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Well, they don't _have_ to rent long-term but if the unit is kept unoccupied, then they will be hit with the Empty Homes Tax in Vancouver, for instance. So yeah, they are forcing the landlords hand here.

And yes, I agree the house problem is a supply-vs-demand issue. And this is not addressing the core problem. But in a place with extremely low rent vacancy [2], having units removed from the market for STR isn't helping.

[1]: https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/empty-homes-t... [2]: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rent-prices-rose-in-2023-1....

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3 tahun yang laludiscuss

    " I fear the day that technology will surpass our human
    interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots."

While I loved this quote (because I aligns with my opinion), it doesn't look it is from Einstein. At least searching for it in google I've found quite a few pages precisely debunking this attribution.

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3 tahun yang laludiscuss

As an example of a different frontend, have you tried "jujutso" [1]? Every time I ended seeing a comment about git vs Hg usability I am reminded of it. It uses git in the backend but its workflow/frontend seems streamlined.

  Jujutsu is a Git-compatible DVCS. It combines features from Git (data model, speed), Mercurial (anonymous branching, simple CLI free from "the index", revsets, powerful history-rewriting), and Pijul/Darcs (first-class conflicts), with features not found in most of them (working-copy-as-a-commit, undo functionality, automatic rebase, safe replication via rsync, Dropbox, or distributed file system).

[1] https://github.com/martinvonz/jj

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For me the best part was the image comparing various letters that look alike in other fonts (and that are removed in Crockford's Base32 precisely due to this):

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4 tahun yang laludiscuss

I wonder how this will impact SimpleTax / WealthSimple Tax folks. I absolutely love that product - which is a strange feeling to have for a tax filling software ;)

BTW, there is another thread about the message sent by the CEO regarding those layoffs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31756507

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