willhslade

Well, it was invented by and for us, but your point still stands.

A few things. 1) Canada is not as wealthy, per capita, as the USA. Per Google: > The GDP per capita in the United States is roughly $94,400 USD, compared to Canada's roughly $60,300 USD (as of 2026 estimates), creating a significant and widening economic gap.

2) Canadian healthcare spends less per capita. Per Google: > The United States spends roughly double per capita on healthcare compared to Canada. Cost Comparison Per Capita • United States: Approximately $14,885 USD per person. • Canada: Approximately $7,301 USD per person (varies by estimates, with public-only spending around $5,000 USD). • Percentage of GDP: The U.S. spends about 17.2% of its GDP on healthcare, while Canada spends about 11.3%.

3) The USA believes in diagnostic testing at a higher level than Canada. Per Google: > Utilization and Intensity: The U.S. tends to utilize higher volumes of intensive diagnostic testing and specialized medical interventions.

4) Related: hospitals are private in the USA, and they buy MRI machines to bill for high-margin diagnostic tests. As you noted, the Boston CMA is a world leader in healthcare and education, and thus has a higher concentration of MRI machines.

5) Canadian healthcare simply is not as sophisticated as the health care in the USA. There have been multiple episodes of high profile / wealthier Canadians going to the US to skip waiting for treatment and getting procedures that are just not available in Canada at the present time.

So it's great, it's saved my life a couple times, but it's not a 1-1 drop in for American healthcare. Every system has trade offs, that's the lesson of engineering.

Massachusets has more MRIs than Canada.

I think this is where Airalo shines. I've used it while travelling and I think eSIMs, as annoying as they are, are the way.

I mean, dentristy and vaccines but ok.

Indeed fellow traveller. I do.

The bronze age collapse? The end of Rome?

Are compilers deterministic?

I would really like some links as to all of the above.

Soil is generally garbage though. Just saying.

It's going to be hard for Toronto, home of our banking and stock exchange, to differ materially in operating hours from NYC.

What in Office has been a degradation? Just curious. I mostly agree about Windows.

Carney isn't a billionaire, right? He's been a bureaucrat, not a plutocrat.

Harvard Business Review's Office Politics. Or any intro Industrial Psychology textbook.

Greece? How did it go after the crisis?

Just want to post my favourite business interview of all time: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/wind-mobile-backer-regrets-...

Wasn't Carter a peanut farmer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter

In 2023, the median Canadian income was roughly $44K CAD. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=111000...

Looks like the USA in 2024 was $51K USD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...

I know we need to adjust for health care, but I think the median income in the USA is higher.

We're wildly aware. Currently 80+% of our trade is with the good old USA. We're basically an economic colony. But when the ambassador to Canada and Trump himself note that they don't need Canada (both statements happened in the last 2 weeks) we don't really have a choice but to attempt to diversify. We don't want to do it, we were reasonably happy with the existing arrangement, but it's not up to us to decide what the US does. It's up to us to decide what we do.

Careless People (the book about Facebook from a rogue insider) has literally a through line about all of this. Zuck is responsible and knew, both times.

Doesn't every personal computing device on the planet have a browser and thus Javascript? Aren't there more mobile devices than laptops and desktops? I'm an Excel dev and I'm pretty sure that Javascript is the largest development language in the world.

Not OP, but I did work for a boss once that was technically very strong, but not as strong in terms of planning and scheduling work. It was a very difficult process, because I couldn't deliver what they wanted, as what they wanted changed both during and after delivery. Most things I delivered, which were what we agreed upon before delivery, were rewritten as they did not envision or plan work in advance. Technical skills are not a panacea; professionalism is a multidimensional skill matrix.

Harbour. Centre. https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/canadian-english-vs-ameri...

What's a great overview of this phenomena in book form? I'm intensely curious about this.

Hey! You got it right!

I think you don't understand what has happened here. OP's wife has a DUI in the USA. Canada does not normally allow people with a DUI into Canada. In exchange for $250, they allowed her in. This is both a surprise and a nuisance for OP.

Rogue

I know this is late to the party but I think, given that this topic comes up.every day, we should start including statistics in our posts to get a better sense of how AI is working or not for us. I imagine a years of experience / primary language used / tool used / AI positive or negative as a percentile estimate.

Personally for me it's 20 years of experience / Python / Copilot / 85% positive experience.

So current management, who had proven incapable of running a business, will be trusted to ignore past political games and just retain talent? That's certainly a take

I think you glossed over the question