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Vancouver is SF-level drug disorder paired with Detroit salaries, in no way is it more "livable" than a nice US suburb.

I just bought an Xbox Series X and logged in via QR code and Xbox app on my phone. No need to type into the console.

The percentage of the population that needs to work will continue to go down because of aging and automation although you might not see it as a reduction of hours for a given indiv…

If you make $2000 and your rent is $1800 are you food insecure or rent insecure? This is a miscategorization imo, food is incredibly cheap compared to any American income or welfar…

Ok but the corporations are ultimately owned by humans who are alive so there is no way around the generational wealth transfer other than destroying wealth.

The US healthcare system is incredible compared to socialized systems if you can afford it. That's at least part of the reason it represents 17% of GDP. The same procedure I needed…

Depressingly, they bought a house in 1995 before the prices exploded. You need a 94th percentile income in Toronto to barely qualify for the average house.

How so? If you don’t touch the principal you can live off the investment returns forever and so can your descendants.

Nothing didn’t bother to support Verizon’s most important 4G band, it’s not blacklisted it just won’t work well outside of major cities. https://www.theverge.com/23803460/nothing-p…

In Australia? The houses are like 30x-100x more expensive than a battery, how would this be possible?

This is what most airlines and hotels do, the best prices go on google flights and google hotels and the worst prices are in their own apps.

Who do you invoice if, for example, you own a vending machine that sells chips and sodas for cash or contactless? Why couldn’t this be treated the same?

Why would anyone prefer public transit over a self driving comfortable personal car?

I bet someone said the same thing about an email or an IM vs a handwritten letter at some point in the past but here we are.

The driver makes more than Uber does on (almost?) every ride. So they did.

If you genuinely refuse to use AI for any part of your job in 2026 you are the moron. Of course, you can go too far in the other direction but that's not what your comment is descr…

Canada just gives you a fixed amount of cash every year for the sales tax that they estimate that you paid on a regular amount of consumption (HST credit) which solved that problem…

Grading assignments just punishes people that don't cheat on their homework. It's worse than worthless, it actively helps the worst students.

Yeah, pretty much. You can make enough money in 10-15 years in tech in America to last a lifetime in Europe, even without the remote job.

A semi-skilled English-speaking customer service agent in PH makes less than $700 a month to put this into perspective. Working abroad is a totally reasonable proposition compared …

Working from the beach is much more enjoyable than working from a cubicle in Toronto in January all work tasks being equal. Much cheaper too, ridiculously enough.

MyFitnessPal takes a lot of clicks to log one meal, I can just use natural language with openclaw.

There is no way a condo would continue to cost $2500/mo in a world where there isn't a concentration of well-paid office jobs in that location.

NK is safe from invasion because of conventional artillery pointed at Seoul. That's why they were able to develop nuclear weapons in the first place.

Coke in Singapore is a different recipe with less sugar.