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by 3vidence 2y ago
Note here, in the current years, grades / competition has exploded so for the more competitive programs it is nearly impossible to get in without high 90s in all the required courses (English is required for all programs). So respondin
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We have age minimums for just about everything it doesn't seem crazy to have age maximum for things for mainly the same reasons. Isn't the minimum age for presidential candidates 35? That actually seems weirder to me than an age m
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by 3vidence 2y ago
Canada in particular has a very strange housing affordability issue... artificial growth! Our population is currently increasing by over 1 million people each year and it is 98% immigration. I think an odd effect of very very high immigrati
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by 3vidence 2y ago
Not necessarily a counterpoint but as an HN lurker in Canada I have also been seeing these articles popping up, but, in Canada Cannabis is already essentially completely legal. You could also interpret this by saying that the legalization o
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by 3vidence 2y ago
Shout out to my horrible Flutter HN project https://github.com/rsimmons1/FlutterHnReader I created it for 3 reasons: 1) practice with Flutter 2) I wanted dark mode 3) I was getting really tired of chatGPT posts at the
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by 3vidence 2y ago
Another Googler here. Lots of good comments already describing the uselessness of design docs at Google. I wanted to add one additional perspective that I find problematic. As mentioned design docs are "promo" material which cause
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by 3vidence 3y ago
First canada has one of the largest population growth rates in the world (very unusual for a G7 country) Second, Canada had absolutely terrible business development investment. There is no capital to make use of the increase in population a
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by 3vidence 3y ago
I work at a FAANG, I can't speak for all companies divisions but I can pretty comfortably say that I have seen next to no evidence that AI tooling has become so productive that we "need" less engineers. Actually it's som
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by 3vidence 3y ago
Average house price in Toronto $1.3 million. Average SW developer salary 95,000 I would say yes.... this is very unaffordable. The current mortgage on a house of that price is around $8,500 per month
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Even that $500,000 would be a steal in most markets in canada. The average house price is about 780,000 across the country and $900,000 in Ontario the most populous province. If houses were just 500,000 and there were jobs in those areas
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by 3vidence 3y ago
Banks have the ability to do "negative amortization" on mortgages in canada. Which means instead of raising the monthly payment on a mortgage the owner is essentially just paying off the raised interest, and in some cases aren&#x2
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by 3vidence 3y ago
I have to go source my numbers but I think toronto is up to 50% 1st generation immigrants. That's a very high percentage for a small city. Sorry on mobile best source right now is Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w
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by 3vidence 3y ago
I gotta agree here, I don't think the process of porting this to a wide array of languages is trivial. Additionally I would have some serious performance concerns when it comes to marshaling the data across languages boundaries.
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by 3vidence 3y ago
I'm not sure what the best "proffesional" advice is, but, I'll say I have really enjoyed working with Flutter. It's a pretty cohesive ecosystem, all the build tooling, the package manager, etc comes with the project
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by 3vidence 3y ago
Maybe you know but just wanted to add even with the 25 year amortization period the interest rate only stays fixed for 5 years (for most people). The people on variable vs fixed change over time but I think on average it is around 70% 5 yea
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by 3vidence 3y ago
I want to like shorts as everyone now and then there are really interesting and cool creators / videos I wouldn't find otherwise. With that being said the algorithm needs SOO much work. I have to select "don't show video
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by 3vidence 3y ago
Not really going to argue your points (they seem well researched!), however I think for most consumers there's still that last level of "thinking" required to feel comfortable having an EV as a primary vehicle. Including as y
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by 3vidence 3y ago
In the market for a car here in Canada. Really loved the idea of an electric car / plug in hybrid but it feels like EVs are just not adequately designed for Canada. The main issues are (A) not enough charging infrastructure (fixable) a
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by 3vidence 4y ago
FAANG companies like to give compensation in the form of stocks and other "bonuses" which are automatically taxed at 50% regardless of income. With that being said I did miss speak. It's 42% effective tax rate (with nearly 0
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by 3vidence 4y ago
Exactly this is the point I'm trying to get across. Additionally I don't think most people on HN know what it's like to come from generational poverty. Having to take out bad loans when you are young to afford basics. Having
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by 3vidence 4y ago
I guess by world standards working almost any job in G7 makes you relatively rich so I'm not sure that is a useful standard. Not sure if you're Canadian. But in case you're not most of Canadians net worth are tied up in housi
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by 3vidence 4y ago
I think a more common situation at this point is agricultural workers being temporary foreign workers with their employer holding some sort of leverage over them that doesn't let them leave. https://www.google.com/amp&#
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by 3vidence 4y ago
These comments always irk me. I am a "reasonably leveled FAANG eng" in Canada. I have enough money to do the following: - rent a 2 bedroom apartment in a smaller city. - Order food from time to time. Things that are difficult to a
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by 3vidence 4y ago
Hey, as a potentially interested person you should put at least some of the content before the sign up page. For all I know this website is just collecting emails for spam.
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by 3vidence 4y ago
The sentience argument is a bit confusing. The fact that it can produce language is definitely interesting but with that said I haven't seen any arguments that stable diffusion is sentient. The technology although different is also mos
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by 3vidence 4y ago
+1 That was fun to try, keep your hacking mindset :D
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by 3vidence 4y ago
It's so exhausting and over discussed that I made an HN reader app for myself just to add topic filters (kind of a plug, I haven't updated the Repo in a while and just run it locally). https://github.com/rsimmons1&
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by 3vidence 4y ago
I usually just casually lerk on HN for topics I'm interested in learning about or generally topics I don't have expertise in. This whole layoff discussion had been an eye opener for me as to how uninformed a lot of comments are an
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by 3vidence 4y ago
Joined in for a bit. (Scene starts) E: So did you hear S: no. E: Our mayor is a mermaid. (Long awkward pause) S: ... what? Idk I found that pretty amusing but it made no sense.
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I grew up in Toronto, took the TTC (transit) all the time. Heck I would sleep on it for extended periods of time. Then I moved to a smaller city for college. After almost a decade away I moved back to Toronto in 2022 and I was really distur

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