Mikeb85

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by Mikeb85 4y ago
In most countries teachers aren't required to study teaching per se... Just have a university degree and some training. Some countries require only that you graduated high school/secondary. You're overstating most teachers&
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We just had a baby boy and I'm not going to lie, stuff like this has me worried. We were already considering home schooling (we split time between multiple countries and that's not conducive to a normal school schedule) but this
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The majority of teachers are female and while I'm not going to claim it's misandry per se, it's likely that they identify more with the girls and thus are biased.
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Use Rails' Hotwire front end. It's pretty productive and easy for a solo dev.
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They're two separate points. 1. Other countries have more ambition, hustle and grit on a cultural level. 2. Our institutions are decaying. Maybe let's add a few more. 3. Oligarchs run the country. 4. People don't care and
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That point is different than the other point. If you're not Canadian you wouldn't know that all our government institutions are way worse than they were, say, 10 years ago. Trying to access healthcare, trying to contact the CRA,
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Fair, I don't like everything about the US but I do wish we had a bit more of their hustle and ambition. And maybe held our politicians to account for the way our institutions are crumbling.
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Just want to see my country do well. Unfortunately it's mediocre. First step to changing that is realizing it's mediocre.
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Some of what you said is correct except prices are going down because of interest rates. Also high real estate prices have hurt other areas of the economy. And the demand is largely due to money laundering out of China, not fundamentals.
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Canadian culture IS mediocre. Everyone's ambition here is to do what everyone else does. Restaurants are mostly the same. Businesses don't innovate, they merely do what someone else who was already successful did. The parent ma
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Not yet but Google doesn't seem to cooperate with the Russian government either. https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-is-fined-390-mln-r... Google's given up on business there but still puts their sites
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> Canadian society and culture is generally incapable of excellence. It does seem that way eh? And the Canadians who are successful always seem to leave...
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If by excellent you mean wildly overpriced then yes.
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Functional programming lends itself well to finance through correctness and also the fact everything you do is basically data in -> data out. Versus other domains where using stateful objects to model things is easier.
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And same goes for MS and Apple. Regardless, I care less about the US government having my info than, say, Russia (especially being part Ukrainian, having Ukrainian friends and family, etc...).
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Digging through the link the other commentator posted, Apple complied with 88% of Russia's requests for information and 94% of China's with over 1000 requests from each of those nations... Versus Google which has avoided giving in
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Good luck. Small businesses run on tight margins and there's already a massive amount of people trying to extract more out of them. I'm willing to bet you don't add any value whatsoever to their business (tech people typical
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Not really... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China
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Google has refused to cooperate with authoritarian governments and even left China over it. Unlike Apple and MS...
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This 100x. Of all the companies/entities that have had some sort of data of mine over the years Google feels by far the most trustworthy. My country's agencies (Canada) have leaked more data than Google, and MS can claim they&#x2
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> Why do countries join the Euro when neither Sweden nor Great Britain do and (almost) all economists say that it doesn't work if you have a weak economy? Politics. If you have a weak economy it's perceived by the population t
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> millet Isn't wheat... It's an entirely different family of grasses (millet, teff, sorghum are all types of millets).
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Literally all those countries threatened world stability by invading their neighbours or attacking the US and others directly or indirectly.
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The US ruling class benefits from stability in the world since the US economy easily out-competes everyone else's. They definitely benefit from Russia's demise since Russia is causing instability in the world. They definitely do
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> Why would Russia have done it? They want to sell gas. Because they want the west to stop intervening in Ukraine more... They don't wage war to sell gas. They sell gas to wage war. Besides, they're still selling it to China
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Haha except expectations are managed (read low) with EasyJet or Ryanair. They deliver exactly what you pay for and expect.
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There was nothing wrong with the flight itself. Everything wrong with their online booking/check in system, disorganization at the terminal and lost luggage (apparently due to system incompatibility with a partner airline).
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> it's gotten rescheduled numerous times Well there you go... It's bad in the sense that they constantly reschedule or cancel flights, are constantly late and there's absolutely no recourse to getting compensation. But on
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https://www.insider.com/woman-lost-luggage-lufthansa-twice-o... Another example. I could excuse a lot but after what the employee told us, the visible lack of organization when we flew with them plus quite a few more anecd
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I mean when they lost our luggage as well as that of everyone else on the same connection they literally told us their computer tracking system was incompatible with that of their partner... On top of terrible treatment at the Frankfurt

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