‘All That I Got Is You’ by Ghostface Killah ft. Mary J. Blige is a strong contender for the most heartbreaking storytelling song that I’ve ever heard.

October 17, 2021 No comments Article

Many rappers write autobiographical songs detailing hardships they’ve experienced. ‘All That I Got Is You’ was particularly moving, painting a vivid picture of what it is like for a child growing up in poverty.”Sometimes I look up at the stars and analyze the sky, and ask myself was I meant to be here, why?” –

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A few words on “Anxious people” by Fredrik Backman

October 17, 2021 No comments Article

Have I ever been more annoyed by all the characters in a book? Probably not. Have I ever sympathised more with all the characters in a book? Also probably not. This book created such situations when I didn’t know what I should feel for someone, one page I was enraged with them, the next one

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I know why shit is fucked up in Canadian housing.

October 15, 2021 No comments Article

I work in real estate. (No I’m not a realtor), I just work for them.Realtors will list a property, and then once they get word that a realtor wants to make an offer on it, they will make it sound as though there are multiple offers on the table. This incite blind bidding. A bidding

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How serious is food inflation in Canada?

September 29, 2021 No comments Article

How serious is food inflation in Canada?https://ift.tt/3ATF8kj investigation continues but evidence suggesting that Statistics Canada is underestimating food inflation is mounting.For example, while the CPI report indicates that the price of ketchup has dropped by 5.9 per cent, BetterCart suggests ketchup is up by 7.3 per cent since January. Potatoes are 11.5 per cent more

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How do I manage a major change in my partner’s salary?

September 15, 2021 No comments Article

My partner (30) and I (31) have been together for 10 years. Early on in our relationship, we realized that I was the financially responsible one and she had difficulty budgeting/saving so when things got serious, we combined expenses and she has given me full trust to manage all finances.I’ve always been the main breadwinner

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Is Motley Fool a modern day boiler room-type scam?

September 12, 2021 No comments Article

Hype up a stock to pump price up, and then they themselves will dump it.Or talk shit about a stock to drive price down, and then they themselves will buy it.Their hedge fund is called Motley Fool Asset Management. Their articles have a large readership audience that this theory is definitely possible. What do you

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Leetcode is really helping my confidence as a junior!

September 9, 2021 No comments Article

When I was first learning, I mostly focused in projects. And that was great but I always felt like my JS skills were weak. Even my current job, I had a leetcode test and failed miserably. It was a miracle I got the job. I started doing leetcoded the past week and I feel like

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If you don’t have one, go buy a front door camera that sends alerts to your cell phone

August 21, 2021 No comments Article

We bought one a couple of years ago. When renewing our home insurance they asked if we had a home security system.This camera fell within their definition of a home security system.My insurance premium fell by $100/year.The camera cost me $50, one time fee.Caveat: check with your insurer before dropping the dough. via /r/PersonalFinanceCanada https://ift.tt/3mnRPzy

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BEWARE: PayPal will add a $20 account inactivity fee effective November 20, 2021.

August 21, 2021 No comments Article

FYI: https://www.paypal.com/ca/webapps/mpp/ua/upcoming-policies-full​Effective: November 20, 2021We are introducing an annual account inactivity fee of $20 CAD.I find this charge absolutely bogus, especially since I haven’t used my PayPal account in years (which I only created because sometime in the distant past, Ebay required me to).When I saw this, I wanted to close my PayPal account in

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[Self Promotion] Hey, I’m back at it again! I’m a C# .NET software engineer who works with Genetic Algorithms. Today marks the 9th and final video in the series I am making covering creating your own GA. In this video, we implement the convergence checks for our multi-objective GA.

August 16, 2021 No comments Article

Video:https://youtu.be/t393wxbl0SEI was posting here about 6 months ago with my previous videos and had some amazing discussion and feedback from the community. I took a small break (making videos can be really hard), but I’m back with the last video in the series.I work for a company where we use Genetic Algorithms to solve scheduling

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If your team is using an Agile Scrum process with developers doing one task after another. How do handle the case where a developer notices an area of code that could be improved upon which is outside the scope of the work he is currently doing.

July 16, 2021 No comments Article

I assume you cannot handle this as a bug so I wonder how these areas of technical debt are fed back into the Agile Scrum process as they would also not be part of any Epic, Feature, User Story / Product Backlog item. via /r/dotnet https://ift.tt/3wINt7z

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There is a way out… It’s called the United States

July 13, 2021 No comments Article

Long time lurker here, I just wanted to share my story and let you guys know that imo the grass is definitely greener on the other side. It took us 21 months before we became homeowners after moving from ontario.My girlfriend and I are civil engineers and live in Wisconsin, USA. We moved here after

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Wilful Blindness: Money Laundering and the impact it can have

July 7, 2021 No comments Article

Excerpt:”In order to dig into the study’s implications, I obtained a list of the key properties tied to the core of the casino whale network. These were the properties my sources believed were most important for Canadians to read about. They said the mansions were bought with proceeds from fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine sales, prostitution,

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