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by cal5k 16y ago
Not to mention the Canadian Wheat Board, perhaps the most egregious of all monopsonies (apparently it's not a "monopoly" because it is the only BUYER of wheat).
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by cal5k 16y ago
If you like, I could also point to the convenient dropping of calls when they are passed from Wind Mobile's network to Rogers' (and the subsequent marketing campaign around that fact) as another example of sleazy behaviour. This does not ha
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by cal5k 16y ago
I would take a broader view of it like so: would not having access to the internet be seriously crippling economically? Are market mechanisms providing service to all Canadians at a reasonable price? I'm going to argue yes to the first poin
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by cal5k 16y ago
First, you could not possibly have picked a worse analogy than a supermarket. The grocery business in Canada is one of the most brutally competitive anywhere, with low margins and a large number of players. But back to the issue at hand: it
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by cal5k 16y ago
Here's another reason why this is bullshit... this is an excerpt from an article I'm working on: The biggest problem with these caps is that they are, plain and simply, anticompetitive. Probably illegally so. Let’s take Bell’s internet serv
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by cal5k 16y ago
This is EXACTLY what regulatory capture is all about. Bell knows the game and played it masterfully. Ask for the moon - ask for really ridiculous things, but expect to only get half of those things. The CRTC, wanting to seem "reasonable" an
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by cal5k 16y ago
Great for entrepreneurs, but eventually it will be the relatively unsophisticated angels who will get burned by these valuations. I have no problem with that, really. In 2001 it was different - everyone was playing with public money through
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by cal5k 16y ago
Welp, looks like I crashed their server... Update: There it goes!
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Makin' It Rain - How Raindrop Effects Work In 2D Games(bulletproofoutlaws.com)
98 points by cal5k 16y ago|27 comments
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by cal5k 16y ago
The real problem isn't even that they're charging by the gigabyte (although they are, and I strongly dislike it). No, the REAL problem is that they preferentially exclude their own services from these charges/caps. For example: If you get B
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by cal5k 16y ago
I had a similar experience today... my post made it to the front page and was unceremoniously killed. Apparently when you say you're hiring a billion people, you'd better mean it. ;-)
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by cal5k 16y ago
That depends... do you already have a chainsaw or will we need to provide you with one? These trees aren't going to lumberjack themselves!
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Canadian help wanted: Myplanet hiring 5 folks in the GTA(myplanetdigital.com)
2 points by cal5k 16y ago|2 comments
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by cal5k 16y ago
Is satire really such a mortal sin?
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by cal5k 16y ago
Ahhh well, one can try :-) We did manage to get a few applications in the hour or so the post was up, so it wasn't all for nought.
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by cal5k 16y ago
It's supposed to be a little silly - I was just trying to put a light-hearted spin on our hiring process. The type of people who enjoyed it would probably enjoy working with us. I suppose I overreached with the title?
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by cal5k 16y ago
I actually have done that regularly, and we consistently get - zero responses. Look, I agree the title was silly (although did anyone honestly think we were hiring a billion people?) - but I would have gladly edited it if a moderator had as
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Ask HN: Why would my post get buried by a mod?
6 points by cal5k 16y ago|9 comments
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by cal5k 16y ago
Like, totally! ;-)
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by cal5k 16y ago
A fair point. I've updated those locations. It's actually only about a 25 minute drive from Union Station to our office. I lived downtown for the last year and did the reverse commute - it wasn't bad at all :-)
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by cal5k 16y ago
We actually took the radical step of hiring someone to come and do group meditation in our office once a week. It's entirely optional, but typically our entire team gets involved. Everyone really looks forward to it. A great many have exten
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by cal5k 16y ago
I've lent my name to it!
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by cal5k 16y ago
My prediction: An entire industry of downloadable, DRM'd car sounds spurred on by regulation requiring cars to emit a constant sound above a certain volume. Luckily, I plan to be the one to license the Jetson's sound and sell it for million
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by cal5k 16y ago
Toronto WEB/MOBILE DEVELOPER (we have no titles, actually, but this is the best description we could figure) About us: Small company, about 15 folks, with offices in Chicago, Toronto, and Hyderabad (India). We specialize in disruptive techn
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by cal5k 16y ago
Are there any HNers in Hyderabad? If so, I'd love to talk :-)
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by cal5k 16y ago
For reference, I own a 13" MBA and the build quality is exceptional. It is quite simply the best computing product I have ever owned. Lots of gents around our office have Dells, and they tend to be built like brick shithouses, so to speak.
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by cal5k 16y ago
To be fair... how often is the Ottawa Citizen linked to from Hacker News? I'd say it worked splendidly!
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Merry Christmas From Myplanet: The Ubermatic Gift Guesser(ubermaticgiftguesser.com)
3 points by cal5k 16y ago|0 comments
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by cal5k 16y ago
Hmmm... well I don't always agree with him, but Mark Cuban often has interesting contrarian views on the technology business. He's certainly outspoken: http://blogmaverick.com/
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by cal5k 16y ago
I've noticed that HN readers all tend to think about startups in a similar way - thus the list of blogs here was no surprise. What contrarian blogs have you found that take entrepreneurship from a different angle, viciously cutting through

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