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I'm in Montreal as well. You might be underestimating how much you're spending on third party delivery.

I compared a meal I bought takeout the other day (by calling the place and walking over to pick it up) vs the same meal on Doordash.

* Direct: 56.28

* Doordash: 101.16

Nearly double. It can be hard to find out what the actual direct price is for some restaurants, but I'd encourage you to make the same experiment.

It is very sobering to consider the demographic cliff that Japan faces combined with the barriers the government puts up to immigration and naturalization.

I sincerely wonder what kind of country Japan will be in 50 years.

I think this post is bait, but hiring executive contractors is essentially a terrible idea for startups.

Your 'fractional cxo' will cost as much as a full time junior, work very few hours, not care about your equity, and be mostly unconcerned whether you succeed or fail.

Get an employee who's dedicated to your mission and wants to prove themselves, or learn to do the job yourself until you can justify the hire.

My best friend is a highly experienced civil engineer, specialized in designing intersections. His take on roundabouts:

- They are adored by urban planners because they look nice and you can put a statue or fountain in the middle

- They reduce T-bone collisions

However:

- Small fender benders and sideswipes are much more frequent

- They use way more area

- They work where each direction has an approximately equal amount of traffic. However, usually, one direction (north/south, say) has a larger share of the traffic. In those cases, the bulk of traffic all needs to slow down, downshift, turn a bit in one direction and then turn a bit in the other direction for the minority of traffic that's bleeding on or off the main artery. In those cases, a traffic light is better because the timing can be adjusted to the proportion of traffic from each direction (and more flexible since it can be adjusted over time).

- Finally, they're also (mostly) worse for cyclists and pedestrians.

Essentially, they have use cases, especially in small towns, and they're pretty, but they're usually not the right engineering solution.

I tried "KITERS" and "TRIKES" at the 5 letter level, but the app specifically wanted "STRIKE." It kinda demoralized me to have come up with two answers and not be able to proceed, I realized that it wasn't worth trying to guess before the clue came up so I quit out.

Idk, Google Family Link seems much more powerful and easy to manage to me. I guess it doesn't have the six giant icons launcher, but my seven-year-old has no issues with normal sized icons or text.

This actually really resonates with me, particularly the part about his AI tools for blogging and note taking.

I have zero interest in AI note-taking apps. I write notes for myself to process the meaningful outcomes of a meeting. My notes are short, only capture stuff I actually think I will care about in the future, and after I've written them I have a better mental model of the meeting than I did before.

If I gave the task to an AI, no matter how advanced, it would produce much more unfocused content than the focused notes I am used to writing, and I would lose the process of synthesis that helps me absorb the meeting outcomes. More work product, but actually less productivity.

I just bought a boox go color 2. Kindle form factor, color e-ink screen, runs android, supports stylus.

I don't know if I love it yet but I read seven ebooks in a month on it, so I guess it's been a good purchase. The android kindle app has a neat smooth scrolling feature that works really well.

Sorry - didn't mean to be vague but I don't want to out my acquaintance too much. She has a good job in STEM. I think she does fine for herself and I would have thought her capable of paying the loan.

Yeah. I don't know the extent of her debt or current income, but she went to an in-state school for a STEM degree, she's not someone who got a useless degree from an overly expensive school. She definitely doesn't seem to regret her decision, whatever the financial or moral considerations.

As I said, I'm a bit perplexed.

I'm Canadian, but I know someone from the US who did this. She's living in Paris, moderately successful in academia and as far as I can tell, completely happy to never return to the US. Her family goes to visit her in Europe once in a while.

Perplexing.

Starter comment, as a Canadian entrepreneur with US citizenship, I can't fathom the rationale for this. Why would you dissuade permanent residents from starting businesses that employ citizens?

Sure, block access to companies controlled by non-residents, but lots of people come to Silicon Valley legally to start businesses, shutting them out of financing seems beyond bizarre.

This is the answer

As a startup you don't have Google's money. You don't have Google's employer brand. You don't have Google's work environment.

in fact as a (hopefully) fast-growing startup the only thing you really have to offer is growth. So make it clear how you are going to help the candidate grow their career and experience faster at your startup than at the established company, and offer the best you can do on comp and work environment.

This doesn't mean fresh grads, but more like someone with a bit of experience who's ready to jump into a team lead or architectural lead role.

Your comment is fair; obviously I wrote a pretty flippant comment, but the message is largely useful for most people.

The fact is that (largely due to the incredible marketing of Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol brand in the US) way too many people think acetaminophen is "safe and effective" when it's actually both pretty unsafe and pretty ineffective. Most people just "pop a Tylenol" by default without realizing it's not much better than placebo.

Sure there are cases where people have unique risks and should avoid NSAIDs. But for the vast majority of the public, if they or their kid are dealing with a headache, fever, menstrual cramp, or other transient pain or fever, they should reach for ibuprofen (with a snack) over acetaminophen. It's not remotely a close call.

I'm frankly pleased that people are becoming more aware of this and I don't mind taking a couple correction comments for presenting the info in a superficial way.