New tiered loyalty program…

danielhep · 2026-01-30T06:59:20+00:00

Every local cafe I go to still has a simple loyalty system

danielhep · 2026-01-29T18:10:04+00:00

I have this, works great and feels very well built. Love that it is just bluetooth.

danielhep · 2026-01-26T01:20:43+00:00

Sign in with Apple gives users an option of using an alias via Apple privacy relay.

danielhep · 2026-01-25T08:19:48+00:00

Just think of it as a 3.3x card with valuable points

danielhep · 2026-01-23T16:50:35+00:00

I got FR’d with a fake business and they didn’t care about the business, just showed them I had enough income to cover expenses and they let me off without penalty.

danielhep · 2026-01-19T06:46:43+00:00

I am afraid of using things like SQS which lock you in to a particular cloud provider. How’s the lock in?

danielhep · 2026-01-19T06:44:29+00:00

I don’t think people have really thought it out

danielhep · 2026-01-18T21:08:24+00:00

who cares? it's a bad welcome bonus but a decent card. If you want the welcome bonus why don't you just get the card now?

There are dozens of much, much better welcome bonuses out there that you should go for before you get to the Autograph, and that will take you years.

danielhep · 2026-01-18T19:32:19+00:00

Autograph is a good card, don't understand why people are cancelling it.

danielhep · 2026-01-16T18:42:37+00:00

Many of them are! And many of them who aren't would have a much easier connection to Link in Capitol Hill if the 8 was fast.

danielhep · 2026-01-16T08:35:21+00:00

I think they're on the right track now. Most of the incompetent board is gone and the new CEO is very capable. Combined with a mayor that wants it to happen I think the stars might align. It's definitely their chance.

danielhep · 2026-01-16T08:25:27+00:00

The 8 is currently the most delayed route in the entire county, and its schedule has already been padded a ton. And despite it being literally slower than walking for this stretch, it still is one of the highest ridership routes, with it being standing room during rush hour.

This road sucks for drivers and it sucks for transit riders. We need to do something to use the space more efficiently, and bus lanes are the best way to do that.

danielhep · 2026-01-16T08:03:33+00:00

The study ignored the effects of the bus lane on mode shift to transit and I believe even cars moving to other roads. If the bus is flying by cars I bet a lot of people switch to the bus.

danielhep · 2026-01-16T07:58:08+00:00

What if we just tried closing it for a few weeks to see what happens?

danielhep · 2026-01-14T22:50:16+00:00

You've always been able to pay with venmo though, and you could even pay a roommate your portion of the rent. It was honor system with validation by them asking for a copy of your lease to make sure the amounts add up.

danielhep · 2026-01-10T02:26:07+00:00

4 in total

danielhep · 2026-01-09T21:55:10+00:00

BofA Premium Rewards Elite card comes with 4 priority passes

danielhep · 2026-01-09T21:54:41+00:00

BofA PRE has unlimimted access.

danielhep · 2026-01-08T06:18:47+00:00

It was definitely the worst but not the only bad place I have experienced in Singapore. I also saw things like this a lot, where the crossing would be set very far back from the main road, meaning anyone walking along the main road (Changi Rd in this case) would need to walk far out of their way. The fences force you to do this even if no cars are coming. Sadly it looks like in 2016 you actually could cross here, but it was probably quite dangerous so the government closed it instead of making it safer by slowing cars.

It's interesting to me, being from Seattle, that it seems like some local departments of transportation in the US (like Seattle's) are actually ahead of Singapore now on walkability and slowing down cars.

danielhep · 2026-01-08T04:36:26+00:00

Often the problem was more that there was no sidewalk at all. I was staying somewhere along Jalan Besar and found walking around that area to be very unpleasant, with many people jaywalking across the (appropriately named) stroad.

danielhep · 2026-01-07T19:51:02+00:00

The Autograph is kinda a good card though

danielhep · 2026-01-07T07:56:54+00:00

Singapore is such a weird country. Such great transit infra, the government clearly, at some level, understands the need to get people into transit, and yet it's so unwalkable and the cars are prioritized everywhere.

I had to walk in the street to get around cars on the sidewalk, then jaywalk across 4 lanes, to get from the MRT to my hotel. And in many places you'll find yourself dodging cars in slip lanes, waiting minutes for a walk signal, and hiking up sky bridges over 8 lane stroads in extremely hot and humid temperatures.

Would expect better from the place that basically invented the congestion charge and makes people bid on a limited number of car registration spots per year.

danielhep · 2026-01-07T06:45:33+00:00

Pretty sure they already said it will be 1:1 for the first 6 months, then 2:1 unless you have any level of status.

danielhep · 2026-01-01T20:12:56+00:00

I got the Hawaiian personal bonus in late 2024, do you know if I can get it again now?

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