How do you define “good”? When I looked at contract work briefly in 2023 and 2024, contract rates for enterprise dev and the type of work you find on Indeed was around $60-$80/hour W2. Which is really on the low to median end of even enterprise dev once you take into account no paid PTO, no health insurance, and you can’t even count on working 1800 hours a year.
As one gets older the LinkeIn unsolicited messages become rarer and rarer, I know I saw a decrease after I passed the age of 35 and most certainly after I passed 40 years of age.
I'm sort of "incentivized" to by Apple because as soon as they release a new one, the current device you have will be at "peak trade in value" and deteriorate over time.
It's a negligible amount of money. It's like, brand new $999, trade in for like $450. Once a year... $550 remainder/12 months is $45.75/mo to have the latest and greatest laptop.
How much is a 2-year old laptop worth? Because if you buy a new laptop every two years and don't even sell the old one, you're only spending $500 a year, which is less than you are now.
You really shouldn't trade-in your laptop on the basis of trying to maximise its trade-in value, that doesn't make economic sense.
You should be incentivised by trying to minimise depreciation. You incur the greatest amount of depreciation closest to the date of purchase, so the longer you go between purchases, the less depreciation you'll realise.
If I expected to say get, $450 after 1 year, and $250 after 2 years. By trading in every 2 years, I'm getting a laptop that's a bit older, but you're also saving $14.58/month on depreciation. If the year after that becomes $150, you'd be saving $22.22/month. If the price is worth it is subjective, I'm just saying going for maximal trade in value doesn't really make sense, since you save more money the lower the trade-in value you get.
It's a Canadian-developed tool used by Canadian doctors. It's popular on the internet to offer up overly-generalized platitudes like yours but do us a favor and at least read the article first.
I don't see how it being Canadian is relevant. First off Canada is part of North America and North America is big geographically. We have similar car culture compared to USA. There are very large subsidies given to battery manufacturing sector in Canada amounting to $43.6 billion over 10 years as part of the latest budget.
"I have thought about it for hours by now, and read literature on the matter." Ah, the classic, pompous Hacker News user. The Baltimore Port Authority should've hired you to prevent this disaster - you're a genius!
To be fair I am truly surprised at the comment thread here and people being surprised that it collapsed and the lack of understanding of magnitude of forces. I always think of HN as a fairly educated group with a large portion of engineers (skewed heavily towards software which doesn't always have a background in the physical environment).
I don't intend to sound pretentious or condescending. Maybe its more that I need to reconcile with my own expectations of the community level of knowledge/domain of expertise.
I rather have a high bar of expectations than a low bar though to be honest.
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