I did some back of the napkin math of my own and this is way of base. I don't live anywhere even close to somewhere that uber operates so it doesn't really matter but it made me think, "am I really spending that much on owning a car?" The per mile number is what got me so I came up with a number myself and I'm way closer to $0.50 per mile.
I have a Chevrolet cobalt that I bought 5 years ago for $6000. I will have this car until it dies so depreciation isn't really a factor. Instead I just divided $6000 by 5 years. I live in Canada and gas here is the equivalent of about $5.29 per gallon. It's been a good car and has only cost me about $2000 per year in maintenance (I do some minor stuff myself). Factor in registration, license, insurance and at 12000 miles per year at my measured fuel efficiency, I come in at a little less than $0.50 per mile.
If it was going to cost me $2 per mile I think I would have to just stay home.
I am rebuilding a 1981 Suzuki GS750E. I find it really helps to get away from my desk once in a while.
I have never done any mechanical work before and I am having fun and learning a lot. I highly recommend it as an alternative to starting yet another project.
When I don't feel like working on that or am waiting for parts, I am building an original arcade game. Its in the really early stages but I hope to house it in a traditional coin operated arcade cabinet painted with original artwork from a local artist and put it in a local coffeeshop or something.
I don't have a site to point anyone to for either of these projects.
I did this with a 1981 Honda cb750 two winters ago. I also had no prior mechanical knowledge and found it incredibly fulfilling and rewarding. There was an amazing online community dedicated to the motorcycle that I have that was incredibly helpful. I'd recommend this to anyone willing to put in the work.
Edit: I should add that this bike now my daily rider. I could afford a much newer and nicer bike, but I don't think I'll ever sell this one given how much work I put into it and how familiar I am with its internals.
As a developer with a production mobile app that uses Facebook for more than just sign in, I hate this. It changes a lot of the fundamental things that we use in a way that is detrimental to our user's experience.
Before, login with Facebook provided a better and more convenient user experience. Now it just seems clunky. Without the information that we get from Facebook for a user that decides to sign in with Facebook, we don't even have a user.
In my part of Canada we do. Or maybe I should say did... until the snow plows got them.
I live in Prince Edward Island and they were put in in some especially tricky areas just last summer and already they are mostly gone. They were the type where they cut a little dip in the road and install them so that they are even with the height of the pavement and that didn't even save them.
The glow in the dark paint on the other hand would be a huge improvement and not susceptible to damage. Not to mention no installation required.
I don't know about the whole of PEI - I only lived in the Summerside area for a little over a year, or two winters' worth, before the Canadian Forces Base closure was announced - but in my experience snow was not anything like occasional (or vertical, for that matter; precipitation is a horizontal phenomenon) and ground stability is an old civil engineer's wife's tale. The island is essentially a waterlogged sandbar with a plastic surface that almost seems alive during the frost season. Shallow roadbeds ripple with the seasons; deep concrete slabs tend to shift significantly. (The slab-bed highway around Charlottetown looked like a post-earthquake scene in the spring of '89, and a brisk business was being done in tires, wheels and steering and suspension parts.) There isn't a lot that works well "everywhere" that's directly transferable to PEI. The only way to make sure that inset features stay inset is to sink them deep enough to be more or less useless.
Canadian parent here. You are absolutely right and it's ridiculous. Kids are extremely sheltered these days and it's ruining them. I find the problem is that there always needs to be someone to blame. Well, sometimes kids just do things that get them hurt. It's part of growing up.
If you don't know what it feels like to fly down a ice covered hill on a piece of plastic, hit a jump, and run smack into another kid, you did not have a proper Canadian childhood.
American here, I've been run over by guys on skis more than once at the local sledding hill growing up. My favorite sled was literally a rolled up piece of stiff plastic...fastest thing on the hill and I routinely had other kids wanting a ride.
Given that the number of posts dips over time, that's a difference of approx 8-10 posts in that 85 day period after the relationship begins. Seems pretty negligible.
I built something similar to this at a hackathon in 2011. The source is has been on github ever since. No one has come after me yet.
Don't understand what the big deal is.
That date happens to be the date of DST transition in Brazil and Brazil is one of about 10 or so countries that transition at midnight rather than some later time such as 2am. Because of that, and due to how ES5's timezone logic works, the time winds up resetting backwards an hour, putting the Date object in the day before.
The other countries that do this are Chile, Paraguay, Cuba, Greenland, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, West Bank, and Gaza Strip. (I think I got them all..)
I have a Chevrolet cobalt that I bought 5 years ago for $6000. I will have this car until it dies so depreciation isn't really a factor. Instead I just divided $6000 by 5 years. I live in Canada and gas here is the equivalent of about $5.29 per gallon. It's been a good car and has only cost me about $2000 per year in maintenance (I do some minor stuff myself). Factor in registration, license, insurance and at 12000 miles per year at my measured fuel efficiency, I come in at a little less than $0.50 per mile.
If it was going to cost me $2 per mile I think I would have to just stay home.