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dfas23 commented on The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet   newsletter.impervious.ai/... · Posted by u/janandonly
everdrive · 4 years ago
I don't want to implement P2P payments. I don't even know what this means. Does it just mean "sending someone money?" Why would I want that to be built into a browser? I'm a bit confused why this is being pushed.
dfas23 · 4 years ago
uhm, to pay for things without using your credit card?
dfas23 commented on Reliably Send an HTTP Request as a User Leaves a Page   css-tricks.com/send-an-ht... · Posted by u/fagnerbrack
kevindong · 4 years ago
Keep in mind that a substantial portion of users now use ad blockers such that a lot of URLs used for analytics like this are blocked.

Consequently, you can't actually expect to capture 100% of these analytics events nor even expect the percentage captured to stay the same over time since the filter lists are very regularly updated and users enable/disable different ad blockers over time.

More broadly speaking, once you have sent a webpage to the user, you should not expect anything from the user's browser. They may or may not allow whatever arbitrary JS you have on the page. They may even intentionally give you bad data (e.g. hijack the payload to give you intentionally malformed data).

edit: even more broadly speaking, there's additional reasons why you can't expect to receive these kinds of callbacks: consider what happens if a user loses connectivity between loading the page and them navigating away (e.g. their phone loses service because they went into an elevator before navigating away)

dfas23 · 4 years ago
Not always - more sophisticated analytics will proxy these requests through the websites own domain.
dfas23 commented on Ask HN: Hybrid/Remote software team rituals    · Posted by u/codemac
dfas23 · 4 years ago
Sounds horrible lol
dfas23 commented on Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/thazework
joshlemer · 4 years ago
We need to end or put limits on the Primary Residence Capital Gains Tax Exemption which is uncapped in Canada, unlike the cap of 200k in USA. It is unfair to renters and it is leading to insane housing prices.

It is unfair to renters because renters do not have an equivalent 100%, completely unlimited tax-free investment vehicle. We have Tax-Free Savings Accounts, limited to ~$5k contribution per year, and we have RRSP's with max contributions scaled to income, but homeowners have access to all those things too, and they are limited. Homeowners can take advantage of TFSA, RRSP, and then shove all of their remaining savings into maxing out their home purchase and enjoy all of their gains completely tax free. Renters have to start paying capital gains at an inclusion rate of 50% once they max out TFSA/RRSP.

This system is completely unfair and places a higher tax burden on renters who are, on average, less wealthy than homeowners. It encourages us to spend more than we should be on housing just to get around taxes, and discourages investing in actual productive things like innovation/companies.

dfas23 · 4 years ago
This is terrible, people would just never sell their homes.
dfas23 commented on Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/thazework
paulpauper · 4 years ago
"fuck!!" - someone who just bought a home before this was announced.
dfas23 · 4 years ago
vote.
dfas23 commented on Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/thazework
RspecMAuthortah · 4 years ago
The ruling liberal party is out of touch here like many other things.

Key problem here is that the inventory is super low, part of it is due to everyone wants to settle in places like Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver due to high job concentration along with NIMBY attitude among the existing suburbs. There is an inflow of 400k immigrants every year who mainly tend to settle in the big cities such as Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver, putting upward pressures. On top of that, the liberal government flat out does not want to impose tax free capital gain from primary home sales, and wide availability of credits with as low as 5% downpayment which can be used with equities from first, second, third homes.

This is just a political move to show they did something. The liberal party minister once said they don't want to entertain any crush on house prices because that would be detrimental to new home buyers. When buyers get the signal that Government has their back and there will never be a crush [1].

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/housing-canada-policy-marke...

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal-election/2021/08/24...

dfas23 · 4 years ago
Capital gains on primary residence is a non-starter. 65% of households in Canada own their homes.

It would be political suicide.

dfas23 commented on Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/thazework
boplicity · 4 years ago
> During last year’s election campaign, Trudeau’s party also proposed a ban on “blind bidding” for houses -- the prevailing system by which offers are kept secret when someone is auctioning a home.

This is such a huge deal. Anyone who has had to go through the process of buying a home through a bidding war knows how unfair and one-sided this process is. It take a high-pressure emotional situation, and gives all of the information to one side (the sellers), while leaving the buyer stuck guessing at what the real price for the house is supposed to be. An absolutely horrible process that should be banned. Banning this is such a simple reform. I sincerely hope it happens, though I doubt it it will.

dfas23 · 4 years ago
I'm not so sure.

We're currently hunting for houses, and lost out on a few listings because we didn't want to overbid. When the sold price was revealed, SO many times we'd think DAMN, we'd prob pay $10-$25K on top of that to get it had we known..

u/dfas23

KarmaCake day15April 7, 2022View Original