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This may be the first time, that I saw "406 Not Acceptable" in a Browser. As opposed to in Postman or an log file. How did this happen? Something between backend and frontend breaking under the HN load?
I thought it was a joke. Laughed then realised I didn’t really get it.
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Your grand theory isn't new. The 1993 paper The Deadweight Loss of Chrismtas ( https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/104699/original/christmas... ) explores this in detail. The basic idea is let's measure what the gift cost and what the receiver valued it at. But not everything that matters can be measured and not everything that is measured, matters. The study should have accounted for the strength of relationship betw…
> Religion brings benefits to it's members, such as living longer, happier lives. [citation needed]
I would hazard a guess the removed bit is actually very important, because having a social network has been shown to improve lives: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=social+network+and+old+age&ia=web (hopefully that's enough citation), and regularly showing up to congregation is probably a huge step in having a social network.
I'm fairly sure I've already spent more than $100 in my time on trying to use it. So in a sense, I was gifted negative money. When I realised this I ended up throwing it in the rubbish bin.
It would have been so much more efficient for everyone involved to just send me an extra $100 in cash. Put it in an envelope with a fancy card if you want to make it special. But eh, gotta feed the gift card business.
406 error code is strange as 418 I'm a teapot, both make no sense.
It's funny how different industry can be, in tech most people love receiving swag it even becomes their entire wardrobe ahah I mostly don't care about gifts but there is one that had me burst laughing; Company wanted to celebrate "employee appreciation day" or something like that. We received a big announcement from the CEO with... a 10$ gift card. It's coming from a good sentiment but is my work only appreciated to…
Can't really complain, can see how gift cards go unappreciated though. Usually just top up my Amazon account balance and use it on everyday things or gifts for other people.
This retailer obv had massive campaigns for black friday, but also obv very shitty and inflexible systems.
This buddy of mine found that the black friday promotions pricings import failed 5 min before midnight. Meaning that not only would there be no black friday pricing, there would be no pricing at all on the site for 24h until the next pricing run.
He pulled some heroics and managed to fix the import in time and black friday was a success.
So he saved the company 5M GBP in profits, singlehandedly.
As a thanks he got a 25 GBP gift card to the same site.
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This is a very simplistic and very narrow perspective about gifting when looked from this side. I don't consider gifts as the items solely. The person who brought the gift spent some time pondering what would I like, gave his/her best shot. Spent time and funds to acquire this and gave it to me. Yes, it might not be the exact item I'd get; yes, it might not be crazy expensive (or just flat out cheap and simple). But…
And yet, for years I’ve decided to make personal gifts or draw cards. Instead of earning money like everybody else I practiced arts and crafts and now I can draw, paint, sculpt, and do some other stuff that makes people smile. Buying something is transactional, but making something takes effort. My $1.30 cents of clay to make each knock-off baby Yoda figure one year was a huge hit compared to the $300-400 for some ot…
Apple crap is basically cash. I was able to sell it for sticker price within the week.
The worst gift I've received from work was a $100 digital multi-store gift card. It probably seemed like such a reasonable thing to give (and I even liked it at first, too). Unfortunately, it turned out to be really difficult to redeem it in full for the combinations of things I would like at the places where it's redeemable. I'm fairly sure I've already spent more than $100 in my time on trying to use it. So in a se…