But people routinely buy insurance, and it's considered a right and moral thing to do. Though the math is exactly the same as with the lottery. Statistically, odds are unfavorable. But it buys peace of mind, so people pay.
The insurance is given a polarity and connection to the rest of your luck in such a way that it smooths out your risks. On the other hand, playing the lottery makes your good luck spikier. (Though there are more specific ways to say it, we could say that insurance is meant to make your life less impacted by chance -- more predictable -- while insurance is meant to make it more impacted by chance -- more unpredictable.)
For example, in some cases (I won't specify for the fear of being cancelled) your chance of becoming rich by your skills is exactly zero, and you know it. Chance of winning the lottery is small, but higher than zero.
How is that in the US there are always monopolies everywhere? Where I live, there are at least 10 different car sharing apps, and there is an app that lets you see which app offers better rates for a given destination. I think it has something to do with regulatory culture.
If delivery costs the same as an average Uber ride, say, $10, it makes every order under $100 unprofitable. An average food order is way below that, I think. So the math doesn't add up.
If delivery costs the same as an average Uber ride, say, $10, it makes every order under $100 unprofitable.
What you pay as an Uber passenger is not even remotely close to what Uber pays its drivers. So a $10 cost for a food delivery may not be realistic.
How much an Uber trip costs Uber depends on a lot of factors, but I can tell you from experience that very often if a passenger paid $10 for a trip, the driver saw far less than $5 of it. That's why they're always angling for tips.
When I drove for Uber, a very common run was from the airport to a specific large convention hotel. The trip was maybe five miles. The passengers often complained about having to pay $25-$40 or more for the short trip. As a driver, I got maybe $3.50 out of it.
What's the big difference for a driver? It's still the same time, same gas and miles put on the car. True, the food won't throw up in his car, but he should get out of the car to pick up the order, often has to wait at the counter.
A whole ton of SEO. Any keyword from which you can make reasonable amounts of money will be cluttered with sites made by SEO people, who are really good at gaming the index, but really bad at anything else (i.e. actually giving proper information on the keyword you're searching for).
Spam has become an issue again in my native language. For a couple of years Google did a great job at removing spam, but somehow in the past 2 years it has resurfaced.
Truth is only important to us as long as it contributes positively to our well-being. This sort of mushrooms is edible and this one is poisonous - everyone would agree on that.
As far as more abstract truths are concerned: people believed for centuries that the Earth is flat. Many still do. If you said otherwise, society would probably burn you for heresy, so the cost of truth was hugely negative.
Testing arose with the advent of PHP and JavaScript. Because compilers check nothing in these languages, testing must be written separately, otherwise it's impossible to make even a short program without errors.
It's self-reinforcing. People won't start reading them unless they know that they may contain usable information. Given that the process of making a clean history can make you understand the project better even if you are alone, saying they are write-only is misleading.
