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This is a good thing IMO. Accenture and the other body shops are a giant wealth redistribution machine. Its selfish to think that only FAANG employees should hold all the wealth. Let it trickle down to other less equal humans too.

If paying high cellular, internet & home prices is a sign of “developed” world. Yes

In front of the scenes: Canadians pay the highest cellular bills & internet bills.

Twitter infects Africa.

Lols !

A new to the country colleague of mine in Overland Park, Kansas thought First Watch was a security service until I took him for breakfast there.

Good for iOS users. Rest of the developing world use cheap phones loaded with obsolete Androids. Facebook & Google can now leech on them.

Re: Indian full newspaper AD about Whatsapp privacy.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90593913/whatsapp-facebook-priva...

Education yes. Everything else you won’t be that glad.

People choosing Quebec to immigrate must be either fluent in French or stupid. Quebec immigration is perhaps one of the most arcane system and politically influenced. To compare it only takes 4 or 6 months to get a PR in rest of Canada if you have the right skills. In Quebec, even if you have the right skills and speaks French, it takes a minimum of 2 years if the red tape allows. If you do not know French with the right skills 3 to 4 years.

Shouldn’t we more worried about using toilet paper than IKEA catalog if we want to save trees ? Using a bidet is very easy and clean.

https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2010/04/16/toilet-paper-...

Can’t know this by looking at it from the outside. A renter or even a buyer gets so little time to analyze what’s underneath the flooring or inside the common walls. I do not know if one can request the materials and blueprint of a condo before buying it.

I don’t think they will put up with these issues and live there like the rest of us. They are only concerned about the property value going down.

I completely agree. The very old buildings in Montreal are soundproof. But the new “optimized” condos coming up have thin concrete floors(the bare minimum code) and the common walls are also soundproofed to the bare minimum code I think STC 50 if I remember.

Call me crazy but when I rent a condo, I try google street maps and go back in history and if I am lucky I get to see the construction phase. That will give an idea about how thick the concrete and the overall structure is. Another way is to look at the balconies. The floor will be as thick as balconies. The walls are a hit or miss. But if you knock on them and press your ears you can get some idea. Apartments near to a garbage chute or elevator will be noisy if not properly soundproofed.

Meanwhile Quebec banned religious attire for government servants which disproportionately affects Muslim women.

Hey Signal, your next contender will be Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Indian govt. But Modi is one step ahead, blocked the whole internet in Delhi.

IKEA should solve their delivery issue and stock sync in their website first.

I will ask something like these.

Do you provide free snacks for those who work late hours in this company ? Is there referral bonus ?

Yes to anyone of those question is a red flag.

$500 million fund for crash victims family members (346 human lives) and $1.77 billion for its airline customers. Justice served. Now Boeing can rinse and repeat not to mention bail out from tax payers if there is a need to be. So who went to jail for this ? I know that if I steal from Walmart, I will be arrested and possibly get jail time.

Have to keep in mind that WhatsApp's customer base is not the western world, but mainly growing economies like India and African countries. WhatsApp recently rolled out Payments feature in India. In fact WhatsApp for Business is pretty good for SME to conduct business in India. Some of the shops that I went to India has paperless receipts and digital payments thru WhatsApp and UPI. They ask your WhatsApp number by default and sends you the receipt on WhatsApp. I find that very convenient as a customer. The horse has left the barn. Good luck asking people to switch to Signal or Telegram there. Switching to others will only help in making a political statement but wont help in mass adoption at least in those countries.

...and the Indian govt rewarded him with ₹10,000 and a sewing machine to earn a living so as to be a part of society again.

https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/in-4-days-nirbhaya-rap...

Not very different in the western world too. Canada has mandatory arrest policy if the wife or partner makes a domestic abuse allegation. But its bailable under strict conditions. There is no enquiry done by the police about the merits of allegation and always results in arrest on the spot. This sudden arrest traumatises the defendant, destroys his career, finances because the case wont be dropped even if no charges are pressed. The prosecution continues till guilty/not guilty. This is a very scary policy and makes men really question the idea of getting married, having kids or even to live with a partner under the same roof.

This system is skewed towards women and it has a very low conviction rate too. A waste of tax money. Courts are flooded with DV cases according to StatCan.

UPI is so seamless and easy that Visa & Mastercard will not be happy about it.

Whoever did it should have done similar like Stuxnet. Killing a scientist is not honourable.

Apple still has the audacity to not open a single store in India.

Zuck s been busy fighting Tiktok with tooth n nail. He knows he lost his prime users to Tiktok. No youngsters use FB anymore.

But FB can do this in India and its ok ?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-executive-supported-in...

Facebook executive who shared anti-Muslim post apologises: Report Ankhi Das apologised to company staff for post that dubbed Muslims in India a 'degenerate community', BuzzFeed reports.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/facebook-executive-sh...

Facebook & Twitter is a disease.

H4 spouses in the US do the same.