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by jeromegv 6y ago
Government of Ontario has been doing it. They now have some APIs that link to the number of cases per day, but for the first month of the pandemic, they were literally overwriting the page every day and when you look at github there was ton
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by jeromegv 6y ago
The wayback machine has been essential through COVID as many government just publish the numbers and data "of the day" and the only way to compare to the day before is to look at IA.
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by jeromegv 6y ago
Thanks Bob. Very helpful comment. If people live a fulfilling life and are taking care by the state when they hit a bad time or go through health problems, they are less likely to want to overthrow the state. This social net requires taxes
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by jeromegv 6y ago
The media? Or social media? Or random blogs and forums? It’s easy to accuse a general “media” but we get bombarded by so much content that it’s hard to really pinpoint who’s doing the fear mongering. Anecdata, I found the coverage in my cit
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by jeromegv 6y ago
What is the 0.6% + 2%? Is that the currency conversion fee? Any way you can get the US sales to be processed in USD and transferred to some kind of US bank account (Transferwise for example). That way you can re-use that to pay invoices in
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by jeromegv 6y ago
The most basic thing about US society is that each and every single person is responsible for their own american dream. Constantly you hear of people arguing that they shouldn't pay for someone else mistake, someone else healthcare, so
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by jeromegv 6y ago
"Wasn't a great sacrifice", what do you know of his personal situation? It's funny how some can be more critical of the employees that dare to speak out, than the actual companies that have enacted policies that put thou
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by jeromegv 6y ago
It's irrelevant if that amount of condo is still not enough compared to the demand caused by 100 000 new residents moving into the region every year. Tech jobs are up. Airbnbs are up (as of before COVID). Supply is low. There are peopl
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by jeromegv 6y ago
Landlords charge more because people are still showing up to the open-house to rent. So of course they would increase rent. What you're describing is supply and demand. We lack supply. You can be sure the rent would go lower if nobody
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by jeromegv 6y ago
Toronto (as a region) is getting about 100 000 new residents every year. It's hard to say that supply and demand isn't working because really, there is SO MUCH DEMAND, supply can hardly catchup. Montreal still has a decent cost of
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by jeromegv 6y ago
That's the issue. I'm all for condos in Toronto but the issue is lack of medium density, you either own your home and your lawn in the middle of downtown (which is now a multi-million dollar home) or you live in a condo tower of 3
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by jeromegv 6y ago
It's still managed by Waterfront Toronto, the goal is still for it to be pre-planned in a smart way. However, I didn't see much in Sidewalk Labs that was so innovative. You talk of "without prioritizing road" but there w
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by jeromegv 6y ago
For a while, Porter Airlines (Canada) would offer free coffee + free cookies out of their terminal in Toronto. They would also offer you a free beer (a full 500ml, not the 341ml one) on the flight if this was an afternoon/evening fligh
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by jeromegv 6y ago
The crazyness of the best country in the world. "I rolled the dice!". This looks insane to any non-American.
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by jeromegv 6y ago
This one is more generous, true, but the real question is, because the employer decides, how likely it is to be better than European countries that have the same standard for every employee.
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by jeromegv 6y ago
"Evolution", evolution takes multiple generations, we won't "evolve" to deal with that anytime soon. There's no reason it will be less of a killer for people that get infected. What we can do is as you say, for
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by jeromegv 6y ago
"I remember a story that is the entire opposite of what you said". If you have an argument to make based on a specific event, you're going to have to do better and provide some sources. "I remember a story", are we
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by jeromegv 7y ago
Re-read again, OP did not deny that minority quota exists. OP refuted the somewhat popular opinion that incompetent people are being hired BECAUSE of minority quotas.
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by jeromegv 7y ago
This is one of the largest company in the world, it is normal that they get criticized more than smaller companies. They have more resources and abilities to make changes than most companies. And I disagree, we can criticize a company regar
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by jeromegv 7y ago
If the employees were unsatisfied with that arrangement, they would bring the union in. That's the point.
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by jeromegv 7y ago
In the parking lot of the closed mall where I live (Toronto), they have parked hundreds and hundreds of cars. I didn't quite understand why but it seems that it might be related to delivery of cars that might have arrived in the city a
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by jeromegv 7y ago
+1, also good the Soda Stream for Christmas and the amount of plastic/glass waste has been reduced quite a lot. On top of the CO2 transport impact of carrying hundreds of liters of water around every year.
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by jeromegv 7y ago
Based on anecdata, no, not everyone is doing this.
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by jeromegv 7y ago
"It's 2020" is not an argument. Show us a better system that stays anonymous, I don't care which year is it. All I can find so far is examples of technologies going wrong for voting.
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by jeromegv 7y ago
No, you can't keep an app permanently running in the background on iOS. The operating system does not allow it.
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by jeromegv 7y ago
That's why an OS solution is the only viable solution. Asking for the app to be open is the most ridiculous thing ever.
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by jeromegv 7y ago
Did any of them actually travelled to their bunker? Or are you blaming them for something that didn't happen?
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by jeromegv 7y ago
Looks like you have no data supporting this argument. You also have to look at the economical impact of doing nothing. Hundreds of thousands of member of society dying/crippled/in hospitals (who's paying for that?). Add to th
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by jeromegv 7y ago
Yes but as OP mentioned, if you’re about to cut employees, the PR might not be useful. Those companies getting into ventilators and switching production have lots of capital available.
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by jeromegv 7y ago
"I don't care about what sides did what when." This is the opposite of accountability. And when politicians know that you won't keep them accountable and that they can keep doing whatever shit they want because "you

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