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by jpambrun 5y ago
Normally that supply chain involves many physical steps, manipulation, storage, inventory, loss prevention, etc.. here the supply chain is trivial and cheap. Comparing those as equivalent is not exactly honest.
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by jpambrun 6y ago
I believe the purpose of this tax is in part to lower demand thus reducing sale prices. Some municipalities have credits for first home owners to offset that. If anything, to increase accessibility for first owners, the taxes (along with th
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by jpambrun 6y ago
Most importantly, while I have admin privileges and can install some software, my corporate machine has the windows store disabled.
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by jpambrun 6y ago
It might be a surprise to you, but most of us aren't fond of being subjected to foreign laws. Other gouvernement will take notice.
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by jpambrun 6y ago
Rent are controlled in Quebec since as far as I can remember. Rent are affordable in Montreal and supply is not a problem.
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by jpambrun 6y ago
They can both be evil.
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by jpambrun 6y ago
To the original point,there is a very strong culture gap. The US really is odd place for significant portion of the world. Your healthcare, gun love, political madness, etc and now this weird argument around electricity price responsibility
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by jpambrun 6y ago
This true for everyone who profited from pollution such as many oil tycoon/deforestation/etc, but they are not typically held in high regards.
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by jpambrun 6y ago
It could be that mining gold solely to hold value and Bitcoin are both wasteful and of dubious moral quality.
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by jpambrun 6y ago
In Quebec company can't contribute at all and citizens can contribute only up to 100$/yr/party. Pretty much everybody is happy with that. In this frame of reference, the US political system does look extremely corrupted.
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by jpambrun 6y ago
I have friends who work for such firm, both are FPGA designers, the company has a microwave link because speed of light in fiber is only 2/3c. Hundreds of people are working there for the sole benefit of the private owners. It's p
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by jpambrun 6y ago
You can't access this high speed trading. This is the toy of billionaires that can afford microwave link between New York and Chicago and have dedicated teams of FPGA developers to write high speed network stacks with trading logic emb
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by jpambrun 6y ago
From understanding the issue is that RH didn't have enough collateral to execute buys. If they restricted sell on RH in the name of symmetry, but other broker with no collateral issue would still allow buy and sell the stock would rema
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by jpambrun 6y ago
My first real job 5 years was remote for a US company working from home from Montreal. I made about 120k USD which is pretty high for Montreal. I am still working remotely, but for a multinational with offices in Canada. I manage to keep my
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by jpambrun 6y ago
They have a worldwide monopoly. If countries can't enforce their law on these platforms they will likely ban them on their territory. No Nation want to forgo their sovereignty to US corporations and delegate to them what is fair speech
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by jpambrun 6y ago
This status quo is US companies gets to decide wait is fair speech. Obviously this is untenable for all other nations as it should be in the US as well.
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by jpambrun 6y ago
"Stealing is just another way of earning". This is some seriously odd mental gymnastics.
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by jpambrun 6y ago
If a device requires some special enclosure to work in the climate it's intended to be used it should come with it. People would find their MacBook Air a lot less appealing if it came with a mandatory carrying case. This is not on the
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by jpambrun 6y ago
This is not entirely accurate. Electronic devices are fogging up just like my glasses everytime I come inside. This is known to trip the water sensitive stickers used to deny warranty, even if the problem is obviously unrelated. Those are t
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by jpambrun 6y ago
You obviously never lived in cold climates. Everything outside my winters clothes is at outside temperature (inside is often not terribly hot either..). I am not about to carry my laptop in my coat, which are usually a somewhat tight fit.
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by jpambrun 6y ago
I am in Montreal, Everyday I got to school during winters I had to subject my laptop to -20c for 45min before coming back to a warm indoor. It's not like we have any alternatives. It's true for our phones as well. OP's points
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by jpambrun 6y ago
This COL argument only makes sense if everyone rents and regional wealth is ignored. Say I buy a condo in SF and a colleague buys something equivalent in Iowa. Our employer pays us borh so we have equivalent revenue after mortgage. After 20
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by jpambrun 6y ago
Why not just prevent you from creating new private presentations and keep those read only? After all, these were created when you had the subscription.
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by jpambrun 6y ago
That's not really relevant to the argument, but just s/facebook/new_hip_site if it helps..
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by jpambrun 6y ago
At some point companies are large enough that not having an account is an handicap. IIRC, the supreme court of Canada mentioned in a ruling that Facebook terms are unenforceable because they can't be negotiated and because not having a
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by jpambrun 6y ago
Selling car AND user bound features is pretty disgusting. I just can't get behind that. Pick one.. not both.
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by jpambrun 6y ago
Wait. So features are onwer AND car bounded? It does not carry to the next owner of the same car and does not carry to the next car of the same owner? At least when going through Tesla dealership? That would be pretty despicable..
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by jpambrun 6y ago
This is nonsense. Chargers should be designed to protect themselves. It a defective car can damage it it's only the charger's manufacturer fault.
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by jpambrun 6y ago
With the 18% figure I need to know the starting point to get the picture. It could still be 82% or all the way down to 0%. Three fold increase in survivability is more informative.
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by jpambrun 6y ago
Presumably the payment method will be banned and getting banned in a old game purposely to get a refund sounds like a lot of work for 60$. I can't imagine that would be significantly abuse. Sellers should not be able to take away goods

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