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by neptunespear 9y ago
This is actually not an uncommon occurrence: a Canadian citizen sued TD after his bank accounts were closed in 2012: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/montreal-man-b...
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by neptunespear 9y ago
Hey man. In case you see this, you might consider contacting Go Public (CBC News) about this: gopublic@cbc.ca In addition, the Law Society of BC offers half-hourly consultations for $25, it's called the Lawyer Referral Service.
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by neptunespear 9y ago
This would be true if Japanese companies were eager to embrace the open software revolution. However, even as companies in the U.S. and Europe democratize AI, Japanese companies have stubbornly plodded along with closed-off, proprietary sta
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by neptunespear 9y ago
I never said that Preferred/Mujin/LeapMind would be the future of automation. I just said that in my uneducated opinion, having followed these companies for some time now, I feel like they may be better equipped to handle "ne
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by neptunespear 9y ago
The provincial government in my home province of British Columbia, Canada, is developing a genuine progress indicator (GPI) to replace the GDP metric, which was the idea of the BC Green Party. The point made here is that GDP is a very imper
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by neptunespear 9y ago
That was a big typo since I meant to finish that sentence. I've fixed it now.
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by neptunespear 9y ago
> I've worked closely with one of these companies... Perhaps they were just not suited to the project we were working on, but I found them quite dis-organized, lacking in focus and mostly buzzwords and fakery. Kind of sad. You can&#
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by neptunespear 9y ago
> Who's open-sourced their driverless car tech - anyone with wheels on the ground and a car you can buy? Some advanced mechatronics will be required to fill a lot of voids in the manual labour space. Whose battery tech and engineeri
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Ask HN: What are some tech cos in Vancouver, BC tackling interesting problems?
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by neptunespear 9y ago
Automation has changed from when Japan was on top. The focus is now on software and open collaboration in a globalized society, not hardware built by factory workers with proprietary standards (looking at you, FeliCa) China may surpass Japa
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by neptunespear 9y ago
I did some digging in the /r/uwaterloo subreddit and it turns out that some customers were getting packages at no cost. Perhaps it wasn't financially viable.
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by neptunespear 9y ago
On the microscopic chance that Jeff Bezos sees this: mellow out, man! There was an anecdote, I can't remember from where, maybe from the "Faces of Amazon" page, related to Jeff's response to the NYT criticism back in 201
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by neptunespear 10y ago
Protip: Listen to this guy. He's Milun Tesovic, the Expa Labs co-founder and SFU Beedie alumuns. While I have your ear, Milun, I was curious why Expa didn't open in K-W or Montreal first. They're much closer to east coast tec
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by neptunespear 10y ago
> Expa's founder is from BC so I think them opening up an office there is mostly due to an excess of cash they have from Uber's success, not that it necessarily makes sense from a VC perspective. The founder of Slack grew up on
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by neptunespear 10y ago
Burnaby Heights is fairly cheap. Right on the 95 B-Line, 25-35 minutes to downtown.
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by neptunespear 10y ago
If you're Colin Percival, I know you from Reddit. You're /u/perciva, right? SFU Senate member, an /r/simonfraser mod.
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by neptunespear 10y ago
The area bordered by US 101, Willow Road and the Union Pacific tracks is an exception. However, the rest of EMP makes Vancouver's Downtown Eastside or even the neighbourhood of Whalley in Surrey look like the most peaceful, crime-free
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by neptunespear 10y ago
Isn't it a bitter irony that someone who became successful in Silicon Valley (Peter Thiel) was a driving force to get a president, whose policies could potentially lead to a bit of a decline for Silicon Valley, elected?
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by neptunespear 10y ago
$600 CAD/month for a bedroom in a house that's close to frequent transit and in a low-crime area isn't hard to find if you don't have your heart set on living right in downtown Vancouver. I am not going to pay $2200&#x2F
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by neptunespear 10y ago
Combined with Expa Labs opening an office in Vancouver, it seems that President Trump is the best thing that could ever happen to Vancouver's tech scene. Our anchors historically have been companies like IBM, HSBC, Nokia, and Ericsson,
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by neptunespear 10y ago
One big problem is economies of scale. The U.S. has more than five times the combined population of these three countries. A similar problem affects the Nordic wundercountries. They are some of the richest and happiest countries in the worl
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by neptunespear 10y ago
Vancouver has been a popular place to transfer foreign talent to the U.S. for years. It's a short drive to Seattle, a short flight to San Francisco, and in the same time zone as both cities. Famously, Facebook had an office in Coal Har
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by neptunespear 10y ago
The Walton family represents a lot of what I think is wrong with America. If Sam Walton knew that Walmart pays their employees so little that they have to claim social assistance just to survive, what would he say? While Jeff Bezos isn&#x27
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by neptunespear 10y ago
Do you know where to get archived numerical ECMWF/NAM/NEMS/GFS data? Not necessarily on a map.
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by neptunespear 10y ago
I only have a minor complaint: It only lets you view real time data and forecasts up to 2 weeks out; there's no archived data like earth.nullschool.net (which has data going back to 12/2013). If there were a site like that, or eve
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by neptunespear 10y ago
> Several of the airlines have dropped out of participating in flight comparison sites, and those that do apparently pay staggeringly little per referral. This is greatly eroded the usefulness of Hipmunk and similar sites, and taken away
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by neptunespear 10y ago
If you use 500mbar visualizations, you can visualize the "reverse" weather pattern from last summer, with the wonky jet stream, high pressure baking the Pacific Northwest, and cool weather in the midwest and on the East Coast: ht
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by neptunespear 10y ago
Thanks for replying, Andrei. Air Canada Express recently started 2x daily YVR-SJC; direct connections between Vancouver and the Valley may help with communications with the Redwood City office. Are you willing to publicly divulge an ETA on
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by neptunespear 10y ago
Why did you shut down your Vancouver office? I heard your company's founder is a UBC grad.
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by neptunespear 10y ago
I heard your company's founder, Annalea Krebs, speak at July's #TechVancouver event. Her talk was very interesting.

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