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by cal5k 6y ago
I'm not sure it's entirely possible to dismiss cultural difference in the opposite direction, however. The Police Activity channel on YouTube has tons of unedited bodycam footage from officer-involved shootings and other events ac
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by cal5k 6y ago
Yes, however I'm pointing out that Canadian smugness is generally unearned.
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by cal5k 6y ago
It really isn't, though. America's real GDP growth rate has been outpacing Canada's for decades now, and it's reflected in Canada's low average salaries relative to the US in a lot of top fields. Add to that the Can
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by cal5k 6y ago
Canada!
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by cal5k 6y ago
When they eventually pick up, play back the sound you hear when you accidentally dial into a fax line.
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by cal5k 6y ago
Indeed. Everyone is spouting populist talking points (yeah! screw foreign money!) without explaining how Canada is going to fix its anemic productivity growth and compete globally, particularly as we're actively destroying our own reso
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by cal5k 6y ago
There's a big difference between considering national security issues and bungling foreign direct investment completely (except for real estate). It's also no excuse for the protection of oligopolies that don't act in the bes
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by cal5k 6y ago
I'm not even a fan of that project in particular, but this is a common problem in Canada - the goalpost constantly shifts, the process becomes a political hot potato, and the foreign investor eventually just says "fuck this"
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by cal5k 6y ago
People are cheering, but as a broader statement this is a small sample of how difficult it is to do business in Canada.
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by cal5k 7y ago
Providers are still basically private businesses (at least in primary care), so it is possible to sell to them. The problem is that each province runs its own system, unlike the UK where the NHS is universal across the country. So your addr
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by cal5k 7y ago
You are wrong. The single payer in Canada is each province's respective health insurance plan. Anything listed on their "schedule of benefits" can only be paid for by the province. Providers are actually in many cases like
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by cal5k 7y ago
> because if you could prove there were cost and health outcome benefits on a national scale you would be able to convert the idea into a viable business with a single corporate sales pitch, instead of trying to sell to every doctor indi
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by cal5k 7y ago
"Hate speech" seems to be imbued with somewhat religious meaning, since most conversations about it make huge assumptions about its impact, frequency, and scope.
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by cal5k 7y ago
A lot of services, like GSuite and LastPass, allow you to register multiple hardware keys. The best bet is to register several of them with these sites, then put one or two offsite (e.g. in a safety deposit box) just in case. Then, use GSui
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by cal5k 7y ago
Well, here's the broader question: why can't you, as an individual, opt out of showing up in Google search results altogether?
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by cal5k 7y ago
You can still opt out of the redesign, which I do. I find the new desktop design to be intolerable.
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by cal5k 7y ago
Oh good, throw a bad label at someone. Now there's no need to debate his ideas... right? I'd like to coin the term "nuance-denier" so that we can insert it jingoistically into the lexicon. It applies to anyone who is inc
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by cal5k 7y ago
Tier 1 airlines are strongly motivated to prevent catastrophic loss of aircraft. Killing passengers is generally considered to be bad for business.
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by cal5k 7y ago
Stress-related cracks eventually form in all aluminum aircraft, particularly at the wing root, so it’s a well-studied aspect of aircraft safety. Engineers have a very good idea of what’s dangerous and what is not.
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by cal5k 7y ago
I'd like to read the research. But it's almost certainly a) ex post facto, and b) based on a hypothesis that is infinitely more specific than "does Facebook mediate the cultural superstructure". "Cultural superstruc
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by cal5k 7y ago
No, those were issues of principle. Activism can promote awareness, but it cannot be your moral compass.
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by cal5k 7y ago
Godwin's Law is still alive and well, it seems. While your choice of comparative examples is patently absurd, you're actually arguing for a principled approach to governance rather than an activist one. And on that we agree - I th
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by cal5k 7y ago
Activism-driven policy is generally not a great governance model - you might satisfy the 250 employees who signed the letter, but disgruntle 5000 silent others who strongly believe it's not Facebook's job to fact-check political a
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by cal5k 7y ago
...you're aware that Facebook owns Instagram, yes?
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by cal5k 7y ago
Look at either side of the political spectrum and you'll see clickbait garbage. They shouldn't be a barometer for correctness. There are basically only two things that are going to slow/stop the rise in CO2 emissions: shift t
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by cal5k 7y ago
Bingo. Not much gain to be had here when you look at the actual sources of emissions by category. Tackling electricity production and transportation should be #1 and #2, since they are (more) easily influenced by the state and could be brou
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by cal5k 7y ago
This is certainly what banks and telcos will tell you, but it’s simply not true. For example, the idea that banks should maintain appropriate reserves and refrain from taking on certain kinds of risks doesn’t imply that banks should be the
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by cal5k 7y ago
That's a popular misconception, but flatly wrong. Canada has the 10th largest GDP in the world. It's larger than Russia's and just shy of Brazil, a country with 209M people vs. 37MM in Canada. The vast majority of the country
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by cal5k 7y ago
And yet, America is directly responsible for the lifting of a billion people out of poverty through trade - far more than any social assistance program in history.
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by cal5k 7y ago
As much as I wish it was unnecessary, we run a cryptocurrency platform. There are constant attempts to sign up using fake/stolen credentials, and we have to make sure our users don't fall prey to various attacks that could lead

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