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Hey C.I we know your views on how useless Hootsuite is as a Canadian IT company. What about Shopify?
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Jan 22, 2016 16:50
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What about Wishabi who is now Flipp? What are your thoughts on the app as a company model?
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Jan 22, 2016 17:04
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I like shopify as a concept. I don't know much about the company itself. I hate hootsuite for the concept.
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Jan 22, 2016 17:08
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Cultural Imperial posted:I like shopify as a concept. I don't know much about the company itself. I hate hootsuite for the concept. There's two competing companies in the US that are rumoured to be on their way to a merger. If it happens, Shopify is done. They will go under.
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Jan 22, 2016 17:11
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Shopify already has huge market share though. They'll be fine. They're also way easier to use than a lot of their competitors like Wix.
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Jan 22, 2016 18:03
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jm20 posted:What about Wishabi who is now Flipp? What are your thoughts on the app as a company model? Using an app as a company model is risky, but it's not inherently a bad idea. Where a lot of companies have problems is monetizing. Instagram literally like two weeks ago just started putting ads in their streams. Before that they had zero - that's right zero - revenue. And were paying a staff of probably hundreds. There are two risks with apps: for one thing, you have to have a way to keep making money off people. In games, especially, keeping it up can be tough. You can be like Zanga, who developed two popular games (Mafia Wars and Farmville) and milked them for all it was worth and then some. The problem was, they have had a very, very hard time coming up with another popular game. They ended up buying DrawSomething for 183 million. It takes a loving lot of $3.99 downloads with a 70% royalty rate to get that money back. Have a look at their five year chart if you want a laugh: https://www.google.com/finance?q=zynga&ei=Z2KiVqnDAeb8iwLFhIa4Aw On the other hand, you can be like King. They use their website, which is basically an online arcade, to test games and then release them as apps. Candy Crush, obviously, you've heard of, but they also have a bunch of other games that sure, aren't the major number one hits like Candy Crush, but still make decent amounts of money. Most of the money in apps is in games. Something like 30% of app store revenue comes from games alone. If you want to see how well a particular category does, see what the top grossing app in that category is, then find out where it's ranked in the whole app store. That's not to say that other apps can't make decent money. They absolutely can. The riskiest part of running an app is that it's so easy for Apple or Google to pull your app. That said, what's good for the goose and all that... Apple isn't going to pull CandyCrush from their store for any reason because it's making them too much money. But the risk is still there. So's the reward.
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Jan 22, 2016 18:14
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I can see having laws about actual informational signs installed by the city or signs mandated for safety/wayfinding reasons. But a beer ad? Who cares. Make it 100% chinese. Make it 100% German, who gives a gently caress it's an ad.
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Jan 22, 2016 18:52
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Meanwhile, in Vancouver...quote:Crowdfunding B.C. real estate ventures involving Chinese investors being reviewed
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Jan 22, 2016 18:59
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Baronjutter posted:I can see having laws about actual informational signs installed by the city or signs mandated for safety/wayfinding reasons. But a beer ad? Who cares. Make it 100% chinese. Make it 100% German, who gives a gently caress it's an ad. I don't think it is actually a law, it is just something that the city council is hoping to get a handle on. A store having a different language signage generally wouldn't be a big deal, but the sheer density of it in Richmond can make shopping there a very off putting experience. Personally I just assume that they don't want anglophone business, if I cannot tell what they sell without actually entering the store, and don't worry too much about it. That is easy for me though since I don't live in that suburb and don't need to participate in the community. Contrast that with the Korea-town I live near, where I can tell what every place actually is, even with all the Korean signage.
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Jan 22, 2016 19:14
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PT6A posted:Honestly, after living in Montreal for years and putting up with their bullshit, I want anyone who advocates for "50% Any Language" laws to be publicly whipped and then launched into the sun.
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Jan 22, 2016 19:24
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PT6A posted:I like how this thread is so against home ownership, and then the minute someone points out a place that isn't in the midst of a horrible housing bubble, all the negatives everyone's listed seem to evaporate as if by magic! It's almost like the main problem is the housing bubbles themselves, not ownership... If memory serves, EvilJoven is in Winnipeg where it is true that the average home price has gone up drastically, but there is still a heap of older housing available under 200-thousand dollars. Plus or minus 25% of that, you have 200-250 homes on the market at any given time. And another 75 to 100 more in the zero to 150-thousand dollar range. That's stand along homes, maybe some side-by-sides. A lot of the really cheap ones might not be up to the standards of what most buyers here would be looking for, but if I'm poor immigrant or refugee? It is super affordable and safe, at least compared to Syria. And I can't find any data going back to the mid and late 90s to corroborate what I remember of the home market at the time, but as I recall it there were lots of homes in the (now very trendy and gentrified Wolseley area) selling for between 50-thousand and 80-thousand dollars. In the north end you could get a whole house and some land under it for less than 10-thousand. I remember seeing one place on Selkirk listed in the MLS weekly for $6000. If you know anything about Selkirk Avenue in Winnipeg, it wasn't really a good deal even though you could have put the whole thing on your Visa card, but the point is that things were wildly undervalued for quite some time. Antifreeze Head fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Jan 22, 2016 |
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Jan 22, 2016 19:29
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Plus the house was a loving shithole when they bought it for a song and then put a lot of work in to. Fortunately my wife builds houses and repairs foundations for a living so she knew that in this case the fundamentals are sound instead of your standard lipstick on a pig house flipping bullshit most people are trying to pull. We saw some places so bad my wife said she wouldn't want to have to fix it if she were being paid to do it. The one basement wall that was repaired and would make most people walk out while making the sign of the cross if they saw the before pictures but she said the work looks like it was done properly by a company she respects and just in case she'll put in a few power braces to make sure its stabilized (a job thatd cost normal folks thousands for but will cost us a few hundred) and if it does leak we can complete the job for the cost of the diesel she'd be burning in the Kabota and an afternoon worth of time to dig up the outside, waterproof and backfill.
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Jan 22, 2016 20:18
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A Chinese language sign could be making fun of me and I wouldn't know it. That is unacceptable.
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Jan 22, 2016 20:24
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cowofwar posted:A Chinese language sign could be making fun of me and I wouldn't know it. That is unacceptable. Or potentially advertising shady illegal real estate deals like the one described upthread.
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Jan 22, 2016 20:36
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snorch posted:Or potentially advertising shady illegal real estate deals like the one described upthread.
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Jan 22, 2016 20:44
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I wish every advertisement was in a non-Latin script. Much less distracting.
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Jan 22, 2016 20:54
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etalian posted:Don't forget that many of the new condos have substandard workmanship due to the whole housing boom. Pretty much every rooftop pool is going to be closed in 10 years like all the ones in buildings from the 60's and 70's. PT6A posted:I like how this thread is so against home ownership, and then the minute someone points out a place that isn't in the midst of a horrible housing bubble, all the negatives everyone's listed seem to evaporate as if by magic! It's almost like the main problem is the housing bubbles themselves, not ownership... A lot of people can afford the costs of owing a home at 200k that really can't at 400k. That's the major difference.
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Jan 22, 2016 21:25
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sbaldrick posted:A lot of people can afford the costs of owing a home at 200k that really can't at Fixed for Vancouver. We need to start crowdfunding real estate like the Chinese.
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Jan 22, 2016 21:27
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McGavin posted:Fixed for Vancouver. We need to start crowdfunding real estate like the Chinese. You can always purchased mortgage backed securities or HELOC loanshark out as secondary mortgage lender or even purchase REITs. The market is hot, get in now now now before you are priced out forever.
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Jan 22, 2016 21:33
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THC posted:At least Quebec has actual rational reasons to be concerned about the preservation of their Frenchness! Yes, they do. None of those reasons have anything to do with the languages on signs or advertisements put up by private businesses. The restrictions on sending children to non-French-language schools make a lot of sense to me. Whining endlessly about non-official signs not being sufficiently French, or forcing people to start speaking to a customer in French before English, is loving retarded. I don't and shouldn't have the legal expectation of being served in any given language at a private business, and I shouldn't have the faintest say how they want to design signs or advertisements.
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Jan 22, 2016 22:39
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McGavin posted:Fixed for Vancouver. We need to start crowdfunding real estate like the Chinese. 1.2 was last year. Its 1.5 now.
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Jan 22, 2016 23:16
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Companies advertising in Chinese promise ‘high returns’ People forget two things -There is no high reward without high risk -Don't buy in a loving bubble
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Jan 22, 2016 23:51
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You can buy into a bubble as long as you're a wizard who can get out before it bursts. Everyone thinks they're wizards.
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Jan 22, 2016 23:54
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etalian posted:Companies advertising in Chinese promise ‘high returns’ But the ad says there's zero risk. The ad says.
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Jan 23, 2016 00:04
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Baronjutter posted:But the ad says there's zero risk. The ad says. It was only in Chinese, so the benevolent white man couldn't protect those Chinese laborers from being swindled.
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Jan 23, 2016 00:06
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Baronjutter posted:I can see having laws about actual informational signs installed by the city or signs mandated for safety/wayfinding reasons. But a beer ad? Who cares. Make it 100% chinese. Make it 100% German, who gives a gently caress it's an ad. Naw if it was in German or French I'd automatically try to translate it out of interest and inadvertently get advertised to. Put all ads in 100% Chinese, Arabic, Sanskrit or whatever other moon language form of writing. I won't get advertised at and I get to pretend I'm living the the cool cyberpunk dystopian future instead of the actual boring dystopian future. Win-win.
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Jan 23, 2016 00:43
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EvilJoven posted:Plus the house was a loving shithole when they bought it for a song and then put a lot of work in to. Fortunately my wife builds houses and repairs foundations for a living so she knew that in this case the fundamentals are sound instead of your standard lipstick on a pig house flipping bullshit most people are trying to pull. Your wife sounds cool and tough, like someone who would make a good poster around here
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Jan 23, 2016 00:48
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I've offered her a forums account on a few occasions but she's not much of a forums person, despite being a tremendous smartass. She does enjoy reading some of the threads here, though. Listening to her commentary while she browsed the Groverhaus thread was a thing of beauty. As a professional she even spotted some issues nobody else in the thread even noticed. I should have recorded it and posted it like a rifftrack.
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Jan 23, 2016 01:42
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HookShot posted:Also, if your condo strata fee needs money to do some sort of special assessment thing, you don't actually need to pay for it until you sell your condo. Is this really true? I can't find anything about being able to defer special levies like that.
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Jan 23, 2016 01:57
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Vehementi posted:Is this really true? I can't find anything about being able to defer special levies like that. I have no idea how true it is, but that's what my mom was told by the lady in question, who really doesn't have any reason to lie as she was one of the ones who wanted to get the roof redone, because, well, it was needed.
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Jan 23, 2016 03:14
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EvilJoven posted:Listening to her commentary while she browsed the Groverhaus thread was a thing of beauty. As a professional she even spotted some issues nobody else in the thread even noticed. You should because I want to hear more about how terrible groverhaus was, beyond that obvious stuff.
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Jan 23, 2016 04:02
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Can't they sue and/or force you to sell?
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Jan 23, 2016 04:47
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Just a lien is what they would do. Same thing that happens when you ignore fines and the like. I think they can force a sale but for that you need to convince a judge of it. A large assessment on a pensioner would probably not be terribly convincing. ocrumsprug fucked around with this message at 07:59 on Jan 23, 2016 |
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Jan 23, 2016 07:55
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EvilJoven posted:I've offered her a forums account on a few occasions but she's not much of a forums person, despite being a tremendous smartass. Has she read Kasteins thread yet? I don't even construction and I shake my head at that goon, could've just built a new house by now for half the effort. Though TBF he's crazy. 
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Jan 23, 2016 09:45
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Vehementi posted:Can't they sue and/or force you to sell? They could try to get a court order to get you to sell, but good luck with that. It's extremely rare outside of the defaulting on a mortgage scenario, and practically impossible if it is a marital property.
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Jan 23, 2016 11:54
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Rime posted:Has she read Kasteins thread yet? I don't even construction and I shake my head at that goon, could've just built a new house by now for half the effort. Though TBF he's crazy. I found the thread. We'll check it out later. EvilJoven fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Jan 23, 2016 |
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Jan 23, 2016 17:43
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So I just watched The Big Short, really entertaining. How legit was it to what really happened, and how much of that might apply to what's going on in Canada?
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Jan 23, 2016 20:33
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It's a dramatization of the book by Michael Lewis. If you want to see what's dramatized check out the book, it's a good read. The Canadian bubble is different in some ways because it doesn't involve the largest financial banks in the world, but the worst part is that we now know what economic indicators to look for a bubble, and despite many of the signs being there, no one wants to admit what's going on.
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Do yourselves a favour, and read this. http://www.holypotato.net/?p=1326
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