Update - after more prodding both representative mentioned that you can actually move to monthly. It's just something that they can't (don't) want to enable. "Heroku online" exists but being aggressively hidden.
Out of curiosity (I also sell enterprise products) what would make the purchase a no-brainer? Quarterly payments? E.g. I’ve heard that ~$300 (ballpark) is the max amount an individual can spend without a review process. Is that what you mean?
We needed the unique jobs feature, which only part of the enterprise plan.
And since (at that stage) our budget was low, the enterprise plan was too expensive.
I reached out to ask if we can do any other payment scheme, or at least get startup discount to start using, but were declined.
We ended up using an OSS library for that part and even now what we grown, still don't pay for sidekiq. If it was part of Pro, or we had a 1 year discount for startups, we prob just kept on paying even now (that we can afford it).
Can someone explain why this is better than just using pumps to pump water up from the reservoir and extract the energy with when the water returned back?
Pumped water only works if you have the right conditions. I.e. you need a certain altitude difference and enough space to have an upper and a lower water storage facility.
Pumped water storage is very efficient and an established technology, so when it's possible it's a good choice, but it's not possible everywhere.
It's not, but it doesn't require a giant reservoir next to a 100m+ elevation change. Almost all of the really good locations for dams already have them, and their water discharge rates are driven by a lot more than just power generation.
It requires less surface area, both due to compressibility and due to hydrodynamics. Additionally, water is a strong erosion source, air is not, so this can make use of existing excavations much easier and deep excavation is very very expensive.
not a lot of places have enough terrain to create a lake, plus in some places there's already shortage of water so removing it from usage would be pretty bad
Do you think the lifespan of the topic or the delivery platform impacted your returns? I don't buy a lot of books anymore but used to drop 40-50 bucks on an O'Reilly book that would be used for years. My LP purchases probably top out under $10 and are for more immediate, short-lived topics (which seems to be what the platform targets with it's digital & updated content focus)
The problem is that it's relatively easy to hire a marketing partner (does PR, etc.). But it will probably cost quite a bit more than your book advance. And most publishers these days aren't setting up book signings, sending out review copies, etc.
When I get pings to see if I want to review a book it's usually from a PR agency.
as a developer-who-can-market i often wonder if itd be worth my time taking a 50% cut to be a marketing partner heheh. not sure i can do it repeatedly for people i dont already know.
Yeah, the security on physical newspaper vending machines is laughably easy to defeat as well. Just smash the glass on the front with a rock and you can take as many papers as you want, for free. Or for a less destructive route you can use a special tubular lock pick.
Since the other causes of death remain static in this chart, its hard to tell if Covid-19 are new cases or "take away from other causes" (and by what percentage).
Would be interesting to see daily chart of Covid-19 deaths as % of total deaths and daily total deaths.
PS. Extra points - number of deaths due to lockdowns (suicides, unaccessible healthcare, etc)
Indeed, this is the key question, what are the number of excess deaths compared with this time last year. Are mortality statistics available to that sort of granularity and speed (e.g. "number of deaths registered last week") for any country or region in the world?
If you die of heart failure and happen to be covid infected (which is likely given how widespread it is) do you go down as a covid death rather than a heart failure?
Week 9 commences March 2nd (I'm assuming the weeks are the same as ISO weeks)
Week | Total dead(E+W) | Covid (UK) | Excess mortality
8 Feb24-Mar1 | 10,841 | 0 | ...
9 Mar 2-8 | 10,816 | 3 | no
10 Mar 9-15 | 10,895 | 32 | no
11 Mar 16-22 | 11,019 | 300 | no
12 Mar 23-29 | 10,645 | 1073 | no
13 Mar30-Apr5 | n/a | 3965 | yes -- England overall and 65+. not in Wales/Scotland/NI. Specific England regions - London, South East, E+W Midlands, North West
Ah great find. I was looking for UK hospital admissions data.
That's pretty shocking. Pneumonia and respiratory has hardly moved (where is the wave???) yet there's a huge fall in emergency cardiac patients. That's worrying. It implies people having heart attacks are choosing not to go to hospital fast enough, even though they could.
People are ignoring stroke symptoms and failing to ring 999 because they fear being a burden on the NHS in England duringthe covid-19 pandemic, the national clinical director for stroke has warned. Deb Lowe, consultant stroke physician at Wirral University Teaching Hospital, said that doctors across the country were seeing “quite striking reductions” in the number of people coming into hospital with symptoms of stroke. She said, “It appears that people aren’t seeking emergency help or going to hospital when they suspect a stroke, possibly due to fear of the virus or not wanting to be a burden on the NHS.”
The excess deaths caused by the lockdown are likely to be spread out over years. They will be deaths of despair from suicide, substance abuse, and chronic diseases (including depression). The epidemiologists and public health officials don't appear to be factoring those deaths into their models.
The long tail of deaths that have been subverted must also be taken into account, e.g. take those who would have otherwise passed in the near future to lung disease who succumb to the virus, they inflate this number, but next year's lung disease numbers will be proportionately lower.
Yep people really pay $29-$69 for a 130 pages eBook!
I tested all the prices between $9-$99 and I found these three tiers approach to be the most effective.
To be honest, this was a very difficult subject for me, here was my thinking process:
- How much does a physical tech book costs --> I checked the best sellers on Amazon and saw $25-$35
- Since I was selling an eBook, I was thinking that I should AT LEAST divide this price by 2.
- Not only that, but I "only" had 3 years of experience, so I should again apply another discount.
So I launched at $9...!
Then I learned about pricing strategies, value-based pricing and all. I did some experiments, increasing the price every month, and I was completely shocked to see that the conversion rate was still the same.
I imagine the more niche the subject is the higher you can go. Also, I'd expect that whoever buys books about web scraping has a very specific goal in sight.
