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Per that article, solved captchas cost between $1 and $5 per thousand. So maybe an extra $20/day, in exchange for reliably booking as many low-cost/high-margin rooms as you can? That's in the noise.

I’ve said this before, but some of my students use a bot to try to join my office hour queue as soon as it opens. Rather than try to stop them, I open it, leave it open for a few minutes, then randomize it. I also have a priority scheme that gives preference to students who have not been helped...

No it wouldn’t. Mechanical Turk makes solving them very cheap. https://www.f5.com/company/blog/how-cybercriminals-bypass-captcha

How dare they give guests what they want! The audacity!

Four for four. Both of my kids got licenses within maybe six months of turning 16. We lived in a place that was not particularly well-served by public transit, and we did not want to continue to have to get them to swim practice at 5:30 AM.

Commercial renters focus on the rooms that combine the highest margin with the lowest "out the door" price. Those tend to be studios in the lowest view categories at a handful of resorts. But, those rooms tended to go first anyway, and were IMO always a bit of a crapshoot. If you are truly okay...

I am a Cedar Point passholder, and have been for decades. Their current iteration of paid-skip is expensive, but it does not work "way better". The standby lines for Maverick and Steel Vengeance move glacially slowly, and on a busier day so does Millennium Force. Valravn and Raptor have good...

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I'm not sure how they did it, but somehow Slinky is almost entirely forceless. It looks like it should be more exciting--they even have that run of bunny hills after the 2nd launch--but somehow it just isn't. My coaster-dork daughter pronounced it one-and-done.

When I say there is no problem to solve, I mean from Disney's point of view. Attendance is fine and revenue is up.

True. But, there is no problem to solve here. G+ has been around for two and a half years now. Domestic attendance is doing just fine, and revenues are up in part because of G+. People might not like it as much as "included" but they are still coming, and many are paying the extra for the service.

"Sure! It will cost you $5/pt."

One difference between that and G+ is that Disney will sell G+ to anyone.

I think the time not to get another dog is when you think to yourself "I don't really want another dog." But, this sounds like a loaded observation: That really depends on who it is, what their opinion is, and why. I will say that as much as I loved having a pet, I also love that I'm at a...

"We've established what line cutting is, now we're just haggling over the price." https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/03/07/haggling/

Yes.

See, that's exactly what I am thinking. It's really a near-meaningless amount in the context of a Disney vacation. Yet it is a HUGE DEAL to a lot of people. I don't know how to explain that other than "It just means more." We didn't have nearly this much discussion over the short-lived resort...

See my followup post: It's not the reality of it, it is the messaging. “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others” I'm not sure how else you can explain the vitriol because you are right--it's not a huge amount in the grand scheme of things.

I think it is less about ability (or not) and more about what it means as a more obvious signal of "not everyone here is equal." There are lots of such signals, but most of them are not quite this visible and certainly not this ubiquitous. Full disclosure: I am (at best) an armchair social...

This is actually a very interesting observation. In a certain segment of US culture, a Disney trip is a childhood rite of passage. And for some corners of that population, repeated Disney trips are a marker of status. As a related example: A good chunk of my childhood predated airline...