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by aianus 10y ago
But it's much more difficult to steal my Bitcoin because I don't go around typing the private keys in plaintext nor are they printed on a plastic card I carry around in my wallet. Credit cards need velocity limits and insurance an
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by aianus 10y ago
When you buy a new $2,000 MacBook, for example, you're paying $20-40 in extra interchange (after your card rewards!) for that protection. While I agree it's worth it in a lot of situations, in other situations it would be nice to
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by aianus 10y ago
I'm paying about $0.20 per Bitcoin transaction so the breakeven transaction value with a flat 3% credit card interchange is just $6.67.
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by aianus 10y ago
Card transactions also take days to settle, cost orders of magnitude more in interchange (depending on the value transferred), and can have significant chargeback risk.
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by aianus 10y ago
I find it really depressing to live alone. I wish we had love hotels in the west like they do in Asia so you can have a girlfriend without paying $1100 a month to come home to an empty house after work.
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by aianus 10y ago
The rich are even more capable of evading inflation than they are evading taxes. I'm sure Warren Buffet has proportionally less of his money in cash than I do.
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by aianus 10y ago
It's actually better in Canada than it is in the US (going by selection of recent big-budget movies).
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by aianus 10y ago
The way I read it, OP was claiming that in any given place electricity demand goes up precisely when solar generation goes down. Which may be true in Finland but is false in general.
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by aianus 10y ago
> It's a hard thing to solve too, the darker and colder it is the more energy people need (light and heating). I believe peak electricity use is during the bright, hot summer when everyone needs to run the A/C.
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by aianus 10y ago
What would a FB IPO have looked like without the expectation of a deep and liquid secondary market for the lifetime of the company? If the secondary market wasn't so big and efficient, it would be more expensive for everyone to raise c
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by aianus 10y ago
I am extremely thankful to speak English as a first language.
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by aianus 10y ago
I paid ~$13,000 a year tuition to study CS in Canada and I don't feel it's hampered my career vs. paying ~$30,000 in the US. Note that at the same school, Arts programs are much cheaper than STEM (maybe $5,000 a year), in large pa
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by aianus 10y ago
That's not how it works. The universities have a software system [1] that employers can (and do) check to verify the degree. All they have to do is return "Not a Valid Degree-Holder", just like criminal background checks will
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by aianus 10y ago
At least in Ontario, Canada the schools cannot raise tuition without asking the government for permission.
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by aianus 10y ago
But you wouldn't be able to distinguish between "revoked degree" and "lied about a degree" so you would assume the latter.
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by aianus 10y ago
> Those with the least to lose, shareholders, have most of the power. The shareholders have the most to lose, not the least. Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan's $100 million stake in your company (for example) is worth a lot more
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by aianus 10y ago
You don't have traffic where you live? I like driving manuals too but 45 minutes of stop and go traffic each way would be torture in a manual so I have an automatic.
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by aianus 10y ago
It's forbidden to go within 15km of Mecca if you're not Muslim.
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by aianus 10y ago
Why are advertisers so interested in teenagers? I spend more money in a month at 25 than I did in a year at 18 and with less thought put into it too. I would have assumed people like me would be the primary advertising target demographic.
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by aianus 10y ago
> There was no alternative before this article. You know, you don't need an engagement ring to get married. Much less one with a shiny stone of any kind.
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by aianus 10y ago
> What are the places you've found your fellow Canadians tend to move to? CS classmates: overwhelmingly San Francisco, with NYC and Seattle in second place. Business graduates: Toronto, Chicago, New York A few go to remote areas to
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by aianus 10y ago
You can certainly get a "mortgage" on a stock portfolio. It's called trading on margin and the interest rates are even better. But it's true you can't get quite as much leverage and the dividends and capital gains a
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by aianus 10y ago
Their second, third, and fourth homes are in Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong. I don't think Canada has any access to their land registries.
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by aianus 10y ago
I'm Canadian and I've never heard of anyone moving to Vancouver. It's rainy, depressing, very expensive, and unlike SF there aren't isn't any major industry paying fat salaries to make it worth it.
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by aianus 10y ago
> Homes aren't competing with other investments, they're competing with renting or being homeless in some form. If you have $1 million, you can buy a house and live in it "for free" or you can buy stocks/bonds&#x
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by aianus 10y ago
Or: 3) Agree to high-density rezoning, endure the construction noises and shadows and whatnot for a couple of years, then sell your house to a condo developer for a massive profit and never have to work again. This isn't a hypothetical
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by aianus 10y ago
The Canadian government subsidizes home-ownership by not taxing the capital gains on a primary residence. I know the article is about empty properties, but it's actually a lot more common to send your 18-year-old kid to study in Canada
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by aianus 10y ago
Most tech jobs aren't like that. If the job you're hiring for is one of the few that involves high-pressure coding in front of strangers, then by all means test for that.
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by aianus 10y ago
> It is important to note that even if you believe the numbers are fudged, they aren't more fudged today than they were in 2008. No, it's certainly possible that more and more people have given up finding work since 2008, widen
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by aianus 10y ago
I don't think anybody is sitting at home unemployed because Google's $140k offer wasn't good enough for them. Yes, Google might be able to hire more employees with higher salaries by poaching them from elsewhere. But that jus

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