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It's similar to a telecommunications giant - as the customer, you need to pay a cost of switching (moving expenses, hookup fees etc.).

So it's in their best interests to try to squeeze customers when possible, even with the occasional person that moves out, they'll net a lot more from tenants who just don't bother to dispute the increase.

> But Canada lets business owners do a lot of income splitting with family members across different share classes. Particularly if you have children >18.

Thankfully, they're finally closing the loophole. Many doctors with private practices were reducing their tax burdens significantly by stating that their 14 year children were "medical receptionists". It's ridiculous to grant further tax avoidance loopholes to the already wealthy.

Just because something is a blatant ripoff, doesn't mean it's not a good investment. VCs are doing investments based on predicted ROI, not uniqueness. Lyft and Uber are extremely similar, but the particulars of the business are much more relevant to the investment opportunity.

Counterweights are typically 40% of the a loaded elevator car weight, minimizing the overall work that needs to be done to lift any given car, while also limiting the maximum power required to lift a full car.

There's this naive feeling that "data can solve everything". We already have great data and advice in the city of Toronto. So many times, we've had data oriented recommendations from city staff entirely ignored by the executive.

(1) Proposed bike lanes are being moved to a side street, against recommendations & usage data - for an extra $20M https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/02/26/yonge-st-bike-la...

(2) Many restauranteurs claiming their business is down 50% plus, despite credit & debit receipts showing an increase. (During a Pilot project to decrease variability in LRT times & increase speed of the busiest surface line in North America) https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/transportation/2018/02/16/s...

(3) Building a $3.3B one stop subway instead of a LRT that would better serve the community. https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2018/02/06/updated-sc...

And we want to allow a private company to collect data that has a vested interest in nothing but advertising. Our issue with governance in our cities has never been lack of data, it's lack of leadership and poor NIMBY decision making.

The TN - (nonimmigrant NAFTA Professional) visa makes it very easy to move to the US as a Canadian vs a foreigner from any other country.

I live in Toronto - a bike is ALWAYS the fastest way to get anywhere in the city under about 5km (although it's pretty close).

Traffic is pretty bad at core times and the hassle of parking adds quite a bit of time at each end.

Vancouver and Toronto are super overheated by the influx of foreign capital.

Here's a stellar 2 bedroom house relatively near me: https://www.blogto.com/city/2018/01/everyones-shocked-toront...

  > road damage increases with the mass

Road damage actually increases proportional to mass^4 - trucks cause exponentially more damage than cars.

https://streets.mn/2016/07/07/chart-of-the-day-vehicle-weigh...

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