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by jeromegv 6y ago
Rent is based on supply and demand. Landlord is not going to charge less or more than the market can afford. So no the landlord won’t drop the price because of mortgage. But there’s a lot of people negotiating hundreds of dollars off their
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by jeromegv 6y ago
Nope, the fact that the police was checking the database has nothing to do with the performance of Thunder Bay against COVID 19, their performance is pretty in line with any remote smaller cities across Canada. In fact they tried to know wh
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by jeromegv 6y ago
I'm a french speaker so I also got the reference right away, didn't realize this was not as common in English
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by jeromegv 6y ago
It was initially built by Shopify engineers and it’s their go-to technology so I guess that’s how it came about.
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by jeromegv 6y ago
The attacker at the Prime Minister residence in Canada was driven by Qanon https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/5dzkbx/canadian-politicia...
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by jeromegv 6y ago
You might know that sexual relationship between slave owners and their slaves was not always consensual. There is a decent amount of Black people that have a slave owner as an ancestor and this was most likely not by choice.
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by jeromegv 6y ago
Considering that in the hundreds of years since the US was founded there has never been a woman of color as VP candidate (or Presidential candidate with a major party), isn't that identity politics to always pick the white guy? Are whi
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by jeromegv 6y ago
Here's an article here for someone who cares about the context (which you carefully avoided): https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-warns-coronavirus... It wasn't about the demographic, but about the fact tha
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by jeromegv 6y ago
I’m all for renewables but this is an unacceptable compromise. Seriously, this isn’t how large business can operate.
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by jeromegv 6y ago
The stop of overtime at USPS, in the middle of a surge in online shopping, is real. The lack of staff right now due to COVID but also due to lack of hiring, is real. Every other carriers is hiring like crazy, but not USPS. The problem is re
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by jeromegv 6y ago
This hasn't been irrelevant for years on mobile.
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by jeromegv 6y ago
It impressed me why people still think that their anecdata somehow applies to the world. Your personal experience has nothing to do with the experience of the previous shopper and there is no reason why you should doubt them for such a mond
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by jeromegv 6y ago
How can you possibly predict the future that way? Why would Sweden be done and not the other countries?
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by jeromegv 6y ago
But if their economy did worse than their neighbour, what was the point of avoiding invasive measures? They have more deaths, more cases, and worse economic output, what exactly is successful here?
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by jeromegv 6y ago
Anecdata is not data.
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by jeromegv 6y ago
In theory yes, they should be allowed for their opinion. However their hold on society is much bigger than the 1 vote they are allowed. With their billions, they can contribute to elect and influence politicians. So while the view to destro
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by jeromegv 6y ago
But he already plays by having an algo that suggest you articles/news/groups to join. It would be one thing if it was just a dump of what your friends post and nothing else. But the moment you "suggest" content to people
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by jeromegv 6y ago
Did you actually check? Just tried on my phone and it’s not there. But if I turn on airplane mode is still works so May be there’s no need for a setting at all.
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by jeromegv 6y ago
Can confirm, Tweetbot never has "all" the replies.
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by jeromegv 6y ago
Radio Ambulante (NPR poscast) did an investigation on a similar story in Ecuador and it looks very much real. Not a myth. https://radioambulante.org/en/translation/the-extraterrestri...
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by jeromegv 6y ago
Are you really asking that? Trump announces most of his policies live on twitter, can easily announce something that would have a huge influence on the stock market. Multiple examples of companies, Elon Musk, etc doing major announcements o
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by jeromegv 6y ago
On iOS this was just in-app purchase, so you agree to start paying in 3 months when you sign up. So you never really have to manually type your credit card but you had to remember to unsubscribe within your iTunes subscriptions.
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by jeromegv 6y ago
Yes it's hard. But they got 1.8 billions in funding, and they are trying to get a foot in a crowded space, so expectations are high for them to deliver something. You can't stay long in the TV business with just a couple million p
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by jeromegv 6y ago
What if that ideology encourages violence against a certain class of people? Must that be protected?
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by jeromegv 6y ago
You can still be the best and have security vulnerabilities. That proves absolutely nothing. I don’t know what kind of logic you are using. Are you implying that the best at security should never have had security vulnerabilities? If yes, w
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by jeromegv 6y ago
2020 and people still rely on random anecdotes heavily influenced by their techie friends instead of actually looking at the data. Fascinating.
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by jeromegv 6y ago
Death rate is down because the average age of people getting COVID is younger, it’s already been documented and talked about quite a bit. Doesn’t mean they won’t get lifetime lung damage and that they won’t eventually re-infect the older f
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by jeromegv 6y ago
Regardless of your perception of safety, being indoor without a mask for a long period of time is probably the highest risk factor you got yourself into. By a big margin.
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by jeromegv 6y ago
PR is the whole point, but it's also PR against Facebook. For sure this won't make Facebook cry for the lost of ads dollar, but it's another day in the press where Facebook is being looked as the bad guy, and ultimately that
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by jeromegv 6y ago
The point was about agressive pricing and you keep referring to high margins. You can still be agressive on price (based on what the market commends) and have high margin. You're making a separate point and you fail to notice it.

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