LOL did brooklyn and queens just stop existing? Dumbasses.
Iāve been really impressed by all the hot takes that this is some enormous burden on lower-income New Yorkers, as if this is a constituency who owns tons of cars and are currently paying the gas, maintenance, bridge tolls, and parking costs every day to drive into Midtown and lower Manhattan. And not the constituency who already relies heavily on public transit.
I do think how this played out is a bit silly - $9 and $2.25 are probably not high enough charges to make a real difference, but weāll see.
Speaking of ham and eggs. People like ham sandwiches and people like egg salad sandwiches, why donāt you see more ham and egg salad sandwiches?
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dammit
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Yeah, delis make buckets of the stuff because no one buyās itā¦ get out of here.
Thereās a storefront by me, maybe 300sf of retail space, called like āSweetlandā or some such generic name, that is more or less empty inside but for about a dozen shelves that hold some Doritos bags, M&Mās packages, etc. I havenāt really looked into it much, but Iām so intrigued as to what actually is being run out of there.
I consulted the scrolls (GOAT sandwich thread) and see it did win against cucumber tea, but lost against a Jewish deli pastrami. It even received some votes in the latter, so I concede that some do like an egg salad sandwich.
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Trumpās take is itās a regressive tax.
Apparently they wanted it at 15 dollars and it will slowly rise to 15 by 2031.
I use ChatGPT to create quizzes and assignments for my students. Itās an indispensable tool.
How would you prompt a quiz question? (I am curious about the process)
You donāt. You type in āCreate a gap fill quiz testing this list of vocabulary wordsā. Then include the list of vocabulary words.
Might have to tweak it a bit to get the desired questions but once you do thatās that.
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Oh man, this could be really helpful.
That being said, Iām somewhat surprised by what I just got.
Hereās what I prompted: ācreate 10 college level quiz questions focusing on present value conceptsā
And I got back 10 very reasonable questions. One of them was this:
Youāre planning for retirement and want to have $3 million in 35 years. Assuming an annual return of 8%, how much would you need to invest as a lump sum today? Round your answer to the nearest thousand dollars.
Great, very relevant and straightforward question. Claude asked if I wanted the solutions, to which I said yes. Hereās what it said:
Retirement planning using PV formula:
PV = FV / (1 + r)^n
PV = $3,000,000 / (1 + 0.08)^35
PV = $279,823 (rounded to nearest thousand)
The problem is that 3,000,000/(1+0.08)^35 is not actually 279,823. Seeing this, I typed in āCheck the solution to question 3ā, which resulted in:
Let me solve question 3 again step by step:
Given:
- Future Value (FV) = $3,000,000
- Number of years (n) = 35
- Interest rate (r) = 8% = 0.08
- Need to solve for Present Value (PV)
Using the Present Value formula: PV = FV / (1 + r)^n PV = $3,000,000 / (1 + 0.08)^35
Let me calculate this carefully:
- (1 + 0.08)^35 = 14.785
- $3,000,000 / 14.785 = $202,908
My earlier answer of $279,823 was incorrect.
The correct answer is $202,908 (rounded to nearest thousand dollars).
This is super fucking weird. It perfectly recognized the question and set up the calculation correctly. It somehow miscalculated the answer, but when poked it calculated it correctly?
I will probably use this to generate questions, but man I would never rely on the output for anything important without checking it.
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The Honey scam hasnāt really been talked about on legacy media, but itās huge on socials/alternative media. Check out these recent youtube stats:
Legal Eagle like a rocket
the fee is already set to go up over time, I think itās currently scheduled to hit $15 by 2030.
It didnāt round to the nearest thousand dollars in either solution.