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> Most of the people my age who are situated with kids and family are well to do. Same here, but looking back to my hometown and how it is now, it wasn't this way even just 20 years ago. Now even well-to-do doesn't guarantee ki
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> So if the housing market crashes, the banks have no recourse The housing market must first crash before the problem is tangible, and there's no sign of that happening.
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> They accepted copies of my American credit history and bank statements, but had no real way to verify their truth I'm skeptical here, given how closely the US and Canada work together, both US and Canadian banks share an incredibl
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How quickly can you book an appointment with your family doctor? How did you acquire your family doctor?
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> The price-to-rent ratio isn’t that far off from the US, for example. I'd love to see the numbers that back this up that also don't include SF, LA, NYC, Miami, or Seattle.
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This was my experience doing consulting/contracting for most of the 2010s. Clients would want both iOS and Android, and we’d release with full feature parity. In every instance the iOS apps brought in 2x-5x the revenue, even when our
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There was a lot of internal pressure as well, smooth scrolling was such a key product feature that they eventually admitted it was impossible to do in a browser if there was any complexity to the app at all.
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> If enough people are forgetful, the "90% of the new reusable bags are used a mere two or three times" seems very plausible to me. Sure, and this definitely happened in my region of Canada where plastic bags were banned alread
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> as it always goes What are the other previous examples of this?
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> Every contributor-driven platform has eventually jumped the shark, and all in exactly the same way. Reddit seems to be the exception to the rule. I and millions of others still spend a ton of time there. People have loudly griped about
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My job at the time gave me a brand new Series 2 and it was annoying to interact with... when it was new. Dropped frames, missed touches, etc. There was still a little bit of lingering hope there would be "killer apps" outside noti
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Do you live in a region with poor internet, or do your coworkers? I've been fully immersed in Meet and Zoom calls for 6-7 years now, and all the issues that used to come up are now mostly gone as they were rooted in people not having t
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Sure. Time to train them to be better managers if they are falling behind in a remote context.
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> while the assistant managers I think were in the 60-80k range. Don't know how it was at Home Depot, and my experience at Walmart was ~20 years ago, but asst managers were in-building 10-12 hours/day, usually there 6 days a w
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> have a great home theater experience We'll have to see how people handle 1.5lbs of headgear for long periods. Maybe it'll be fine, but the Quest is already heavy enough.
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You are underselling the original iPhone, it entered a very different cell phone market, where the same quality tech existed but was hard to find, and the UX on all smartphones was, to be generous, poor, especially for the mass market. Even
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Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead(riotgames.com)
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“Views” here meaning “impressions”, so that’s the number of users who scrolled past the video when it showed up in their feed. MrBeast shared actual engagement in another tweet, which was around 30mil.
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So strange to me that leafblowers are the target of constant community ire and potential regulation, yet roving groups of Harleys and non-Harley motorcycles, imo much more loud and harmful than leaf blowers, can destroy people's eardru
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> The forest fires are because you don't recall them as a child. Forests need to burn, that's the natural order of things for millions and millions of years This doesn't apply to many of the wildfires farther north in Cana
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In terms of comfortable weather, I hope so, but I will add that there are millions of square kilometers of untouched forest that have rarely experienced dry spring/summers as we saw in 2023. Canada had multiple wildfires so far away fr
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At this point, we are in full bandwagon/meme territory, aside from the few companies that actually do need to fix their cashflow. Now that the stock market will probably immediately reward you if you just recite the mantra "we ove
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> We were told the high price of the CD would come down to the price of vinyl. Records were about $8 or so at the time, CD's double that. Yeah, no, that never happened. Is this in the US? By the end of the 90s, before piracy truly t
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Remains to be seen whether Kick can last long enough to get to profitability. It's certainly advertiser-poison, since what you call "draconian content policing" is closer to what advertisers want to see.
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Unlike the other person who replied to you, I don't have a script to disable anything. I spend zero cumulative hours thinking or worrying about updates, it's just always up to date. While I recall registry exploring in the 2000s,
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The existing UIViewController and how it's implemented breaks the model-view-controller pattern, so there was nothing to stick to.
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> as this is actual reality for many younger people, isn’t it No, teens are mostly using other services like Snapchat, IG, WhatsApp, even TikTok for messaging their friends. iMessage is for communicating with old family members.
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> I am sure Apple's analysts already have a number for how much profit they'd slough off if they pay off Masimo Apple famously does not budge on their margins. If forced to pay a license fee, prices on these models will absolut
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Worth noting that this is only in 3 cities that don't really experience "weather" the same way most other cities do. This is of course great news for people living in the desert, but let us know when they achieve this in Toro
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> that's what Meta is probably going after with Threads, growth using the fediverse userbase This seems like a terrible play given how small the fediverse userbase is.

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