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The title is misleading. The tax is apparently 1% of property value. $10,000 would be the tax on a $1M home.

There are two core issues with nutrition science.

The first issue is that it's extremely difficult to run a long term controlled study on nutrition. Adherence to diet interventions is difficult to measure and it drops off over time. As a result most nutrition studies are epidemiological cohort studies which are not particularly good at determining causality.

The second issue is a question of funding. Diet and exercise interventions are not something that are typically monetized be the pharmaceutical industry. As such there is little private sector funding going into nutrition studies. Couple that with the fact that they're extremely expensive and you have a serious deficit in studies.

There is already some process available to measure this as Canada has tax deductions available specific to your "primary residence". CRA definitely has a way of auditing this. Sharing that information with a provincial level organization may not be possible, though.

But you pay interest on your leverage. So if your asset isn't appreciating faster than inflation + your interest rate then I don't think you're actually realizing any gains.

Except your mortgage interest may also be 3% so you may realize nothing on your investment.

Your interest costs will be proportional to your leverage so you need the asset to outperform your interest rate to realize anything.

We Vancouverites are spoiled. I just finished an 18 month stint in the Bay Area. One of the biggest inconveniences was the driving time (especially with traffic) to get to the mountains.

In Seattle now and it's a great compromise. Similar wages to the Bay Area but similar geography and outdoor access as Vancouver. And even with the exchange rate housing is cheaper than Vancouver.

The more time I spend in this industry the more I realize how many software engineers leave salary on the table.

It's great to see a tool like this which both encourage software engineers to negotiate their salary, and help them strengthen their bargaining position.

It's an interesting hypothesis but unfortunately a cohort study with no randomized control and n=236 isn't really meaningful. There's no control at all here and the sample size is tiny.

I believe that some startup founders/execs have optimized for valuation at the expense of costly liquidation preferences for late stage investors.

Maybe it's more a lack of access to modern scientific knowledge than 'craziness'.

I'm a big fan of personal experimentation but it's important to always be skeptical of your own n=1 conclusions.

In this particular case, coinciding the interventions of your diet change and exercise regiment make it very difficult to know the respective contribution of each to your results.

Interesting anecdotes nonetheless.

Nice, Graeham!