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I see as giving you more flexibility, because you don't always know how much you'll need. Without this flexibility, you choose low, and are stuck with a slow computer, or you choose high, and you may end up paying a ton for a computer you may not need.
It's my device, not Apple's or Google's, so I should be able to download a third-party app without identifying myself to the app store owner.
In my last comment, I did not ask for iDevices to be able to install apps from outside the iOS app store.
Only when I download I paid app do I want to identify myself so that I can download it again.
People are generally more willing to accept incremental changes than an entirely new way of doing things. For good reasons: they're skeptical, availability of talent, tools, libraries, IDEs, help if they run into trouble...
An analogy is the spread of yoga in the west the past decade or two, because it was easy to do so without changing your lifestyle. If Westerners were asked to fly to the Himalayas for a month to learn yoga, how many would have learnt yoga?
Flutter specifically or cross-platform UI frameworks in general?
I don't mind it being different, but does the app feel unpolished?
This is the same (in kind, though not in degree) as Slashdot a decade ago where you could not praise Windows, unless you first declared your allegiance by saying, "I love Linux but" or "I don't like Windows but".
One conclusion from all this is that I discount criticism of AMP or Google, or certain other topics that have become sacred cows. Not ignore, just discount.
Going back to your example of a flight that's canceled, the airline should account for it. One simple way is to multiply the cost of that event by its probability. (And multiply it 5x or something, since passengers will be angrier at having an hour of their time wasted than happier at having an hour saved.) When you look at it with this framework, it makes sense why a pilot doesn't skip his checklist because the cost is very high, even if it's a 1 in 1000 case he's trying to prevent. In other words, it's not just how often it occurs, as you suggested.
Another example is how Bill Gates, in the early days of Microsoft, kept a year's worth of salary in the bank at all times. And how just-in-time supply chains broke when the 2008 financial crisis hit. Another way I heard this stated is that the rich are not the people with the most money, but with the most options. Or, hypothetically, a company with 100 engineers who builds iOS and Android native apps dedicating one engineer to building a hybrid app in Flutter because wasting 1% of engineering is time is better than betting the entire company in a wrong direction, thus wasting 100 engineers' time, though the "plan B" engineer's work is unlikely to yield a launchable app.
You also rightly point out issues like short-termism and misaligned incentives, but those have been discussed many times already, so I'm not going there.
People and companies do build in buffers, because efficiency != best-case efficiency. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor If you have a meeting at 11:00, you won't plan to reach the office at 10:59. Personally I plan to reach by 10:30 so that I don't have to spend time worrying about being late, which is a waste of mental capacity. For me that's maximally efficient. So I think your definition of efficiency is wrong, if you get what I'm trying to say.
The bottom line isn't clear because there's too much information. I'm expecting a single number in 60-point font like "You'll save X amount of money by renting instead of buying". Some information can be hidden behind progressive disclosure.
Also, it's US-specific. Let me choose a currency, and format numbers accordingly, like "₹2 crore", not "$20m". In India, we use lacs and crores, not millions.
I also like that you're using Monte Carlo simulations. Though it would be good to augment that with real-world data from the user's country. If I'm in India, which Indian city has had the worst-case real-estate investment performance? The worst-case is useful information to consider when making an investment.
In this way, eliminating copyright will create a race to the top, making all products better.
Your incentive would be that your product is better and sells more, unless and until everyone copies it. As long as the extra profit exceeds the cost invested, it's worth it.
You're claiming there would be no innovation at all unless there's IP.
How did we innovate for hundreds or thousands of years before IP laws, whether the wheel, ironmaking or any other technology?
To flip your question on its head, if IP laws prevent your innovation from reaching everyone, the benefit to society from this innovation is reduced, and that's bad.
But otherwise, these are lessons. If you don't focus, and so get nothing done, you'll learn to focus, by saying no to some things, even if everyone tells you they're critical.
Conversely, if you focus too much on one thing, do it excellently, and fail at other things, which I've done, I've learnt to do things to the extent needed, not more, as opposed to building a car with the world's best engine but no steering wheel.
This has just been my experience. I respect that it may not work for you.
I learnt 100x more about running a startup after starting one, and initially doing a bad job, than by reading thousands of blog posts.
The script does have a field for EMPLOYEE_TAX_DEDUCTION. It defaults to 1.6 lac, assuming 1.5 lac for 80C and 10K for the rest (like medical insurance under 80D or whatever). But you can change it to whatever number you want to include other exemptions like HRA and LTA.
I think some things like PF and HRA are calculated based on basic income, but I was able to approximate the calculation without bringing basic income into account. Salary for the purpose of PF is limited to 15K anyway.
Again, enhancements welcome.
I built this for my needs. If you want it to handle HRA, or LTA, or income 1 crore and above, etc, that's an entirely reasonable point of view, and I'd welcome a pull request if you have the time.