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by aianus 6y ago
All the malls in Toronto take WeChat and Alipay.
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by aianus 6y ago
$800 commission for a $50/mo life insurance policy. You have to pay the commission back if they cancel within a year. Can’t really offer a source but I heard it from an insurance broker personally.
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by aianus 6y ago
US lost 1% of its population to Spanish flu which was shortly followed by the roaring twenties.
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by aianus 6y ago
> an idea of a UK/Canada-type cop It's a pet peeve of mine when people on social media mischaracterize Canada. We have shootouts in broad daylight in downtown Toronto on a fairly regular basis. All of our cops have guns and are
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by aianus 6y ago
They don’t have to fake it, they can just film (or filter through) 500 scenes and only retweet the ones that fit their narrative while discarding the rest.
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by aianus 6y ago
Twitter didn't draw the line at promoting violence (which is a line I can agree with), they drew the line at a prediction of mail-in voting resulting in fraud.
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by aianus 6y ago
> Boss forces you to take a photo of your ballot as you vote in the booth, etc. You can take a picture of the ballot with your boss's choice but then spoil it and get another one. > several states have had mail voting for years
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by aianus 6y ago
Because a different landlord is happy to only take $400 of it, and another landlord is happy with only an additional $300. In aggregate, you will find some equilibrium under $500. From another perspective, why doesn't food cost 90% of
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by aianus 6y ago
It certainly seems that mail-in voting is more easily corrupted than going in person and showing ID and voting in secret. There are tradeoffs with accessibility, of course, but it seems depressingly easy to sell a mail-in ballot to someone
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by aianus 6y ago
> Are we supposed to believe that "young people" suddenly get into a tail spin because they have to endure a whole month They've already basically cancelled college in Canada for September through December. All large class
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by aianus 6y ago
> Attractive, fit, intelligent men get a completely outsized proportion of the interest on apps like Bumble and Tinder, while even median men are mostly ignored. I exported my data from Tinder and I've had to swipe 25,000 times per
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by aianus 6y ago
You can only increase his rent as much as the other landlords do or he'll move. There are a lot of landlords in the UBI jurisdiction so it would be impossible to effectively collude to raise prices together. I have no doubt that rents
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by aianus 6y ago
The political wisdom is correct, poor people receiving UBI will actually spend that money and increase the velocity of money. That is genuinely more likely to cause inflation than bailing out a bank facing margin calls on its credit default
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by aianus 6y ago
Towards the end, it was only under direct British rule because China threatened to invade if the British gave them self-governance. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/world/asia/china-began-pu...
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by aianus 6y ago
Very few people spend $25k up front for a car. They lease it or finance it over 60 or 72 months. Unless you’re referring to the psychological sticker shock only and not the actual cash flow implications.
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by aianus 6y ago
Still win-win depending on how much they scale. $50k/year in Thailand or Vietnam is way more luxurious than $200k in SF.
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by aianus 6y ago
Nobody is choosing to die now to avoid a lockdown. They're choosing a ~0.1% chance of dying now to avoid a lockdown (I'm assuming the old and sick are in favor of the lockdown). 0.1% of the rest of my life is less than three weeks
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by aianus 6y ago
> there were more COVID19 deaths than there were "excess" deaths This still makes sense if the lockdown has lowered other causes of death like car crashes.
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by aianus 6y ago
Good for them (not sarcastically). My point is that if the experts were wrong then, it’s certainly possible that some of what they are saying now is wrong too, and it should be acceptable to criticize them on YouTube and explore different p
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by aianus 6y ago
"Putting a mask on an asymptomatic person is not beneficial", followed by a list of dangers posed by masks. It was a statement that masks are a placebo for the general public and actually require one to take extra precautions so t
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by aianus 6y ago
$15/mo is far too high at current interest rates so your point stands, but, rich people with steady balances are also paying the bank a fee in the form of an interest-free loan that the bank re-invests. $15/mo is equivalent to ~$1
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by aianus 6y ago
I live in Canada and they actively recommended against cloth mask wearing for the general public on the grounds that it leads to a "false sense of security" and "increases touching of one's face" and that asymptomat
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by aianus 6y ago
Should I have deferred to expert opinions and waited until yesterday(!?) to start wearing a mask? https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/national-directive-on-w...
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by aianus 6y ago
Were you a millionaire early retiree before you accidentally had a child and had to go back to the rat race? Otherwise you don’t know what both sides are like, either, right? (For what it’s worth I still think you would be happier with your
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by aianus 6y ago
Presumably the “others” referenced in the definition need to actually exist for you to lack consideration for them.
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by aianus 6y ago
This just isn’t true, they have 100,000s of employees and are hiring nonstop.
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by aianus 6y ago
> There is more in life than being rich. Yes, of course. > Everything else is lost in US with immediate job termination, no thanks. This doesn't matter when you save $60k/year from your $250k FAANG job. Job termination just
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by aianus 6y ago
It is not good financially or for career growth (although it doesn't have to be terrible if you keep it short and keep your skills up) If you enjoy working full-time at a FAANG, or if you've never tried it, you shouldn't pass
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by aianus 6y ago
I wanted to be a digital nomad instead. Edit: it was Twitter though, so not FAANG, although I'd also interned at Amazon previously.
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by aianus 6y ago
If 30% of dine-in prices go to rent / seating / storefront marketing, why shouldn’t 30% of the takeout price (which is the same) go to subsidize the delivery infrastructure? Why are restaurant owners ok with paying so much for ren

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