Yeah, it seems counterproductive to ditch FOSS in the name of self-sufficiency. If it were about that, assembling an army of software people to learn and contribute to important FOSS codebases would be much more productive in my opinion. It feels like Harmony Next is about something else. Perhaps some wholesale insurance. Or someone’s plans grandeur.
I have been getting great Chinese stuff for a long time. Lately got some equipment for espresso and audio. Spectacular quality.
Yes. In this case I linked it on purpose because of their handlers.
Doug Ford spent much more on canceling various contracts on a whim. I say bail.
Sorry I didn’t mean we can’t of course we can given the people we have. I meant that I think we don’t have the benefit of our reactors producing fissile material suitable for weapons. Could be wrong.
I’m not sure we can. Our reactors don’t produce the right material, I think. We should buy from France, tomorrow.
If Mark Carney PM has any sense, he’ll invest significantly in CP, making it a universal letter and parcel carrier for Canada. Run it below cost, making every business shipping costs ultra low. Perhaps even get into an Amazon-like warehouse logistics where people can use their inventory management along with shipping. Eat Amazon’s lunch and allow every farmer and manufacturer ship direct to consumer without having to setup their own logistics operation. That’ll also undercut Big Grocer’s dominance bringing lower prices. Platforms like Amazon carry tremendous efficiencies but they should be run as national common infrastructure, not for profit.
Yeah we need deterrents. This shit ain’t funny anymore and there’s no guarantee Trump will be the last in the string of fascists.
Yeah I’m not sure what’s going on, I was simply highlighting that “an economist” doesn’t mean a rigid and consistent set of beliefs and economic policies, sinc economics isn’t a hard science and it’s got multiple schools of thought that lead to vastly different political positions. And if you just go by someone being an economist you may get badly surprised.
They would still be cheaper. Labor is a small part of the cost of a car. If I remember correctly it was about 15%. Many of the Chinese EVs are cheap because they’re designed to be. Simpler, lower cost designs instead of luxury high end vehicles. Then of course they have much lower costs in their inputs due to most of their supply chains not operating at max profit margins, along with having more vertical integration that avoids margin stacking. If you have a Canadian BYD assembly factory that imports batteries and motors from China, the cost of making these vehicles wouldn’t be dramatically higher than making them in China. If you wanted to have a complete supply chain in Canada, including building the batteries, the cost would be higher. How high? No idea. Probably still cheaper than the alternatives, given the designs themselves are cheaper, but perhaps not dramatically so. If I were the PM, I’d be talking with them to start on the former with a 5-year plan on transitioning to the latter. Just so that we have the capability of producing EVs from end to end in Canada, even if most are assembled from imports. If the US opts to kill our auto industry, I’d be on the phone with BYD the same day.
I don’t, I didn’t try listing all the good and bad achievements. I intended to say he did plenty of things to deserve people’s ire, not that he didn’t do anything good.
Why can’t I remember the find parameters?
I don’t know. Perhaps write a couple of aliases?
The trophies… 🥹
One caveat, there’s plenty of economists who think that PP has the right approach to manage the economy. Just because someone’s an economist doesn’t mean they believe what Carney believes. He seems to subscribe to some form of Keynesian economic thought while the majority of economists today are still Neoliberal (more free market, small government, unlimited free trade, trickle down).
They could have used a lot more stick to premiers backs. They started working with municipalities very recently. Housing was a problem even in 2015. They could have gotten back into building housing as far back as 2016.
The federal government let the students in, not provinces. Provinces just took advantage. Trudeau’s government could have increased university and college funding instead, along with publicly tarring and feathering bastards like Ford who cut the funding. Something which Carney has said he’ll do. The funding, not the tar-feathering.
He keeps talking about the need to increase wages and shrink inequality, and he’s written about the damage from rising inequality so while skeptical, I’m cautiously optimistic.
My most optimistic scenario is that he’s a lefty Keynesian ideologue who keeps his trap shut to not sound too government intervention-y in order to not scare the right of centre vote in order to get elected. Then once in power he’ll let it rip. I can see a lot of keywords and hints in his speeches and writing but one can’t be sure till you got actual government policy. Till then it could all be an elaborate ruse for suckers like me.
Nah, Trudeau had to go. He had made many mistakes over the years, often stupid ones. He reneged on electoral reform. He didn’t do anything substantive to alleviate the housing crisis. In fact how government did a few things to make it worse. He let Ford squander the $10 child care program in Ontario. And so on.
I voted Liberal in all the elections he ran in since that was the ABC choice in my riding, I appreciate the positive contributions he made, such as the pandemic response. However there are serious issues that were ignored and they became unignorable. People are lining up behind Carney because they see someone who says things that sound like he can begin solving these problems. Unlike Trudeau or Poilievre. I don’t think Trudeau was malicious or profiting of any of the mistakes, but mistakes were made.
That kinda makes sense at this stage. If you spend time understanding what those commands do, you’d understand how the system works, and most importantly how to not fuck it up. Keep in mind there’s a lot of misinformation and bad practices in guides out there. People who bare know more than you feel confident to share snippets without warning. Ten or twenty years ago much fewer people had experience with Linux and most people confident enough to write were technical people that knew what they were talking about. Destructive misinformation was less.
But yeah when you learn, the need or urge to reinstall disappears. I stopped reinstalling in 2014. Took me 9 years to unfuck my Windows brain and understand enough to not shoot myself in the feet. Main machine hasn’t been reinstalled since then. That’s with replacing multiple main boards, switching AMD > Intel > AMD, changing SSDs, going from single SSD to mdraid, increasing in size over time, etc.
Oh damn, I didn’t notice. Thanks!