self hosted ActualBudget and SimpleFin for fetching data automatically works great for me so far. You can also setup multiple instances and tune them separately if you like.
Well this just tells you that if you play by someone else's rules you get money and investment pouring in and GDP going up. If you don't then its the opposite. The main question is do you prefer to play by your own rules or rules imposed by investment interests.
Edit: For an average person its not always true that an illusion of prosperity is always good. Eventually there might be a payback for all this capital.
Its probably more to do with demographics for EVs. Currently EVs and infrastructure around it cover mostly higher income brackets that do not want to bother too much with used cars, so the market around used cars is fairly small compared to ICE that cover both high and and lower end incomes. If you are in a bottom 50% and need a family car EV is still a significant financial risk. Once EVs cover lower income brackets we will see a much healthier used car market.
I am using a self-hosted instance of https://linkding.link/ which works great for hoarding a bunch of links. I am using multiple machines and different browsers and keeping bookmarks on the cloud is just not my thing.
It’s probably cheaper now to get a sublease on commercial real estate or a lease in a class B/C building in most parts of the US than renting the equivalent sized residential garage. It certainly is in SF at least.
I don't know much about commercial real estate, so I checked LoopNet for my area. If you're not picky about the neighborhood, I'm surprised how cheaply you can get a garage-sized space.
Did that.. and a postdoc. IMHO it's a waste of time and does not get you any closer to your goals. Exception could be when you end up on a project that could become a startup business idea, but that is not what OP is asking.
The OP will easily get a tenured job in any tech related branch after a PhD, while just going directly for teaching (as others advised) would result in long term socioeconomic downgrade.
I have a feeling that you haven't worked in academia.
There are no tenured jobs that are easy to get, for the simple reason that firing tenured faculty is intentionally difficult. Tenure-track positions at any reputable university, and even disreputable ones, are highly competitive are require a history of research, in addition to the PhD. Mostly fresh PhDs need to do at least one post-docs in order to be considered for tenure-track. In particular, the offer of a tenure-track position is contingent on the expectation of future research output, which is not consistent with the OP's goal of taking a few months off.
Nor with the fact that OP is approaching retirement age... if you figure 10 years from beginning a PhD program to tenure (which certainly isn't a hard limit, but probably isn't an unreasonable basis to start from) then they might have only 10-15 working years left after 'getting there'. While hiring and tenure considerations would word it _very_ carefully to avoid the appearance of age discrimination, I suspect that would factor into any such decisions.
Visited Disneyland last Friday and once I started watching first 5min of this video I could not stop... It really highlights how complex this issue is. I feel the main problem is that it collides now with original idea of bringing experience to all and modern economics that require constant expansion. It is interesting that they have tried price per ride in 70s. I think the flaw was that A-E ticket system was fixed and could not adopt to change in demand or behavior. Perhaps it is time for a futures stock exchange to fine tune price/demand.
After I took my kids day after thanksgiving for the first time last Friday, I was wondering why this problem simply exists. And how is it possible to pay such big amount of money for outdated experiences that we had.
There is a nice analysis of everything that Disney tried as far as controlling lines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yjZpBq1XBE
As a person that came from USSR, I see that many of the issues are created by removing money as a control mechanism of supply and demand. If you pay entrance fee and then remove fine tuning for each ride, the result is long lines. My personal opinion is that pay-per-ride is a much better model although I can see how many may disagree. From my childhood in a country where money did not have much meaning, I learned that all-you-can eat mode for a price of entry will be filled with schemes, long lines, and tricks to game the system.
