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Child care is thousands of dollars a month, everything else pales in comparison....

thank god it lasts only a few years, then it's disguised as 'real estate tax' (for public schools)

It’s not disguised. People who care about their schools openly look for high quality schools and know what it costs.

You are free of course to watch your own children yourself. It is after all, your responsibility.

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

#102

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Yeah I'd be curious what both your and parent's use cases are that could possibly be covered by other smaller, existing maps services, or if there is some market that remains underserved.

Basically we want to show a bunch of pois around a real estate (like the nearest super market, airport and so on). We build a service calculating those but have trouble getting the data. It is more of a nice gimmick for us. Since the pricing changes using Google maps apis is just prohibitively expensive. There are other companies providing the data but those too are somewhat costly. Maybe we should use open street ma…

Yeah osm definitely has some of that data. Email is in my bio if you want to chat more.

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

#103
post #55

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You must live in Scandinavia?!?! 1500 / year in insurance! 500 / year in taxes! Wow ... I pay $12 / month in car insurance, and $130 / year for registration (taxes).

Newer cars have higher insurance as well. I don't see how car insurance can cost only $12/mo. What does that cover?

Legal minimums :D

My truck is 20 years, though.

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#104

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You must live in Scandinavia?!?! 1500 / year in insurance! 500 / year in taxes! Wow ... I pay $12 / month in car insurance, and $130 / year for registration (taxes).

This doesn't sound egregious to me. I'm 27 and to insure a hypothetical 2019 Honda Civic it would cost me $280/mo in NYC. It was ~$110 to get my license so presumably registration would be similarly very high. It was closer to ~$30 in New Jersey.

I guess this makes sense. I have a relative in Boston who pays $900 / month for a PARKING SPOT.

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

#106
post #38

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Take a look at Wise.com for currency

We have Wise and used this as a workaround like you described. However, Paypal recently ”fixed” this loophole by charging 3% on USD to USD transfers. It’s insane. Have you found a way around this?

Do you need Paypal? Wise offer bank accounts in different currencies.

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

#107
Most expensive tool? My day job…

It’s really a tool for me to build wealth. I’m in golden handcuffs until I feel like I have full financial independence.

It’s expensive because it comes at the cost of my mental health, which in turn affects every other part of my life.

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#108
post #74

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What is this root server you speak of?

Probably means a dedicated server not a VPS. Sometimes they’re called root servers cause you have root on the metal. 70 sounds about right for that

Yes you are right :)

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

#109
I am a generator repairer. The Most Expensive kit/tool I have bought so far is "Professional Locksmith Tools for Anti-theft Lock , HUK The Tenth Generation Repair Pick Tool" From Ali express : https://www.aliexpress.com/

But I am Providing Service of repairing generators in very cheap rate. Here : https://techntune.com/services/

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

#110
post #106

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We have Wise and used this as a workaround like you described. However, Paypal recently ”fixed” this loophole by charging 3% on USD to USD transfers. It’s insane. Have you found a way around this?

Do you need Paypal? Wise offer bank accounts in different currencies.

No and yes. We have a couple of thousand subscription customers using Paypal, which is a pain to switch. It's forcing us to look into other payment providers (like Stripe, which so far, doesn't appear to be evil like Paypal)
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