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Some of my very few pleasant experiences were in Japan. I don't doubt that Singapore would be fine too but public transit was generally faster there so I never took a cab.

London definitely has a better standard of cars and service, but they will still try to take longer routes and play games with you if you're obviously a tourist. Definitely better than most places though, their standards for cabbie training are very high.

I am glad the taxi industry worked for you as a driver for a while. But it was unbelievably bad for consumers for so long, I have no sympathy for anyone related to the industry pre Uber at all. You might have been a good driver but most were not and frankly the odds aren't in your favor either. I am sincerely glad that the taxi industry got fucked as hard as it did, it forced them to at least think a little bit about customer experience and improve in some places.

I've taken cabs all over the world in the pre Uber days (Literally, like 60+ countries on 5 continents). I can count the number of normal or pleasant experiences I had in a cab on one hand, out of HUNDREDS of rides. Not all cab drivers are/were asshole scammers but I have a decent sample size and can confidently say at least 95% or more were. I have zero sympathy for any of them.

The cab industry as it was pre Uber needed to die. These days it's gotten a bit better now that they actually have some competition. But I simply have no tolerance left for anything to do with cab drivers given how bad it was in the late 90s and early 200s.

And yes, I am 100% in agreement that Uber sucks too. But they suck 1000% less than cabs did at least for the riders.

This is pretty meaningless without comparing rates of fires/explosions from prior years. And even if it's higher than before it could easily be attributed to newer or less experienced staff or understaffing due to covid etc...

What are you fishing for exactly here? K8s has it's issues, but the way you have phrased the question is only going to get you biased answers.

I really love fish and used it daily for many years. Then I started work at a new company that had an existing library of internal shell tools that weren't compatible with Fish and the effort to port them was too much.

I found that ZSH managed with OhMyZSH plugins gets me similar functionality without the syntax incompatibilities. Unfortunately unless Fish moves back towards compatibility I don't see myself ever going back, it's just too much hassle dealing with little syntax issues all the time.

In short - Kubernetes solves a lot of very complex problems. The problems are complex enough that the solutions are also complex and require specialized knowledge to implement well. Most teams using Kubernetes probably shouldn't be, but tech companies like to over-optimize for future scale.

You can just say the Philippines, not sure why you are obscuring the country name.

I've worked with a number of crypto startups over the last few years and have friends involved in many more. So far at least 99% of what's I've seen in the space is a scam, not even well disguised. People are just desperate for any kind of return right now and will throw money at the dumbest things.

No offense, but I sense from your writing that English may not be your first language. I am American but have done business all over the world. In the USA a more collaborative business/work environment is the norm vs Eastern countries where win/win is not really a concept and business/work tends to be much lower trust and more adversarial.

I have no way of knowing but perhaps there are some cultural tendencies at play here? If you think that might be the case, and you do want to be more helpful and collaborative I would suggest a therapist to help you work through these feelings. It may sound like overkill but if you posted about this it is clearly important to you and worth exploring a bit.

The MBARI (Monterey Bay Area Research Institute) does a lot of cool research and outreach through the Monterey Bay Aquarium on the central California Coast. They are uniquely suited for this since the Monterey Bay has a giant canyon extending close to the shoreline. This allows them to get to very deep water just a few miles offshore vs 100s of miles for similar depths in other areas. Their ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicles) for deep water research and the support catamaran which launched them were world class, probably still are.

Tried to use them for a purchase a few months ago. My situation was slightly non-standard but nothing major.

After filling out their questions I was pre-approved almost immediately. When their broker emailed me for details though, I explained my situation and rather than looking into it at all he just told me it probably wouldn't work.

I was able to make the purchase through another mortgage broker a few weeks later so I don't think my situation was actually all that complicated, it seemed like their broker just couldn't be bothered.

As a bonus they sold my info to a real estate broker who continued to harass me for weeks even after I told them to stop contacting me.

Appreciate the response, we are in the process of getting an attorney now.

Not exactly startup related but perhaps you have some insight. My wife is from the Philippines and we are currently in the process of applying for her AOS (I-130 and I-485). We left the Philippines late last year and went to Mexico for around 6 months waiting for things there to normalize after all the covid lockdowns.

The Philippines hadn't fully opened to tourists so in July of this year we entered the USA with the intention of getting married and then applying for a marriage based visa to the Philippines for me so I could return with my wife. After we entered the USA the Philippines went back into stricter covid related lockdown and we found out there was a 9 month wait time for the visa I would need to be able to return.

Given these issues we decided to stay in the USA and go through the AOS process for my wife instead. My wife entered on a normal tourist visa, this was her third visit to the USA since we had visited my family here a few times while we lived in Manila prior to being married.

Based on my understanding we may have issues with immigration since they will assume my wife entered the USA on a non-immigrant visa with immigration intent. Especially since we go married within a month of entering the USA.

Is there anything we can do to mitigate the chance of a denial based on these circumstances?

Theoretical insurance doesn't help you when Airbnb will simply ignore you or close your claim without explanation. They have become completely predatory and incompetent towards hosts in the past few years. As soon as something goes wrong they will find a reason to deny your claim. Their support that handles these cases is clearly incentivized to close cases without payouts. The only way anyone sees any coverage from them is if they get social media famous and then they quietly sweep it under the rug and make them sign a non-disclosure agreement to get their payout.

This is old news and this program is a borderline scam used to inject naive (mostly American) retirement dollars into hopelessly backwards and corrupt remote Italian villages. I'm an Italian citizen and I've been to these villages. They can't even pay young Italians to live there. The local governments are so inept and corrupt doing literally anything becomes a 6 month long nightmare of paperwork and petty denials. Many people buying these houses find out later that there is a 1 year deadline for completing the work, and that unless they use the very expensive and slow local craftsman the permits will never get issued. This program is for suckers and is designed to part them from their money and give it to local mafia run govts and tradesmen.

While Google does this publicly, there are tons of private indexes doing the same thing for marketing, intelligence and other purposes. As long as people keep posting things online someone will be collecting that info and trying to make money off of it.

I'm sure some were but it's clearly not a majority of the population.

Look up how the USA treated the Hmong after they pulled out of Vietnam. This is nothing new unfortunately, I hope the translators and workers made plans to get out on their own because it was virtually guaranteed that they would be abandoned when things got rough. As an American, I find it incredible that they got anyone at all to work with us.

I second this opinion. Guimaras Mangoes are simply the best. I don't know anyone who's tried them and disagrees.

You're so unbelievably naive I have to think you are trolling. Or 10 years old. I honestly can't tell which.

Exactly. This myth that the USA bails its citizens out of sketchy situations needs to die.

No, they absolutely will not. I won't go into details but I can tell you from personal experience this is unequivocally false. The USA will in most cases do exactly nothing for their citizens in distress. Even the local US embassies will refuse to get involved in almost all cases.

You know who did get involved in our situation when I was with a group of mixed citizens from USA, UK, EU etc...? The UK and Denmark. France, the USA and Germany all did nothing at all.

This myth that the USA will save citizens from any situation needs to die. It's untrue and dangerous since it encourages Americans to do stupid things because they are convinced the Marines or Seals will come save them.

How is this different than established players in the space like GeekBot?

Yep, I'm already setting the ground work for a migration. But they were really excited about using Google Cloud, so it will be a hard sell.

Nope, fairly new account, billing added. Looks like they limit the number of projects which can have billing attached to 3 by default. So any created after that just have no billing associated, with no warning. What a Trainwreck.

So yes, you're high? You are making so many weird assumptions and jumping to strange conclusions here. Or you're a Google shill, I honestly can't tell which.

There is no consequence to my business. Are you drunk or high right now? Because you're coming across as weirdly paranoid and reading way too much into the situation.

There is no previous consultant this is a seed stage startup trying to deploy a simple web app. What are you even on about?

I have not either in the past, which is why I think this account must be flagged.