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This opinion-piece is about how working remotely is now a normal, permanent option for employees, as opposed to a temporary one that was necessary during the pandemic. The author argues that Canadian policymakers and business-leaders shou
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> Other demographic groups that report almost always going online include college-educated adults, adults who live in higher-income households and urban residents. In other words self-reporting as “being online constantly” (whatever that
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> It's probably more practices like this, where the prospective employee has to enthusiastically profess subservient, slavish devotion to a company in order to be considered a viable candidate. Wait, why are you applying to a positi
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> So Sam Altman first creates the situation that we can no longer distinguish humans from bots… Any time human communication is mediated by technology there’s the chance that the communication is not really what it seems to be. Are we wa
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Yes. This immediately stood out: > We were renovating our apartment, and one day our contractor summoned me to the bathroom in dismay. He adjusted the dimmer switch he’d just installed, and a new LED fixture began strobing like we were i
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“The Billion Oyster Project: Why Oysters?” https://www.billionoysterproject.org/ecosystem-engineers
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Not sure if you're tapping maple trees in Canada, but this is about Quebec, specifically the "Strategic Reserve" of the Quebec Maple Syrup Producers [1]. In general, Canada allows for controls on the supply-side in agricultur
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Today I learned that we have an Agency for Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security: https://www.cisa.gov/
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Cash deposits in banks are supposed to be “low risk, low reward”, but at First Republic they’ve suddenly become “more risk, low reward”. Individuals will decide for themselves if this causes their portfolio to be unbalanced (and apparently
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Furthermore, we’re now in a far more cash-constrained business environment, and it’s much harder to justify having staff that have a vague impact on the bottom line (“argue over indentation style”, “argue over which shiny new framework to a
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Can you clarify? Are the “things you do but don’t really think about” good , like good habits that have become ingrained, or bad because they’ve become mindless rote that are often unnecessary action? (“Force me to write code” suggests t
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> Today, colleges and universities enroll about 15 million undergraduate students, while companies employ about 800,000 apprentices. In the past decade, college enrollment has declined by about 15%, while the number of apprentices has in
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Just so I’m clear, you’re saying that you’ve been harmed because your savings account will pay a lower interest rate? (Note that I’m not trying to suggest that you were not harmed, I just want to make sure that I understand the source of
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There could be a new explosion of biodiversity, but it might exclude humans.
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Also: - can pay for having product on higher shelves - can pay for more “facing” (width) on the shelf - packaging is itself a kind of ad
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Very cool! It looks like that's evolved into a company called CodeScene. Interesting demo by Adam: https://youtu.be/SWFwPkgLcpo?t=10
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I feel like I’m reading a rough draft, not a deeply thought out piece of writing. There are some nuggets of good sounding information in here, but the author doesn’t really go very deep. Chad Fowler had an interesting slide in one of his ta
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> What's the problem ;) Frustratingly, the article doesn't say! For example, could the reason for the weird fractions be coin cutting? [1] [1] "Medieval Cut Pennies" https://www.cointalk.com/threads&#x
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Who knows? Could be the HST, could be the base prices, could be selection…
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The context of this thread is that there are Canadian policies that fundamentally make the retail landscape different in Canada, and there’s no way for a foreign retailer to come in and not have to change the way they do things even if they
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You need to read up on “Pirate Joe’s”
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Not “American products” but “the retail product”, i.e. the experience of walking into a Canadian Walmart or Target and buying a good, as opposed to buying the same good from a different source. As you noted, cross-border shopping by Canadia
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> Plus the country is large and sparsely populated with entrenched retail competitors. A huge portion of the Canadian population is concentrated in a few small areas. Retail does not need to be evenly distributed over square area. > I
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Supply chains are a massive part of retailing, and they are are not fungible across countries: All goods sold in Canada have to comply with Canadian laws. That typically means repackaging to comply with product labeling and language laws, b
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You can’t, so you assume that all thanks are “performative” (insincere). The action thus becomes indicative of adherence to group norms for the performer, so more of a culture-fit test for the person giving thanks. There could also be an in
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> “Effective February 28, 2023, the TikTok application will be removed from government-issued mobile devices. Users of these devices will also be blocked from downloading the application in the future. Following a review of TikTok, the C
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Mary Poppendieck (2009) Video
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Why would challenges by individuals be impossible to facilitate with tech?
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ChatGPT is not the right tech for the job, but I don’t think you should be downvoted for suggesting that verifying the database entries is something that can be facilitated with as bit of tech.
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There is an anti-pattern I’ve seen at many companies I’ve worked for over the years: I’ll call it the “No-longer-in-touch customer proxy”. Sometimes this is a Product Manager, but just as often it’s a VP, or someone in Sales, or someone in

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