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20 minutes ago, GLASSJAW said:
where are you doing this?
We’re doing this just south of Calgary.
Quotewhat machines are you using?
We’re using the whatsminer m10
Quotehow much of that .5 is going to cover the cost of the operation itself?
Yep. We actually are split into two parts of business. The first part is mining and the second part is selling the cheap energy we have access to other miners around the world.
The benefit of Alberta energy is cheap gas. We struck a really good deal and have one of the lowest industry cost per kWh which is a must to remain profitable. On the mining alone, with only one can running (about 300 miners) set up, we are able to turn out a daily profit. (Minus our initial expenses)
We are hoping to soon be setting up another 3 cans before the year is out. And then start on phase 2 early Q3 of 2020 depending how much funds we can raise in the next 6 months.
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I’ve been busy the last few months involved with a energy/bitcoin start up. At the end of July we finished setting up our first can on our phase 1 site and we just started mining as of yesterday. At the current hash rate, this first can will mine about .5 bitcoin per week. Once we get the other 3 up and running we can start working at getting phase two. Been a pretty exciting last few months.
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30 minutes ago, Ronaldoescobar said:
To answer the questions:
The first: All three. While I have family all over the world, a good majority is in Vancouver and surrounding areas. My grandparents (both sides) came to Canada when they were younger and on my fathers side settled in Ontario and Southern Saskatchewan while my mother’s came to BC. My dad and his brothers/sisters were born in Moose Jaw and raised in Toronto, but my mom and her siblings were born in Vancouver. Eventually they all moved to the lower mainland and I was born here.
It is definitely not cheap and very unaffordable to most looking to start over. I work in wealth management so I am one that can afford the lifestyle here and personally prefer it to financial hubs such as NYC, London, Hong Kong, Toronto where cost of living would be similar if not more.
As for the second question; I as well as my wife (she is in accounting) make well above the average income and we are mortgage free at a relatively young age (38) so only a small portion of my net income goes to bills, but I also realize that we are a minority in that respect.
Personally, I have spent a lot of time in dozens of cities/countries around the world and would choose Vancouver over them all but again realize that that is not an option for many due to affordability.
See, for some people it does work and I agree if finances weren’t an option it would be a great place to live.
Being close to family is a big driving factor in choosing where to live. My sister lives in California and despite enjoying their weather can’t wait to move back home to Calgary area.
Unless my most recent big investment pays off being debt free around the age of 45-50 is the pace I’m on ...but my yearly travel budget and other priorities keep me from really achieving that sooner. But that’s all part of life and the choices we make.
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58 minutes ago, Hugor Hill said:
The trips sound amazing.
You are right about life style choices. I would live in a box if it means I'll be living near in a community of people that I actually want to call neighbours. But seeing different parts of the world is also important.
Yeah. I’ve never had that terrible of neighbors but I grew up in a small town so I do know how awesome it is to have a close knit community. Its part of why I’m considering moving south of Calgary so that I can buy 2-3 acres and never have to worry about if they are good or bad.
But in terms of a specific geography any city in Canada will have good and bad communities. If you can find that awesome neighborhood while at the same time of retaining a large portion of your income (for travel and leisure) it’s a win/win in my books.
I guess it really comes down to, what does Vancouver offer that other cities don’t have? ....and then what tangible value do you place on those extras? Is it worth what you could be giving up?
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38 minutes ago, Hugor Hill said:
Part of me thinks exactly the way you do.
And good questions. May I ask where you live?
I live in far west of Calgary which I really love. My back yard is forest, so it doesn’t feel like the city but I’m still only a 15 min train ride down town. If I want to go to Banff it’s a quick 60 min drive to enjoy ski hills or all the awesome hiking trails. But with that said I’m not glued to any city. We been considering even moving further south into Okatoks area to get even more bang for our dollar.
While we may not get the exact mountain/ocean views that Vancouver has. We get to own a nice place, we still get to enjoy a lot of great outdoors and the big win is the extra income, to spend on whatever we want. Mostly it’s used to travel as much as vacation days allows. We’ve been all over the world in the last 7 years splurging on some really amazing trips and creating life long memories. We typically go on 2-3 big trips a year, from Italy, to Japan, to France, Maui, Mexico…etc. Experiences I’d never be able to enjoy/afford if I was house poor.
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Vancouver has always just been a vacation city for me (I actually like Victoria more), I’ve never had any real desire to live there long term for the simple fact that the pro’s don’t outweigh the con’s. So many places around Canada that may not provide all exact equivalent in scenery but allow you to live a much fuller life. If money was never an object and you didn’t have to work overtime just to break even, then yes Vancouver would be a nice spot but that’s not the reality for most. I don’t know why people put themselves in such a financial strain to stay in any city. I guess it’s all personal preference. Personally I’d much rather live in another city (that also has beauty) and get so much more in life for my dollar. It really makes you question what’s important in life. Living next to an ocean that you can barely afford get to take advantage of, or being able to visit fly out the ocean whenever you want and having money left over to still traveling elsewhere and see the beauty the WORLD has to offer.
For anyone that lives in Vancouver, maybe you can help me understand. What is it that keeps you there? Family? Financially secure? Love for a Job?
My second question would be how much of your net income goes into paying rent/mortgage + utilities?
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7 hours ago, Jimmy McGill said:
right its cherry picked when it doesn't fit your idea
He was 4th in that stat among Fs btw. http://www.nhl.com/stats/player?report=skaterpenaltykill&reportType=season&seasonFrom=20182019&seasonTo=20182019&gameType=2&position=F&playerPlayedFor=team.23&filter=gamesPlayed,gte,1&sort=shTimeOnIce
Granlund led in that stat. Do you miss Granlund from the lineup?
Honestly I don't care if you like him or not, the stats don't warrant the label of "garbage".
1st. You do realize fenwick only accounts for even strength.
2nd. You do realize it’s no very accurately kept.
3rd. It was created by an Alberta blogger that removes blocked shots as if that makes you better defensively. Haha
Explain how in context how LE’s fenwick stat means he’s better defensively then jay beagle. I’ll wait potentially since you seem to think LE is a top 20 PKer haha
Loui only averaged 1:11 on the pk per game. AGAIN 6th amongst forwards on our team. Learn how to read. Heck Tyler motte averaged 1:43. Beagle and Sutter were both 2:49+.
You quoting total TOI is funny. Sutter almost played more total SH TOI in a whopping 55 LESS game haha.
Now why would green use those players ahead of the oh so good super defensive skilled LE, who happens to be stellar in fenwick. Haha green must be off his rocker hey?
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3 hours ago, Jimmy McGill said:
its not so much a matter of "defending him" vs just not throwing out unsubstantiated opinion. The guy has a lot of value on the PK.
Eriksson is particularly effective on the penalty kill, which plays to his strengths: positioning, reading the play, and moving the puck up ice without worrying about creating a good scoring chance at the other end. In fact, Eriksson isn’t just a good penalty killer: he’s one of the NHL’s best.
Eriksson led all Canucks skaters in the rate of unblocked shot attempts (fenwick) against, scoring chances against, and expected goals against while on the penalty kill. He was second in the rate of actual goals against to Brandon Sutter.
League-wide, Eriksson was 16th in the rate of unblocked shot attempts against, 5th in the rate of expected goals against, and 6th in the rate of goals against. If Eriksson isn’t in the lineup, someone else will have to pick up the slack on the penalty kill.https://www.vancourier.com/pass-it-to-bulis/what-can-the-canucks-do-with-loui-eriksson-1.23884404
They already do. He was 6th in forwards on canucks roster in SH/TOI.
Fenwick is such a cherry picked stat. Anyone with eyes can see Loui is not even close to being canucks best PKer.
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14 minutes ago, Alflives said:
All you state is accepted truth. However, why stick a knife in the ribs of crazy Canuck’s fans hope fir a better future, unless those posters have other teams they like too? “The Canucks aren’t doing well, so I’m cheering for the Leafs, as example.”
Crazy Canuck’s fans do not cheer, in any way, for other teams’ prospects to be better than ours. Why would a fan do that? That ruins the fans hope for a better future.
With veteran players it’s different. They are the now. They, in most cases, are not the future.
Being a fan doesn’t mean you have to stick you head in he sand to what’s going on around the league.
What you are talking about is dropping to the levels of the leafs koolaid drinkers.
Never good full koolaid drinker.
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6 hours ago, 18W-40C-6W said:
What I don’t seem to understand is you somehow seem believe your “opinion” on what a player’s ceiling is, is somehow fact.
My opinion? That was Jim Bennings opinion. But you’re the expertzz that’s claiming he’s going to be a top 10 D in the league.
Ceiling projection is evaluating what you know and making a calculated estimate on the probability. Key word is calculated. It’s why stating something like say, Lind could become the next Crosby is not accepted truth, even though yes, we don’t know the future.
The fact that you are correlating me saying he’s more likely to be toping out as a solid second pairing guy, to me having a hidden agenda of calling him a bust shows how delusional you are on this matter.
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6 hours ago, Crabcakes said:
I'm willing to cut Juolevi some slack. There's the knee and the back, both injuries that one can recover from completely today. Then there was his failure in his D+1 year which I put up to immaturity with respect to how he spent his summer and he never really recovered from that (which is not unusual).
I think that next season's performance is one that we can place some judgement upon. The kid is 21, this is his D+3 year coming up. He has only had 2 seasons since he was drafted. Is that a serious setback? Maybe a setback but I'm not so sure events have put him significantly behind the ceiling that Benning saw in 2016. I'm not willing to dump over the kid just yet.
I’m definitely willing to cut him some slack, I’m just not going to overhype him and pretend he’s shown he will become even more than he was originally drafted as. His injuries have really set him back. This is his actually his D+4 year he’s going into though. First year was back in London, second year was Finland, third year was AHL. Two major injuries will hinder his timeline.
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2 hours ago, nzan said:
Was he wrong though?
I looked at the link posted above - Juolevi really had a top 20 PPG in that league's history for a D man at U20? Am I reading this right? How is that not historic?
I can agree it's not historic like Pettersson's U20 in the SHL, but that still is pretty amazing. I would call it historic.
It’s a very low bar. Typically if young european players are any good they will already be in North America prior to their D+2 season as they are typically eligible to go into the AHL. Barkov, Heiskanen, Risto, rantanen, teravainen, aho, vaakanainen. Valimaki, are all examples of this.
Juolevi came over early and lost his AHL eligibility so he was able to go back on a loan and play. Like is said putting up .5 ppg in a men’s league as a 20 year old is impressive. It’s not historic by any means when you start to consider the context.
Also If that’s historic then what would you consider sergachev putting up the 16th highest offensive season by a U20 D in the NHL?
Same criteria, same year. One player playing in the best league in the world, the other league not so much.
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20 hours ago, Jimmy McGill said:
'4th liner at best' isn't accurate. He's been ranked in the top 20 PK players in the league and has put up ~30ish pts. Not worth the salary but hardly that description.
Probably still middle of the pack of the hardest to move contacts, unless you're Calgary
This can be true, is it? I’d have to see that report.
He’s not even one of canucks top PKers. He only averaged 1:11 per game. 5 of our forwards played more on the PK.
I’d say granlund is better. He played double the SH/TOI per game and scored more goals and only put up 7 points less. Better plus minus and has the ability to play center. He just signed for 1.3 million. That should tell you all you need to know about how crappy LE has become.
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46 minutes ago, Rob_Zepp said:Fabricating? TPS Turku has been a team since 1922 - that nearly 100 years. It has scores of notable Dman alumus inclusive of Sami Salo and Kimmo Timonen. OJ's rookie season when he was still a teenager was the second highest scoring season in that nearly 100 year history of one of the top teams in Finland year in and year out. I don't know what your definition of historic is, but that works for most people. Further, his one year there he was the highest scoring defenceman on his team, as well as team leader in plus/minus. Against men. Nice work, kid even if some people wish to continue creating a negative narrative for you.
Nice attempt at changing the goal posts. You said historical stats in the league.
“historical values for a teen in that league”
Now you try to spin as a team stats. Quite pathetic really. Just admit you were wrong and move on.....
......But wait there’s more...
Juolevi wasn’t the highest scoring defense on his team. He was fifth. Heikkinen, jonsson, Tallinder and Eronen had higher point totals.
Oh and juolevi wasn’t a team leader in plus minus. He was a plus 7. Seven players on his team had better +/-
lol. Like I said. You are the king of fabrication. The problem is there are too many suckers on this board that fall for it.
P.S. ben Hutton’s rookie year he was the highest scoring defensemen on our team. “Historic”
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19 minutes ago, Kanukfanatic said:
You just can't resist the sarcasm and condescension eh? Lol.
If you actually have anything worthy of reading, your personal attacks are probably why some people don't bother.
I could really care less if you bother or not I’m not here to make you happy.
17 minutes ago, Kanukfanatic said:Now you know what JB expects? Pray tell.....please enlighten us all.
Because that’s what he stated. Shocking hey.
“I don’t know if there’s a true No. 1 defenseman (in the draft),” Benning told TSN 1040 radio. “If you look through the league right now, there’s maybe eight or ten No. 1 defensemen in the whole league.”
I know, Rocket science.
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25 minutes ago, Alflives said:
Are the Canucks your only loved team?
If not, then you cannot understand the way a fan thinks about his only loved team. I think a lot of younger fans like their home team, but like other teams too. We need OJ to become a good NHL player for our team to be as good as possible. We want other teams young players to bustaroo, because that gives the team we live a better chance at winning. I think you’re right about “fairytale land”. That’s what it is to love ones home team. IMO if a fan isn’t in that fairytale land they don’t truly love their team. They like their team but like other teams too. It’s like a marriage where the guy likes his wife, but has other women on the side. That is not love.
First and foremost I’m a fan of the sport. I love hockey. Canucks are and always have been my #1. But being a fan of a team doesn’t mean you can’t appreciate players on other teams and skill sets they bring to the game. It doesn’t mean I have to be in a delusion that everything is rainbows and unicorns with this team. If that were the case we’d have had at least one silver trophy to show for it.
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40 minutes ago, Kanukfanatic said:
But most of the fans on here know OJ has not blossomed as a prospect right out of the gate. They talk about how his injuries may have slowed down his progress towards being an NHL D man.
You and a few others just seem to want to continue to hammer home that OJ, as a prospect has just disappointed so far. I mean, look at your condescending words above when you call posters who choose to be positive "live in a fairytale land". That is stupid imo and an attempt to belittle positive attitudes.
The difference in opinions is, the upbeat more positive fans try to see the glass as half full. With an off season of training and hopefully being healthy, hopefully OJ develops well and becomes a great player for the Canucks. Something we sorely need on the back end.
Instead you and a few others choose to see the glass as half empty by saying we should all be disappointed in OJ and you continue to harp on it over and over. Look at your next bolded statement - that is just YOU who says others can't accept OJ "struggled living up to what we hoped for". You say it over and over. We all know his injuries have resulted in his development being stunted. Who cares? We hope he develops well this year. Positive fans don't need to hear over and over and over how certain negative "fans" think OJ is not doing well.
No offence, but YOU don't need to manage MY expectations...or anyone else's imo.
I’m sorry my tone offends to the point where your reading comprehension goes out the window. If you are looking for a safe place where only positive things are discussed then maybe you shouldn’t be on an internet discussion board.
Stating that he’s more likely to be a solid 2nd pairing D rather than a #1 D, is not calling the kid a bust.
Stating that he’s not likely to reach the levels of a p/gp PWF is at, is not writing him off.
If that’s the conclusion some people get out of those statements then I’d suggest for people to not be so damn sensitive. Not every prospect is going to pan out an become a future HHOF, deal with it.
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9 minutes ago, 18W-40C-6W said:Why is it unfair to compare him to a second round pick who took 5 years to develop? He was drafted for the level of upside Josi has. Until he’s played 200 games in the NHL I will continue to expect him to achieve that level of performance. Nothing other than injuries suggests he can’t reach his ceiling and it’s people like you who actually want to ignore that fact.
No Josi a true number one D who puts up 60 point seasons while playing 25 min a night. That is not what Juolevi was drafted to be. That is your own made up narrative.
Not even JB expects that out of juolevi. JB clearly stated in his draft year that he didn’t believe Juolevi would be a #1 guy, that he could be a top pairing D but not #1. It’s people like you that create these fairytales.
Tryamkin the next chara, jake the next bertuzzi, zhukenov the next datsyuk. Seriously why can you just let the players develop and not set these high, unrealistic expectations....and if the don’t turn out, oh well move on no GM is perfect, so why do some feel the need act as if he is.
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1 hour ago, Fanuck said:
I would argue Honky, that a HUGE number of posters here, not saying you, actually don't know much about hockey as opposed to just being in denial- to me these are very different concepts. Yes, they are fans and know the basics like the rules and that the NHL has a salary cap, but they have little to no understanding of how teams develop assets within their organization.
When I hear people categorizing OJ as a 'bust' at this stage in his career in immediately understand they have limited hockey knowledge . Let me be clear, I'm not saying OJ is or isn't a bust - only that it is clearly much, much too early to say either way. Writing off a kid this early exposes more than a person's opinion - it underscores their entire understanding of the process imo.
This is kind of what I was talking about in my last post. Not to pick on you, but how many posts in the last 15 pages have “written on this kid off”? I’m curious, there’s been talk about him not being as good as MT and talk about him not likely becoming a true #1 D but that’s a far cry from writing him off.
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9 hours ago, 18W-40C-6W said:What I fail to understand, is how some 'fans' now that the draft is 3 years past, seem to want OJ to fail so that they can feel 'right'. As a fan, shouldn't you want the player to succeed and take a wait and see attitude given he's had some unfortunate injuries? I will never understand a fan who needs their ego stroked more than to see a potential stud dman become what he was drafted for. Especially when injuries are the reason he hasn't seen NHL ice yet.
I don’t see many posters (if any at all) that want Juolevi to fail. I don’t even see posters that are calling Juolevi a bust. I just see posters having a hockey discussion on one of our prospects. Just because people choose to engage in realistic hockey discussion rather than live in fairytale land (where our prospects are on their way to become the next Hart/Norris trophy winners) doesn’t mean they want the kid to fail. What you mistake as ego stroking is your own confusion with your own insecurities. The lack of some posters ability to accept that just maybe he’s struggled living up to what we hoped for. It’s like that protective parent who can’t handle hearing that there kid has flaws and feels the need to pump them up even harder.
If you and few others could take down that guard for a few seconds, you’d start to see that the discussion isn’t about harping negativity on the kid, it’s about managing expectations. Posters making up falsified claims to pump a kid up does no good for him, it’s just setting him up for unmanageable pressure and even a bigger let down when he doesn’t reach those limits. Our very own GM recognized this and made this claim after drafting Hughes.
“it takes a lot pressure off of Olli Juolevi, now Olli can just play his game and he is not expected to be a powerplay player.”
This team and fans should be ecstatic if he becomes a solid #3 D, expecting him to become the next Josi is simply unfair. Again so what, he likely doesn’t become better than Tkachuk… why does stating that have to be taken as hate speech?
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32 minutes ago, Sedintwinpowersactivate said:
We can put the Tkachuk vs Juolevi debate to bed as well. Matthew is looking for a contract between 8-9 million per year and Ollie is looking to play an NHL game.
As Forsberg has said hoping Ollie becomes a 1 or 2 D is not the same as reality regardless of injuries. Let’s stop pumping his tires until He at least makes the NHL.
Yep. The best thing for Juolevi is to stay out of the spotlight. Too many fans feel the need to come up with excuses in order to build hope. But all that does is create unrealistic expectations and unmanageable pressure on the kid. What good does it do, to create false facts and compare his decent season to EP’s record breaker? It’s just as negatively impactful as the people that are calling him a bust.
Will OJ be better than MT? No but who cares anymore, Benning got one wrong, no GM is perfect. Lets cross our fingers and cheer him on to become an asset to this team one day. Be it a 2nd pairing guy or even a solid 3rdpairing guy, this team needs D and he can fill that need. Once the unreasonable expectation start to fade in a few years, I expect conversations and player comparison on him will stop.
It’s not that much different than Virtanen. Once people accepted that he’s likely not going to be our elite PWF and that he’s more probably going to just be a solid middle 6 guy, the hate around him faded. Same thing will happen with OJ in time. I just hope he’s not fed up with this market by then.
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3 minutes ago, Dats hockey said:
He’s heading into his d +4
Yep. That’s why I said no games played prior to the D+4 year.
I guess that was a poor way at saying, no games played in their first 3 years, post draft.
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5 minutes ago, Standing_Tall#37 said:
We should actually look at how many D drafted Following the same criteria actually make it to be a full time player.
Yep we should. The total number of D picked 10 top in that same time frame is 43.
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5 minutes ago, gurn said:
0 people born on the moon, have played NHL hockey, let alone on defense.
Stats are fun.
Expect my stat has relevance to the conversation. Yours....not so much.
Heres a the list of d picked in the top 10 to have played less than 30 games heading into there D+4 season. Reinhart, lee, valabik, ellerby and Koekkoek and another 3 other NHL d failed to play any NHL games prior to there D+4 seasons. Fluery, Hickey and Mcilrath.
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