That must be dangerous. I certainly wouldn't drink a shot of sub-zero liquor. There have been occurrences of people having their stomach frozen dead by ingesting liquid nitrogen enhanced drinks.
Comparing sub-zero temperatures to liquid nitrogen temperatures doesn't quite do justice to liquid nitrogen. Imagine how hot boiling water is, and how cold ice is. Think of the temperature difference between the two. Now, take a step of that same size, colder than ice. Now, take a second step. That's how cold liquid nitrogen is. Liquid nitrogen will be at -196 degrees Celsius. Even Antartica, at the coldest temperature ever recorded, only got down to -89, still nowhere close to LN2.
The problem with the liquid nitrogen enhanced drinks is when people drink them before the LN2 has evaporated. You then have that -196 degree liquid in your stomach, and that's what freezes sections of it. Safety regulations require that the bartender not give you your drink until all the LN2 has evaporated.
I used LN2 to cool gamma-ray detectors for a while, and it is really fun stuff. Like driving a car or cooking raw meat, you just need to know what the dangers are and how to avoid them.
I think there is quite a difference between a shot of sub-zero alcohol and a ingesting liquid nitrogen, which is at minimum -210°C vs the at most -70°C the alcohol will have, though likely the easier drinks will freeze at higher temperature anyway, usually starting at -5°C for a beer.
edit: It also helps that ethanol is likely going to stay liquid in your stomach, liquid nitrogen boils off; that pulls a lot more energy from the environment.
I agree that nothing is truly passive. Everything involves some form or another for maintenance and triming what I would call "entropy".
There are some lines of business that really is very passive, but those either don't have much of a moat or competitive advantage and can easily be squashed by something newer, nicer and better.
Wrote the blog about 5 years ago, to a non-existent audience. The blog writing was simply to motivate myself to complete the application, which is an arduous process and, for me, was optional career-wise. At first I did things like create a Twitter account, follow people, tweet it out, etc, but that didn't work at all. I basically had negligible traffic for the first year at least. Then Google organically started picking it up because I had written useful content in an underserved niche - one of the things that got me writing the blog was searching for free help in the first place and not finding anything. Even after a couple of years, I was earning maybe $15/month in AdSense. Then the affiliate site reached out to me out of the blue, we tried some tests, and they failed miserably (no one converted). Months later he came back to me with an actual affiliate program, we tried it and it slow started to work and has scaled up to what I described above.
So to summarize, by far most of my time was spent writing the blog posts and watching my non-existent analytics. Nothing I actively did to market the site (and I did very little) worked. It was a project that didn't intend to make money, that ended up making money.
I would agree. Montreal has relatively good infrastructure and also good housing options for families and singles alike. It’s small compared to these tier 1 cities in Western Europe but it’s great, people are nice and are bilingual.
The winters are extremely cold but if you don’t mind that it’s fine. Not sure about the salaries but I hear they are lower but so is the cost of living.
"It’s small compared to these tier 1 cities in Western Europe"
Only London and Paris are much bigger.
Mtl is about 4 million people, it's almost the same size as Madrid or Berlin or Barca. A little smaller than Amsterdam but really bigger than most else.
But it's tier 2 size in North America, but a strong tier 2.
It's really weird how people in NA don't know about Montreal. It kills most places for culture.
Also, the 'division' is not geographic, it's cultural. East Montreal is French, West is English and it's bizarre how little social crossing there is. I live among the French and they don't even know about major things happening in the West Side.
