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by aianus 7y ago
I live in Canada and have waited 4 months for a specialist at great personal cost (but not financial cost). I have also seen my mother suffer for 6 months on a surgery wait list and then recover slowly and painfully in a room with 4 other p
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by aianus 7y ago
As mentioned below, the price doesn't matter when nobody is available to see you. Also, the opportunity cost of sitting around with a broken hip waiting to be seen can be higher than going to a privatized country/province and payi
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by aianus 7y ago
I see, I've never used DoorDash and assumed it was like Uber and UberEats where you tip afterwards. That's a pretty silly system.
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by aianus 7y ago
The entire point of the tipping system is to have a high variance. The promise, but not guarantee, of tips is what is supposed to incentivize better service.
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by aianus 7y ago
I've lived in Europe and Asia and of course, it is much easier to get somewhere on public transit than it is in my hometown of Toronto. However, driving my car in Toronto is so, so much nicer than even the best public transit I've
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by aianus 7y ago
I can tell you that as a driver, about ~25% of my ride requests in Toronto are Pool requests. We also have Express Pool where you get picked up / dropped off at some walkable distance from your actual origin/destination to make it
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by aianus 7y ago
Diamonds and weddings make you poor in the process of showing off how rich you are; why not cut out the middleman and do things that show you're rich and still rich after having done them? If the culture shifts to buying your girlfrien
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by aianus 7y ago
> The time value of money is the expected risk of inflation. I don't think that's the only source of time value of money. For example, I'm fairly certain I can buy a car for the same price a year from now, but I am willing
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by aianus 7y ago
How do you use this physical ID card online? Or phrased otherwise, how do you apply for a credit card or similar online?
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by aianus 7y ago
In Canada, capital gains are taxed at 50% of ordinary income, unlike the US where short term capital gains are taxed as if they were 100% ordinary income.
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by aianus 7y ago
> And they'll investigate and determine you committed fraud, and you'll be fined or go to prison. Trust me, nothing happens to these people. From first-hand experience I know that the merchant eats the cost 99% of the time when
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by aianus 7y ago
Uber rides where I live are covered by Uber's commercial insurance policy: https://uber.app.box.com/s/un77qysn3pl8v99i4r14k7jpw9ibm11i
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by aianus 7y ago
How could it be less efficient than walking? Unless your region is perfectly flat, you could walk the bike uphill and ride downhill and still save ~50% of the effort of traveling any medium distance.
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by aianus 7y ago
Jupyter notebook in Docker? Edit: I see someone made the same point below, but I definitely haven’t had Excel installed in years. And that’s across multiple billion-dollar employers.
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by aianus 7y ago
> sure its better than not having 2FA but only a little better Only if the provider doesn't decide to be "helpful" and start allowing password resets via SMS on your 2FA number.
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by aianus 7y ago
I'm sure they're just reselling a real insurer's product with some marketing and a web 2.0 website. No way an undercapitalized startup is allowed to actually underwrite their own insurance contracts.
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by aianus 7y ago
Someone who doesn't have or is unable to obtain a job offer with much higher compensation in industry. For example, hiring a CS or Math grad as a HS CS teacher is more competitive than hiring a French Literature grad as a HS French tea
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by aianus 7y ago
Their union won’t let you pay a new hire more than a less competitive teacher with more seniority. Therefore almost nobody with the capacity to work at a FAANG will choose to become a high school CS or Math teacher earning poverty wages.
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by aianus 7y ago
> Also, you mention twice "these aren't the people they will hire", in the context of Uber/Lyft drivers and teachers, but labour isn't infinite. Neither is the demand for Uber's services. If prices for rides
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by aianus 7y ago
> Try TransferWise. TransferWise doesn't work any faster than SWIFT -- if anything it's usually slower. They don't have any magic way to put money into your account on a "bank holiday" either. I imagine Libra won
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by aianus 7y ago
Could you not hire someone smart who doesn't already know react/redux and teach it to them? Or give them a couple of weeks to do some tutorials? I knew almost zero about web dev (I had been a decent C++/Java/Scala backen
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by aianus 7y ago
> Ulbricht made a fortune facilitating drug sales. Ulbricht lived in a tiny apartment with roommates in SF and spent his days working from the public library. It really doesn't appear like he was in it for the selfish material rewar
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by aianus 7y ago
> Would he have been beaten by a cartel if drugs had been legal(ish) in America? It is reasonable to say: no. While I'm against the drug war, I wonder what career drug dealers (and everyone who's part of their economy) would do
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by aianus 7y ago
I think it makes a lot sense for the dropbox link to be the default, especially on mobile. I almost never want to download the file over LTE to my smartphone and re-upload it to a different web service and waste (2 * filesize) of my limited
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by aianus 7y ago
To a post office ~2km from my home. I drive there and pick it up with my driver's license.
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by aianus 7y ago
Yes: https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/disk/details/
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by aianus 7y ago
> Governments _have_ to apply a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to safety, regulation, and transparency, regardless of how expensive and inconvenient it is. Only in combination with some kind of carbon tax, otherwise you make nuclear
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by aianus 7y ago
> hey can be moderately well off with only moderate commitment Primary care physician is like this, no? I guess your quality of life is still awful during training and residency.
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The annual base salaries Americans quote are AFTER medical insurance premiums. They are not deducted from your quoted base pay.
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by aianus 7y ago
> University education isn't about the destination/exam it's about the journey. Showing up for lectures is by far the least important part of the journey. It's a passive activity that usually adds zero value versus wa

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