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I see it as comparing comic book (visual) vs text book (text code). You can express some visual better with comic books, but in the end, I find text books easier to define richer and complex matter.


Google is an advertisement company. Not a tech/app company. Google creates free apps solely on the incentive to gather and sell your data.


Ladies and gentlemen, be prepare for more car exhausts noises in the streets with the upcoming Gran Turismo movie..


This applies to any other long-range aircraft. It's a crew efficiency issue.


Did you know that all american (or even western) social networks are banned in China?


Wow you just described Canada in every industry sectors! It’s the same. That’s why Canada is overpriced everywhere (telecom, banks, groceries, etc): no competition.


Revolut neo bank (GB) tried to enter the canadian market in November 2019. It was in beta mode for one and half year, then it has quit the canadian market!

Why? because they failed obtaining a bank licence!

It is very hard for a new bank to come to Canada. They have to "partner" with one of the 5 existing oligarch banks! Imagine.. as a business, you have to "partner" with a competing bank in order to operate!

Meawhile, Revolut has successfully opened in 10 other countries at the same time..

Tourists and strangers don't really catch how the canadian market is ruled by oligarch / oligopoly so few players/businesses.

There is NO COMPETITION here! Welcome to CanaRussia!

Sources: https://portfolioplus.com/what-happened-to-revolut-canada-wh... https://www.fintechfutures.com/2021/03/revolut-exits-canada-...


After a banking charter is given, the Canadian PM gets put on their board (after the PM leaves politics).

Definitely no quid pro quo there.


..and Canada is yet the only G7 country to not have a high-speed train.

In fact, in Canada, trains are slow, expensive and not well-deserved that you are better-off using your car or plane ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Barcelona-Madrid | 503km | 2h30 by train | 46$CAD (33 euros)

Toronto-Montreal | 541km | 5h by train | 93$CAD (68 euros)


My dream is a high-speed train from Vancouver to Kelowna and Calgary, with an optional leg to Edmonton. Like a Rocky Mountain Express. I believe this would be a massive driver of economic growth for the West Coast of Canada.

What hurts my soul is that Canada has the wealth to afford it, the engineering chops to build it but we lack the political will. Even more I feel we lack the belief and the vision.


I tend to disagree. In democracy, the people is the state and, in extent, has the power. The government (elected people in place) is only temporary.


In a lot of countries, "the people are the state" is only nominally true. Special interests often carry the day, and anyway in a partisan environment devoid of principles we need to protect against moments of passion where a 51% majority can infringe on the rights of 49% (or in my country, a largely elite 10%--which helms universities and media institutions and so on--can use the state to push their ideology on the other 90%).


I agree with you on paper but have a really hard time viewing my current relationship with any State as that of which I have power. Nor do I see myself with any _limited State_ having any power. Nor do I see myself as having _any_ ability to legally inflict harm to others as the State has power to do.

I totally agree that democracy on paper says the People have control but I am not seeing that play out at any real scale.


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