From personal experience I had the same carrier (blue cross) with the same deductible and same copay (the “gold” level PPO) but I currently pay $800 to buy it independently for my wife and I while at my old job the premiums were $1200 a month.
I mean you can get ten thousand monkeys throwing darts at a board full of companies as an investment strategy, and a handful of those monkeys will be top performers with excellent returns.
If you are using erlang you should be using pattern matching not regex. Erlang/Elixir are one of the easiest languages to build parsers in with their binary string pattern matching.
That might not be true if you consider that it is dramatically easier to lose $1b of bitcoin by forgetting the key, but there is almost no way you could lose $1b of gold by forgetting the combination or losing the key to the safe.
And if you stored bitcoin for 20 years on a key without moving it, would you really be that confident that after 20years you would still have access to it? That the media you used to store the key on didn’t degrade? That you have the correct password. I can be extremely certain that the gold bars I have now will be exchangeable in the future.
With bitcoin when storing money, there is a much bigger risk of it going to zero when you are storing it.
Housing prices change. Rent prices change. Here in SoCal I was going to buy a place but the pandemic hit so we decided to rent.
Our rent payment is about half what we would pay if we bought. Just look at the last two places I rented:
Rent1: $2500/mo
Condo next door: $850k. That’s 4K mortgage and 1k HoA.
Rent2: $4100
Equivalent mortgage: $10k/mo
Doesn’t make sense to buy unless you are speculating on housing prices.