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I think the problem is they knew his CV and were interviewing him for a senior role. It's a little manipulative to string him along as interviewing for a senior role when they knew up front they never would have hired him for that role.

Me neither. I am even in Quebec, but on an English device.

I don't remember a lot of impact in the top half of the continent, other than fear of invasion spurring the British colonies towards confederation.

Thanks for sharing that. My first thought was that there were none on the Great Lakes, which there's already an open issue for as well.

This link is behind a Google account wall so I can't access it. Is there a summary available, or an alternative link?

Hawaiian pizza (cheese, ham and pineapple) is normalized here in Canada. I'm not personally a fan, but I have always had a hard time finding it unusual.

Yes, I definitely mean that! I have one reserved myself, so I'm not sure why I misspoke.

I'm assuming you're speaking tongue in cheek, but I thought about why we have problems that the Romans didn't.

I don't know about ease of maintenance and access to utilities, but Romans did not have trucks that destroyed the roads (the ratio of weight of vehicles to the wear on the road is exponential, not linear), but I have no concept of how cobblestone is affected by trucks. Roman roads are also affected by survivorship bias (we see the roads that survived, not 90% of the roads that haven't) and they were not affected as much by freeze/thaw cycles as North American roads are.

My intutition says that they also probably were not generally as wide as North American roads. Drivers here have an expectation of being able to drive at high speeds without worrying about passing on coming traffic - Pictures I've seen of Roman highways were not two wagons wide. Less road width means less maintenance since there's physically less roads.

It seems a bit like an unforced error to be dumping Linux a few months before Steam's new Linux-based Steam Link is released.

Downtown Ottawa has a similar steam system too, although I think it's mostly government buildings instead of private, commercial buildings that are hooked up to it.

Same here in Canada. I used to take the train between Montreal and Toronto frequently and I don't actually remember it ever being on time. It usually was 30-60 minutes late, since Via Rail shared rail with freight trains, but had a lower priority so it often needed to wait.

It's actually even worse for government (or crown corps like Canada Post), since they pay way below Canadian market rate, which is already way below U.S. salaries. The government then isn't really in competition for the best talent who want the most money.

> That's a drastic oversimplification. Typically, both debits and credits are entered into an accounting program as positive numbers, and it is the nature of the account being debited or credited that determines whether the number is added to or subtracted from the account balance.

This is both technically correct and incorrect. You're right about the nature of debits and credits, but practically every accounting software I've ever used (I'm a CPA) represents credits as negative numbers. The software just assumes that the user knows that it's actually a credit, not a negative number.

Yes. FTA:

> GE Healthcare will be spun off in 2023, with GE retaining a 19.9 per cent stake in the unit. GE Renewable Energy, GE Power and GE Digital will be combined into one energy-focused company that will be spun off in 2024. Once these transactions are completed, the original GE will focus on aviation.

So there will be a GE Healthcare (20% owned by GE, the rest owned by individual shareholders), GE Energy starting in 2024 (probably similar ownership structure) and GE. Shareholders of GE will be receiving shares of the other two, but the details of that aren't clear yet I think.

Since you might be interested, I've studied history at the university level in English, and it's generally referred to the VOC in English as well to prevent confusion with the English/British East India Company, at least in academic texts.

For those of us who were confused (like me), this is not a treasury bond, but a real return bond. It pays interest based on a posted rate, plus additional interest to cover inflation for a period. The inflation rate will change twice a year based on inflation.

Thanks for your insight. I consider myself reasonably well read, but I had no idea about the (small) scale of the Inquisition. I had always assumed it was much larger than that.

From a fraud perspective, the point is that a consecutive 2 week vacation is enough that someone probably needs to take over your financial roles, so it would become obvious to the newcomer that you're committing fraud. An example of a type of fraud this could expose (or prevent happening in the first place) is "kiting", where you steal a payment from a customer, then apply over customer's payments to that payment, then apply other customer's payments to those misallocated payments, etc. Doing this prevents those who look at the accounts receivable summary from seeing that payments from Company X have been outstanding for a significant amount of time. Making sure someone takes a vacation makes this much harder to do since someone else will be looking closely at your work in the meantime.

There's also the entire equalization debate which Alberta is so fond of throwing in the rest of Canada's face.

For those non-Canadians, Canada has an "equalization" program which is essentially an attempt to "smooth out" tax income across the country, so the "have" provinces fund the "have not" provinces so Canadians across the country can have a similar standard of living and similar services.

Alberta, being the richest province, ends up paying way more equalization to the poorest provinces, mostly Quebec and the Maritimes. This is one of the significant factors of "western alienation", in that Albertans are continuously furious that their funds go to pay for Quebec's generous social systems. In fact, the Alberta government is holding a referendum next week on this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Alberta_referendum).

Of course, bringing reality into the situation makes things look a little different, which is something that doesn't happen in the Canadian national discourse. Equalization is complicated, but there is no cheque written from Alberta to Quebec. Instead, the federal government pays Quebec its share of it from its own funds, mostly from federal income and sales taxes. The calculation of it is based on potential tax revenue. Alberta, being a province full of high income earners, has a very high potential tax revenue, so it is a "have" province and doesn't receive equalization. The idea is that provinces that can't raise their own revenue comparable to the other provinces get a break.

The issue is that Alberta has been chronically under taxing for years. It has no sales tax, it has the lowest by far income tax rates of the entire country. The system is designed for provinces to be responsible and raise their own revenue, and then get federal subsidies if that is not enough, but Alberta refuses to play that game. The Alberta government has been able to direct this rage to the federal government and Quebec though when the people really should be looking to their own provincial government instead.

This was really contentious following the oil busy in the mid 2010s. Alberta as a province was hurting, as a significant portion of its revenue came from oil royalties. However, since it refuses to raise taxes, it did not receive equalization payments despite being by all measures except the official ones a "have not" province.

A lot of Albertans are angry about pipelines and not being able to properly export their oil, as other posters have mentioned. Developing more infrastructure probably would be a good thing, especially when oil was cheap. Unfortunately, Canadian political discourse is not serious and its not possible to talk about serious, complex issues nationally.

-ault is a common French word ending that is pronounced 'oh'.

The problem JIT is solving is that raw materials inventory ties up capital (it costs money), and having warehouses of materials is money sitting that could be used for different purposes (capital expenditures, salaries, dividends, etc). Then, if for some reason the raw materials aren't worthwhile anymore (spoilage, tech change, etc), you've wasted money on something that needs to be disposed of. In theory, the goal would be to have no inventory at all.

JIT is a firm level decision, not a society level. It's up to each firm to decide how much of something they are buying.

I know you're being funny, but for most of history real (as opposed to nominal) rates of return on cash have been negative. Sure, you wouldn't be paying the bank interest, but you'd be paying for storage, security if you have enough, losses on rodents eating your cash, etc. Positive rates of return are actually quite a new phenomenon.

I'm in the midst of reading Rome is Burning, Anthony A. Barrett's new book (https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172316/ro...) about the Great Fire of Rome in 64AD (the one where Nero fiddled). I'm a relative novice to the field of Roman history (studied early modern history in university, never touched ancient history). The key thing to know about the fire is that it is very unclear basic facts like 1) how long did the fire last? Some sources say 6 days, some 9, 2) which buildings burnt down? 3) how far did the fire reach? 4) how many people died? There are lots of ancient references to it but when you get down to the details it's actually quite vague.

Isn't that sortof the justification behind bittorrent and trackers?

Yes, Canada does. The Queen is Head of State, who appoints a governor general to rule in her place. Effectively though, the Queen appoints a governor general on the advice of the prime minister. The Governor General and the Queen are constitutionally the "Crown" in Canada.

The Governor General is mostly ceremonial, but is mostly a case of Chesterton's Fence. The Crown is an important safety value for when things are abnormal. For example, the Governor General of Canada in 2008 essentially chose who would be prime minister (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932009_Canadian_par...). The issue that arose was that, during a hung parliament, the opposition announced that they would vote non-confidence in the government at the next opportunity and intended to form a coalition. The prime minister at the time instead went to the Governor General to request prorogation, ending the parliamentary session.

This was a crisis that required judgement by the governor general. The prime minister clearly no longer held the confidence of the House, but not officially. On the other hand, the governor general is constitutionally required to follow the advice of the prime minister. She chose to follow the prime minister and prorogue Parliament for better or for worse. I'm not a legal scholar and I think the Governor General got it right, but having an independent individual make these decisions is a feature, not a bug.

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I'm probably one of the few people to have experienced both the accounting program in university and the history program in university. My original degree is in history, and I ended up going back to school to train as an accountant (I'm a CPA now working at a non-Big 4 public accounting firm).

It could be just my school, but the quality of professors in each program were light years apart. To a person, the history professors were personable, smart and good lecturers. They cared about their students and helped them succeed. Accounting professors, on the other hand, largely stood up in front of the class, read directly from their slideshows, and answered any questions with "read your textbook".

My thought is that this is related to the supply and demand between the two fields. In history, universities can afford to hire the best of the field. They can picky and wait for the right person to come along. In accounting, the best of the field go make big bucks somewhere else. Professors pay well, but not nearly as well as working at a firm. I can't imagine working at a Big 4 firm and teaching as well, just with the hour commitment of their full time job!

As an aside, when I was completing my history degree and considering next steps, I consulted with one of my professors who basically told me I should give up my dream of becoming a PhD just because of how horrible the job market is. I ended up applying for my masters anyways and was rejected, which I take now as a blessing. I made more in my entry level job in accounting that I probably would be making now if I had ended up with my PhD.

I think this is really insightful into my own behaviour around gaming. I used to be an avid gamer, but over the last year or two I've been too busy at work, working on my own side projects/startup. I've always thought I didn't have time for gaming, but I think more accurately it's that I've been getting fulfillment elsewhere.

No one is saying emacs is perfect, this is such an odd comment. Just because it is made as a real tool, as opposed to a product or something to sell more of, doesn't make it perfect. Table saws are meant to use in productive behaviour too and the fact that people cut their fingers off doesn't make them less of a real tool.