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

Yes. Past 3.
Re:When the Culture Wars Come for the Public Library on Thursday April 20, 2023 @11:44PM (#35649623)
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

Re:AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server on Thursday April 20, 2023 @11:37PM (#35649584)
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.
Re:Rethinking Triplebyte on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @01:37PM (#27594625)
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.

Re:Coursera S-1 IPO on Saturday March 06, 2021 @02:27AM (#26365822)
The content is free. And you can "audit" any course you want. The only thing you pay for is the certificate.
Re:Coursera S-1 IPO on Saturday March 06, 2021 @02:07AM (#26365753)
just the certificate. and you also get access to some extra things like the autograder in some classes. But otherwise, nothing is different.
Re:The Birth of Unix with Brian Kernighan on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @04:34PM (#25214549)
i bet you give great code reviews
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020) on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:25PM (#23184176)
looks interesting. just sent an application your way.
Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? on Thursday May 14, 2020 @08:36AM (#23178685)
Small site that accesses the posts and comments you save on reddit and allows you to search or filter using elixir/phoenix and liveview.

Also ordered a few raspberry pis to build a cluster as motivation to learn/experiment w kubernetes and distributed systems in general