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Kareem71··on PM Carney declares U.S. ties now a 'weakness' in address to Canadians
As a Canadian I am afraid that the more bad behavior the USA exhibits on the world stage, the easier it becomes to scapegoat and not look within at our own problems.

It was maybe 15ish years ago when Blackberry was at its peak. A world with such a dominant tech company in Canada today seems comically impossible

Kareem71··on I made an AI-powered TikTok content creation platform
It would be great to see an example before logging in to the site
Kareem71··on Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted
I guess you can call your bank a crypto bank, and skip the audits.
Kareem71··on Web scraping for me, but not for thee
The problem is as this article points out is democratically elected courts should not be choosing winners in a capitalistic competition
Kareem71··on Dirty downside of 'return to office'; ending WFH could make climate crisis worse
Correct take, Infact I would argue enforcing work in the office probably accelerates the current tech oligopoly guard in their transformation into IBM like businesses
Kareem71··on Publishers in Canada urge regulator to prevent Meta from restricting news access
Exactly, this was the scary part for me. First time I've ever seen a public emotional frenzy escalate to a point where the majority agreed to suspend due process, for things that could have been prosecuted normally
Kareem71··on GPT-4 can't reason
Seriously this is the part I dont understand about people parroting "prompt engineering" . Isn't it really just throwing random things at a non deterministic black box and hoping for the best?
Kareem71··on Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries permits
As a Canadian who moved to the US for tech, I strongly advocate for any young Canadian with capable means who is reading this to leave Canada.

An already broken system is being stacked against you

Housing prices are more expensive in Canada. Health care systems are crumbling within Canada. Wages are lower in Canada. General cost of living is more expensive in Canada

I was frankly shocked after a lifetime of watching CBC just how much my quality of life improved by moving to the USA.

Kareem71··on Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
People are poorer today on an inflation adjusted basis
Kareem71··on Right-wing Twitter worried Musk’s CEO pick could return Twitter to its roots
I think these days top apps would be a better gauge of relevance, for which twitter ranks much lower
Kareem71··on Launch HN: Clearspace (YC W23) – Cut back on screen time
Freedom.to has been working pretty effectively for me on Android. You guys care to comment on why your approach may be better? Definitely willing to try you guys out
Kareem71··on Testing GPT 4's code-writing capabilities with some real world problems
Problem is reading someone else's old code takes an order of magnitude longer than writing new code
Kareem71··on Peter Thiel’s fund wound down 8-year Bitcoin bet before market crash
Someone needs to build a browser extension that flags news links for which their main subject comes from an undisclosed source
Kareem71··on Republicans to pass bill in House to end telework for federal employees
Whats the incentive for anyone to propose this?
Kareem71··on Latest Tech Layoff Trends in Three Charts
Did google \ Alphabet officially do layoffs?
Kareem71··on Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
From my understanding the way layoffs were handled at meta for most ppl on visas the 60 day count down was not triggered until 2 months into severance
Kareem71··on A Customer Acquisition Playbook for Consumer Startups
Signed up, think this research could be pretty valuable
Kareem71··on Q2 2020 Update
I remember Elon at one time claiming that model y demand will outstrip model 3, x, and s combined. It’s getting harder and harder to believe his claims
Kareem71··on Ask HN: If you had to choose a place to start a startup today where would it be?
Something about the entire covid-19/WFH situation makes me feel as if this time may be different
Kareem71··on Ask HN: How much savings did you have before starting your startup?
My thoughts also, I assumed I might have closer to that amount of time before hitting rock bottom
Kareem71··on Ask HN: How much savings did you have before starting your startup?
Intresting, do you mind me asking what age you are at that made you feel like you need that large of a bank roll first?
Kareem71··on Ask HN: Product buying API
Was more or less curious as to the use cases for a service like zinc