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MichaelBurjack

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About MichaelBurjack

I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

I uncover what makes people click.

I'm a Senior Staff Developer on the Growth team @ Shopify.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48053814

    Being on the list makes it a bit more convenient when you go to vote. Since you're on the list, you only need one other piece of photo ID if I recall correctly. If you're not on th…

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    Comment #48016018

    Being on the electors list is optional, is something you can opt-in to (and opt-out of), and is not required in order to vote in Alberta. There are many reasons an individual may c…

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    Comment #48016007

    Being on the electors list is optional, is something you can opt-in to (and opt-out of), and is not required in order to vote in Alberta. There are many reasons an individual may c…

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    Comment #48015993

    Being on the electors list is optional, is something you can opt-in to (and opt-out of), and is not required in order to vote in Alberta.

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    Comment #46684367

    Based on my (limited) understanding of RTRI, they have very specific items they fund and pretty low overall impact to the trade balance ($1M per org and $1B over 3 years program to…

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    Comment #46128043

    As a father of three amazing kiddos, what a wonderful sentiment stated so lucidly. Thank you for sharing that quote.

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    Comment #45975059

    You keep attacking the layout and formatting of the article, and not the substance. Maybe this article works better for you, and if not, I'm sure you're just as capable at using Go…

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    Comment #45974981

    That page has existed in one form or another for quite some time. I don't believe there's any AI slop in the substance of the content or arguments, and the rationale is presented i…

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    Comment #45974712

    I'm not here to debate the scientific evidence; labelling well-researched peer-reviewed studies as "paranoia" (your words, before editing your reply) because you don't like the out…

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    Comment #45973752

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    Comment #45973608

    Not in a way meaningful to assessing infectious risk, no. I consider outdoor air to be unshared, except in cases of large dense crowds (such as say outdoor festivals or sporting ev…

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    Comment #45973239

    Not sure why you'd ask me that vs. use Google, feels like cornering a random driver to defend "Why do you use seatbelts?". But I'll offer one reply at your word that it's genuine a…

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    Comment #45972847

    As someone who continues to mask in public shared-air settings for my own health, I am entirely unsurprised by that response and get it all the time. Recently heard from a friend t…

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    Comment #41132653

    Now up to at least 11 known aquatic competitors [1]. And most teams aren't testing — for example, Australia brought their own PCR machine; nothing has been provided by the Olympic …

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    Comment #41132089

    Sidestepping nomenclature bikeshedding, healthcare organizations are seeing an increase in patient load which seems like a reasonably tactical datapoint that there's a meaningful i…

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    Comment #41123297

    Covid is a highly contagious virus that spreads and lingers in the air, and we have athletes in close quarters without any virus control procedures [1] (other than the Olympic orga…

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    Comment #41122908

    In addition to physical issues raised (7ft depth, configuration of sides), I wonder if there might be any other reasons that aren't mentioned at all in the article… Something causi…

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    Comment #21469113

    Then you haven't been talking to the right ad sales teams. Google and Facebook have entire product options built around this specific concept. You can run a "ghost ads" test on Goo…

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    Comment #21469026

    Advertisers have many tools to measure "ghost ads" aka "people who haven't seen an ad but would otherwise have qualified for all your target criteria". See https://papers.ssrn.com/…

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    Comment #21469007

    What makes you believe this to be true? You define an audience. You split it. You test and measure the result. What component of that strategy doesn't work for new visitors? Many e…

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    Comment #19609843

    Truthfully, the only reason I had the numbers at hand was because I'd personally fallen for your "Lesson #1" before. I spent my 20s far below median (which I knew), and my 30s far …

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    Comment #19609605

    You might have a skewed sense of what median Canadian income is. And your job might be further above that median than you realize. Median Canadian individual income is ~$35,000 [0]…

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    Comment #12097352

    Don't forget about SeatGuru ( http://www.seatguru.com ), a TripAdvisor company, which specializes in collecting and curating exactly this kind of data. They're not exactly n00bs at…