jonahrd

One of the biggest problems is Canada is the assumption of country wide immunity from systemic issues because "it's worse in the States". This prevents lots of real change from happening and allows lots of really bad laws to exist.

Genuinely curious, are you pointing this out as a case of "very protected"?

To me this seems absurdly low. Losing a dwelling is much more difficult than losing a job. It can be absolutely traumatic, and set people back financially, or worse for people who are already on the brink. In Quebec, where I live, thankfully it's one year. But it should be longer unless you can demonstrate some sort of valid legal reason like your tenant is damaging the building. Just cause you can extract a higher rent shouldn't mean you upend where someone lives.

I tried filling out my "career octopus" once. Maybe that could help you?

https://waitbutwhy.com/2018/04/picking-career.html

This is objectively false. It's a well documented fact that women's health is severely underfunded compared to men's health.

[1] https://fortune.com/2021/03/09/womens-health-research-fda-tr...

[2] https://www.everydayhealth.com/womens-health/womens-health-w...

[3] https://theconversation.com/gender-bias-in-medicine-and-medi...

[4] https://www.northwell.edu/katz-institute-for-womens-health/a...

[5] https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/08/24/the-surprising...

I would say the lifetime of a piece of software is different from the lifetime of the process running it.

> "they're always changing their cables". It's obviously not true,

Last year Apple switched from USB-C charging to a new MagSafe charger on M1 Macbooks. USB-C was first introduced in 2018, moving away from the old MagSafe design. These are a very recent changes, so I'd say this still applies.

How easy it is to bring bikes on trains or public transit?

Imagine if during road work they created a "temporarily shared space" between car and foot traffic.

This is still a systemic issue due to poor urban design/planning. The kid was injured because the city didn't properly separate two different modes of transit. Even if it was "temporary"

We could live in a world where treat bike lanes with the respect we treat car lanes and give them proper detours and this wouldn't be an issue.

This video came out yesterday and talks about this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pcAfeGCrUc

This article is about the ideas from a psychologist who died in 1937.

In modern psychology, there is plenty of research into trauma based on way more than just Freud's theories, with actual measurable evidence.

I'm a US citizen, Canadian permanent resident.

I think it has to do with the fact that historically much of Canada's lands/provinces were literally just land owned by very massive British crown corporations. Massive corporations are baked into the history of Canada as a political entity.

I have vivid memory of a forum thread named something about "shitposting" in 2009, and I know it didn't feel like a novel concept at the time.

There's something extremely depressing about how popular this attitude of "college is a bad ROI, do something else with your time" is.

For sure, in the US currently there aren't many alternatives, so this might be practical advice for the current situation. But that isn't how this argument is framed most of the time. Instead, it's often more akin to "poor suckers going to college, haha I beat the system!" as if skipping higher education altogether is something to be proud of.

In other countries in the world, university is cheap or free, has flexible time commitments, and isn't necessarily pushed as something you have to do at 18 or you will miss out. But there still IS widespread access to higher education.

I just find it depressing that we are turning to the idea of less education, not more, because the system sucks so bad that we can't envision change.

(I'm an American who moved to Quebec for college-- where university is $2700/year and there is a growing movement to make it free for all-- and then stayed here)

Great article!

Now all I can think about is putting a "thinking hat" on my dog and recording everything he does, and then playing the process in reverse when he's dreaming!

This article is also operating under the assumption that all "work" is equally fulfilling on every level of Maslow's heirarchy.

But much of what we work on nowadays has very little attachment to the actual physical sphere of connections, people, objects, community, etc that we interact with daily. [1] This makes a large portion of modern work simply not worth doing, because of how little it fulfills our needs.

It goes without saying that if you're able to work as a caretaker or nurse or volunteer with people in need (and also magically maintain the life side of the balance) that you will be very fulfilled by your work. But I don't buy that this is true for very many jobs in tech.

[1] https://davidgraeber.org/articles/

Disclaimer: I work on the team at Google responsible for the open source translator engine that runs under WebGL (ANGLE)

WebGL on Linux requires the OpenGL backend until eventually Vulkan is supported well enough.

Apple's WebGL2-on-Metal approach involves the same translator engine I work on, and was very much a collaborative effort between Google, Apple, and external contributors. Chrome will adopt this in the future after integration work is finished.

I can confirm that browser GPU programmers are definitely spread pretty thin just ensuring compatibility and reliability across all platforms

Just for fun I did the math. An 80 year lifespan is 700,800 hours. 0.01% of that is only 70 hours. I think most people have sex for more than 70 hours in the course of a life time!

The point still stands though.

But it's humid cold! Hence more brutal.

You're right that the actual temperatures are pretty similar.

Montreal has even more brutal cold, yet has a bustling downtown worth walking around -- because it was designed for people.

Another anecdote to refute your point: LA has the best weather in the world, but a completely dead downtown that most people avoid.

He has a video about Calgary on his channel :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8F5hXqS-Ac

This is actually also discussed by Nassim Taleb in his book which I assume the parent comment is referencing.

He says Toyota is one of the few examples where just-in-time was not distorted and warped. So Toyota implements true just-in-time, which can be robust, with buffers. But most other companies implement a half-assed version that is very fragile.

Just an anecdotal response:

In Quebec there is a pretty proud history of a much different style of ketchup, which is much sweeter with bigger chunks of tomatoes.

It's not uncommon to see traditional-style ketchup options in restaurants and at grocery stores.

I totally agree with you. We were talking about the US.

In some cultures, the aspect of giving every single person inalienable rights and equality isn't explicitly valued like it is in the west. I wouldn't want to impose western values on those cultures.

However, your argument boils down to whataboutism. Yes there are other countries with other forms of privilege. Yes there are civilizations in the past with other forms of privilege. In the US we tend to value equality, and in the pursuit of that we must recognize all forms of privilege that exist in our society. It doesn't matter that it exists elsewhere.

FYI I am not at all talking about the original article. I was simply responding to this tangent comment thread.

Again, even people with privilege can have a really hard life. But you do in fact have the privilege of driving a car without the threat of being pulled over for how you look, or walking down the street without being asked questions, or boarding a plane without being "randomly" searched.

It's a form a privilege. It doesn't make you bad. It doesn't mean your life is easy. But it's worth recognizing.

I'm not trying to diminish the experience of your ancestors, mine were also Irish.

But in most contexts, white privilege doesn't care about your actual ancestry. A 2nd generation black immigrant from Africa to NYC will face some of the same discrimination as a descendant from slaves. And with your white skin you will receive some of the same privileges as a wealthy descendant of the Mayflower.

It doesn't really hurt to recognize this, and it doesn't have to "erase" the pain that your ancestors went through. It's simply recognizing that there are inherent subliminal biases in our systems and society.

Just to provide some balance, you can add to the bitcoin side:

- Mining metals for GPUs and other devices that run proof of work

- Manufacturing those devices

- Transporting those devices

- Building shiny glass bitcoin cafes.

I'm aware that several of your list items dwarf my items, but it's useful to still remember that producing (and as the article states, using) electronics _also_ has a cost.

Sorry to nitpick, but this "Top 50 Brands" graphic... Where does this data come from? Where on earth is Coca-Cola??

For some reason I find these quite disgusting to look at. I wonder why!

First, your re-wording is doing much more than paraphrasing. There is legitimate science involved in calculating environmental impact that goes much further than just whatever tax governments implement to disincentivize using carbon.

Second, this definitely cannot be said about anything. There are plenty of products and industries that produce positive economic value _even with_ the environmental impact added.

And here is a (poorly written) article saying that "top bankers" say WFH is falling apart: https://montrealgazette.com/executive/careers/top-bankers-so...

We'll see whose opinions matter more when this is over... workers or executives.