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The new seat is an "observer" seat which doesn't have a vote.


I have never understood the value of an observer seat as you get exposure and concomitant liability without the ability to actually vote on something. Plus observers are not included in the usual D&O package.


But then it's weird to specify a location. Camrose is a town of 18,000 people – why not make it explicitly remote?


Yeah that's a really good point... Is this perhaps one of those hyper specific job postings so that a company can skirt some sort of regulation about hiring immigrants by saying they did a search? but why Apple? And why Camrose...


The next Bend, Oregon!


What does Disney joining FAANG mean? It's acquired?


I would interpret that to mean disney starts being considered a peer of the FAANG companies by investors and job applicants. i.e. FAANG becomes FAANGD


While we still can decide on that let's call it FADANG instead?


If only there was a big name L. GANDALF


Lyft?


Licrosoft?


If you're in Canada I can't recommend SimpleTax [1] enough. Donation-based, so free or what you can pay. Was recently acquired by Wealthsimple.

[1] https://simpletax.ca/


Thanks so much for sharing. I wasn't aware and will try it this time.


Not OP, but Modo [1] in Vancouver, Canada has exactly this model with a $500 refundable buy-in.

[1] https://modo.coop/


I've been a CAN/Modo member for well over a decade. Having to return the car makes it drastically inferior to car2go/evo for most purposes. Definitely superior for doing a home depot run or helping someone move, though.


@johndamaia – your Zillow testimonial has "an" misspelt in "knock ant artboard"


Thanks! It was a direct "copy paste" from the client quote. Will fix it later today.



If that chart is accurate it seems that Canadian cities across the board are building more high-rises. I wonder why.


For whatever reason, Canadians seem to be more open to multifamily high-rise living. As a child in the 1970s it always seemed off to me when we'd visit relatives in smallish towns in Canada which had midrise buildings while in the southern US where we lived much larger cities had few recent buildings of similar heights. This is simply my recollection of things but it seemed like even a small town of 20,000 in Ontario had good odds of having a residential building at least ten stories tall. Perhaps it was a difference in government policy in how it built social housing?


Reduced heating costs perhaps? Heating from -40 to room temp is much, much more expensive than, say, air conditioning in the southern US. If you are not averse to sharing some walls, it makes sense.

Personally, I don't think I could go back to apartment living, but I will also readily admit that I am not a good candidate for "normal" in most regards.


Are the workers putting up the capital to purchase the robots?


There would probably need to be rental services/financing options for those who can't afford to buy one outright.


Uber and others offer leases to drivers now. I'm sure the same could apply.


Maybe instead of free education and health care, we can get free robots?


Maybe instead of giving people free shit, we give people the education and opportunities to earn and make stuff?



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