Germanika

>Look how cold some countries and regions get?

As someone from said countries and regions, people living outside freeze to death here. Long before you get to that point your water pipes will freeze, leaving you without running water. The pipes will then burst and flood your house if you don't address it quickly enough. You can certainly heat it to a lower temperature and occasionally crack open a window for some fresh air, but there's a difference between conditioning yourself to be comfortable at 17C and -30C.

Depends on where you are in Canada. In Québec where electricity is cheap, most homes rely on electric heating. Of course, in Alberta where gas is cheap and electric is ~2.5x more expensive it's not surprising gas furnaces are the default choice.

I interpret it closer to being pro-choice while hoping to not personally need an abortion. Unions form when workers feel they aren't being heard and aren't being properly represented. Having a union form at your own company is an indication that you failed your employees in one way or another. You can be pro-union while hoping to personally never need one or have to sit across the table from one.

A) also doesn't work unless all other road users (bikes, scooters, skateboards, pedestrians, etc.) are also banned from the roads. The other option is limiting the autonomous cars to tunnels or dedicated tracks, but then we're just reinventing trains again.

Agreed. That's my strategy for my road bike as well. For an ebike though? The whole point is to make getting places and doing errands easier. I use a cheap beater bike for this kind of trip. I think the only real solution to it right now is to try and mitigate theft with good locks, get insurance for the bike, and have a backup plan for when it inevitably gets stolen anyways. VanMoof including an insurance/replacement policy with their bikes is actually a killer feature I didn't know about.

I imagine it would depend on the state. In California, I believe they can get away with putting "0" as the number of vacation days you are entitled to, so any of the "unlimited" days you take off are really at the whim of your employer.

Where I am in Canada (and I imagine many states) there are legal minimum requirements so I officially get "3 weeks" vacation, but take a couple weeks on top of that using the "unlimited" policy. So "unused" vacation would be paid out according to the official 3 weeks policy in my case. I could see something similar being possible in Europe, but I think in practice europeans already take more paid time off than most North American's with unlimited vacation.

They can't afford not to. The alternative is shutting down, no?

Is this supposed to be an argument in favour of the 2 hour commute? Because that still sounds like a miserable waste of time to me. I would take the pay cut, look for a new job, or move closer to work. No job in the world is worth putting up with that kind of a commute to me.

Both approaches can work, but lead to different outcomes. The market for "todo list" apps is absolutely big enough there's room for more than one company. The beauty of the bootstrapped model is you don't need to "win the market" or "beat the competition". Is it making a profit? Congratulations! You're now the owner successful company. Want to grow the company? Re-invest the profits, not your personal life savings.

If the goal is to "win"... ya, you're probably going to need to spend money like it's someone else's, and should take that VC money.

> or the literal connotation makes you a little uncomfortable.

How so? "The people's car" seems rather innocuous to me. My only guess would be that it could make some American anti-socialists uncomfortable?

Working through a problem out loud is definitely a bit of a different skill from just solving a complex problem on your own. I do find that saying something along the lines of "OK now I just need a minute to think through this next part" goes over well enough and can give you a minute to relax and think though.

I can honestly say that SimpleTax has been life changing for me, and is a great example of just how important UX can be. My partner used to have literal panic attacks trying to file taxes, even with TurboTax/UFile/etc. Since we've started using SimpleTax, it's done in one sitting and is not even a source of stress anymore.