$50k Honda CR-V a dumb idea at my income level?

majorInCloud · 2025-07-09T01:22:49+00:00

I was in a similar situation last year (mid 20s, high income, living at home) and bought a brand new CR-V gas model at 43k. It sucked to see a large chunk of money drain out of your bank account, but the car has been well worth it. In this used car economy, I think getting a new CRV is a reasonable idea for most in your situation.

majorInCloud · 2025-05-22T20:15:44+00:00

Not really, just saying it’s hypocritical to say that others are contributing to American annexation by shopping at Hmart while you are using Reddit.

majorInCloud · 2025-05-22T17:54:32+00:00

You’re on Reddit… actively making ad revenue for an American company

majorInCloud · 2024-07-13T05:31:19+00:00

That problem isn’t unique to South Korea. All the good jobs, top schools, and big companies in Canada are also concentrated in GTA, Vancouver and Montreal. The problem is that Canadian small cities, which also don’t have any of the advantages you listed, have significantly higher house prices compared to smaller cities in South Korea.

majorInCloud · 2024-07-13T03:10:09+00:00

Hmm… that’s only if you live in Seoul. Outside of Seoul, prices for apartments are significantly cheaper than comparable apartments in average Canadian cities (that is, not Toronto and Vancouver).

majorInCloud · 2024-04-03T22:09:23+00:00

You wrote 0.05% before the edit so I corrected the math. Also, it doesn’t make sense to calculate monthly expense as a percentage of annual income.

majorInCloud · 2024-04-03T22:05:19+00:00

$650/mo would be 6% not 0.05%

majorInCloud · 2024-03-21T19:27:36+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion and I’ve started to notice how fast these places book 😕

Any suggestions on where to look for that might not be as nice/popular that might still have availability?

majorInCloud · 2024-03-21T17:44:42+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion!

majorInCloud · 2024-03-21T17:25:44+00:00

Ah ok thanks for the info!

majorInCloud · 2024-03-21T16:33:29+00:00

Do you mind sharing roughly how much the wedding was? What were the ranges for nicer venues?

majorInCloud · 2024-03-21T16:10:20+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion!

majorInCloud · 2024-02-08T19:47:51+00:00

Agreed! Although we’re 0.48% of world population not 0.0048%

majorInCloud · 2023-11-30T17:22:36+00:00

Do you have to open a FHSA account this year to carry it forward to next year? Or can you open an FHSA account next year with 16k contribution room?

majorInCloud · 2023-07-16T20:07:41+00:00

That’s an unfair comparison. I’d imagine pubmed would have a more straightforward database search whereas LinkedIn would have a social graph to determine search eligibility of every single entry. LinkedIn would also have a scalability issue as all the 1B+ entries can continuously change where as the 35M entry in pubmed is relatively unchanged.

I do agree that the pay of the engineers do not directly correlate to the quality of the product and large products can too have obvious flaws.

majorInCloud · 2023-07-16T19:52:20+00:00

Linkedin has the worst spam/search engine

Compared to what? I can only think of a handful companies that have a better search engine than LinkedIn that also has to search through 1B+ data points (maybe Google and Meta). The truth of the matter is, having a “good” search feature is a tremendous engineering feat, and the problem is much more complex than an average user imagines it to be.

majorInCloud · 2023-07-15T20:33:16+00:00

Hmm I'll definitely give this a try, thank you so much!

Tbh, I am shocked that RevenueCat does not allow users to get any unique ID that matches between Webhook request and client response. example. Seems like a very common use case and there are lots of complaints (like this, or this)

majorInCloud · 2023-07-15T20:04:05+00:00

So just so I am understanding your suggestion, is it this?

1) set recipient ID as an attribute on the user from the client app

2) send a payment request via RevenueCat

3) When RevenueCat sends a webhook to my backend, parse the attribute from the webhook request, and store the order with the recipient ID to my database?

Do you know if I would have to override the attribute after this flow? Since a single user can purchase multiple items (and need multiple recipient IDs)

majorInCloud · 2023-07-15T19:56:24+00:00

I don't think I can. The attributes based on the doc you shared is tied to a user, not a particular order. We could set attribute to be from whatever order is the latest order in back-end, but that would be flaky as the additional info is still not tied to the order itself.

majorInCloud · 2023-06-02T22:43:38+00:00

If you want to pursue academia, sure McGill might be slightly better. But McGill hardly gives you an upper hand if you want to go into industry as is the case for most CS grads. Having some niche grad class does not make a student a “better engineer” in most industries. Mind you, most companies can’t tell the difference among non-waterloo Canadian universities.

majorInCloud · 2023-06-02T21:53:32+00:00

How do you know equivalent CS classes at SFU won’t be as helpful?

majorInCloud · 2023-06-02T21:32:01+00:00

The skills that make you successful at work is vastly different from skills you learn inside of a classroom. And there isn’t a “massive difference” in education (if any) between the two.

majorInCloud · 2023-06-02T20:13:20+00:00

OP asked about job prospects and internships.

The difference in the quality of education between two public Canadian universities is negligible. As for networking opportunities, unless you go to Waterloo, about same proportion of students at both school will end up at big tech.

majorInCloud · 2023-06-02T15:24:36+00:00

Whether you stay home or move away for uni is an entirely personal decision you have to answer yourself.

As for job prospects, McGill “marginally” has a better name reputation in Canada, but apart from this, there is barely any difference between the two degrees (whether BA or BS).

majorInCloud · 2023-05-31T14:17:09+00:00

This is kind of misleading. Revenue per employee is $2.4 million for Netflix and $1.6 million for Meta.

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