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While living in Montréal, I could walk around 5 minutes outside (from my apartment to the metro) and never have to go outside again to go to work or school until I had to come back home.

It's easy to save money, just pirate it !

You're right about it saving money, but maintaining a server, making sure there are backups and all the work and money you need to put into it can easily outweigh the savings for many. Just like building your own furniture, a lot of the time it costs more than just buying a table at Ikea.

But if you're having fun, it is well worth it.

Right. Oculus Rift has been developed in the US, and seeing all the companies that have followed the trend of VR (Valve, Sony, HTC, HP), I guess this could be an example of a revolutionary tech. Tesla while not revolutionary (electric vehicles as an idea and some demo has been around for a long time) has been the first to democratized the vehicle to the masses. Now every car makers are making an electric model. That's revolutionary.

A lot of example from China I'm seeing are good looking and impressing demo (Xiaomi Alpha Mix) but are impractical for general consumers.

AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Nvidia and Apple are all American companies that are innovating in the CPU and GPU market designed in the US. Except maybe Samsung with their Exynos chip, who has better innovation in this sphere?

Might have been a long time the west had real competition, but I personally feel they still have the upper hand in the innovation sector.

Maybe not in the future, who knows.

From my experience, apps are not developed anymore with power user in mind.

There use to be a terminal app (DOS) at a company I worked at which only worked with shortcuts, the learning curve was pretty steep but after a while using it you could be pretty efficient.

Now they replaced it with a nice UI but you don't have shortcuts. Maybe there wasn't enough demand for it.

In programming we mostly use tools we also use at home or elsewhere, so the learning cost is worth it (if I learn VIM, I will be more efficient at every programming job in the future, not just this one)

Look at most of the biggest banks' website and their UI/UX is not even in the same league. I feel like stripe understood that their main clients are web geeks, so they are ready to pay the price and give the ressources needed for a good website.

DuckDuckGo is pretty good, is all about privacy and they don't have way less ressources as Apple. But we saw how the launch of Apple Maps was not perfect, so maybe it's easier and better for them to accept the $15B.

The Airbnb is a solution to a temporary problem, which is that there is a lot of Afghan coming to America and need temporary shelter while they find something else.

The homelessness problem needs a more long-term solution than 25k shelters for a limited time. You can read about Toronto leasing hotels for the homeless if you want to read more about some solutions that are being worked on, for example.

Before 18 (or 21, or 16) it's debatable that humans have the capacity to self-control, or make their own decisions understanding the effect on themselves and those surrounding them. I'm not saying that they're completely oblivious, but there is a reason why the law is not applied in the same way for children (non-adults).

Now, it's a mix of societal and economical (and more) that's making people eat a certain way. Changing your eating behavior can be difficult, especially if you've eaten a certain way for the past 16-18 years.

I'm not saying it's Walmart's fault, but it's also not just an individual willingness to change that's in play here. The United States clearly has a problem of obesity, which is related to Type 2 diabetes.

It was pretty clear why they dropped them, which is most people hated it (while a few very much loved them). I loved my Steam Controller but right now I'm using mostly my Xbox controller for PC.

The Wii U was a failure, but I feel (and I guess the sales can confirm that) that Nintendo learned from their mistakes.

It's not okay to over hype a product and calling an autopilot when it's really just a glorified automatic break system and steering system. This caused people to die, and similar story doesn't seem to happen with other car brand with similar feature in their car (automatic breaking and automatic stearing in traffic).

Why don't they host on an alternative to GitHub?

I feel like it's not a knowledge problem to the counterfeiters, but more of how the economics work in counterfeits.

A lot of people are ready to pay for a 20$ bag on AliExpress and probably never seen how a real Louis Vuitton bag feels, so they don't see/feel the difference. Same thing for jewelries, watches, shoes, etc. You see a lot of fake Yeezy (for example), and you can probably get a similar enough shoe to the real one, but it'll cost 100-200$, and most people are not ready to pay this price for a "fake".

On r/repladies, I've seen girls pay 1200$ for "fakes" that are very similar to the real product, at a certain point that only a handfuls of people will see the difference.

It seems like they at least created the recipe at first, so it's not just 100% marketing.

> Austrian entrepreneur Dietrich Mateschitz was inspired by an existing energy drink named Krating Daeng, which was first introduced and sold in Thailand by Chaleo Yoovidhya. He took this idea, modified the ingredients to suit the tastes of Westerners, and, in partnership with Chaleo, founded Red Bull GmbH in 1987 in Chakkapong, Thailand. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull

From reading about it, Drizly has partnerships with retailers in 1,400 cities, which might be easier to get if you just buy the company than working 2-3 years to get to this level, and fight the market share with a well established company.

It's a failed dream. We don't see more building designed like that in Montreal, just more skyscraper so we can be more like Toronto or New York.

There's this Codenames clone [1] that's great, you can play in multiples languages and you don't need to share a screen to play. It's for 4-8 players and it's easy to play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codenames_(board_game)

[1] https://www.horsepaste.com/

From Wikipedia: "The concentration of active psilocybin mushroom compounds varies not only from species to species, but also from mushroom to mushroom inside a given species, subspecies or variety. The same holds true even for different parts of the same mushroom. In the species Psilocybe samuiensis, the dried cap of the mushroom contains the most psilocybin at about 0.23%–0.90%. The mycelium contains about 0.24%–0.32%."

So for 3.5g ≈ [8.05mg ; 31.5mg] And for 2.5g ≈ [5.75mg ; 22.5mg]

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