Southern coast has seen an excessive amount of hurricane damage over the past five years. Check florida and gulf coast state insurance rates recently.

Again, the point is that you can't just compare $X billion over the past N years with $Y billion during a different N-year period. The numbers have gone up dramatically even if the actual damage didn't.

If i insure my house for 200k, i get 200k whether it costs 200k or 400k to rebuild it.

My home insurance has doubled from 2022 to 2024 for the same level of insurance. And the value of my house crrtainly hasn’t doubled. I expect some increase year to year but that is excessive.

Inflation is expected but a lot of companies are also taking advantage of the rise in prices and using excuses that no longer apply.

Companies aren’t willingly going to go back to reasonable prices if people are still willing to pay higher ones or if customers are locked in.

Check out Pepsis earnings call a few quarters back. Basically “we raised prices bc we can and our margins have increased”. Its just capitalism. Supply chain shock is over.

Come to library meetings in our town and you will see people screaming and being removed from the building. not an exaggeration.

problem is not the patrons, so much as the ones trying to control the content available

ha. totally forgot about Philip Greenspun. He also started photo.net which was basically the most prolific online community for photography back in mid 90s/early 2000's. spent majority of my high school / college years browsing that site.

It would be nice if companies offered free trials without requiring a credit card number. There's really no reason to grab this other than to hope someone forgets to cancel the trial after 3 days and you catch a quick autopay b/c of it.

ammon,

how do I reply to recruiter contacts? applied to a job, received a request for interview from company. Nowhere to reply on the platform? How do I get in contact with them?

Should there not be a reply button right there with recruiter's message?

p.s. I already emailed support but, my past experience tells me they won't reply.

The content is free. And you can "audit" any course you want. The only thing you pay for is the certificate.

It seems like you can't do quizzes without paying, either. :/ Difficult for learning more math without finding relevant quizzes elsewhere.

just the certificate. and you also get access to some extra things like the autograder in some classes. But otherwise, nothing is different.

Actually, I was doing some updated courses a while ago, which I started a few years back and wanted to finish. I could follow the videos and reading material, but I could not do the end—of-week quizzes without paying. This really put me off.

It’s vastly different for many courses. The exercises are often paywalled, which means you can’t put your skills to the test.

And at that point, you're just watching videos and, while people learn in different ways, you may be just as well or better off picking up a book and taking advantage of resources like MIT OCW.

Entitled much?

i bet you give great code reviews