I wish I knew the right answer between "spin up a cloud VPS Linux server and run your own with Docker compose" and pay $150/mo for something like DataDog
While I've never used Symfony, when I've tinkered in Laravel it felt like the frameworks were pretty similar (if you've ever used Laravel).
If you want to do something more 'cloud native' in Ruby, you could use something like Ruby on Jets (at its core it uses AWS's API Gateway and Lambda, but can be extended for other AWS services with events)
In moderate to high inflation, usually this leads to raising of interest rates, which ironically makes money more valuable, not from an asset standpoint but from a liquidity standpoint. Assets (in real value) generally don't fare very well in high inflation / high interest rate environments though.
Since liquidity / credit is hard to come by, business have a hard time starting new ventures. For business that do make it through these environments, they usually are much healthier but (potentially) slower growing -- less VC pumped companies that are only (potentially) profitable due to scale
With that being said, we thankfully/shouldn't end up in that situation as the fed has stated they will keep raising rates (and we luckily have a strong labor market currently to support this) and want a softening in labor market (which hampers wage-spiral inflation as well as driving demand side down) which based on last weeks numbers shows we are not close to achieving, and they want real positive returns across the entire yield -- which we are quite a ways from as well based on the last reported inflation numbers:
https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/...
Since inflation is being driven by supply side constraints, new businesses in theory should emerge in these areas. In the long run, supply constraints should fall to a more manageable level, so prices should fall thus increasing demand and we end up ideally in a nice equilibrium
Going back to your point though, while money is an asset, it's also a form of trade. Money is way better medium of exchange than say bartering where say I may have a chicken for sale but I have enough milk right now, and so I won't take your milk unless the price is astronomically good -- leading to very inefficient markets. The early history of united states currency is fascinating, as no one really trusted what currency was really worth (many issuers) -- also leading to inefficient markets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zkADfv0boQ
In more recent years we moved away from the gold standard, and currently are in fiat. In a fiat system, the value of the dollar is very tightly correlated with bonds and treasuries of the country -- which are backed by the tax payer base of that country. Here in the united states, we are lucky to have one of the largest educated and wealthy workforces in the world with high property rights, high freedom, and relatively speaking higher equality -- definitely not perfect, but better than most places. Hence why US bonds are considered "risk free". Currencies are complicated as these too can be assets and the FX market is 10x the size of the bond market. These can be manipulated, such as via interest rates as well (as we are currently witnessing)
Without that you can potentially pull this off with taxes, but in theory this leads to deadweight loss (how much so I believe has been of debate, and inelastic vs elastic items will vary a lot), and could lead to potential capital flight and brain draining so is a tricky lever to pull
Sorry I went on a bit of tangent/rant. Also, I'm a software developer and not an economist and only have taken a couple of classes in uni and highschool specifically to econ (I was a finance major though) so take this with a grain of salt, but I do find this stuff fascinating
Student deserve the college experience as that's what they pay for.
Some students pay a lot of money to go to a university that has brand recognition, others pay a lot of money to go to a school that's known to be a great party school. If you're 18, going to one of the latter schools, and you look at the statistics of death rates for each age group, you're definitely going to go and party.
I think asking an 18 year old who's thinking, "well I'm still paying this much and everyone else got to do it" to recognize the sacrifice is an extremely high bar to ask of them
The main goal of any species is to survive/reproduce.
We don't know if there's any other intelligent life in the universe, or how common it is. The one thing we do know is that we haven't found any.
There could be many reasons for this, and one of those is the Fermi Paradox (great filter).
Whether this is a real thing or not we don't know, but by establishing sustainable settlements in space, we hedge against the idea of us dying out via ourselves, asteroids, etc.
If there are space aliens hanging around, they likely wouldn't contact us
Just seeing them would give us a huge technological leg up. Right now we don't know that interstellar travel is readily feasible, but if we did know that then it would suddenly make sense to spend 100 times as much on space tech
Considering what a bunch of jerks we are to each other, I don't think aliens would want us roaming around freely
Yeah, there's really no reason for them too. If they are able to do interstellar travel, resource harvesting (from asteroids, comets, moons, planets, and suns) is relatively simple.
The thing is, I don't think it'd matter technologically. I don't think a kardashev 1 civilization could ever catch up to a kardashev 2 civilization.
Maybe once they've reached a "technological plateau" it becomes mutually assured destruction? But instead of nukes, it's targeted gamma-ray bursts? Who knows...
I don't work in IB or PE so take what I put with a grain of salt, just what I've learned.
Also, you know markets aren't near efficient when people invest in $ZOOM and not $ZM and when Elon tweets $TSLA stock is too high.
You can look at daily gainers and losers and watch them over the course of the week. They are extremely volatile.
If you're talking about the S&P500 it's a little easier to do. A little over 50% of the value of S&P 500 is the top 50 companies by weight. The top 100 equate to 70% and the top 250 equate to 90%.
There's a pretty good technical illustration of how the discount rate impacts stock prices here [0].
This does provide one plausible answer to the headline question from TFA: Corporations' expected future profits are lower than they were pre-COVID, but the valuation discount rate is lower because the expected future return for assets in general is lower, so the present value of corporations' expected future profits is the same-ish as it was pre-COVID.
You can always buy a new stereo and install it. If you buy it from Crutchfield, for like $19 extra, you can get it prewired/harnessed so you don't have to splice the wires. Pretty sweet deal.
Also, some stereos come with a backup cam. This has to be spliced in though.
HUGE NOTE: I bought a 4.5-star receiver on Crutchfield, but the receiver didn't have Sirius XM on it, so I basically don't have radio (unless I use an app on my phone to stream the radio). I don't listen to the radio often so it's not a huge deal for me, just something to be aware of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn