Disagree for this job.

Most handymen will just swap with a Home Depot box store lock.

Most condo's are mortice locks and a locksmith can rekey them in a few minutes for a nominal charge. Faster, cheaper, and likely a better quality lock cylinder installed than you'd find in Home Depot.

If the lock was broken, and you secured a replacement that you needed installed, then yes, I'd go with a handyman.

There's several stores in NYC and Garden State Plaza that I think are way easier to get to.

I can't imagine I'd ever torture myself to go to this one.

We’ve estimated the math here before. It would be more financially responsible to helicopter people across than build/maintain a bridge with even the most ambitious usage. And not even bothering with the realities of hot summers and cold winters which would impact usage.

The ramps alone you’d need to get to that height and be walkable/bikeable would be absolutely massive and consume multiple blocks on each side. And no, you couldn’t rely on just elevators as you’d have security/safety/maintenance issues.

The scale is just insane.

Yup. There’s a ton of applications for what’s essentially a database with authentication and tamper evidence built in.

Investing in database records with funny names however isn’t one of them.

There’s a ferry.

I’m not sure why you think it should be free. Crossing rivers has rarely been free in the course of human history.

Agree with every part of this.

Some of the smaller electricians will do it if they're not busy (it's an easy $150) that day, and in the neighborhood. But nobody is going out of their way for 15 minutes of work. The travel time/parking will eat too much of the profit.

IIRC it's 3 wire... black/white are your usual power (120V ac) and there's a red or blue that's for the communication. It's really that simple.

If your argument had even a shred of validity Bitcoin wouldn’t have tanked. Not to mention you wouldn’t need to get other people to invest to keep your money afloat.

There’s lots of applications, mainly that it’s auditable.

And “transaction” doesn’t have to be financial. That can be any interaction of people or systems. Even software licensing.

Banking is a record of economic contribution.

Bitcoin is a record. Nothing more.

Anyone can create a database and assign themselves a million dollars. That’s a record.

That difference isn’t nuanced. It’s everything.

I mean it’s math. And the methodology to verify a transaction is pretty sound.

But at the end of the day: it’s just a record. Creating records regardless of how much carbon you spend doing it… has no value.

But as a technology, it has use cases and I think you’ll see more and more of them materialize over time.

All of a sudden so many people are now claiming they didn’t personally invest in it. They just were interested in the technology.

Morons. All of em.

Blockchain is a legit technology. I can definitely see it having long term applications in some transactions. But investing in it is about as solid as investing in Reddit karma. The difference between those is something too many geniuses can’t figure out.

Yea. It looks dated due to some curtains and paint mostly. You could fix that for super cheap.

Budget “Luxury Vinyl Flooring” would also possibly be very worthwhile of an investment cost:value wise.

Only a few cosmetic tweaks needed to get a few hundred extra per month.

It’s just MLM digitized.

It’s not a suckers game. It’s a game for people who think they are better at exploiting others than others are at exploiting them.

So you either gotta deal with it on your own, or wait for the city to get to it over the next decade which is how long the project is projected to run.

Good way to get people to take it on themselves.

Black Friday of the 2000’s is dead. It’s now spread over the month of November. Economy is also dragging things down this year. Retail sales aren’t looking hot.

That said, will still be busier than normal. I want no part in that.

Is it safe? Yes.

Would I want to be in there? No.

They don't have control either.

The contracts behind the loans that the building was built with dictate how pricing is set. There's lots of fine print in those agreements to protect the investors.

A company can't just negate those contracts and set prices how they want. They agreed to run that building financially in very explicit terms before they broke ground.

Because the land is in a complicated trust. The building owner and the land owner are two different entities.

The land is likely owned by the same trust for 100y+… and likely a bunch of descendants collecting small checks. It would be complicated to get that sold/dissolved. You’d need to prove you have all people with rights to that, etc.

Cheaper/easier to just lease the land for 99y and do it that way.

I’m more interested in the bridge engineering than boats anyway… so that would be fine by me.

I honestly wouldn’t mind on a day not having a schedule to get stuck for a little bit towards the front so I can watch.

Bars are in general a horrible investment. Most bar owners best way to make money is to sell it to someone who thinks "it would be soooo cool to own a bar".

People come in, buy an "expensive" drink, and hog a chair for a long period of time. Revenue per square foot is pretty low while they sip that drink slowly and talk.

If bars were big money makers, there's be way more corporations running bars around the globe. But reality is, that's the one industry they never got a foothold in. The closest you've got is "Bar and Grill" places, which mostly exist because of a giant menu of Sysco Foods based crap they can microwave or drop in a fryer and sell at a huge margin.

Bars exist because people have midlife crisis's all the time.

I’ve never found independent agents worthwhile for personal auto insurance. Just get quotes from the websites and cut out the middle man.

If you’re a business it might make sense to deal with an agent.

Oh shit… that’s still closed?

I had to go from downtown to 440 and it was bumper to bumper the whole way. The entire fucking way. It didn’t cross my mind that was fallout from that crash.

Devils intersection living up to its name too.

So much regrets I didn’t run that errand on Monday. I figured I was being smart doing it today and not tomorrow with more holiday traffic. [facepalm]

If your doctor suspected something more serious they would have insisted you get to a specialist faster or the ER. So that’s a good sign.

That's pretty routine for specialists these days if they've got a good reputation. Some really good doctors affiliated with good hospitals in NYC are 3-5+ months out for new patients. A lot of doctors only see new patients 1 or 2 days a week during certain hours. It's even worse when they also teach or do procedures, since they've got only so many office hours. They pick and choose based on severity/urgency who gets those slots and what order.

Some will just decline you unless you've been to another specialist already and that didn't go well. I had one who asked for some tests to be faxed over, then the office told me they could see me in 2 months based on the doctor glancing over the tests. [Shrug].

After that first appointment though, you're in and scheduling follow ups or even a new appointment for a new issue with that doctor becomes 100X easier. It's just about getting in.

I wasn't really symptomatic, but like many, many, many people living in this part of the world, I was Vitamin D deficient. I actually asked for a test after a coworker telling me about their deficiency. My doctor just added it to the blood work I was already having.

I did find after taking supplements for a while I was less lethargic in the late afternoon, especially in the winter months. I guess it was my "normal" for years (or always, not sure if deficiency is common in kids or not?) so I never noticed it, but after being on supplements for several months I realized something had changed. So I could totally believe deficiency could be a cause of your symptoms. The list of possible symptoms is huge and diverse.