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by aianus 9y ago
Uber has had this feature since I started driving with them in December 2016. You can only use it twice a day, however.
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by aianus 9y ago
Yes, it's the same here. Still, since Uber wasn't doubling my insurance (it actually didn't cost anything more), deducting half my insurance etc. for Uber is not really an accurate accounting of the expenses. I bought the car
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by aianus 9y ago
Both of these statements are false, at least here in Canada. My insurance knows exactly what I'm doing and I'm covered at all times [0] [0] https://www.intact.ca/on/en/personal-insurance/vehicle&#x2F
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by aianus 9y ago
I drove for Uber part-time last year in Canada and made less than $3 an hour on paper at tax time. However, this is highly misleading simply because I was able to deduct fixed "business expenses" that I would have spent anyways to
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by aianus 9y ago
Yeah, nobody does this. You just install the driver app on your personal phone.
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by aianus 9y ago
They literally banned the word “disagree”. Literally.
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by aianus 9y ago
Unless the upload signal was somehow ultra-directional like a laser or something, they would detect your upload transmissions and come and arrest you. Same as if you started up a cell phone jammer in the US.
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by aianus 9y ago
Just a house for your family will eat up all of that 40k here in Toronto (that’s basically interest-only on the average $1m house in the suburbs). You’d have nothing left. Although we still live very well in absolute terms, a lot of people
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by aianus 9y ago
My insurance was also very expensive that first year, $4600 a year. I avoided cities and traffic for the first couple of months while I taught myself and have never had an issue since.
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by aianus 9y ago
Paying to turn people's A/C off for 15 min is more efficient than having a bank of generators used for 15 min, 2 days a year. If it works, it's much preferable.
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by aianus 9y ago
Not in the US, it's usually just the family car with their Dad in the passenger seat who may or may not even be a decent driver himself. I did driving school for 4 hours before I got my own full license and car and was allowed to drive
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by aianus 9y ago
Let me give an example if you don't believe me: I once argued with a senior dev for an hour that his code had a race condition and when he finally saw it he merged it anyways because it was "unlikely to happen". He was also &
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by aianus 9y ago
There are many, many companies outside of SV where a decent fresh grad (maybe with some co-op experience in SV) will be better than the "senior" developers at those companies. Not that the fresh grads are awesome in any absolute s
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by aianus 9y ago
> Don’t want the law enforced? Change the law. Yes, the law should be changed, but not because drugs aren't bad. But because the high costs of enforcement (direct and indirect) have been worse than the lower costs of people being fr
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by aianus 9y ago
What year was this in? It wasn't my experience in college in 2010-2015 at all. Many SV companies recruited mostly useless interns like me and mentored us and paid us well over the median US household income. All in the hopes that we wo
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by aianus 9y ago
This logically doesn't make any sense. What are they doing then, sitting on their ass at home? Emigrating outside of the US? If not, and they're working, and companies are still having trouble filling positions, how would paying t
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by aianus 9y ago
Why is this controversial? Why would Americans prefer immigrants chosen at random through a lottery vs. those who are skilled and vetted? Or worse, giving illegal immigrants immunity?
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by aianus 9y ago
I’ve logged onto AWS from many different countries around the world and have never seen this. Maybe because I have 2FA enabled anyways?
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by aianus 9y ago
Why is there danger in the loop, exactly? I’ve never needed access to email to sign into my registrar (AWS) and change DNS records.
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by aianus 9y ago
I used limit orders to add liquidity in both countries and so paid no trading fees. There was a 1% “cash withdrawal fee” at the Indonesian exchange which is all I paid in total. I don’t know how temporary it will be; I’ve been using crypto
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by aianus 9y ago
This is the exact attitude that has resulted in the war on drugs.
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by aianus 9y ago
> Just give me one good economic use case outside of illegal markets for cryptocurrencies that is better than current technological solutions. Transfer $1000 from your Coinbase (or other electronic) account in the US to cash in Indonesia
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by aianus 9y ago
Visa may well spend only $0.10 on a $1000 transaction but given that the total cost to me is $30 (either directly, in the case of a foreign ATM withdrawal, or indirectly through merchant fees), there are many use cases where crypto is curre
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by aianus 9y ago
Bitcoin (well, its descendants now) makes my international money transfers dirt cheap while DRM prevents me from using media that I paid for on my favorite devices.
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by aianus 9y ago
Just pay more for the card and you can have one whenever you want. Isn't that what HN thinks employers should "just" do with tech talent because "there is no real shortage"?
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by aianus 9y ago
Amazon Marketplace or Ebay
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by aianus 9y ago
> China produces stuff I want China produces almost nothing I want unless you count foreign-designed products that happen to be manufactured there under contract. Maybe steel and rare earth metals? I've tried their flagship apps too
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by aianus 9y ago
> I've lived in cities - they typically failed to provide better services than lower density suburbs I think this is an almost uniquely American phenomenon. In most places in the world, the suburbs are where you grudgingly live when
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by aianus 9y ago
Thanks for the reply. It certainly sounds like the job description is somewhat different than it is here: A) My teachers didn’t have to care if I skipped class beyond marking me absent. I probably skipped 60 classes in Grade 12 alone and no
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by aianus 9y ago
Not the first time you do it, but by the third, fourth, year in a row, I imagine you would be reusing the lesson plans, assignments, and tests. I know for a fact that’s what my HS math teacher did because we got ahold of the old tests and a

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