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by apercu 8y ago
This is posted in so many subs on reddit in the last 24 hours. Including unrelated subs. Please don't encourage spammers.
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by apercu 8y ago
"Obama" care is a far cry from single payer.
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by apercu 8y ago
Yep, short-sighted, too. Because in a few years all of your tech will have been stolen by the companies the government forces you to work with in order to enter the market. Obviously google knows this and someone has done a cost/benefi
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by apercu 8y ago
Because power corrupts.
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by apercu 8y ago
As much as there are things that are suspect in terms of the health and privacy of humanity inherent in Google's business model, I don't know why they get singled out. I did some consulting work for a company. It is private firm t
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by apercu 8y ago
Yes, I don't think people outside of Ontario understand how hosed we are on car insurance. I admit we have fraud, but do we have more fraud than norther Illinois? No. Do we have different weather than northern Illinois? Again, no.
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by apercu 8y ago
> mandates that at least 60% of the country shall be forest at all times. That's amazing. I wish more countries would do that. I'd like to see new "old" growth forests in Canada and the US. (We have three in Ontario,
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by apercu 8y ago
When I see it in Toronto it is usually groups of people (2 or more) and it's typically in urban environments. COUld it be pollution more than germs for some? (they do mention smog in the article).
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by apercu 8y ago
What's funny (sad?) is that I don't drive much. I work from home and I rarely leave by car. And I drive a slow, lumbering vehicle so I tend to drive pretty slow. I've had 2 tickets in over 20 years of driving, and those were
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by apercu 8y ago
Social skills allow you deal with the things around coding that lead to bad code. Social skills are underrated and we could all develop better ones.
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by apercu 8y ago
I didn't delete anything. Quit the drama.
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by apercu 8y ago
I might like the idea guy (I can think of two) but I have a hard time taking "idea guy" seriously professionally.
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by apercu 8y ago
Actually, tariffs seem to me to just another consumer tax.
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by apercu 8y ago
Hilarious that my only two comments I ever remember being downvoted on HN are for calling out this companies ties to people who launder money and evade taxes.
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by apercu 8y ago
So we just go around downvoting comments we don't agree with? Paranoid? Really? Edit: Also, I asked dude to explain to me. He/she is free to do so, I was genuinely curious. But also, yes, I am cynical when it comes to the Russian
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by apercu 8y ago
"I don't believe the Russian CEO could be involved in, complicit in, or just turning a blind eye to, laundering, in any way whatsoever, so clearly this was just a stupid decision entirely on the part of the CFO to turn off the mon
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by apercu 8y ago
A company with ties to Putins oligarchy involved in money laundering? How shocking. /s Facts: CEO's father is a deputy director Gazprom, and one of the investors is Yuri Milner, who the paradise papers outed for channeling Kremlin
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by apercu 8y ago
How do you know the deadlines were reasonable? One of the reasons I quit my last job was because of unreasonable revenue targets from shareholders and the need to push my team beyond what I thought was reasonable due to these pressures. Thi
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by apercu 8y ago
> Doctors, Police Officers, Morticians, Firefighters Hold on. A firefighter is on call in the in the firehouse during their shift. The aren't (except in emergencies) working straight 24 hour shifts. I see them at the grocery store a
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by apercu 8y ago
Working on an assembly line, sure 40 hours a week is fine. Trying to do creative problem solving with complex issues? I have met very few people who can maintain peak performance at even 40 hours a week, week after week. In my experience mo
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by apercu 8y ago
I have never been very productive when trying to do knowledge work for more than 4-5 hours a day and more than about 28 hours a week. When I start working 50+ hours a week my productivity drops below what I would have gotten done in a 20 ho
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by apercu 8y ago
How about America vote for people who will install a national healthcare plan, then the economic fear of medical data dissemination goes away.
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by apercu 8y ago
> Complaining about messy data... welcome to the real world. I mean, that's the crux is if you have bad data you will have bad results. Data cleanup/transformation is key for anything (reporting, etc...) and not just limited to
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by apercu 8y ago
I can't believe that people are arguing that your economic background has no bearing on your chances for being wealthier then average. Thanks for your post.
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by apercu 8y ago
Not just. I have a 2015 iMac. It was running out of memory so I went to upgrade it. Nope, soldered in. Ended up buying a new computer. Doesn't make me happy.
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by apercu 8y ago
Yep. That's corruption.
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by apercu 8y ago
You have to check, recheck, and check again with stealerships and then they purposely take forever to do things to wear you down and the slip B.S. back in to the paperwork, when called on it acting like it was an accident. I hate buying car
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by apercu 8y ago
I (re)started my consultancy in part so I could work from home. My commute had gone from 2 hours a day to 3 hours a day with the rise of traffic in the Toronto area. I meet with clients a couple times a month and I am on the phone, slack or
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by apercu 8y ago
Not OP but due to a lack of investment in public transportation in NA over the previous decades, many people spend a few hours a day commuting and in many cases this is done in private vehicles that pollute. For many in our profession there
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by apercu 8y ago
> Considering the startup ecosystem in Canada, I fear much of that talent will be wasted. Can you expand on this thought?

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