Fiat is actually a warped backroom version of money. It's a measure of trust I think? You could replace it with something that represents resources, perhaps even [future] labor.

I've made that website! Just put the name and a big fat print phone number in the middle of the page.

There use to be a windows shop around here that had a game on the website where you have to throw stones at windows. Limited time per house, limited stones, more points for big windows, run away when you hear police sirens.

Hard to estimate how much extra work they got out of it but I imagine it > 0.

True but electricians have a real system without bullshit, we wire something up and it just works, it keeps working too! You press the button, the light goes on, you press it again and it goes off! Except from audio all of the automatons come with the right plugs.

You would think after 50 years software devs build something similar but besides the <input type="submit"> button absolutely nothing works like that. Switching on the lights by clicking on a button using the mouse would already be a serious enterprise level undertaking. Then when you think you are done someone in Russia and someone in China are also able to control your lights.

There are no labels on our buttons, the dimensions are in exact mm. If you ask a software dev they will tell you mm have something to do with printing. On a screen a button can have any size, no one knows really how big it turns out regardless which of the 50 different units you use. pt rm rem px % vw etc etc

Sounds pretty unscientific? Can you at least tell me when it is finished and how much it will cost? Did I say something wrong?

Long story short, 130k isn't enough.

Maybe insert some heavy breathing in the gaps.

Honest estimates are probably fine.

If you are already drowning in work, make everything expensive enough to cover the errors. You always have some % chance to lose money with each customer. If the estimate is to high one can give a discount afterwards.

Could play the call on the speaker and decide if it is worth dropping your tools and walking to the phone. Those 10-20 daily marketeers are definitely not it.

You'd be surprised how many businesses don't answer their phone or chose not to answer based on who is calling.

It isn't, you can do things as a side project.

I thought about quite often while visiting a pub owned by the land lord renting out 150 rooms above. Each floor had a large industrial shared kitchen, shared bathrooms, toilets and a large shared living room. If people had 1-2 guests they would stay in their room, if they had 2-10 guests they would use the shared space, if they had 4-80 guests they would take the elevator to the pub. When one was bored with the guests or didn't have time they were left in the pub. Technically people had bar shifts in their rent contract (that you could buy your way out of) but there were plenty who enjoyed running the bar for free. Drinks were at cost. If you tried to tip or didn't take your change they left it on the counter and it would sit there for a day or two. The problem of the pinball machine earnings they solved with rounds of free drinks and chips.

When asked the owner said exploiting a bar was entirely to much work. If he wanted more money from the people living there he could just increase the rent?

Those are negative margins.

Yeah this is just describing providing amenity for common areas in a shared building. Not much different from the doorman and free water bottles in the lobby or the rooftop swimming pool being baked into the rent of the units.

The difference is that there are very similar establishments in the same street. Drinks cost 10-20 times more, they look far more polished, every detail had attention as one would expect from a commercial effort. Complete with loud music to limit conversation and boost sales.

redmagic 11 is almost 1000 usd cheaper than the s25.

I'm always surprised what isn't a national security issue.

That underground city near Derinkuyu in Turkey is suppose to have 18 levels, the first 8 are open to the public, the other 10 have been waiting for permission since 1963.