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by uiri 8y ago
Based on Huawei's existing presence in Ottawa a couple years ago, I'd say that this ship has already sailed. Canada isn't going to kick out any of the companies that scooped up bits of what used to be Nortel.
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by uiri 8y ago
Ask startup A for a $10k signing bonus to match startup B. Free lunch vs lower health insurance looks like a wash. $20k more base is probably worth more than $20k more in options. Aside, what does "$20k more stock options" mean? $
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by uiri 8y ago
"on the order of" is not synonymous with "approximately" "on the order of" 1000000 means any number from 1000001 through 9999999 I would expect "approximately" to mean accurate to within the next orde
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by uiri 8y ago
If you follow enough folks on Twitter who happen to also be on Mastodon then you can kickstart it by linking your Twitter account here: https://bridge.joinmastodon.org/
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Crunch Time in NAFTA Negotiations: What's at Play for Canada on Digital Policy(michaelgeist.ca)
58 points by uiri 8y ago|32 comments
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by uiri 8y ago
That is, in fact, how the law works in Canada, the US, and many other countries in the Western hemisphere. There is a narrow exception for embassy and consular employees which the government thought should apply to spies but which the court
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by uiri 8y ago
You're assuming nothing like the Nikkei index from 1989 - present will ever happen to a US stock index. I agree with you but stock market growth is not a law of nature. Other tactics (e.g. dollar cost averaging) are also needed to ensu
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by uiri 8y ago
I think the article makes it clear that the author does not like to travel too far from home. They don't like dealing with foreign languages nor foreign cultures. They want to be near friends and family (people they know). Beyond the a
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by uiri 8y ago
They're removing East Saskatchewan? That was my favourite nonsense time zone. They're right that it should have been "West Saskatchewan", but I suppose Saskatchewan on its own is enough for the province outside Lloydmins
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by uiri 8y ago
I'm in a habit of putting it in and it seems to be about 50/50 as to whether or not any given site will accept it. Surprisingly, I've run into at least one YC company which doesn't like it.
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by uiri 8y ago
That's why traditional books (especially references and textbooks) have an index at the back.
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by uiri 8y ago
A UK judge ruled last February[0] that the arrest warrant for Assange will remain active on grounds of his contempt of the court despite Sweden dropping the case. I don't think it is unreasonable to assert that Assange will wind up doi
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by uiri 8y ago
Those are basically the city core neighbourhoods. Seattle city limits stretch rather far north into neighbourhoods like Ravenna and Phinney Ridge. I am not sure which neighbourhood the person you are replying to is in, but their story doesn
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by uiri 8y ago
It appears that Trudeau has moved to a hybrid of the Express Entry system when it was introduced and the old points based system. This describes how it worked a few years ago: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/immig
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by uiri 8y ago
Harper got rid of the points based system around 2013.
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by uiri 8y ago
If you put in, say, $0 for your stock compensation, even though you receive stock compensation, it will average it in with equal weight as entries which included actual values for their stock compensation. The same applies to cash bonuses.
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by uiri 8y ago
I've never seen "rent seeking" used with the colloquial rather than technical meaning of the word "rent". Can you point to an example of this usage?
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by uiri 8y ago
"Rent" in the colloquial sense of payments pursuant to a residential lease is a different meaning from "rent" in the economics sense of the word. The use of this word falls into the trap of many words with differing coll
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by uiri 8y ago
(consumer) Skype is famously Electron based. Microsoft has already been investing heavily in the project and I think we will see them double down on their commitment now that they own GitHub.
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by uiri 8y ago
I see Big Four (Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) more often than FANG although that is obviously confusing on Wall St where that phrase usually refers to the large accounting firms. Apple is excluded because it is a hardware company not
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by uiri 8y ago
I think HN tends to lean anti-union because it is centered around a community of seed investors and entrepreneurs. Unions would work against their interests.
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by uiri 8y ago
The REST APIs and CLI/Powershell interfaces are much, much nicer. The web Portal seems to get revamped every other year and the latest incarnation is not very good.
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by uiri 8y ago
Even in Ottawa, folks generally lock their doors. It is a rural vs urban thing, just like it is in the US.
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by uiri 8y ago
I think that "Alice has a blue dot" is technically not a statement about the number of blue dots.
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by uiri 8y ago
"not all the dots are blue" - in the case where there are n people with n-1 blue dots and 1 red dot, the person with the red dot kills themself, and then everyone else kills themselves because they know that the red dot person kil
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by uiri 8y ago
US LLC has... interesting interactions with Canadian tax law and the US-Canada tax treaty. Even if it is formed in the US, if management and control are in Canada, it may be considered a Canadian corporation. Canadian-controlled private cor
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by uiri 8y ago
Any idea how he fared when oil and the loonie tanked circa 2014/2015 ? A lot of Canadian jobs are resource based which means they get cut when the price of the relevant commodity falls low enough.
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by uiri 8y ago
Every state in the US is an "at-will" state. That is a US based vs non-US based employment distinction.
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by uiri 8y ago
I think it is disabled by default because it doesn't work with the U2F sites that aren't standards compliant (e.g. Google, Facebook). It's one thing if you have to go in and enable the feature and find out it doesn't wor
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by uiri 9y ago
Yes. If you say it is your signature, even if someone else physically signed on your behalf, then it is your signature. The hairy part is if you say it isn't your signature.

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