This is an exception.
It's in canada, Québec of all place where cost of living is lower.
1- he should have stayed at home with his parent.
2- his parent should have help him with his debt.
3- he should have worked while studying: this is super rare.
4- university is much cheaper there like 2000$ per semester.
Should I go on?
Pre-pandemic 100k$ is an insane amount.
10k is common, so is 20k, but above that? pretty rare, yet he claims most of his friends had a similar situation.
HEC is one of the best finance school in canada, guy stay there 8 years, seems to have zero knowledge of money.
Then uber eats? That's weird. Most hec diploma will land you a 100k/years, after a few years. 400/month is not that much. Don't quit your job and become homeless for that!
Hmm it looks like all protest are being dealt very softly now. Natives? We don't want another 1990 oka.
Students? Don't want another 2012 printemps érable. Truckers? Well I'm not sure about that one. Was the majority of the police on the protester's side? A bunch sure. But most? Nah. Wasn't there like only 1% of all truckers there? They had the means but not the number. Also if freezing bank account ended it without any police lifting a finger, it's best no?
It was left leaning and Police were quite happy to handle it with all they got.
Many hundreds or thounsands of protester everyday (or nights) for over 100 days. 17 years-old students being hit with Baton, pepper spray,
, tears gas, rubber bullets, flashbang etc. It was so chaotic that vladimir fucking putin even call canada to sort its shit (!!!). Since then police really has dialed it back in the protest.
I don’t recall what the 2012 Canada protests were. Guessing OWS? OWS and the vaccine passport protestors have one thing in common - they challenge the ruling class.
I wonder why the ruling class hasn’t opposed social mousetrap identity politics protests.
Maybe it was mostly a Québec thing. In 2012, premier of quebec, jean charest (know him? He lost the conservative parti race to polievre) anounced he would increase university tuition fee many times over, to reach canada's average. Scolarship would be changed to loan. Students were not happy with this and went on strike.It was pretty eventful. After a few month it did start to look like OWS.
It ended in fall, costing charest his re election.
It really was eye opening in many ways. The media sucking up to the gouverment, the gourverment not giving shit about what end up being a large chuck of the population, forgetting they were in a democracy.
Trucker were err. Well see for yourself.
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The book on the photo, Trois fois par jour #2 (Three times a day #2)
Is a great cookbook for mere mortal with cooking skill juste above beginner. A few recipes became once a week classic and helped me improve my cooking skill and taste. Highly recommanded! #1 is good too.
Duolingo is kind of garbage.
As a native french, for fun, I tried to quickly finish the whole french course. I quit well before halfway. Duolingo would refuse perfectly fine sentences. The accepted answers aren't flexible enough.
I didn't try english though.
Esperanto is super easy if you speak both french and english. But man there is less content on the internet than klingon...
Please dont recommand dell. They are easily bricked (for an average user). I use many model daily and a new 13' xps pro was bricked by... splitting the main partition in two. "Oh so the efi was borked and could no longer boot because it was choosing the wrong partition?" Nope the bios would NOT allow me to reach the F12 so I could boot to a usb drive or anything to fix this. I had to open the laptop then format the nvme drive (and they are not making it easy). Extremely dumb.
> In 2021 and especially in 2022, the global rates of inflation have changed our daily lives. With an annual rate reaching +8.9% in July 2022 in Europe
> Thanks to the long-term management of our energy costs in 2021, we did not immediately need to change our prices. However, at the end of 2022 and in 2023, part of our energy purchases coverage are coming to an end and we are going to end up buying energy at a higher price
Electricity prices for consumers currently are heavily subsidized in France because otherwise there would be riots: spot market prices are regularly above 0.40€ and the current end user price would probably be around 0.80€.
OVH is a business, thus they have to pay the real prices.
In the end we will all pay via massive inflation for the competence of the European politicians.
They also have a big datacenter here in quebec impacted by the rate increae, and our electricity prices haven't really increased. Prices for industrial uses here are around 0.08-11$(CAD) per kWh.
(Edit: to be clear the OVH rate increase is still pretty reasonable, and is justified by other factors)
Yeah, it is actually crazy how cheap even the listed prices (for example L-rate pricing) can be here. I'm surprised we don't have more datacenters (there are lots of them, but not as much as I'd have thought).
All the regulation being in French, and the translated versions not being considered official is such a hindrance to doing anything in Quebec. Everything becomes substantially more complicated, involves a lot more people, and it is disjoint with the entire rest of Canada and the US in terms of your compliance and your staff. You can see why companies would avoid it even given the rather incredible cost reductions their power cost would offer.
In France I think the price of electricity for professionals has been multiplied by five in the past few months. The price of electricity for residential customers and small businesses has only increased by 5% because the French state and EDF are shouldering the difference.
This is something I never understood.
Why so many bike theft? a regular new one is 3-4 hundred$ and cannot be sold that easily (Say vs electronic goods). Why theft is so popular?
I mean thief can steal one for their own purpose, but then what? He steal another one every weeks?
Steal the bike, sell it on craigslist/facebook marketplace/etc for $100, profit.
It can often take less that 5/10 minutes to steal a bike which is a pretty good RoR.
How could we stop it? Probably the best way would be stronger regulations on community marketplaces/pawn shops/ebay/etc. ATM, they don't GAF about selling stolen goods.
I also think the police just don't take it very seriously. Certainly that's the case here in SF. I've reported a number of stolen bikes over the years and my impression was of massive indifference. After bike number 7 was stolen, I just gave up. A few years later I'm thinking about buying a bike again, and risk of theft is my number one concern.
Well, not to defend the police, but after a bike is stolen I don't know what you could expect them to do.
Even if they had a dedicated bike recovery task force, the most they could do is visit local pawn shops and browse community marketplaces for a bike matching the description (assuming it wasn't broken down for parts).
Now, before a bike is stolen, I'd expect police to actually patrol places where bikes are being commonly stolen from (or for that matter, places where cars are commonly broken into). That part is something I do blame them for. The fact that SF is basically synonymous with "don't leave anything in the car" is an indictment on local police.
I think it would be great if they actually policed not just the pawn shops and sketchier bike shops, but also the people randomly selling them on the street and the back-alley bicycle chop shops, which are easily visible. Instead of the theft victims wandering the neighborhood trying to find their bike and get it back, which is what happens a lot here, I would like the police to take a swing at it.
But from the air of the police taking reports, absolutely nothing will happen. One time a cop asked me why I was bothering, did I need it for insurance or something? No, I told him, it was a crime and I figured that being police, they'd want to know. That seemed novel to him.
But I don't just want them to do something for me after my bicycle is stolen. I'd like them to be energetic enough in running down organized bike theft operations that those criminals find some other line of work. And a good way way to do that is taking individual bike thefts seriously.
Here in Toronto I (and a bunch of other people) witnessed a bike being stolen in broad daylight on a major street downtown.
Naturally we took videos and called the cops. Naturally the cops didn't show up (the store manager we left the videos and pictures with said they did show up like 7 hours later). In the subsequent 10 minutes the thief came back and stole two more bikes, while we continued to watch and video (and not physically intervene, because fighting a guy with a power tool is a really stupid idea).
If the cops showed up promptly at the very least they could have prevented two bikes from being stolen. There's a good chance they would have managed to arrest the thief too.
It also seems like a good candidate for sting operations. Put expensive bikes out with flimsy locks in places with high rates of theft and have undercover officers watch them. When they're stolen, either arrest the thieves immediately or follow them for awhile to figure out who they're working for.
Some games easily trigger VR sickness, other can be scary for the (younger) player for various reasons (fear of height, monster, etc.) not this one.
Racketnx is basically the vr version of arcanoid.
The strong point of the game is that the learning curve is extremely low. Almost anyone can pick the remote, put on the helmet and start hitting the ball.
Someone mentionned there is no feedback. There is very natural and well done haptic feedback. Speed of the swing matter in game. That is of course tracked in game (has to be).
Should I go on?
Pre-pandemic 100k$ is an insane amount. 10k is common, so is 20k, but above that? pretty rare, yet he claims most of his friends had a similar situation.
HEC is one of the best finance school in canada, guy stay there 8 years, seems to have zero knowledge of money.
Then uber eats? That's weird. Most hec diploma will land you a 100k/years, after a few years. 400/month is not that much. Don't quit your job and become homeless for that!
Lots of bad choices here.