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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Ours is a sliding rate based on your income. It is a line item on your tax form for the pension plan. For say 75k earnings you’d pay about $4000 to the CPP, employer contributes an equal amount. If you are self employed you have to contribute both the employee and employer amount so about 8K.

    The fund has investment managers growing it. But it is still a pyramid of new workers propping up the fund so retired people can draw from it. As life expectancy increases they will probably move retirement age.



  • It is basically Google Photos so your phone can backup to your own server and has face recognition so you can filter by people. Also has albums and timeline organization.

    You have to setup a mini PC or Pi on your network. Its a bit of fiddling with docker to setup and configure, but after that there is nothing to do until an update comes out.

    You would need some techy skills to set it up initially.








  • I forget which series it was from, but people could communicate long space diatances by whispering in a semiconscious telepathic beings ear and another being on the other end would speak the words.

    Also the explanation of the inertia drive in the BattleField Eath book was interesting. Instead of a propulsion system the engine moved space coordinates of the matter in the engine and the engine/ship had to shunt forward to match the new position.