, don’t get me started on delays. If I saw my flight was delayed two hours (which often means that it’ll end up cancelling or taking off 6 hours late), I’d immediately book an alternative (if I could find one at a decent price) and then cancel one of them right before departure.
Aside from this, seat selection is important, especially if you travel a lot (the lifestyle is hard enough to begin with). You can usually buy seats in basic economy and the whole thing will be cheaper, but assuming you are going to do that, then the difference is gonna be $25-30 which is basically the “right to cancel” fee.
Economists call this type of pricing strategy price discrimination. Basically you have a different marginal willingness to pay than others because of your frequency.
If you travel every week for work, I would be booking full fare (refundable), not non-basic restricted fares. Especially since if you are booking inside a week of departure the difference is not that great anyway.
>If you travel every week for work, I would be booking full fare (refundable), not non-basic restricted fares.
Why? I don’t fly that much, especially for work, and I’ve never had a problem getting to use my credits from cancelling flights. The price difference between credit-refundable and full refundable is usually significant and doesn’t offer me anything.
If the price difference is significant then sure. My experience booking 3-5 days ahead of time is there isn't much difference. In addition to no credits to keep track of, which don't seem to be your concern,
- simplifies expense filing
- if paying with a personal card (vs a corporate card), i'm not floating extra cash that is now converted to a credit
- full fare is less likely to get bumped on overbooking
If something is happening in my life where I can’t use my airline credit within a year, I’ve got bigger issues. Even then at least with Delta, you just have to book a flight using the credit before it expires - and the flight can be after the credit would have expired - wait 24 hours cancel the ticket and then receive a new credit that resets the timer.
Isn’t the biggest difference the ability to bring a carry-on suitcase? I’ve always found that immediately and categorically disqualifying for basic economy. There’s never been a situation where I could fly somewhere with just the clothes on my back.
Only the budget carriers like Frontier and Spirit charge extra for carry on. Even the second tier airlines like JetBlue and Southwest don’t charge for carry ons.
The issue is boarding priority and you may not have overhead space and still be forced to gate check your carry on (for free).
In the case of Delta, it’s a combination of not being able to choose your seat, no refunds or airline credit for canceling or changing your flight and no miles earned toward future flights.
Until 3 years ago, we flew out of ATL and only occasionally and only domestically. So our default choice was of course - just fly Delta.
After all of the stars aligned around mid 2021, we moved to Orlando and started flying more.
Our default choice is still to fly Delta domestically because of familiarity, status, lounge access and we don’t mind a layover in ATL since it is our former home, familiarity and lounge access - Delta has nine lounges in ATL.
If we really just want to get somewhere without layover. I will look on flights from -
And see what airline has a non stop flight. The only airline I refuse to fly domestically is Southwest because of non reserve seating until next year.
But it’s rare that we will choose an airline that’s not Delta.
Internationally, we prefer Delta or SkyTeam airlines like Virgin or AirFrance.
We don’t shop based on price, the only time we compare flights is for convenience, we don’t fly first class or anything. But we just don’t like the hassle of flying airlines besides Delta.
Of course if we lived in an AA or United hub, it would be different. So substitute Delta for airline where you have status and/or a cobranded credit card that gives you some minor convenience.
I encountered this for the first time this year. Bought the cheapest ticket, didn't think they'd exclude carry-on. Ended up having to WhatsApp (in Spanish) then to add it on for $250 round trip. Insane.
are flight delays common in the US?
ive been flying very regularly primarily around Asia for around a decade. (every 2 months or so) and ive never had a flight delayed more than hour (last minute at the gate always) anything longer.. i could only imagine it happening if there was a typhoon or something
Mechanical difficulties, weather esp. snow, air traffic control hold on incoming flights, etc. I wouldn't say >1 hr. delays were necessarily common but they're not rare either.
In my experience it depends on the route. I use SFO a lot and delays are quite common there because the they get a lot of fog and their runways are too close together for regulation to allow use of adjacent runways under bad visibility.
Look for startups that interest you and then email the founders. Follow up every two months until you hear a hard no. Things are absolute chaos at an early startup and it's rare that the job board (if even there at all) is up to date.
I actually get a lot of value out of the repairability. It lets me buy a cheaper computer upfront without having to worry about whether i can upgrade later on.
How many times have I thought, maybe i should get 2tb just in case, and then end up using 500gb. With framework, I'll buy the 1TB and the cost to upgrade is very low if I ever need to.
Same thing with memory. Maybe i need 16, maybe 32, maybe 64. I tend to buy more than i need out of fear. I just don't have that fear with framework.
Oh, and don't even get me started with repairs. If my screen breaks, i know the time to fix is however long their shipping lead time is, since the repair itself will take me 15 minutes.
In general, i think that value depends on how you see a computer. $1000-2000 is a lot to spend on something you use for fun. It's really not much to spend on something you use every day for work. And it's even less if your company is paying.
The repair-ability has been a huge thing for me as a father of young kids. I've only had to do it once when a toddler jumped on the laptop screen, but it ended up being a fairly cheap repair instead of what had hitherto been a full laptop replacement.
I want a fully clear case, but apparently that's too brittle and isn't possible? This is what the Framework people say. They have keyboards like this, but won't make a full shell in this style.
I'd kill for a fully transparent phone or laptop shell.
I'd pay $1000 more for this aesthetic. Double if it's in the florescent neon colors of 90's /00's Nintendo / Apple designs.
Looks like you might've found that magical thing which is product-market fit. I'm rooting for you.
$200 is a really nice entry-price point. If I'm being honest, I'm marginally interested in this, but doubt that I'd actually use it too much. But the price point is justifiable for someone who is just interested in it from a learning point of view (if I bought this, used it a few times and learned a bit more about AI as it relates to robotics, it'd have paid itself off easily).
Thank you for your support! I’m actively working on the design and building the supply chain. In the next 3 to 6 months, I should be able to:
1. Keep the price similar while adding new features, such as a torque-controlled gripper.
2. Re-examine design decisions to see if we can offer a similar product at an even better price.
I think that it's bad manners for someone to submit a big PR without prior experience with the project. Someone needs to earn trust over time. They might start out with a few small PRs and gradually build up to the point where you might trust them with a larger change. But even so, a 4k-line PR is very unreasonable.