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by hylaride 7y ago
It would NOT be covered by OHIP. He'd need travel insurance, which most Canadians have via benefits (depending on how established his company was, he may or may not have it). Most travel insurance will pay up to the point of bringing
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by hylaride 7y ago
As somebody that spent a lot of time trying to convince people that BSD was superior to linux and eventually having to give in when linux won due to various other reasons I know how mercurial fans can feel. I still almost choke on my own vo
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by hylaride 7y ago
The bet was for returns AFTER fees, though. S&P was its return minus 0.05%/yr (or whatever it is for vanguard). The hedge funds was their returns (which did suck compared to the S&P500 IIRC) minus 2%/yr plus 20% of final
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by hylaride 7y ago
When I was visiting Germany 3 years ago, I bought a prepaid sim a second time from a 2nd company because the service was so mediocre. It didn't help. I was only in the major cities and I was lucky to get good 3G signal/speeds le
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by hylaride 7y ago
That very much depends on the city. I had no problem getting around Paris/Amsterdam/London/Rome when I was traveling with my friend's family (3 kids). A car would have been a bigger nightmare with traffic and parking a
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by hylaride 7y ago
Financially speaking, if you start with $1000 in stocks, it does not matter whether you end up with $1000 in stock and $100 in cash from dividends, or $1100 in stocks (from the price going up). It can if capital gains are taxed lower than
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by hylaride 7y ago
For the record, here's the spot on streetmap (the exxon is now gone) https://goo.gl/maps/wFx9ESH6vyBKk9mYA Looks a lot less...interesting than the photo.
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by hylaride 7y ago
As already mentioned it's a complex subject that I personally was "forced" to go through in an econ 201 level course back in university. It involves understanding the money supply levels( https://www.investopedia.c
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by hylaride 7y ago
I think we mostly agree, but were kind of discussing different aspects. Inflation can be stoked by the literal creation of the base supply of money (known as M1 to economists) as well as interest rates (which effect the growth of the other
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by hylaride 7y ago
I disagree. You don't get 79,600,000,000% (in Zimbabwe's case) inflation long after your farms had been idled. The price of goods in foreign "hard" currency actually remained relatively stable after some initial shocks
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by hylaride 7y ago
The argument being made isn't that freeways shouldn't exist at all, but should be rammed through already established neighborhoods. Plenty of the world's greatest cities (London, Paris, Rome, arguably NYC) have no to minimal
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by hylaride 7y ago
OK, so then the US should stop subsidizing corn (the vast majority of which isn't used for nutritional intake) and focus on actual food, but the current crop (pun intended) of farmers want to grow "easy" corn and have enough
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by hylaride 7y ago
A government that prints too much money eventually makes it worthless and then "runs out" of it, though. See also: Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Weimar Germany.
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by hylaride 7y ago
I had the same experience with dropbox. I first started to balk at them when the agent kept sucking more and more memory as updates came, then everything you describe. I ultimately just went all-in with icloud. The pricing is (now) bette
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by hylaride 7y ago
It's always different when YOU'RE the colonizer/invader bringing civilization. The French tried harder than almost anybody else to maintain their colonial empire. The Vietnam war would have been several orders of magnitude l
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by hylaride 7y ago
zsh combined with oh-my-zsh changed my life, but I spend a lot of time in the terminal.
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by hylaride 7y ago
Times Square itself was mostly pedestrianized about a decade ago and a smattering of other cities have done similar things. The problem is that the way postwar cities were built in North America has meant that the overwhelming number of peo
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by hylaride 7y ago
Mind-boggling amounts of corruption (for a western country) as well as various mob related issues that are concentrated in the south. Historically, Italy has had (and arguably still does) poor transport infrastructure, so being in the nort
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by hylaride 7y ago
The government used eminent domain to seize the homes of people so the land could be redeveloped, so it effected people. Apparently, Foxconn has been known to (all over the world) make a large promises in the name of getting tax breaks, etc
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by hylaride 7y ago
What sense does it actually make to do that? The product - rice - can be locally sourced with a lot of human effort gone into the production of it. This keeps people in Japan gainfully employed in agriculture. Japanese consumers also prefe
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by hylaride 7y ago
No, market cap is all shares , including ones held privately.
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by hylaride 7y ago
Any stock research platform will tell you shares outstanding ( https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/UBER/key-statistics?p=UBER ), but it’s otherwise as easy as dividing the market cap by the current stock price.
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by hylaride 7y ago
Uber is absolutely a scummy company, but the taxi industry was/is a scummy industry. Google "taxi corruption" and you can find many, many instances of politicians being bribed to maintain the medallion systems. In Washington
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by hylaride 7y ago
In my city (Toronto) taxis actually upped their game in response to Uber/Lyft, though not before fighting it tooth and nail. Before, you'd often get an ancient cab that the driver was (illegally) smoking in before you arrived and
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by hylaride 7y ago
A lot of the new bonds will replace what's already been loaned to the government, so what will matter is the delta between the interest rates on the old bonds and new ones as well as whether the new bonds have different maturity time
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by hylaride 7y ago
Those 180m shares would represent ~10% of the company. The rest are either locked up and are not allowed to be sold by employees or certain investors for a certain period* or are held by the IPOing company itself to sell off at a later dat
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by hylaride 8y ago
Reminds me of a few business trips I did to Korea about 8 years ago. Loooooong hours, but lots of 'make work' projects and redoing everything because a manager didn't like or approve of some minor subset.
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by hylaride 8y ago
It's not a revolution per say, except that since it can often be hard for trains to bypass congestion/stoppages that schedules can go awry easily. In the US, there are huge bottlenecks around Chicago (where a crazy high percentage
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by hylaride 8y ago
There's a lot of people getting a lot of money from/via nginx lately...
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by hylaride 8y ago
That 70's show isn't great literature, it's great satire. I agree 100% on how watchable it (still) is, especially how well they did with the timeless aspects of it. When the show first came out, I watched it with my mother

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