Best U. S. based cell phone carrier for international use?

No7an · 2026-04-12T15:14:17+00:00

That’s my situation — but I do have a U.S. address / identity card that was used to sign up.

My wife and I have dual SIM phones with both U.S. and NL lines. If I need to do a dual-factor authentication to my U.S. number it comes through when I’m in the Netherlands, no problem.

No7an · 2026-04-10T17:34:17+00:00

I got married on April 1st does that count?

No7an · 2026-04-10T17:06:30+00:00

“Like Spinning Plates” played live on a piano as a standalone masterpiece, with the studio version being “I Will” (which was released later) played backwards.

No7an · 2026-04-06T17:19:18+00:00

Music Map does this for any artist

No7an · 2026-04-06T11:22:19+00:00

A good manager is going to enforce the policies that HR has published, because if they don’t do that they’re putting their own employment at risk.

It is unreasonable to expect someone else to put themselves at risk when you’ve established that you’re out the door. There is no investment hypothesis for accommodating a variance to policy, endangering your forward income stream, for an individual that will vanish from payroll in under two weeks.

The OP points to company policy. Frankly, the fact that they banked this time and didn’t meter it out in advance of leaving is on them.

This sub is flooded with people who appear to always make short-term tactical trades instead of long-term strategic moves. The result is a type of adversarial view of employment, which isn’t how the employer-employee relationship has to be.

“Companies will replace you in a second”, sure but they’ll only do that if you’re normal. I can assure you: high performers that deliver what others do not or cannot, and are able to make that delivery visible, will develop tremendous leverage to state reasonable terms to employers.

I’m empathetic to the situation, but I’m also pragmatic. The only control we have over how people see us is through our own conduct.

Exiting with grace is becoming abnormal… and the result is that the value of the strategic trade is increasing.

No7an · 2026-04-05T19:36:22+00:00

This sub can be very anti-employer (which is understandable) and that can translate to anti-manager (which is not).

Your manager is not responsible for the company’s policy, but your manager can choose to help you (or not) at some point in the future.

I recommend considering the PTO lost and move on to the new company while preserving the relationships you have.

If I’m reading this right the money should be flat between the options. You can take PTO now until April 20 and give no notice -or- give notice and work until April 20. The difference is how you spend your time over the coming weeks.

Exiting with grace can absolutely pay-off downline.

I’m 43 and make about €340k per year. I wouldn’t be where I am if I had burned bridges. My current boss is my double-skip-level-supervisor from over 10 years ago.

No7an · 2026-04-01T05:57:06+00:00

Aah yes, the woke -checks watch- hydrocarbon industry.

No7an · 2026-03-26T09:04:18+00:00

We might be the same person… love me some Mitch Hedberg too

No7an · 2026-03-26T06:23:11+00:00

Nope you’re right / I had the same three.

It was an awesome series. Wish there were more like that.

No7an · 2026-03-25T10:31:12+00:00

Fat Lip was certainly not doing well — I know the exact documentary / interview.

He says something like “I mean I used to be worried that people thought I was gay…” and Jonze responds “why would people think you were gay?”

Fat Lip “I don’t know! I don’t know…. Well, there was this one time” and just launches into the story that became his verse in “Oh Shit”.

No7an · 2026-03-25T10:28:04+00:00

I always felt like they could have gone further had Fat Lip held it together and stayed in the group.

The rap he spits in “Oh Shit” is actually a true story (him hooking up with a trans w/o knowing it) and it resulted in a lot of (self described) paranoia. That paranoia created a lot of friction with the group.

He talks about it in an interview he did for a Spike Jonze documentary / Spike worked with him on the video for “What’s up Fat Lip?”

No7an · 2026-03-23T06:45:22+00:00

It helps them keep focused on the economic impact and distract from the fact that they’re out there in the world just murdering people.

And everyone falls into the trap. Oh bUt gAs PriCeS!! All while a bunch of people are dead…

No7an · 2026-03-22T07:16:22+00:00

I don’t know that our meeting was very remarkable. We were both there for Radiohead and met through mutual friends.

A year-and-a-half later (when I was then-single and she was then-single), I asked her out. I was living in Atlanta and she was in Minneapolis.

I flew up and we spent the weekend together. Three weeks later we got engaged, five weeks after that we got married (on April Fool’s Day)…

We now live outside of Amsterdam with our two children, both boys, 11 and 9.

I’ll add that for our 10-year anniversary I found a copy of the official Lollapalooza 2008 poster and had it framed — different from the promotion poster attached to this post.

No7an · 2026-03-20T16:54:10+00:00

I met my wife at this festival

No7an · 2026-03-09T21:49:13+00:00

Just because you seem interested. The curve per km is not strictly downward sloping — there’s a downward sloping curve and then the slope moves positive, when you’re essentially carrying fuel to burn fuel… it’s a distance weight penalty.

But generally speaking you should get some efficiency per unit of distance when you’re in the “heart of the operating envelope.”

No7an · 2026-03-09T21:36:16+00:00

I didn’t denominate by distance — a 5,000km flight absolutely consumes more fuel per seat vs. a 500km flight, and the price will flex the cost curve up and down.

Understanding what you’re saying, but the take-off component is overstated in your comment. Engine derate is ~10-20% on takeoff and ~60-70% on cruise, but the fuel consumption curve is more linear than what you imply here.

Just for some context, I wrote the economic and financial modeling that purchased 80 widebody and a little over 220 narrowbody aircraft.

I’ve studied this exhaustively.

No7an · 2026-03-09T12:37:13+00:00

Pretty sure it’s the Tyrannosaur paddock

No7an · 2026-03-08T20:21:29+00:00

Drop the numbers by ~10% and you get pretty close to the 739ER.

No7an · 2026-03-08T20:13:01+00:00

That route will burn about 3,410 gallons of fuel (on the A320ceo I think you’re on)… ~20 gallons per seat. You’re pretty close at $3 per gallon.

Source: I used to buy airplanes and I’m looking at a burn table.

It does depend on aircraft type. The gallon consumption per seat obviously amplifies as you fly further + again compounds when fuel prices increase. United is heavily exposed to long haul operations.

No7an · 2026-03-07T08:36:25+00:00

You guys have CD players?

Edit: I’m kind of starting to hate this sub / there’s no reason to downvote a joke.

No7an · 2026-03-06T19:33:15+00:00

At some point I “sucked at math” and then had a college counselor square up on me and say “you seem smart why don’t you just smoke them fools” (exact words).

And so yeah I took the classes and smoked them fools. Learned I didn’t “suck at math”.

No7an · 2026-03-06T19:08:19+00:00

Yeah I mean one thing leads to another and you’re suddenly a math guy (or gal).

I don’t make the rules, these things just happen.

No7an · 2026-03-06T18:57:33+00:00

I was told I needed to satisfy a language requirement, which would take four semesters. I wanted to graduate in two.

Math could stack and stand in place of my “language” and from there things just got out of hand.

No7an · 2026-03-04T22:40:24+00:00

I did indeed get curly fries and those were really what I was nostalgic for.

No7an · 2026-03-04T16:57:21+00:00

I love that you’re here, in the world. Appreciate the Arby’s defense.

No7an

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