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It said her options were either build a ramp for $100k or settle for $60k. Who can she settle with, and who agrees that she doesn’t need to build a ramp anymore? What happens if someone else comes along and wants a ramp?
Given those hypothetical people, I would bet that the one who went back to his homewtown actually enjoys his life, while the other is miserable, but surrounded in gold.
If the latter takes his ball and goes home, now that's a different story.
Of course it helps being in a large city with many options and excellent insurance. Without this, I’d probably be getting g second and third opinions constantly.
Books, sports, art, music, are all way cheaper forms of entertaining oneself.
Most hobbies or entertainment don't have a charge per hour.
For working out, absolutely, if you’re trying to target a specific cardio exercise you want to your heart rate to be in a range and I have used it for that too, though usually a chest sensor which is much more accurate.
And 10% of what? If someone books a day, yes, the cleaning fee is more than 10% of that. Don’t like it? Go get a hotel where it’s baked into every night.
You’ll quickly get big or go home.
My sleep has not recovered, and I don’t expect it will for a few years. On the other hand, I’m not going out drinking anymore, or staying out late, so all those hangovers mornings I used to have don’t happen anymore, and I think that just cancels out the sleep deprivation.
If there’s a yacht club, they will usually have races where they need crew, and where they will teach you to be crew, and then go race with them on their boat. The costs there usually you bring beer/food to the boat and help clean up at the end.
That’s a very affordable way to get into it if you’re not sure how you’d like it or can’t afford it. Boats are expensive and maintaining by them even more so, but in my opinion, absolutely worth it.
It is completely different. Before Uber, you had to call dispatch, give them your location or your closest estimate of it: dispatch would then manually try to find a car that was available and send them to you. This usually took at least 30-40m, if they arrived at all.
With Uber, I open the app, it looks at all available cars, finds the closest one available, and sends that car to my GPS location. Oh, and if that car gets stuck in traffic, it automatically picks another car and sends that over
Uber completely revolutionized taxi services and is absolutely nothing like calling dispatch on a phone.
Ie: work 12-16 hours of labor to put food on the table, then study so then get a better job a few years down the road, vs work 12-16 hours a day for the rest of their life just to survive.
This is where UBI would help so people can work in their things besides basic survival.
- Having smart locks means I don't have to give out keys, and I can change lock codes remotely.
- Having a smart thermostat means not only can I change it remotely (once they've checked or to prepare it before checking in), but I also get notified of when the HVAC isn't working. (For example, the ecobee will email you if it's been heating for a couple of hours and the temperature has dropped). This is absolutely necessary in climates with periods of extreme cold as that can cause burst pipes, which then damage everything.
- Smart smoke detectors, CO2 detectors can notify you of problems that you won't otherwise find out about in a timely manner, given you're not at the location.
- Sensors that detect flooding. We have a condo that has been flooded by upstairs tenants. Putting a moisture detector between the walls means we get notified of a small problem before it becomes a huge problem.
I think having a smart home is even more important for a property that you don't live at then one where you do.
Actively telling guests "We don't have hidden cameras" has got to be extremely off-putting. There is not a huge problem with hidden cameras. Just fine/arrest/ban the hosts who actually do it, given evidence that it is them doing it.
Essentially, using appropriate image analysis, they can sense the pulse of blood moving through the skin
HR is not your friend. HRs duty is to the company. If what you need and what the company needs are on the same page, sure, HR is on your side, but if not, they will do whatever it is that benefits and protects the company.
And once you are fast, you have to stay fast. Remaining fast is not easy or cheap either.
Sure, if you have the part that’s really hard to get right, making money is then really easy.
You want to see what happens without HFT. Look at the crash in 89, when human market makers would no longer answer their phones because they did not know what was going on in the market.
Instead of the crash recovering in minutes, it took hours and had larger widespread effects.
Furthermore, exchanges have now added automatic pauses in trading during highly volatile times, to let traders figure out what is going on.
The markets are objectively more stable, more efficient, and tighter, and better for the general public now with HFTs than they were in the 80s and 90s with human market makers/brokers.
Second is the risks to market makers goes up, which means they need to acquire more edge to cover that risk, which in turn widens the bid-ask spread, which makes prices for retail traders worse and will likely reduce liquidity as well.
Now as everything has become more efficient, humans are replaced by algos, which are way cheaper. In turn, they also require less for upkeep, and so charge less in edge, which means you have better bid/ask prices, lower trading fees, etc.
You want paid time off that's government mandated? Go break your leg. You'll get that time off, and it'll be about as enjoyable as maternity/paternity.
I (as a man) just had a child a few days ago. I'm perpetually sleep deprived and miserable, but my wife? On top of being in an immense amount of pain due to (minor) complications, she is not able to take any real painkillers, and has to spend an hour breastfeeding every three hours.
there is nothing about her situation that I envy, or that any man compares to post-childbirth.
You get $400 for $120 in bitcoin.
I'd say life doesn't really begin until you're on your own, so around 18 for me, but I'd really say that life picked up around the late 20s, early 30s. So, at 37, if I look at everything that I've done in the last 10 years, and now knowing what I want to do, I've still got three lives to live.
1) They lend the stock to shorters and make money off the interest.
2) They get people into their ecosystem. As most people don't keep a dozen different accounts, they can get people to start using their checking and savings accounts (where Fidelity makes money from lending a fraction of the balance). People might also be more likely to use their loan products, credit cards, or other services, which are obviously benefical to Fidelity.
There's likely other benefits to them as well, especially given that index funds don't require any real human oversight.
Edit: Given other info posted, it's really just #2. This is a loss leader to get customers.
Does that mean no one should ever take alcohol as well?
The world is not black and white.
Hosting on Couchsurfing is a way to meet other travelers and show them around your city, and most importantly, you don't get paid.
Hosting on AirBnb is a business. AirBnb is far closer to HomeAway and VRBO. These existed before too, but their usability was terrible and they were prone to scams.