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by hylaride 7y ago
I enjoy a good conspiracy theory as entertainment, but I'm kind of having a mind blown moment with this Epstein stuff...
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by hylaride 7y ago
Oh, the agencies still pay shit. It's quantity over quality there. It's a similar story in most financial institutions/banks as well.
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by hylaride 7y ago
Ouch. That sucks, but unfortunately doesn't surprise me when I think about it. :-/
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by hylaride 7y ago
> I remember about 3 years ago being offered a “senior” “lead” rails developer position in Toronto paying $C30 per hour. That is ~$62k/year and is absurdly low in Toronto unless it was an early-stage startup.
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by hylaride 7y ago
>The better paying jobs are in government. Not in Toronto.
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by hylaride 7y ago
> The US has been the richest country in the world in terms of average individual consumption (not income, some small countries like Norway have higher incomes) since independence and before You’re wrong. After the civil war it’s arguabl
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by hylaride 7y ago
That’s very odd. My interactions in Montreal with stores and restaurants always begin with a “bonjour-hi” and most places have an English menu. In my hundreds of interactions, I’ve only had to use my rusty French two or three times. The r
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by hylaride 7y ago
> It's a problematic comparison because few people in Canada earns $170K CAD writing software unless they are contracting for the government. Even then. In Toronto if you’re an experienced sr engineer you can get this in the tech sc
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by hylaride 7y ago
$170kCAD for an experienced engineer in Toronto is touching the upper ranges, but 5 years ago that number was at $120CAD. You are seeing higher than 170k at some companies and I know of people working remote for SV companies at very good s
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by hylaride 7y ago
Interesting. Last time I was in a city in France, I noticed the whine of scooters more than honking, but I live in a big city so I may have just tuned the honking out.
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by hylaride 7y ago
When I first started dating my wife she had never seen it and we watched them together. "Whoa, they really don't make them like that anymore" were the words out of her mouth. While part 3 is a huge letdown, if you treat it l
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by hylaride 7y ago
I get the ideological issues with the iOS software "walled garden", but the shitshow that is the only alternative (Android) leaves me wanting. It's malware and advertising infested and Android tablets are a joke and rarely s
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by hylaride 7y ago
Whoa. I zoomed out, then double whoa.
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by hylaride 7y ago
Thatcher is an extremely fascinating woman (I say this as a centre-left leaning person). If you're looking for a very balanced view of her rise to power, exercise of it, then fall go on youtube and search for the 3 part BBC series &quo
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by hylaride 7y ago
I felt the same way on a road trip that took me through Dallas and Houston several years ago. Even though I knew they were sprawly and car oriented, I was a bit surprised about the vibe as the cities are old enough to in theory have nice o
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by hylaride 7y ago
Funny, when I was there I didn’t notice that Switzerland is still run as a feudal lordship, but in hindsight the screams from the building labeled ‘Debtor’s prison” should have been a clue. In all seriousness, what are you implying? That b
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by hylaride 7y ago
Switzerland has a home ownership rate that’s half the US and does fine. One of the main benefits of this is that the Swiss have more of their wealth in liquid assets and are highly mobile as a nation of renters, so they can easily move to
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by hylaride 7y ago
This. Makes it hard for me to use it for VIM as my terminal needs Powerline. It's otherwise a very nice font.
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by hylaride 7y ago
You have to set it in something. People (and I imagine businesses) usually rush to convert it to some other more stable store of value. Today they'd probably rush for US dollars if they had access(1). I remember reading up on how in
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by hylaride 7y ago
Yes, but considering how it grew after it may as well have been.
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by hylaride 7y ago
Masdar has been canned, yes, but they have talked about replacing it with a new city called NEOM. It is projected to cost at least 500 billion dollars, assuming they stay within budget. No private actor has that kind of cash to spend. Ind
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by hylaride 7y ago
2nding YNAB. It's different at first, but really helps you to save.
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by hylaride 7y ago
They are still used in a lot of “mission critical” industries that would have been computerized in the 1970s/1980s. In the past 5 years I’ve seen them in finance, some government sectors, and in quite a few in hospitals.
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by hylaride 7y ago
FUD is exactly what it is, with good reason given Google’s habits with “poorly” performing products lately. Mind you, in chromeOS’s case it’s easy to go back to a regular computer.
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by hylaride 7y ago
With Apple I trust, but verify. Apple actually has in it's EULA terms that it won't share the data. I know they can easily change it, but that's a good sign. With Apple's icloud services, outside of a small free tier,
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by hylaride 7y ago
Ah, I do miss the community of Ingress. It's such a shame the game was ruined with Ingress Prime, which is a lesson in bad usability. I don't miss the "cheating" griefers, though.
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by hylaride 7y ago
That documentary is definitely on my top 10 list. It's amazing (especially in hindsight) how both prohibition's opponents didn't take the movement seriously, to how it's proponents didn't take the problems it caused
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by hylaride 7y ago
Because Apple isn’t an advertising company and doesn’t need to. They also at least come out and say they won’t share your data with 3rd parties, except as needed (this has caused some problems with Siri stuff in the past). Google is an ad
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by hylaride 7y ago
But those dollars need to be spent and the easiest place to either spend or stash them is back in the US. Also, the trade deficit doesn’t measure services, of which the US has a surplus last I checked.
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by hylaride 7y ago
I wish kindle library integration was available in Canada, but alas.

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