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The auditors report:

* https://www.telstra.com.au/content/dam/tcom/dynamic-media-pr...

Yes, you can. Or rather some people can. People have to be realistic about what they can save and the lifestyle they need (versus want).

Depending on the commitments you had during your working life, you may need as little as 40% of your working income in retirement to have the same lifestyle (as opposed to the 70% number that is bandied about so much).

> Just tax those with high incomes to get it back.

This appears to not raise as much money as many people think. Interesting conversation with UK tax lawyer Dan Neidle on the topic:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgQONOM15HI

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Neidle

(Of course there could be reasons besides strictly revenue to do it, but folks should be realistic about the pros and cons.)

At this point perhaps countries should opt out of the Berne Convention [1] and limit copyright to something like 20-30 years after creation.

If you can't recoup your costs after a couple of decades your work either isn't worth anything commercially and/or you are incompetent in business. Regardless of which, society would probably be better served if you were out of the way and the work could be leverage by others.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention

Someone making CA$ 90k will get the full OAS. If they have a spouse who makes $90k, they will also get the full amount. So a household with $180k income is getting a bunch of government money.

Why does a couple with $180k HHI need to get anything?

> Years ago, perhaps, it might not have been clear to the average person that money has to grow over time to stave off inflation, but that information has been widely available for decades and many people still don't put money into any kind of investment.

When the CPP was being reformed in the 1990s:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Pension_Plan#1998_refor...

There was a lot of debate about whether it should still be government run, or left to individuals, and it is exactly this situation that many folks said that there needs to be some component of retirement that should not be able to be touched by individuals.

> Isn't the reserve chute the Old Age Security pension along with the Guaranteed Income Supplement?

CPP benefits are proportional to how much you pay in over your life. OAS is proportional to how long you've lived in Canada and thus 'contributed to society at large'; once your income is CAD >95k/indiviudal OAS starts getting clawed back (IMHO it should be clawed back much sooner).

On top of CPP and OAS it is your responsibility to have personal savings: RRSP/pension, TFSA, etc.

GIS is the 'poverty prevention' program, for people making less than 20-30k:

* https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/publicpensions/ol...

There is a lot of misguided thinking about retirement, as shown by things like "Canadian couples say they need $1.7M to retire. Are you on track?":

* https://globalnews.ca/news/11705204/canadian-couples-retirem...

This survey is released by a bank that makes money from AUM fees for things like mutual funds. It is in their interest to think you need more, but most folks do not need as much as they believe. The study tends to be released during "RRSP season", which is close to the last time Canadians are able to put in money into their retirement saving account (RRSP ~ 401(k)) for the current tax year (and get a taxable income reduction).

This (flat) fee-only advisor goes over some of the preconceptions that have:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LmiW4FgAL8

He's put out videos about what you can expect if you have 'only' CA$ 250k saved:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLQk6X3NCPs (single)

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9-8CIvphfI (couple)

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkyvLe66G94 (couple)

Or even a single at 65 with $125k:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEBjIFg08lM

Ed Ting recently had a good video "Let's Overreact!! Smart Scopes Take Over? Chinese Products are the Best? Astronomy is Dead!?":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYJwgEwxG-U

If you want to get into astronomy, he has a few good beginner advice videos:

* 101 books/binoculars/telescopes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IlmekWsEAQ

* some more books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhbAEx2le7o

Obligatory:

* https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

* https://www.submarinecablemap.com

See UK and France:

* https://insidegnss.com/uk-and-france-renew-ties-resilient-pn...

> For me, SMRs don't pass the smell test. Buying one big plot of land for a reactor, building one power interconnect, having a localized water impact is way easier and cheaper than many.

Some things would depend on the specific location and the grid around it:

The Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station in New Brunswick may be 'overkill' because when it goes down every few years for inspections/retooling, there's little other redundancy available. SMRs would be useful for that regional grid: install 3-4 and one can go down with less fuss.

In (e.g.) Poland there were small/medium coal-fired generation stations near coal mines. If the mines are now empty (or retired for climate change), then the grid connections could be reused for SMRs on an existing generation site: less need to find a new site and build new power pylons, etc.

> Twice.

I was led to believe he actually won 3 times. /s

The official text for anyone interested (Executive Order 14420):

* https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/hono...

Someone remarked that "Niagara Falls" should be renamed "Trump's Tears".

Or perhaps "Lake Michigan" to either "Lake Obama" (since Chicago is on its shores) or "Lake Epstein".

So that's one (in which Canada happened to win multiple rulings at NAFTA and WTO panels).

Any others?

> Economists universally think tariffs are dumb policy.

There are a few specific cases when one may want to implement them:

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/when-are-tariffs-good

One should also be mindful one's manufacturing base:

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/manufacturing-is-a-war-now

> This is a pretty reductive take.

Yes, because it's a one-panel comic.

> The Biden admin went after Canada repeatedly for unfair trade practices […]

What were these practices?

> If you don’t even see the difference between 1080p and 720p, there’s something else going on.

If I open a browser window and click on a YT video suggested on the main page, it plays on small portion of the screen of my 14" MacBook: there is little practical visual difference between 720 and 1080 at that 'video box' size.

If I open the same video on my 27" 5K iMac and full screen it there, then yes, there is a difference between 720 and 1080 (and 4K) there.

But I find 60fps does not improve the content / experience in any situation.

> Yes. Every single one. It's that simple.

I've found that zero of the videos that I've ever seen that were 60fps improved things: certainly if I went full screen I could notice the resolution of 1080@60 versus 720@30, but in a standard browser window it was none.

Somewhat related perhaps, "Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects":

* https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage...

Study:

* https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.07.22.26358689

I don't watch too many of those, and those few that I do are more 4X (Civ, Stellaris, etc), so that maybe that's why I don't notice it as an advantage for most of the content I see.

> The chiropractor massaged his neck, which released a blot clot that went into his brain and gave him a stroke. […] I'll never let a chiropractor touch me.

This is not chiropractor specific:

> Arterial dissection is well known as a potential cause of stroke in young patients. Vertebral artery dissection occurs most commonly in the setting of minor trauma but has been seen in cases of cervical manipulation. With advances in at-home therapeutic modalities for neck pain came the advent of handheld massage guns. These massage guns have gained considerable popularity in recent years, but their safety for use in the cervical region has not been well studied.

* https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9197740/

> HFR stands for "High Framerate", which means up to 60 FPS, whereas non-HFR is limited to 30 FPS

Personally I find most ((almost?) all?) >30fps generally unnecessary and just chews through bandwidth, monthly (mobile) data caps, and processing/batteries.

Are there specific cases where "HFR" videos are really improving the viewing experience of particular (types of) content?

(Note: in the table it's about support for HFR content, and does not necessarily mean that content is HFR.)

"4320p"? Huh:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8K_resolution

> RSS. Website. Both have been around for a long time. We don't need to reinvent the wheel.

A "foo-announce@" or "foo-alerts@" mailing list.

See also recent Asianometry video "SK hynix and the HBM Revolution":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg5tAujp6Go

And from a few years ago "The Special Memory Powering the AI Revolution":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAw63F1W_Us

Reading raid(4) [1] it looks like RAID-6 is not supported: I would think with drives sizes being what they are in recent years (decades?), protection from a double-fault during a re-stripe would be important. Or is RAIDframe mostly supposed to be used for 'smaller situations' (like a boot drive)?

[1] https://man.netbsd.org/raid.4

I first ran across the "RAID-5 is dead" 'meme' almost twenty years ago, with concerns that when drives reached >2TB you get higher chances of failed rebuilds due to BER / UER rates:

* https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-20...

See also 2013 follow-up:

* https://www.zdnet.com/article/has-raid5-stopped-working/

> It's more like I report a crime and the cops don't do anything about it, a situation in which I feel fairly justified being upset?

Sure. With cops, a public service. But Apple is not a public service (this is an analogy after all).

You gave them money for what they offered at a particular point in time because you thought it provided you value; has Apple taken away anything that you purchased? Did they go from x.2 to x.3 and break/remove something? That's certainly a dick move. But you are still getting what you paid for.

Apple is free to change its offerings in the future based on what it thinks its customers need/want, and you are free to re-evaluate whether those changes still provide you with value, and whether you want to continue giving them money. "I got X in the past so I should continue getting X forever into the future" has never really been promised by any software vendor.