Mikeb85

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by Mikeb85 4y ago
I feel that. I love the outdoors and Canada has plenty. On the other hand, we're having a kid, and as much as I'd like them to grow up in the outdoors I'd also rather them be exposed to culture versus a bunch of hippies and
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
You said Midwest. Not small town.
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Ours is still the biggest decline. You're also missing the US which is a different story altogether... But even conceding that point, then compare to housing costs: https://data.oecd.org/chart/6Ikm And consider
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Our #1 export is petroleum products by a very wide margin...
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All our goods are imported since we make hardly anything. The few consumer products Canadians do make generally get exported to countries with higher incomes or as luxury goods. So it definitely matters.
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There is no future in Canada. Our GDP per capita in USD has gone down 20% in the last decade [1]. We're one of the most expensive places to live and real earnings have gone down in the last decade. Almost everyone I know is already g
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Chicago literally has a bunch of Michelin starred restaurants...
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Which is probably still >50% higher than Canadian companies pay with exchange rates factored in.
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It's unbelievable but the evidence supporting it is overwhelming.
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> most dynamic languages do have a non-trivial type system Lol
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I saw this phenomenon in practice in the Czech Republic... You see, Czechs and Slovaks are almost the same people with almost the same language. The historical difference? The Czech Republic was part of the Holy Roman Empire while Slovak
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Having dynamic typing != no type system.
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> Or is it literally just the actual elected officials getting power hungry? Pretty much. While no one supports it, few people see it as something that directly affects them so they don't fight it.
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> artificially inflating the price with stock buybacks. Returning money to investors isn't artificially inflating the price, it's literally the whole point of public markets...
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Don't forget workstation laptops that are basically always plugged in.
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The ability to siphon money from players...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Asking "Source?" on a topic where some prerequisite knowledge should be required is a lazy Reddit tactic. But here, since it took me 30 seconds to find: https://www.forbes.com/sites/modeledbehavior/2017&
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
As someone who's been a cook/chef (still am, ish) in some legit good restaurants (including a world's 100 best spot), plus done business school (finance/economics), some consulting, been self-employed and so on, being a
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Come on, this is a startup news board... Failure rate of startups is 90%, restaurants 60%. Both well known facts. You can verify in 2 minutes on Google.
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> Most new businesses fail, especially in the restaurant industry The rate of restaurant failures is lower than the average for all new businesses. And it's possible to have hit after hit in the restaurant industry. Most restaurate
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> the 15M number would have been much higher And what proof do you have of that? Covid still spread like wildfire even with the heavy-handed responses. Hence why most western countries vaccinated then just gave up once Omicron hit. Co
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
And how about those of us who lost loved ones to causes other than Covid during this time? Are Covid deaths the only tragic ones? How about preventable cancer deaths that were diagnosed too late? Or suicides? And so on?
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You can't attribute all excess deaths to the virus itself. Covid responses increased poverty around the world and contributed to food shortages which itself caused deaths as well. This is merely whitewashing the fact that Covid isn&#x
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Either have capital and invest. Or start a low-maintenance business (but it needs to actually work).
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Canada, most expensive housing on earth and 20% GDP per Capita decline in the last decade... Sweden, constant riots and exponential increase in crime... Edit - Canada is an OK place to live, it's definitely become far worse in my lifet
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> See what happens if you allow mass immigration. Sweden, Canada and others have already done that experiment.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Maybe this is why beards are popular again? Anyhow, as a bearded man, only trimming/shaving the edges with a razor, a pack of razor blades lasts me probably 3 months. Also on the double edge vs cartridge, as another poster mentioned, c
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Nice. About half of the process of filing taxes with TurboTax is dodging all the dark patterns to try get you to pay...
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It's simple maths. Even if everyone creates 1 piece of OSS software, that makes millions of pieces of software. So everyone creates their 1 thing, then you have millions using things they didn't create. Makes it seem like no one
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> Our nation is currently on the downward slope of the bell-curve for civilizations. A "civilisation" is more than the modern notion of a nation-state. Ancient Egypt lasted ~3000 years. Ancient Sumeria/Babylon (the Akkad

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