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by voisin 2y ago
> The wisdom and care required to have and keep billions requires… I think this is where your logic breaks down. Many billionaires exist due to no more intelligence and ambition than the average person but to have the luck of being born
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by voisin 2y ago
But hey, in 5-7 years there will be a settlement to the inevitable class action lawsuit and each of these customers (that fills in a form, ensuring only a small fraction actually do) gets a $3.75 credit on their next bill. The lawyers will
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Canada's next housing crisis: Who is going to build new homes?(westerninvestor.com)
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Ontario town votes to become a willing host for a nuclear waste repository(westerninvestor.com)
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Archegos Founder Bill Hwang Found Guilty on 10 Charges(nytimes.com)
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by voisin 2y ago
I live in BC and have been on the Island and the Mountains for the last five years. If you think housing costs or doctor availability are ok here, I strongly suggest coming to see. I also lived briefly in Nova Scotia and suggest the same th
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by voisin 2y ago
StatsCan shows we went from 1.3m non-permanent residents as of Q2 2021 to 2.8m as of Q2 2024. Maybe you’re right about the rate, but however you look at it, more than doubling the population of immigrants in 3 years demands some leadership
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by voisin 2y ago
They are provincial responsibilities, but the group allowing in 3-5x the number of people should have ensured the groups responsible for handling those people are doing what needs to be done to accommodate them, no? And if they aren’t, then
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by voisin 2y ago
They use devices to gain access and start the vehicle, drive it a few blocks away and leave it for another group to come pick it up and take it to a shipping container to be transported to the Port of Montreal to be shipped overseas. The or
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by voisin 2y ago
> the basic problem is the govt wants to demolish the old society and has orchestrated a de-facto invasion to secure power for its party, secure seats with the black market money donations, with the convenient side effect of unleashing t
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by voisin 2y ago
> it doesn't benefit me to have tourists come to my city Not sure where you live, but generally tourists allow for a greater amount of restaurants, bars and cultural institutions than the same size city without much tourism. Not to
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by voisin 2y ago
Every country tries to attract foreign investment. It’s a major component of GDP. And the difference between Canada ca. 1986 and 2010 versus 2018-2024 is… monetary policy! (Though admittedly 2010 looks pretty similar to 2018, house prices w
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by voisin 2y ago
I wonder if past civilizations ever had knowledge of their impending doom, studied it, and still took effectively no action to avert disaster? Will we be unique in seeing the train coming and collectively refusing to take action to get off
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by voisin 2y ago
Canada first massively disincentivized foreign investment and the. limited it altogether because, like Portugal, foreigners were the scapegoats for wildly increasing housing prices. Turned out they had almost nothing to do with it and it wa
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by voisin 2y ago
> The median house price in Lisbon and Porto metro areas, are now above what the p95 Portuguese salary can pay. So yes, speculation and wealthy foreigners are an issue, as it's not Portuguese salaries propping these values. The seco
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by voisin 2y ago
I think foreign competition has some unique features that are beneficial: — cross pollination of talent, knowledge, technology, etc; — less susceptible to being eliminated when a future government caves on some of the rules you’ve mentioned
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by voisin 2y ago
I agree, though I would prefer a solution that actually leads to the weakening of the oligopolists.
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by voisin 2y ago
Well next time you are in Cranbrook feel free to drop me a note if you want to grab a coffee or beer. My contact is in my profile.
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by voisin 2y ago
I’m in Cranbrook. Perhaps we need to establish the smaller HN IRL meetup :-)
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by voisin 2y ago
The key to your statement: “the ghosts of…”
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by voisin 2y ago
Go on. Why?
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by voisin 2y ago
Ok, now explain that to enough people that this solution actually works as a real proxy for competition.
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by voisin 2y ago
> Shaw didn't have enough capital to continue operating, and foreign ownership restrictions prevented them from raising more. The government decided that Rogers buying Shaw was a better outcome than Shaw going out of business They c
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by voisin 2y ago
Small world - I live in the Kootenays. I am guessing you are in Nelson only because it seems to be 600km from everything :-)
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by voisin 2y ago
> Some competitors are present indirectly, e.g. both T-Mobile and AT&T have US mobile postpaid plans with unlimited Canadian roaming These aren’t real options as anyone calling you back will be forced to pay long distance.
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by voisin 2y ago
What’s your process or weekly schedule for learning so many languages at once? What resources do you use or how do you approach a language?
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by voisin 2y ago
Unit arbitrage. I love it.
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by voisin 2y ago
Thank you. Putting my thoughts into my comment made me wonder a bit more about the translation I am reading which is Butler’s translation included in the Great Books of Western Culture. It apparently is a somewhat weak translation when comp
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by voisin 2y ago
I’ve recently started reading The Iliad. I find it challenging because characters can be referred to by a variety of different things, even within the same paragraph or two, so it is challenging to follow the conversation or who is being di
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by voisin 2y ago
What are positive effects you have noticed if not for strength?

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