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by acover 5y ago
I expect it's like all other power law pursuits - if you get to that 0.1% it's totally worth it.
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by acover 5y ago
They get paid
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by acover 5y ago
Interesting. Canada might be different in this regard.
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by acover 5y ago
Crazy idea: viral densification of housing In the city I live in, the government turns a blind eye to secondary suites. If I buy a house, renovate a secondary suites and then rent it out with a special condition: if the renter buys a house
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by acover 5y ago
How can you be prevented from murder? How was private ownership of gold illegal for decades? How was a farmer growing hay to feed their own horses illegal? The government has pretty wide reaching powers.
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by acover 5y ago
A quick death can be a mercy.
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by acover 5y ago
Small nit - drivers are only about a third of the cost of shipping. Adding 10 hours to remove the driver probably wouldn't make sense in a lot of cases. PDF page 20 - https://truckingresearch.org/wp-content/uploads
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by acover 5y ago
Sorry, what I meant was I was looking at the data for my specific city. For some indicies statistics Canada has a breakdown to specific cities.
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by acover 5y ago
Thanks for your time. Renting looks like simpler to estimate, but it confuses me as well. > Every month, the rental prices paid by the households in the sample are compared with the rental prices they paid the previous month When rent co
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by acover 5y ago
How I interpret their methodology is they are trying to estimate the change in costs for existing owners. Is that correct? What I feel is that mortgage payments have doubled in 10 years for new buyers. However, because new buyers are a smal
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by acover 5y ago
I was looking at a city specific inflation measure.
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by acover 5y ago
When measuring the price index of natural gas should you average in contracts written 50 years ago but still active, regardless of whether that price is currently available on the market? > Eating food grown yourself is a different exper
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by acover 5y ago
> Its purpose is to determine changes in the cost of using a stock of dwellings. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/62f0014m/62f0014m2017001... This is difficult for me to understand as there is no market
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by acover 5y ago
Yes, I agree it’s not as useful if you trust government sources. I’m not that familiar with USA inflation but with Canadian inflation statistics, certain categories feel way off - such as housing. As someone who is considering buying a hous
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by acover 5y ago
Lots of people/businesses have a need to know if they’ll be able to meet their future expenditures with current savings. The issue is the generic basket of goods isn’t relevant for all people. For example, a condo with a reserve fund o
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by acover 5y ago
Globally diversified bond funds do. Such as the etf vgro.to I don’t understand the benefit of an individual buying such a bond when not forced to. Holding cash seems better than unless you think rates will go even more negative!
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by acover 5y ago
Has weighting members by arrival order been tried? For example, the 100th member has 10x the voting power as the 1000th and so on.
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by acover 5y ago
No
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by acover 5y ago
I've been thinking how to counter this effect. How to give power to the silent majority. I've been slowly writing a version of Reddit with an added level of moderation via direct democracy but made efficient by using proxy votes a
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by acover 5y ago
Votes determine visibility. A post doesn't matter if it's not visible. A bad vote is more harmful than a bad comment. Bad comments get sorted. A bad vote makes the front page worse. Making votes visible makes the bad actors visibl
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by acover 5y ago
I'm not an expert, I am referring to the following. Am I misunderstandibg something? > due to its real-price volatility, gold had not been a good inflation hedge over the short- or long-term. They did find that, going back to the er
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by acover 5y ago
Gold isn't even an inflation hedge in the scale of one's lifetime, why will Bitcoin be different?
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by acover 5y ago
Sorry, I misunderstood. > The treaty has been claimed to be one-sided[3] because it allows the US to demand extradition of British citizens and other nationals for offences committed against US law, even though the alleged offence may ha
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by acover 5y ago
Edit: ignore me, I didn't know what I was talking about. Irrelevant information: The us has extradition treaties with many countries. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_law_in_the_Unite...
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by acover 5y ago
It seems like a matter of taste. When does a miserable life stop being worth the moments of happiness? What is a reasonably functional body? Where is that line and why are you the one who gets to draw it? Your current position sounds like n
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by acover 5y ago
I think it's part of who we are. Suicides happen in tribal cultures - https://www.jstor.org/stable/658295
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by acover 5y ago
That is the assumption. I don't agree with it - dying seems like a pretty rational choice for some people.
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by acover 5y ago
I've wondered how feasible it is to add an automated detection system to a bike that makes a loud noise/light show when it detects a vehicle is driving towards you. Is radar enough? Would it take too much power?
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by acover 5y ago
I was thinking a coffee shop. Find a spot with 5 coffee shops all in one spot. Open a sixth and target the regulars by offering cheaper better coffee by subsidizing it with a monthly fee. Imagine during off peak hours $1 lattes. Or do salad
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by acover 5y ago
Would a Costco style membership work for food? Attract better behaved customers, match fixed vs variable expenses better, attract more regular customers. Though you run into restaurants being a terrible industry with too much competition.

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