willhslade

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by willhslade 2y ago
Market is 1/10th USA size.
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by willhslade 2y ago
Doesn't Sundar pull down $250MM / yr?
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by willhslade 2y ago
Warren Buffet said it's a declaration of war.
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by willhslade 2y ago
Does Saipan vote in American elections, I forget?
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by willhslade 2y ago
I appreciate the pushback. Fine, if it isn't the real reason, what is the real reason? Why can't any executives, at any organization, proffer a reason that makes sense?
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by willhslade 2y ago
I see a lot of comments here, but what I don't see is anybody speaking the quiet part out loud. No judgment here to those who did, but during the pandemic, several people, including several software engineers, took the opportunity to w
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by willhslade 2y ago
Yeah, lame duck Canadian Prime Minister announcing something that will be immediately cancelled by the next PM isn't the support you think it is.
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by willhslade 2y ago
You can also buy a magnetic bracelet.
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by willhslade 2y ago
Didn't Microsoft save them from extinction with a $150MM loan?
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by willhslade 2y ago
Conservative. What is likely to happen is that the Liberal party picks a new leader and that leader calls an election.
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by willhslade 2y ago
Not OP but in a nutshell, everybody who could bought an condo downtown (Toronto + Vancouver especially but this is broadly true of the country) with a home equity loan from their main property as an investment, and the loan math only works
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by willhslade 2y ago
From my perspective, there are few things that are hitting at the same time. One, the FAANGs have been captured by MBA types, not computer scientists, so they do not have the background to carefully gauge what is and is not technically poss
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by willhslade 2y ago
According to this, the big 5 control 89% of the banking sector in Canada, and 35% of the market share in the USA. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/canada-u-s-banking-differen... Let's just agree to disagree.
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by willhslade 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_banks_in_the_U... In the first quarter of 2024, there were 4,012 commercial banks and 556 savings and loan associations in the U.S. insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance
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Uniting quantum physics and general relativity(sciencedirect.com)
1 points by willhslade 2y ago|0 comments
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by willhslade 2y ago
Free food? Organic vegetable stew?
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by willhslade 2y ago
That is accurate. 10x population.
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by willhslade 2y ago
It's bigger than Linux?
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by willhslade 2y ago
He's back... are you talking about his archive? https://open.spotify.com/artist/6v8FB84lnmJs434UJf2Mrm
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by willhslade 2y ago
Please send this to the Star, they love this sort of thing. I also think they've worked with the Open Data Meetup group in Toronto and they may be able to put you in touch with the right person.
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by willhslade 2y ago
I mean, normal Canadians also likely can't afford the cost of American surgery. And I can think of at least 1 time a prominent Canadian went to the USA for medical procedures that weren't available in Canada. https://ww
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by willhslade 2y ago
Nortel imploded, though. Self driving cars. Bitcoin. Canadian institutional investors are wary.
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by willhslade 2y ago
Is this .Net?
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by willhslade 2y ago
Can you suggest a culture that does it better and/or better methods? Your point of view meshes with mine and I have a young child and I'm worried about the education he's going to get in Canada.
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by willhslade 2y ago
Which one?
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by willhslade 2y ago
Not OP but I'm a Canadian who follows the news so I'll pitch in. Canada is suffering a few things right now. Definitely a housing crisis, which seems to be everywhere in the Anglosphere but I'm pretty sure we have it the wors
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What makes a great software engineer [pdf](microsoft.com)
9 points by willhslade 2y ago|15 comments
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by willhslade 3y ago
This actually happens? Which branch or all branches?
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by willhslade 3y ago
Toronto cops are this weird combination of expensive and ineffective. Hell, you can literally murder a billionaire in his own home and the Toronto cops are stumped.
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by willhslade 3y ago
Does it support Canadian credit cards?

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