MartianSquirrel

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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
> From a business point of view it's more like... Usually companies use blogs as marketing tools to drive traffic to their websites. I might be wrong, but in the case of Coinbase I have never really seen anything they wrote that w
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
Fair enough, that part did not register as OP said it was "anecdotical" and in his experience
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
I did not mentionned political affiliations. I don't understand why everyone seems to focus on politics recently. Yes, there have been troubling events, but the world did not stop revolving
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
I would tend to think the education level also plays a role, and considering wealthier individuals usually have a better access to education/are more educated (read correlation not causation here), said individuals might have a better
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
It's not a problem you face often with a single payer system (or anything similar)
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
I cannot say for sure. My personal income is the same I would get in Toronto, but it's anecdotal. I know they are slightly lower on average, but when you factor in the cost of living (rent is 2x higher in TO) it is probably very simila
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
Long term benefits? check Good for our constituants? check Good for whoever pays for my campaign? check Oh, you say it will jeopardize my reelection? fuggetaboutit /s
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
Canada has been at it for quite a while, otherwise the economy would be stagnating. And it has the advantage that it can chose its immigrants based on the market's needs. Compared to other countries, people coming to canada are also hi
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
It was indeed a weird model, I think the tech scene here always looked at eAI like some type of outcast, leaving them alone. But it drew attention to the AI scene, universities received massive funding in AI which is fantastic, startups gre
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
Shush! Don't tell them about the little hill! It's only one of them on the other side anyways, we can ignore it... here we go, MTL only has 4 universities now /s Quebec is weird, true, but I tend to think of the Montreal Metr
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
It is not legally required, strongly advised by the government. It would go against Section 2 of the Canadian constituion to discriminate on a language basis. The OQLF asks for companies to use french terminology and tools where possible (t
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
Not anymore, not in tech at least. Every single company is looking to hire, they don't have the luxury of cherry picking over languages. The provincial government can be a pain in the ass sometimes, but they tend not to mess with start
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
You are right, the legislation on that part is counterproductive, but there are many ways around, especially for tech workers. And tbh we alway used english at work considering some of our team mates didn't speak french.
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
Bonus: there are 56 craft breweries on the island alone
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
Disclaimer: Clearly biased, I am from Montreal. > That’s part of why I think that if any city in Canada has the potential to actually develop a Bay Area grade startup scene (smaller, sure, but actually the real thing), it’s clearly Mont
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
PrEP might be available, but there are still countries where it is not easily accessible, and where HIV is still spreading. https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/why-the-hiv-epidemic...
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
At first glance I thought it would be another post about recent events. Still decided to give it a try. It is surprisingly interesting, pointing out incongruences, mostly regarding the "anti-social media" business model and quite
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
[-1] Bonus, related: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/14/7561 [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25357315 [2]: http
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Tell HN: Lately, things have been strange
7 points by MartianSquirrel 6y ago|2 comments
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
No, the job market isn't zero sum. If the west produces more goods/services it needs a higher input of lesser tier goods and services to which value can be added.
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
Yes, but no. Automation could, should and will bring back more manufacturing towards the west, in the sense that the west will produce more goods, in terms of net quantity/value compared to today. It does not necessarily mean more jobs
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
25! Happy new year!
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
I started reading the title and almost had a heart attack thinking Donald Knuth died Edit: Title was "Professor Donald Knuth on Writing and More, an Int..."
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
> I'd very much recommend it Same here! I've bought myself a Surface Laptop 3 (15", i7 version) 11 months ago. I had been looking for a laptop powerful enough to code on, that would look "premium" for business pu
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
Genuine question: Have you considered buying out your co-founder instead? You seem to have a general undestanding of the figures you can make through advertisement. I'd suggest doing more research on that, maybe meeting with a consult
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
The demand gets higher, therefore a healthy market will move towards a supply/demand equilibrium. There are creative ways to go around most problems, given the incentives are strong enough. i.e. we all live underground /s On the o
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
1. They disrupted the hospitality industry, which used to be much more powerful than it is today, as it now weighs less in tourism numbers. I don't necessarily think this is bad, disruption is often a sign of optimization. 2. Then ther
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
Beware of the Decentralized Denial of Monoliths
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
This > Requiring frequent "calibration" printouts that use vast amounts of ink I use my personal printer once every 2 months, on average, and every single time it prints the calibration page. It would make much more sense from
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by MartianSquirrel 6y ago
The fun thing is, it probably brings these two countries closer to peace than war, the same way having children play together makes it easier to develop a friendship

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