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Re:Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost? by glaberficken on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:16AM (#23830569)
Under "Service cost" it could use an option for "one time purchase fee". Obviously that is going to create special cases for the "amortizations" output
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Re:Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost? by osel on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:00PM (#23837019)
Cheers, a few people of suggested this. As you note, it rather depends on the amortization period.

At the moment it assumes 1 year for training costs to be amortized over, so I guess one-time purchase would be similar - configurable assumptions (or at list, visibility into the assumptions) is on the list of things to do.

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Re:Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost? by koheripbal on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:22AM (#23832990)
Yep... conceptually, you want to quantify, recurring gains, recurring costs, one-time gains, and one-time costs.
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