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Derek Low
Personal blog · dereklow.coculturestartups
Derek Low's personal blog at dereklow.co covers culture and startups. Since 2014, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “What It's Like to Fly the $23,000 Singapore Airlines Suites Class”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Derek Low's travel posts on budget train journeys, airline elite status and business class flights, such as a $213 cross-USA train trip and a $23,000 Singapore Airlines flight.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Stories about travels and startups
Most-linked posts?
- What It's Like to Fly the $23,000 Singapore Airlines Suites Class4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-09-30
- Across the USA by Train for Just $2134 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-09-22
What Hacker News says?
It comes down to the marginal utility of your money vs. the upgrade. For example, I fly Singapore to Tokyo about once or twice a year, sometimes more often, always on Scoot, a budget airline run by Singapore Airlines. Upgrading from economy to ScootBiz costs as little as $80 with their "bid for biz" program. I always "bid for biz" and it's absolutely worth it: early boarding, free food, much more space (for yourself…
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on “The Madness of Airline Élite Status”Submitted Across the USA by Train for Just $213 as a story · 157 points
HN discussionThis woman with her feet on the window bothers me. How rude! http://dereklow.co/content/images/2015/09/18-resized-1.jpg
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on “Across the USA by Train for Just $213”Submitted What It's Like to Fly the $23,000 Singapore Airlines Suites Class as a story · 27 points
HN discussionDining and sleeper cars are pretty ubiquitous, see https://journeybeyondrail.com.au/guest-information/food-beve... or https://dereklow.co/across-the-usa-by-train-for-just-213/ . For me, standing up is what makes the travelling pub most interesting - how did passengers avoid spilling their beers?
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on “British Rail’s short experiment with travelling pubs”Submitted What It's Like to Fly the $23,000 Singapore Airlines Suites Class as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThis guy also took the $23,000 Suites Class on Singapore Airlines from Singapore to NYC. http://dereklow.co/what-its-like-to-fly-the-23000-singapore-... edit: i learned that most of this is plagiarized. it's baffling that he would take such a trip and yet still plagiarize a bunch of the content.
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on “One Month on the World’s Longest Train Ride for $1,000”Submitted Across the USA by Train for Just $213 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trans-Siberian Railway: The World’s Longest Train Ride for $1,000 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Across the USA by train for just $213 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What It’s Like to Fly the $23,000 Singapore Airlines Suites Class as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Across the USA by Train for Just $213 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Salar de Uyuni: A Trip to See the World’s Largest Mirror as a story · 1 points
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