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by jleyank 9mo ago
Any idea if passports can be unissued in the same manner as nexus cards or other government-issued security id’s?
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Button feedback, reduced chance of fat fingered mistype. Doesn’t tie up phone holding numbers on screen.
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by jleyank 9mo ago
They should easily be able to make their own rifles and pistols and ammunition. They can repurpose car/truck plants to make jeeps, trucks and light armoured vehicles (if they don't get them from Canada). They, hopefully, have th
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by jleyank 9mo ago
State taxes can be dodged by moving. Federal (US) taxes are supposed to be filed each year no matter where US-ians live. They can work games to not pay the US but that either requires "no formal income" or living where taxes are
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by jleyank 9mo ago
The ICE folks had enough guns of their own. And trumps party has spent decades making sure that people can open carry weapons. Bit of a conundrum, eh?
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by jleyank 9mo ago
the -ologists can be both, then. My academic experience in ancient times had them as medicine related PhD's, but I guess MD's can specialize in that area from a treatment rather than a research area. MD/PhD's are rare
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Soldiers are useful things to have around when there are external threats. Yeah, they're also useful when you wish to BE an external threat, but others are filling those roles at the moment. Europe would be a different, probably more
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Yet they piss and moan about high house prices, horrible commutes, difficulty hiring the kind of people they want, ... If they want to be able to hire 2-professional couples, if they want to pay lower salaries, if they want their workers t
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by jleyank 9mo ago
STEM people in science (used to) populate places like NIH, NSF and other granting agencies. Theh were project managers responsible for funding decisions, or actual researchers. Remember that people used think that pharma just did marketin
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Their German predecessors were confident they could control or dispose of a “Bavarian corporal” whenever they chose. Didn’t quite work out that way. Political power > money…. Ask Elon.
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Going forward, make sure you have strength in a secondary field rather than just concentrating on development. Know business or science or engineering so you can do in-field application development. Perhaps with a minor in the subject if
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by jleyank 9mo ago
As I’m not a subscriber I suspect gold represents a hedge against runaway inflation or civic disorder. Now, it also represents a hedge against concerns about the strength of the usd.
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by jleyank 9mo ago
You can get by without private health insurance in Canada. This is not the case in the us.
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Figured prominently in a Tom Clancy book, so it has to be military tech.
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Databases, facial recognition, video synthesis (creating unreality), Pattern recognition, …. There’s a whole lot of techniques and technology going back to Operations Research in WW II that is useful to those in charge. Yes, tools are neu
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by jleyank 9mo ago
The key question is whether they make non-US-ians move to the Valley to participate. Or, rephrasing, leave their home country to move to whichever piece of YC is cutting the check.
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by jleyank 9mo ago
If you have skills in one of the many categories, and with 20 years in tech you should, get the offer. Once armed with an offer from a Canadian company you can handle the visa at the border. For Quebec-based companies you have to have a h
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Well, it's fully possible to be self-insuring in these areas. Prescription assistance is probably the one significant benefit as physio, mental health and the like can be of limited reimbursement (judging from what I've seen). Th
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Yup, such visas (going both ways) are based on the NAFTA/CUSMA agreement and probably live or die with that agreement. Uncertainty limits what businesses and people can/will do, and the sudden loss of work/residency permissi
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Wonder if the founders not being US citizens or possibly even residents will hinder their ability to maintain their company. Or, whether this change increases the likelihood of being replaced when the startup shows some success. Also, bein
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Always spend part of your life living for today. Tomorrow might not come or (as here) might not come as you'd like. There's always work - your in basket never empties by design. There's only so many friends and family, so
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by jleyank 9mo ago
And they can strike back at corporate America by licensing the stuff under gnu licenses. Software that’s reasonably small, reasonably effective and portable. What a concept. If only the EU or UK had 5-10 hackers…
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by jleyank 9mo ago
No politics now, possibly all the time, is naive. Politics shapes the business environment in which you operate. How you raise funds, how and who you hire, who and where are your customers, etc. How you discuss things and the temperature
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by jleyank 9mo ago
The other option, I guess, would be for the Libs and NDP to merge, shed their conservative members to the PC and try to be the Ontario party. Splitting the centre-left while not splitting the centre-right is really counterproductive. And
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Same as the tariffs or other deprecations. Unless/until the average person feels some pain, nothing is real. Change is scary, and if the status quo is palatable or at least "not too bad", human nature is to go along. And p
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Sadly, I think pretty much all "order systems" have been (re)revealed as vulnerable to being ignored by the strong. The options seem to be for the others to suck it up, organize, or hope the strong revert. I think history sugges
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by jleyank 9mo ago
I would be curious what they could do with Ontario, but they have problems getting the seats.
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Halley as I recall made a prediction. Did the monks record and associate or is there also a prediction lurking in the records?
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Actually, Canada I think is closer to France and Denmark than the uk is :-).
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by jleyank 9mo ago
They still have power, they still have food, they still have minerals and other stuff dug out of the ground. They still have water. Unless you think the world will cease being a consumer economy, they'll do ok. And Toronto and Vanco

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