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by betaby 21d ago
Better be safe I guess: Foresight Planner is not yet available in your region. We're launching in Canada (excluding Quebec) first. We don't yet support Quebec, because we don't yet offer the product in French. If you'd l
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by betaby 21d ago
> cable can get up to 1Gbps, and probably higher, so it's a distinction without a difference. Heavily disagree. There is a distinction with a big difference. Currently deployed by Videotron cable solution is 940Mbps down and only 5
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by betaby 21d ago
`high-speed internet` is not necessary a fiber though. As recent as 2025 Videotron had been receiving subsidies to build cable network in a newly constructed neighborhood.
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by betaby 1mo ago
Tobacco and alcohol are scientifically proven carcinogens, yet they are sold ubiquitously in the [western] world. I would argue they are more dangerous than social medias. Yet we don't see any push in banning tobacco and alcohol for &
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by betaby 1mo ago
There is no benefit of tracking for citizens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUNZZWq1dXM
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by betaby 1mo ago
Beside the NT4 servers we had SunOS 5.x and Digital UNIX (later upgraded to Tru64 UNIX). Yes, from sysadmin point of view they were way more consistent performance wise and less problematic to operate in general. BSDs were not 'approve
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by betaby 1mo ago
> They definitely managed to create a lot of reliable products. > Windows NT was one of them. Disagree. I was admining NT4.0 boxes back then and it was 1. very slow 2. constantly leaking that required weekly scheduled reboots 3. secur
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by betaby 1mo ago
I have no say in this process. Of course taxes are based on land and building assessed cost. Montreal and suburbs chose to assess condos at a market rate and even higher, while to assess detached house way below the market and assess data c
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by betaby 1mo ago
> The reason why nannies are affordable in China is because those nannies aren't paid very much, and consequently enjoy a much lower standard of living than their employers. In Netherlands, nannies are relatively expensive, but you
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by betaby 1mo ago
> Property Tax revenue Property Tax revenue is surprisingly tiny from data centers in Quebec. Some how DCs have low assessment for the building, like way lower then their resale value even. > they are not a drain on services like sch
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by betaby 1mo ago
I mean a bribe is rarely publicly announced I would guess. Therefore Occam's razor reasoning is valid mental model.
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by betaby 2mo ago
> It worked great for the last several hundred years. No, it did not. > E.g. In a country of 100M people, if 60% agree with a bill and it becomes law That's not how that law was adopted.
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by betaby 2mo ago
More interesting that that mostly childless politicians are in favor of such things. That's makes sense since those legislations are NOT about children.
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by betaby 2mo ago
> The defence against this is widespread truly peer to peer messaging services Spain would label you criminal for merely using alternative Android builds: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-organized-crim...
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by betaby 2mo ago
Surely that not the case. Check any public BGP looking glass: Arelion/Telia uses RIPE space in the USA, Lumen/Level uses APNIC space in Europe and so on.
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by betaby 2mo ago
It doesn't feel like that for me. I reached professionally assessed B1 in French about 6 years ago and I don't feel I've reached B2 yet.
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by betaby 2mo ago
Interesting fact. Is there a list of local government mx servers?
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by betaby 2mo ago
> If one has ever tried to announce an ARIN IP in the EU or a RIPE IP in the US they will send warnings that the allocations will be pulled back if that is not fixed. Who are "they" in this case?
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by betaby 2mo ago
People born yesterday are alive today and will be alive in the next ~70 years mostly.
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by betaby 2mo ago
With a such rapid demographic growth they have no choice. The population of Egypt doubled in last ~35 years. (quadrupled in the last ~60 years)
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by betaby 2mo ago
Indeed. I live in Canada and while USMCA benefited some industries it did not others. Also as a Canadian I suspect the new agreement most likely will be even less beneficial to Canadians.
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by betaby 3mo ago
https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/202... "The Court replied that it is irrelevant whether or not the broadcasting of the prohibited content takes place in the course of a
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by betaby 3mo ago
https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...
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by betaby 3mo ago
It can't find any major event happened in Canada in the last 10 days.
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by betaby 3mo ago
What 'big money' you have in mind in this very specific case?
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by betaby 3mo ago
I feel the same when visiting a doctor in Canada. In that 2 minutes I have with they in one appointment per year I hear a standard text.
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by betaby 3mo ago
> selectively giving away free money to big business is straight corruption Liberals in canada call that 'making housing affordable', https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/prime-minist..
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by betaby 3mo ago
"What Andy Giveth, Bill Taketh Away"
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by betaby 3mo ago
> One pattern I saw repeatedly was a contractor being let go, only to return via a large outsourcing provider. That's 'normal' in Canada and France.
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by betaby 3mo ago
> wiping out competition by undercutting them using state subsidies The same tactic is in the USA. Like every new AI datacenter has ~10 tax waiver + explicit subsidies + favorable loans, etc, etc.

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