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by kareemm 9y ago
Several points here: > Government: But they only make up 13% of the buyers. At what point does the additional percentage of buyers have a drastic impact on a market? At the margins, buyers can exert large upward pressure on price. Ther
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by kareemm 9y ago
> when in fact prices has rebounded well beyond the previous peak. Feb 2017: "The average resale price in Greater Vancouver was $878,242 in January, down 18.9 per cent from a year earlier, when it stood at $1.038 million, according
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by kareemm 9y ago
Agreed! This falls into the "weak product management" category imho. FWIW I think most devs could learn how to push back on poor decisions like this made by non-technical managers as it really shouldn't be the manager's
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SFU Prof: Why Toronto housing is becoming as unaffordable as Vancouver's(inroadsjournal.ca)
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by kareemm 9y ago
There's a meta-pattern here. I've seen countless (especially younger) dev teams focus on new and hot tech to the detriment of solving the business problem. I've seen this happen in two, sometimes overlapping, cases: 1. When
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by kareemm 9y ago
I'm an owner at Codetree - one of the project management launch partners for Marketplace. We talked through this scenario with GH when we were integrating. What happens today is the limits are enforced on the app side, not he GitHub si
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by kareemm 9y ago
As far as I know there's no capacity to add onto the existing GH interface - all interaction is via APIs and webhooks.
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How the weekend has disappeared and why we need to take it back(macleans.ca)
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by kareemm 10y ago
I'm not sure how you can say that the rich keep their tax burden light when the topic of this thread is how Musk paid tax amounting to 44% of his income totalling over half a billion dollars.
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The invention of 'Heterosexuality'(bbc.com)
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by kareemm 10y ago
Noah Kagan did a podcast on the deal he made to buy Sumo.com. Not a straight lease but more like a payment plan. He talks about how Mint.com was purchased this way too. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/noah-ka
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by kareemm 10y ago
Thanks for clarifying. Totally agreed that economically speaking Toronto is more diversified and stronger than Van and a collapse in housing will crush Van. IIRC real estate, construction etc still produce more than 10% of Toronto's GD
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by kareemm 10y ago
Perhaps I misunderstood your position. It sounded like you were saying that Toronto is a magnet for people from around the country, but when I asked you to clarify that, you only provided one reason that supports that position (#2). Have yo
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by kareemm 10y ago
You bet. It's gold.
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by kareemm 10y ago
> A lot of the demand is driven simply by the fact that the city is a magnet for people from all over the country. So what's your theory about why Toronto has seen 20%+ YoY appreciation? Why now?
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by kareemm 10y ago
I live in Vancouver - which has become one of the most unaffordable cities in the world[1] and am from Toronto. Watching Toronto's market explode is like watching a horror movie that I saw take place in Vancouver over the last two year
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Border Patrol Agents Stop Domestic Travelers at New York Airport(rollingstone.com)
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AWD Doesn't Matter in the Winter. Tires Do(outsideonline.com)
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The man who froze to death and was brought back to life(thestar.com)
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by kareemm 10y ago
> Similarly, if we allow illegal immigrants to rent flats then that will also push rents higher. Should we attempt to prevent this as well? If not, why not? There are lots of factors that impact housing supply and demand. Whether they s
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The Basketball Team That Never Takes a Bad Shot(wsj.com)
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An engineer describes the complexity of building a 1,900+ mile wall(imgur.com)
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Ajit Pai, Donald Trump’s FCC Pick, Set to Target Net Neutrality(wsj.com)
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How Canada became the world's newest tax haven(projects.thestar.com)
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The pocket guide to BS prevention(lastwordonnothing.com)
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Universal Basic Income already exists for the 1%(medium.com)
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B.C. offers interest-free loans up to $37.k to first-time homebuyers(cbc.ca)
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by kareemm 10y ago
I used to work at ESPN.com. My job application was a proof of concept of a similar idea, but because it was 2002 and wasn't possible to build technically it was designed to show that I could code and think creatively about consuming sp
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by kareemm 10y ago
Would you really call Basecamp a startup? They've been around since 2003. They're more precisely a mature/ing software company.
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by kareemm 10y ago
> It's mostly Canadian citizens, coupled with low interest rates that are causing this bubble. If that's true, how do you explain that the median home price to household income ratio is roughly 12x?[1] Affordable is defined as

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