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by richjdsmith 4y ago
There’s a great book on this subject. Lords of East Money by Christopher Leonard
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by richjdsmith 4y ago
There would absolutely still be mortgage lenders without artificially low federal funds. I manage a fund in Canada that does exactly that. We have a pool of investors, and lend out on mortgages only. Primarily in markets larger institutions
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by richjdsmith 4y ago
Canada currently feels more divided today than anytime in my life. I am not sure it is the best option to point at. I am not sure the source, however the data is starting to show that the housing issue is in fact a direct result of more imm
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by richjdsmith 4y ago
My parents built a new home a couple years ago. The property had a well despite being on city water. They have other homes with ground source heat pumps. When asking the geothermal contractor if they could use the same well borehole, the co
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by richjdsmith 4y ago
Honestly, Ruby on Rails in the last year has made me fall in love with programming again. I left tech a few years ago for the world of finance. However, in the past year I started building internal tools for my (albeit small) company and wh
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by richjdsmith 5y ago
It took me buying three different usbc to hdmi cables to get my surface hub to play nicely with my two monitors. Nothing in this stack was less than 6 months old. That’s why I don’t love it. Love the promise, hate the result.
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by richjdsmith 5y ago
I’m a massive fan as well. Found it about 4 months ago and it has changed my level of civic engagement in my small town. I am actively involved in the future of my town’s cycling infrastructure and it is in a large part due to these videos.
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by richjdsmith 5y ago
Every single evening for about 15-30 minutes before I go to bed. Buying a kindle and being able to have a backlight (along with syncing to my phone so I can read on the go) has been a game changer. I read a lot more now. I only read fiction
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by richjdsmith 6y ago
That's what my parents did. When they built their lake cottage it was cheaper to tie in sewer and water, but the cost to tie in to the power grid was going to be over $30k at which point, they were cheaper to install a full solar syste
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by richjdsmith 6y ago
Couldn't agree more. asdf has made working across multiple computers and projects dead simple.
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by richjdsmith 6y ago
I visited a couple years back. Did a week long drive through wales. It was absolutely gorgeous. I've been lucky enough to have been on a few holidays in both Scotland and Ireland for a few weeks at a time (I'm Canadian, but I live
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by richjdsmith 6y ago
For what it is worth, I have been migrating from AWS to Azure for a few projects over the past year and have had nothing but good things to say about Azure. Documentation is superb, as is support and experience consistency. AWS is still gre
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by richjdsmith 6y ago
I've since moved my ruby projects over to asdf for its simplicity, and the fact that you're going to be stuck using something to manage node anyways.
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by richjdsmith 6y ago
I did the same whenever LastPass doubled their prices. That seemed pretty steep for the value added and I did some research. Bitwarden seemed like the most obvious choice for being both open source and openly audited. I've been recomme
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by richjdsmith 6y ago
Fun little side-note but Cabins are called cabins in Western (BC & Alberta for sure, and I believe Sask as well) Canada. It's only Eastern Canada that calls them cottages.
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by richjdsmith 6y ago
I spent a solid week looking for one in Martinique. I was finally told that they are on occasion refereed to as Italian Presses, but am still unsure if this was true.
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by richjdsmith 6y ago
Yep. Post service is still working. People have been homeschooling their children long before the internet became ubiquitous.
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by richjdsmith 6y ago
I have always loved computers. I'm a millennial, and a child of the internet. I remember with fondness the day my parents upgraded to DSL in the early 2000s and what effect that had on me. Raw excitement like little I'd felt befor
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by richjdsmith 6y ago
I'm in the same boat. I'm looking at selling my Mac and just getting an iPad to replace it - running Windows 10 + WSL + VSCode on my desktop pc is more pleasant for me to code at home with than my macbook.
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by richjdsmith 6y ago
Wait, Canadian here, American's don't have electric kettles?
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by richjdsmith 6y ago
Same story happened to me last Friday. I put in an order on their website, met their minimum delivery order amount, and yet when I got the confirmation email an hour later, I found out 3/4 of my items were being shipped to my nearest (
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by richjdsmith 7y ago
Shh, you'll upset the Great Robelus[1] and they may start euthanizing animals.... [1] https://www.thebeaverton.com/2020/03/telus-threatens-to-euth...
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The case of the 500-mile email(ibiblio.org)
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by richjdsmith 7y ago
Their biggest lock-in and I think a reason a large portion of average users don't switch to Android. I know this to be true for both of my siblings, as well as my wife's entire family.
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by richjdsmith 7y ago
>That and poaching them only for their fins. This is the part I personally find most disturbing. When you see videos of shark finners slicing them off the shark while still in the water, leaving it to bleed to death it's very distur
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by richjdsmith 7y ago
Canada has a relatively large (~5%) Chinese and Chinese-Canadian population. A large immigration event happened during the 90s due to the uncertainty surrounding the UK handover of Hong Kong[1] and many resettled in Vancouver. [1] https:&#x
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by richjdsmith 7y ago
This is something I have been putting a lot of thought into lately. My wife and I have been fortunate to have lived in France, England and Spain over the past decade, as well as being regular visitors (+6x/year) to the United States. T
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by richjdsmith 7y ago
Dad's a vet and regularly says he's very thankful for the work purebreds provide. If everyone had mutts, there would be a lot less need for vets.
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by richjdsmith 7y ago
You may want to consider switching from ABP to uBlock Origin. There's lots of articles explaining it in detail, but essentially uBO is open source and ABP is a $50mm/yr business that allows some ads through and I think (but am not
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by richjdsmith 7y ago
I couldn't agree more, except instead of newspapers, I got a couple magazine subscriptions (Maclean's & Bloomberg). I love it. I quit caring about what happened today, and instead I get my news a week later. I take the magazin

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