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by llampx 4y ago
> It also helps if you hire a relocation expert who knows the system. We paid ~$1,500 to a Portuguese American lady who helped us with everything. She handled setting up all our health care, apartment negotiation and contract review, set
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by llampx 4y ago
I thought the topic was how to increase the quality of the time spent with your kids. As a recent Dad, I sometimes wonder if the time I am spending with my toddler is time well spent, and not just "babysitting."
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by llampx 4y ago
I really thought it was a 24 year old with no experience of the world writing that, till I clicked on the profile.
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by llampx 4y ago
There was a slide deck by Sequioa going around recently, wherein one of the points was that the companies that cut costs hard and fast at the beginning of the recession were more likely to survive to the end of it. Either that or they see s
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by llampx 4y ago
Layoffs
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by llampx 4y ago
Inflation has been really insane for the last few years, driven by cheap money from the Central Banks. Asset prices have been going parabolic.
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by llampx 4y ago
Exactly. Look in the recent Canada thread for an exhaustive discussion about this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34216118 Summary: Governments and local landowners/homeowners benefit from increasing prices, so t
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by llampx 4y ago
Right, what we need is a net number of temporary residents leaving subtracted from temporary residents coming in. Given that Canada's model is to encourage immigration though, it would be good to have that number.
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by llampx 4y ago
Are the layoffs going to stop at tech, or will other sectors be affected? I wonder how it was in 2001 and 2008. Did the malaise quickly spread to other sectors or did it take time?
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by llampx 4y ago
I think the reality is somewhere in the middle. There are advantages to the suburb life and advantages to the city life. Until now, suburbs have been heavily subsidized with cheap energy and free roads, so let's see if that trend conti
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by llampx 4y ago
Why does temporary vs permanent status matter? Whoever is coming to Canada needs a place to live in.
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by llampx 4y ago
Good comment. The same thing happened in Berlin - the government has been actively working against new housing for decades now, to the point that in the last few years, the rent price went up the most in Berlin while salaries obviously didn
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by llampx 4y ago
> In Switzerland, 58% of the population are renters. Notably, the tax advantages of owning above are missing in Switzerland, making renting a more attractive proposition. That's what should be fixed. Don't push everyone to buy
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by llampx 4y ago
Every city in Europe?
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by llampx 4y ago
I am wary of any arguments that suggest deregulating is the answer. Deregulating has practically never gone well. The answer might be to have regulations that fit the current needs and constraints, not the ones from 60 years ago.
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by llampx 4y ago
> There are still rows of historic terrace houses in the nearby suburbs that have been heritage listed. I'm sure property developers would love to turn these into more highrise apartments. Even though I'm renting, I don't
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by llampx 4y ago
I want to believe this, but my personal experience shows the opposite. I live in Berlin, and there's a severe housing shortage, even though Berlin is very big geographically, and 5 story buildings are the norm, many even as mixed-use.
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by llampx 4y ago
If your prediction relies on LOTD, I suggest thinking twice before putting any money on it.
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by llampx 4y ago
I don't see a reason the Mac Pro has to have a more powerful CPU than the Mac Studio. For example the Macbook Pro and Macbook Air also share the same CPU at certain levels. The difference could be in expandability (PCIe slots) and RAM
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by llampx 4y ago
Until now, its worked the opposite way, where ordinary people and small businesses have to deal with every badly-reasoned knee-jerk law and regulation, while big companies and billionaires just ignore it or have armies or lawyers for their
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by llampx 4y ago
I remember reading about a company that was using the latest technology to be a fully automated landlord. From video verification to sign the lease and unlock the keys, to automatically accepting and denying tenants based on AI... seems lik
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by llampx 4y ago
What can a regular user do to save their data from a breach like this? Aside from having strong unique passwords and changing as soon as they learn of a breach. Seems like its all on the provider's side.
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by llampx 4y ago
Paywall
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by llampx 4y ago
Could be that Amazon rolls Alexa into Prime. Even now, most of the time with my Echo Show, I get ads for Amazon services, Prime etc. Its always trying to upsell me. Worse than a used car salesman.
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by llampx 4y ago
Exactly. Some members of my family have run into this in 2022, after I recommended Google Photos as an automatic backup for their phone a few years ago. They don't get Gmail when storage is full, something I thought would never happen
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by llampx 4y ago
As long as stocks are primarily owned if not traded by humans, I do think its a good idea to have a lower limit on the price. There's a sweet spot, where humans have an ability to discern price movements. If there are too many zeroes b
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by llampx 4y ago
Difference is in first mover advantage. If you can be the first to use it to bring value to yourself and your clients, you can easily make up the cost of that hardware.
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by llampx 4y ago
This is exactly what I think as well and I got a serious education on this with the whole WeWork fiasco and that stopped me from losing my money investing in IPOs. I was going to invest in Snowflake and Airbnb. Also check out what GoPro sto
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by llampx 4y ago
Same in Germany
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by llampx 4y ago
It would be easier to have a new standard of Li-Ion or Li-poly batteries optimized for newer devices, with flat rectangular (stackable?) packs. They would also be suitable for the current demands of current devices. (see what I did there?)

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