https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html

Tornado warnings throughout Midwest today.

Tornado warnings for midwest until 10pm I’m Chicago.

US Storm prediction center

I’ve got a few hundred dollars of fresh $2 bills at home just in case they stop being available. Use them for tooth fairy money and other small things.

It would only be a realized loss if they bought it for more than they sold it.

Your second point may be true some or even most companies. If I have a that is at the bottom end of my range but see potential I’ll pay them more. Having someone join to leave in 18 months isn’t worth a few grand of savings. However, if a can didn’t doesn’t know their own value or the state of the market that’s another problem entirely.

A current role I’m have open has a $50k range from bottom to top for the position. If I tell all candidates the range they will only see the high end. It’s a double edged sword.

Thanks for pointing out that I, once again, failed to proof read my reply. I fixed the comments.

Historically, hearing aids have focused on the speech range to the spectrum, below 8khz. Newer generations are starting to increase the response curve to make music sound better. This is on the speaker side, not the microphone.

Earbuds/TWS have a wider frequency spectrum, to capture the high end audio (vocals and instrumental).

For ANC you need high output at low frequencies, which AirPods do well with a large driver. Hearings aids struggle here due to the size constraints in the ear canal.

AirPod pro are vented. The noise canceling is from a massive 11mm driver. With a smaller driver you need a sealed ear tip for good ANC.

They are still not the same. Some TWS are catching up in terms of frequency response that hearing instruments focus on and some hearing aids are focusing on higher resolution audio for streaming capabilities. The two devices focus on different frequency ranges though and are not the same today.

We have the full sized variety pack for this year. I always wanted the full sized as a kid but they were a rarity.

Now that I’m an adult I hand them out. We only get about 20 kids a night so it works of better, and we don’t eat the left overs.

Value to the customer.

My wife was having really high heart rate due to an over active thyroid. Watch 3 detected the change in heart rate and I used my 7 to do an EKG which showing the Afib condition. Enough of a benefit to upgrade her 3 based on that alone.

My wife was getting abnormal heart rate notifications and about two days later ended up in the hospital with a thyroid that was way over active.

The signs there from the watch was enough to trigger her going to get her labs done (issue was previously under control) which would have shown the issue but they didn’t read them until after she ended up in the ER.

Pretty great technology and cheap insurance too.

BOM cost on this thing is probably close to $35 bucks. It’s 1) a price increase for the sake of increasing price or 2) they don’t have supply so are raising the price because they can.