Tiktaalik

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by Tiktaalik 15d ago
wait where in Canada do they don't do pspspsps? (is there a francophone different one?)
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Elon Musk's heterodox robotaxi philosophy gets put to the test(theverge.com)
4 points by Tiktaalik 1mo ago|1 comments
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by Tiktaalik 2mo ago
That's a good question. The British were definitely engaging in a very, very lucrative trade in sea otter pelts from the NW Coast of British Columbia, trading direct to Macau, and the Boston Men/USA got in on that as well over tim
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by Tiktaalik 2mo ago
As I recall the reason for managing blocks of data this way was memory cache efficiency.
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by Tiktaalik 3mo ago
First Nations have treaties with Canada with constitutionally protected land use rights that have implications beyond tiny reserves. Rights to hunt and fish can be implicated by heavy industrial land use which compels a duty to consult. Doe
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by Tiktaalik 4mo ago
There's also the tooling. Game teams have artists and designers where baroque command line incantations are headwinds to their workflow pace. For the longest time Git tools were really poor. In recent years there's a few ok ones,
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by Tiktaalik 4mo ago
You generally see this sort of thing in the games industry when a publisher gives a developer a bunch of money to make a game but then the developer screws up and runs out of money. Publisher buys them to try to recoup their investment. Is
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by Tiktaalik 4mo ago
It isn’t just rent seeking, it is regulation to try to compensate for the negative externalities of a private ride hail system (ie. Induced traffic). Part of the origin story of taxi regulation is the fact that in the early 20th century unr
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by Tiktaalik 4mo ago
I think there's a huge bias toward this "easy money" yea. I mean the Canadian government is in a bind with these tariff issues and what do they reflexively reach for? Pump more oil and gas. It's the easy fast, simple sol
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by Tiktaalik 4mo ago
The wild thing is that Canada is absolutely not alone in having this sort of insanely restrictive land use regulatory environment, as you hear similar stories from the UK (see: Clarkson's Farm) and even the USA (see: restrictive SF zon
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by Tiktaalik 4mo ago
Describes Canada too!
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by Tiktaalik 5mo ago
They should just return cash to shareholders if they can't think of anything better to do, but I guess Zuck has too many shares and no one can force him to do this and so we have to watch him light money on fire as he chases some gimmi
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by Tiktaalik 5mo ago
It's a real tragedy for North American gamers because it seems like we were robbed of a lot of truly amazing games for the PC Engine/TurboGrafx due to mistakes on the business side of things. The PC Engine, released in 1987, was a
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by Tiktaalik 5mo ago
> Other Canadians eat up negative Alberta news like nothing else, and the media will no doubt provide them with the type of news that they crave. The reality is more the complete opposite. People from not-Alberta care about their own pro
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by Tiktaalik 5mo ago
And we already have an infrastructure bank! Trudeau started it. And Carney was the financial advisor to Trudeau, so it was probably his idea too! lol.
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by Tiktaalik 5mo ago
Yea really. Feels like a bit of a communications exercise and effort to create arms length distance from the Federal government and spending on major projects. Now it's not the Federal government and taxpayers propping up the oil indus
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by Tiktaalik 6mo ago
You're right. I'm not sure how I got mislead or misremembered the dynamic here. I thought there was a specific clear tax benefit but doesn't seem so. There are tax benefits for new buildings for a limited time so maybe that&#
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by Tiktaalik 6mo ago
There are other aspects beyond simply being more permissive. I recall reading for example that property transfer tax is remarkably less on bare land, enough so that when travelling in Japan you will regularly notice bare lots for sale, as i
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by Tiktaalik 6mo ago
Folks are not paid terribly high wages in Japan. I saw McDonalds "we're hiring" signs when I was eating there and I don't recall the wage but it was below 1000¥. (That being said I tried to calculate the ratio of hourly
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by Tiktaalik 6mo ago
Many of these lines were built by the public, then privatized.
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by Tiktaalik 6mo ago
I suspect they've been behaving like google in using a stable golden goose to fund moon shots, but unfortunately for them now that golden goose is rather sick and no longer making so many golden eggs.
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by Tiktaalik 7mo ago
Games imploded long before AI was in wide use. There were back to back worst years ever for layoffs in 2023,2024.
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by Tiktaalik 7mo ago
> Gas prices have been "sky high" for a week and people who are under financial stress just decided to ditch their cars and buy a brand new BYD? Are we children now? listening bedtime stories? The situation is something that ma
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by Tiktaalik 7mo ago
yeah it's not perfect, but there's absolutely well enough data for the ballpark appraisal. Onus is not on the government to do any of this. So keep records folks. I think the government now actually does keep tax records of buying
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by Tiktaalik 7mo ago
Easier than you'd think. The value of homes is very well known and assessed annually in many provinces (some have weirdly become laggards). So no real problem there. Any piece of art that is of any real value would have a provenance an
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by Tiktaalik 7mo ago
> One of the issues with our proportional electoral system is that smaller, more extreme parties can become kingmakers and in our current situation the centre-left governing party relies on the support of the far-left party to stay in po
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by Tiktaalik 7mo ago
It's absolutely the latter thing. The thing that is prized above all else is privacy and exclusivity. People are paying money to ensure that few people live near them and that those people are the "right sort of people." Dati
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by Tiktaalik 7mo ago
There's a lot of talking past each other on this issue. Sure there's probably clueless people out there, but a lot of left wing housing activists that are skeptical of free market housing liberalization understand very well econo
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by Tiktaalik 7mo ago
Yeah this would be the interesting thing to try to normalize the data against somehow.
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by Tiktaalik 7mo ago
what you're neglecting to consider is what would have happened if someone moved to Austin (say a wealthy person from SF) and that expensive new apartment didn't exist. The mechanism by which new construction drives down rents is

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