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by noarchy 9y ago
>Plundering US companies? At least back that up with numbers. You mean they pay almost no taxes on their profits in the EU. They are plundering Europe! How can that be defined as "plundering"? Even if these companies didn'
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by noarchy 9y ago
Here's the thing, though. If you refer to an "initial round" of legislation, you're probably assuming another round isn't far away. You have a real-life experiment with which to compare, in the LCBO, to see that pro
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by noarchy 9y ago
>Being the sole seller also means that they can negotiate ruthlessly and drive prices down to maximize profit for the people of Ontario. I don't know if they will do that, but it sure helps. Except they're maximizing profits fo
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by noarchy 9y ago
You can tell yourself that, but the purpose of LCBO at this stage is the money it makes for government. Liquor prohibition is a distant memory. If you don't realize that, you risk buying into their rhetoric about "protecting child
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by noarchy 9y ago
It does seem that it hasn't gone beyond looking at "burndown", or "velocity", in many cases I've experienced.
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by noarchy 9y ago
That may be an argument for using a feature or ticket tracking system. If you've been assigned a feature (or "story", if you prefer) or a bug, there should never be a mystery as to what you're working on. And if you some
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by noarchy 9y ago
Google Hangouts is what my past few teams have used. Wanting people to put "more thought" into their standup report, however, may be a red flag. An update during standup should be brief, and not result in the standup dragging on
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by noarchy 9y ago
Weird, the post was flagged/dead at one point, and now it isn't. Of course it has since sunk off the first page, too.
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by noarchy 9y ago
>That's a CRTC ruling designed to promote Canadian content. It's a protectionist measure because the US is right next door. It has helped artists get exposure. Stills shitty when a third of the radio content is the same stuff a
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by noarchy 9y ago
>Languages with priesthoods make me chuckle. You'll likely be downvoted by the way you made your point, but there is a point to be made here. Native English-speakers, for instance, probably couldn't fathom there being an offici
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by noarchy 9y ago
>Devs were always measured by velocity. It was just called "deadlines" or milestones in classical waterfall methods. I tend to think that the entire concept of waterfall is a great strawman. At some point, "rapid iteration
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by noarchy 9y ago
I actually agree that the Agile Manifesto is a good read. That's why I tend to use air quotes when discussing "Agile" at any shop, because I think it rarely resembles anything in the Manifesto. But I'm not sure one can s
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by noarchy 9y ago
>That's because it works. There's a reason it's popular. Versus: >That said: a lot of places don't do it correctly and really do deserve being called cargo cults. That's how it always goes, right? Company afte
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by noarchy 9y ago
I haven't been seeing it, either. In fact, I dare say it is nearly impossible to find a software shop in my area that isn't knee-deep in some iteration of "Agile" management - usually some form of Scrum.
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by noarchy 9y ago
>Twitter should be a public utility like water. It shouldn't rely on surveillance capitalism to make money. There's another social network called Ello and it's essentially a registered charity. Twitter should be like that.
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by noarchy 9y ago
Burndown charts, really? Fine, but that seems like a bit of feature creep to have features for manager-types in what I've always seen, overall, as a dev tool.
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by noarchy 9y ago
>Completely false premise. They're not "knowingly" helping the child labor scene - they're just picking the cheap shirt. Walmart doesn't put up a sign "this stuff made with child slave labor!" - they mi
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by noarchy 10y ago
>Those daily decisions are usually far removed from their externalities. Yes, people will choose the $5 shirt over the $10, but it's hardly a sign that people in our society endorse the child slave labor that's happening behind
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by noarchy 10y ago
>Governments are made up of our elected representatives and those our elected representatives appoint/hire. If we're unhappy with those decisions, we vote for someone else and tell them to change them. See Trump and the EPA for
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by noarchy 10y ago
>You are engaged in the political process aside from once-every-few-years voting, right? I certainly have and do, and it is a pretty frustrating thing with which to deal. Thank goodness society is not bound by what government can do. &gt
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by noarchy 10y ago
>Fine if you want to risk your own life that way, but we've decided as a society that renting a hotel room means extra safety requirements and checks to protect the guests. Sorry, how did "we as a society" decide that? Gov
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by noarchy 10y ago
>The Alabama Senate voted Tuesday to allow Briarwood Presbyterian Church to hire fully deputized officers who would carry weapons and have the authority to make arrests. So presumably the church is paying for these officers? If so, I&#x2
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by noarchy 10y ago
>I live in a 40 bedroom "hacker house", where else am I gonna find somewhere like that? A university dorm?
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by noarchy 10y ago
As you surely know, it isn't merely taxes that are at work in most provinces. Retail monopolies are another way to keep prices elevated, but even more, they expressly forbid competition in sales and distribution, which cuts off potenti
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by noarchy 10y ago
>The OP is more guilty of generalizing from ON to the rest of the country when it comes to public distribution channels. Am I? You realize that most provinces have monopoly retail system, right? Even here in Quebec, while we can purchase
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by noarchy 10y ago
>I can never find sympathy for people who complain about high alcohol tax in Canada. Likewise, I have little sympathy for those who want to tax everything I do. We're on opposite sites of an unbridgeable chasm, perhaps.
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by noarchy 10y ago
>Actually alcohol monopolies keep prices low. Take what happened in Alberta, for example, when they got rid of the monopoly: prices skyrocketed. Dig a bit deeper. Alberta's situation was/is because of taxes, which remain impose
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by noarchy 10y ago
>But the provinces will have the right to decide how the marijuana is distributed and sold. Provincial governments will also have the right to set price. I don't look forward to the potential outcome of this. Most provinces have lon
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by noarchy 10y ago
"Home Secretary Amber Rudd told Sky News it was "completely unacceptable" that police and security services had not been able to crack the heavily encrypted service." This is great news, actually. It means that WhatsAp
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by noarchy 10y ago
>But if we don't have a good privacy protection legislation, is it possible in the future that you'll be asked for an inspection of your brain? I can already see this kind of thing being abused at border crossings. Borders seem

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