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by amscanne 4y ago
Is hiring discrimination alleged to have happened? IIRC, the only decision that is noted in the blog post is the promotion of Dan (who is not in the cult), and the mysterious termination (for which we have no context or details, and the aut
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by amscanne 4y ago
It’s been “great” for the last forty years because rates have been consistently trending downwards. You’ve never had to think about the downside. Your experience would/will be much different in an environment where rates are rising.
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by amscanne 4y ago
> Toronto is now the third-largest tech hub in North America. It is home to more tech workers than Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle and Washington, D.C. I doubt this is true. One of my pet peeves is that people in Toronto (where I am from)
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by amscanne 4y ago
You’ve just conflated an interest rate tightening cycle with a market crash. The fed’s intent is not to crash the economy. While recessions tend to follow hike cycles, I believe that markets also tend to post (small) positive gains over the
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by amscanne 4y ago
You’re missing the point. Alberta has many kinds of liquor stores that optimize for different things, such as price, convenience or selection, all based on market demand. Last time I checked, they had far more SKUs overall (distribution is
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by amscanne 4y ago
I suspect that for every well-run public corporation, there are a dozen that are bloated and wasteful, and should have died long ago. SaskTel seems like one of the good ones, but it’s not that way because it’s a public corporation. This d
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by amscanne 4y ago
It still applies to all residential property. On sale, the tax rate is set to 1% of the sale price, and increases are limited to 2% per year. This creates the incentive to not sell, even if you have way too much house (e.g. empty nesters) b
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by amscanne 4y ago
That page is about the idea of helmet mandates , not about the safety of an individual decision to wear one. I think people most on the thread understand that there are negative consequences to mandates. The question is about whether you a
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by amscanne 4y ago
Jurisdictions in Canada keep passing laws on the basis of this kind of xenophobia (e.g. the foreign buyer tax in BC, non-local tax in Ontario) that have consistently turned out to be ineffective. Why? Turns out it's not the problem and
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by amscanne 4y ago
I saw Norm Macdonald at a comedy club in Portland a few years ago. I remember that a big part of his set was about aging and mortality, which makes tons of sense retrospectively. I can only imagine what this last set will be, produced knowi
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by amscanne 4y ago
Not extending the discussion (I’m not the parent commenter), but I think your argument highlights the cultural differences that exist in an interesting way. In the US, independence, self-reliance and optimism are a much bigger part of the c
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by amscanne 4y ago
The rest of the lanes are also often moving slowly through that section just due to traffic volume. This is what happened in that video: the driver accelerated slightly and started passing cars once in the exit lane (nothing to do with nego
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by amscanne 4y ago
It was a joke. Money laundering is already illegal in most jurisdictions, including Canada [1]. Generally disguising the source of funds is financial fraud on its own, even without dedicated money laundering laws. The canard that the housin
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by amscanne 4y ago
> First of all levying higher taxation or regulation for money laundering They should take it one step further and make it illegal!
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by amscanne 4y ago
Without higher taxes, you generally won't get good social services.. but just because taxes are high does not imply that government benefits are good. There's a large range of effectiveness at using tax dollars to actually provide
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by amscanne 4y ago
That's just a simple example. When the Nest came out, it felt like an amazing no brainer product to me: 1) The thermostat drives most home energy usage. It's probably above $1000/yr for most households. 2) The existing progra
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by amscanne 4y ago
I believe that these rights extend from the charter protections against unreasonable search, similar to the US where they extend from due process requirements in the constitution. It doesn’t matter though: in Canada, all charter freedoms ar
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by amscanne 4y ago
I think it’s fair to blame the policymakers, politicians and bureaucrats that made those specific decisions. Otherwise, where does it end? Perhaps it’s the fault of the parents who raised those voters. Voters are ultimately responsible , b
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by amscanne 4y ago
I’m not sure which debit cards you’re referring to (e.g. Interac vs VISA debit) but AFAIK they all have fees, with possibly different structures, e.g. a fixed charge + lower percentage.
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by amscanne 4y ago
I’ve been told that for brick and mortar retail, credit cards are sometimes more desirable because you might have more than their fees in shrinkage with cash. Even if it’s not more, it might make those fees easier to eat. I think it depends
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by amscanne 4y ago
If the author is reading, I believe the problem noted at the end is actually that the code isn’t going through the thunk API and thus no memoization occurs. (Consider that there is no call to Set in the evaluation tree!) fib = func(n
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by amscanne 4y ago
I’m not sure what you mean by “suppose”. Hunter Biden publicly served on the board of Burisma with compensation upwards of ~50k per month from 2014-2019 (while his father was Vice President). Joe Biden was sufficiently involved in Ukraine t
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by amscanne 4y ago
If your tweet was censored or your account was banned on the basis of an opinion-based fact check, what difference does it make? The enforcement action was still taken. It’s like saying that all police action in the United States is righteo
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by amscanne 4y ago
I’m aware it’s a mess and the story is crazy, but unless we have hard evidence that something is legitimately misinformation, especially when it comes from a mostly reputable news source (NYP), then it should not be suppressed. And importan
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by amscanne 4y ago
You can’t “remove” those errors — they are likely the primary cause of the perceived gap. I think that fact checkers and related orgs are mostly correct, but where there is room for interpretation and when mistakes are made they happen wi
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by amscanne 4y ago
I’m not sure why you have been downvoted. It may be true that the Republicans share information from sketchier sources, but the Hunter Biden laptop story suppression was so bad that I don’t think Democrats have a leg to stand on here. The m
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by amscanne 5y ago
Zig specifics aside… build it from source using what ? Another compiler. Okay, so you can compile that one from source. But what does that? Another compiler. Unless you’re recording memory contents and executing instructions by hand, you
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by amscanne 5y ago
Is it even spoofed, or is that his real name? It could just be an email not publicly associated with the GitHub account. AFAIK GitHub displays links to profiles purely as a convenience, based on the commit metadata.
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by amscanne 5y ago
Is this a security incident? My first read was that it was just pushed by the maintainer directly (“Viktor”). I thought the headline was misleading. Is there any confirmation either way?
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by amscanne 5y ago
What do mean deleted? The commit author is “Viktor Mukhachev <vmukhachev@rocketsfotware.com>” but from a GitHub perspective it seems pushed directly to master. AFAIK GitHub links commits to usernames based on public emails associated

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