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>Would I like to be paid more? You appear to work remote for a US firm, which makes this a bit humorous. Actual recent graduates trying to find work in tech in

>Would I like to be paid more? You appear to work remote for a US firm, which makes this a bit humorous. Actual recent graduates trying to find work in tech in Canada -- even accepting the enormous domestic discount -- are meeting a wall. Actual low income residents who have literally zero housing options and are ending up legitimately homeless...hey, you got yours, so too bad. >There's a ton of months-old accounts ... They're trying to manipulate you through your instincts. Such brazen attempts to disqualify any opposing viewpoints is so shameless. Canada is at a legitimate crisis level right now, and it is just more fuel on the fire. If you think this is simply a play on fears and anxieties, you have a harsh disconnect from reality.

red-iron-pine 3y ago
nothing you describe is new or unique to Canada, and the same problems are happening in China, Europe, and the US. I agree with the parent in that shillbots are out of control, and are visible across several domains, and not just about Canada -- anything vaguely or political seems to be getting it extra hard as of late. there has been a notable uptick on reddit, twitter, lemmy, HN, etc. certainly someone with "ML learning fanantic" in their profile can grasp how incredibly easy it is to use GPT-3 to abuse HN and similar platforms.
- llm_nerd 3y ago
  >nothing you describe is new or unique to Canada Canada had the highest immigration in the developed world in absolute numbers, which is positively insane. Canada has the most overleveraged housing in the world. Canada has the lowest availability rate of housing. Canada's productivity has been constantly falling off of its peers. Canada's wage gap with the US for skilled workers is large and growing. Canada has more international students than the US, a country with 12x more student spaces. Canada has a massive foreign worker program. All of these have exploded over the past few years, and are very much new and hitting the breaking point. These are all entirely unique. But the [hand wave] "yeah everywhere is bad yo" bit is a common retort.
  - landoftheice 3y ago
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red-iron-pine 3y ago

nothing you describe is new or unique to Canada, and the same problems are happening in China, Europe, and the US. I agree with the parent in that shillbots are out of control, and are visible across several domains, and not just about Canada -- anything vaguely or political seems to be getting it extra hard as of late. there has been a notable uptick on reddit, twitter, lemmy, HN, etc. certainly someone with "ML learning fanantic" in their profile can grasp how incredibly easy it is to use GPT-3 to abuse HN and similar platforms.

llm_nerd 3y ago
>nothing you describe is new or unique to Canada Canada had the highest immigration in the developed world in absolute numbers, which is positively insane. Canada has the most overleveraged housing in the world. Canada has the lowest availability rate of housing. Canada's productivity has been constantly falling off of its peers. Canada's wage gap with the US for skilled workers is large and growing. Canada has more international students than the US, a country with 12x more student spaces. Canada has a massive foreign worker program. All of these have exploded over the past few years, and are very much new and hitting the breaking point. These are all entirely unique. But the [hand wave] "yeah everywhere is bad yo" bit is a common retort.
- landoftheice 3y ago
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