Yes! The amex benefit equals a free days ride (ish) once a month.
Yeah the real benefit is not worry about all the worry, not dealing with all the details. Washing a car sucks. Pumping gas sucks. Changing a flat sucks.
I went carless about a year and a half ago in Los Angeles (wife still has a car) and it’s been awesome.
I had a ratty 2006 liberty. Going through my bank history and tabbing up costs for the previous years I figured if I spent $25 bucks a day on Uber I’d be saving money. (Actually I spend about $18 / day)
Things I took into account were:
- insurance
- gas
- parking tickets, garages and meters
- maintenance (something expensive broke every few months)
- Amex platinum gives a $200 credit / year for Uber
Qualitative-ish things:
- time saved not parking (some days I’d spend 45 minutes trying to find a spot in Venice)
- time saved not forgetting where my car was parked or walking a mile to it
Rearranging: the punctuation helps you think about how you’re rearranging. You can’t copy/paste around in any function and expect it it work!
The records comparison to a struct is unfair. He could have patterned matched on the record instead of destructuring and accessed the attributes of the record.
Immutability! Fuck yeah! I tend to name subsequent variables with the mutation that was applied to them. It’s wordy.