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by jleyank 5mo ago
I would think Ontario is the centre of Canada as it has the most people and the financial centre. Google's AI says 38% of GDP. And the problem Alberta faces is who wants to separate, what do they want to do afterwards and what ground
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Erm, they can stay in NATO with the other European members just fine. It's the US that is making noises about leaving. NORAD is another matter, but the US and Canada can each run their own radars - the targets are south of the 49th p
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Perhaps, but management has to agree with that statement.
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As long as they honestly follow their externally-defined metric, or list the “significant companies” in their mutual fund or etf then people can make their choices accordingly. If this alters what is/isn’t popular the fund companies w
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Catholics, at least part of them (Jesuits?) were quite active in the 70's pushing for social change. As I recall, this effort was cleaned up by JP II who was conservative. The last pope and the current one seem to be in the more-acti
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by jleyank 5mo ago
Think my European buddy had to go back home to renew his work permit. Could not do that within Canada.
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by jleyank 5mo ago
As I recall, we had to drive to the US border and turn around to "enter Canada" to process our landed immigrant letters. That was a while ago, so it's possible that there is more involved now... Was curious as they asked ab
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by jleyank 5mo ago
Aren’t h1b’s time limited? 1-2 renewals?
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Well, if Alberta separates, the federal opposition evaporates. The opposition leader can run for Alberta pm. And Canada might never have a Conservative government again. Alberta has no coast, so exporting or importing goes by air or via Ca
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by jleyank 5mo ago
It looks like the us had a referendum on their constitution in 2024. They voted to ignore it…
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Any dime that goes to the oil or gas business is a mistake, especially at the moment. Blindingly profitable, let them pay their way.
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Before you rag Quebec too much, note that they are at least practicing being independent. They maintain a police force, they have foreign services. They collect their own taxes. See what Alberta thinks when they have to pay their own way
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Nah. It was never as good as Airplane. /s
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Criticizing old bands because they sound like new bands seems like criticizing Tolkien for basing his stories on D&D. They drove pop music forward, showed the value of people writing their own music and helped create studio technique.
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The US seems to keep taking their ball and going home. There is a risk to this as there’s multiple sources of defense weaponry that could be used. The world economy can keep working to route around the us marketplace. Short term pain, lo
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They also need to have satellite offices and/or remote work. There's lots of ground over here , but the jobs are over there . Extreme commuting just doesn't work.
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They drive up utility prices, don't really create jobs. Overloading the grid won't win too many friends comes high summer. These are the kind of things that should go to places with water or geothermal power, but even then the c
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by jleyank 5mo ago
Broad, lightweight courses at a Stanford tuition seems like a cash grab…. If they want exposure to humanities why not mandate a year of humanities, which is what they did at uni 50 years ago. There’s all sorts of departments they could cho
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Various histories have pointed out that the British (ie, Montgomery) did not have the ability to sustain significant casualties - the army had maxed out, and they were cannibalizing units to keep others at strength. So, if a single thrust
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Perhaps some of the uncertainty at that border arose from considering whether the troops ordered forward would go, and who would they shoot at if they did.
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If researchers are like hackers, they can do their best work when they’re unaware that it’s impossible. As time progresses, what was radical can or often does become mainstream. Decades later, it’s part of the background and something tha
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What Big Food Did to Ice Cream(ahalflife.substack.com)
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"Better living through Chemistry." Err, no. But will people pay more at Walmart to avoid it?
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If you want a single, unedited shot, Neil’s ladder descent would be a candidate. If you didn’t think Stanley actually did it.
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Second the comment re the day the universe changed, and found the episode on how Islamic Spain influenced the world quite surprising. Think it was the 2nd one, starting with two competing views of the world from African Roman scholars&#x2F
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I’m only ancient to the young, but I was out of the house with friends most summer days. Any of the moms, if home, could help us out with door or drink and I’m sure they watched a bit. There were a lot of kids 9n the row house blocks…
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I didn’t see ages mentioned, but in the past, parents were probably 16-22 while today’s parents could be as old as 40+. The pieces work way better at those earlier ages, and aside from nutrition the ancient times let to more physically fit
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Canada/Canadians too. They apologize to furniture as well...
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In this era of (more) Conservative governments, who's going to subsidize construction of lower-rent/cost housing? And where are they going to put it, given that work-from-home isn't something companies or governments are int
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Betteridge's law of headlines. Training in a technical discipline will remain a mixture of theory and practice so as to be able to function "at the bench" (or wherever). If you have to get replies from prompts for all actio

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