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You have most certainly never incorporated a Canadian corporation online for $20. That's the fee for filing an annual return for a federally incorporated company; the vast majority of companies are registered provincially.

>> It’s not climate regulations. It’s economics.

In a simplified view this is true, but they are also irreducible; We'll never reach any meaningful action if we don't make it economically advantageous to pursue alternatives that "just so happen" to be climate positive. That would be akin to getting someone to exercise solely because "it's good for you".

This is largely if not almost entirely caused by natural gas prices that make variable cost close to zero; it's essentially a waste product in producing oil for much of the country. The challenge is getting it from wellhead to consumer, but power plants are different than individual consumers. It powers more than a 1/3 currently (vs < 10% wind/solar) and for much of current coal is a very easy substitute. If we could ever get to on-site electricity generation (with the byproduct of heating homes and businesses) we could make huge reductions in pollution and gains in efficiency. Increased nuclear would be a big win for the environment as well but is a social-political untouchable for a variety of real and made-up reasons.

I can understand this is your deep, gut reaction - "sue them!", but have you ever been to small claims court? Are you aware that most ToS define the resolution mechanism which includes the jurisdiction?

Have you used trailforks.com from pinkbike? Their app combines a lot of data with the actual map, plus it's hard to beat how current they are due to crowd-sourcing. Definitely focused on biking but expanding into other users and works offline.

As a non-user of 1password, what's the value of the vault on it's own? don't you need a master password to unlock it?

I think you are largely correct about this being a liquidity event vs series A funding; They are likely not looking at massive employee growth or marketing campaign as much as a way to unlock equity without going public.

This is good for users as it likely mean not huge changes to appease corporate overlords, but continues the sad story of limited young, profitable, small-cap Canadian tech companies available for outsider, passive investment. There are quite a few in the category of 10-15 years old, solid revenues/profit and founders that are ready to step back; most choose private equity or sovereign wealth funds investments in the 100M - 1B range over going public because of the hassle and reporting requirements. The average individual investor doesn't have access to these deals which is a shame because they tend to be established, profitable return generators. I don't blame the founders; I'd likely do the same route.

Why is this sub-optimal? People may not like Cockroaches but they definitely have a reputation for durability, which isn't a bad mental link for a database company. It also provides an identity & personality which is so often missing from modern companies. Maybe they've found they get more from those who really like it than those who really hate it (or maybe they just like it themselves).

Rands in Repose (Michael Lopp) talks about this in his book "Managing Humans" as volatiles and stables, the former being largely analogous to rockstars. He (I believe accurately) describes how volatiles ignite the fire that leads to big change, then become stable around the new solution (or leave) and get disrupted by new volatiles. It's very similar to Clayton Christensen's work on disruptors.

If you're a manager, the math of having true rockstars on your team rarely works. They take more effort to manage yet produce fractional more output (they might be 10x better than a terrible developer but they're not multiples of solid devs). So I'm way further ahead if I can focus my efforts on improving broad-based productivity 5-10% than if I cater to my rare unicorns that are 30-50% better than my average team. Something I think ICs often overlook is a focus on leverage and scale to drive big improvements.

>> OK so then does YAGNI apply to investment? Why not let existing firms handle it in the S&P?

Yes, don't rebuild your own balanced portfolio or pay someone to "beat the market" for you; just buy a COTS ETF, put it in the server closet and forget about it for a decade.

>> Just start doing it, in your free time. You'll be burning the candle at both ends for a while as you build up clients, but you're young, you've got the energy and the time.

While you're employed? This is terrible advice. You get consulting money for combining expertise with availability. Younger employees have neither of these. If I found out one of my salaried employees was moonlighting I'd immediately be looking for evidence that it had the slightest impact on their responsibilities & performance. I'd be very surprised not to find any PDQ

Well, most jobs are salary so there's no notion of compensation per unit of time. I rarely expect overtime but sometimes I need help outside of regular work hours; I also don't make you get HR approval and book off time to go to the dentist or pick up your kid.

It seems like the same people who complain about a lack of employer care & "greedy corporations" are also the same people counseling "always be interviewing" and the only priority is #1. It must be exhausting.

>> USB stick or shared drive

You have limited experience in a huge piece of the enterprise / government world if you think this would ever fly - and they all run windows

But when you need to edit text the only thing you can be guaranteed to have is notepad, which (a) has no features and (b) does the basics of text editing terribly

I don't think people would complain about a decent text editor vs. adding yet another text-like editor. I appreciate the new calculator...

notepad++ is one of the first apps I install on a new windows machine. VS Code is great for when you move into coding tasks but not as snappy and quick as notepad++ for texty things

>> But if your business is buying and reselling things

You mean like the vast majority of all consumer goods? Very few people buy direct from the manufacturer - isn't this exactly what amazon is, minus the requirement of having to buy the product to be the MITM?

Same with me in Calgary, AB, a big, spread-out city by Canadian standards. My daily commute is ~5km each way and it takes 12-20 minutes depending on weather, type of bike and how energetic you're feeling. Visiting my family is 25km each way and takes about 60-70 minutes. Driving time would be 15-40 minutes for work (depending on time of day) and 30 minutes to family with no traffic. My takeaways:

* for shorter urban distances the bike is way faster almost all the time

* for longer suburban distances it marginally slower but not as much as you'd think

* The quality of the time on a bike is much greater up to ~20 minutes, then tapers off rapidly in poor conditions; even riding in the rain or cold snow is preferable to sitting in traffic if you're not out for too long.

* My trip is typically short enough that it takes longer to get ready to ride than to actually complete the ride

I ride a bike for very selfish reasons; the shared benefits are just a nice bonus.

agreed - season 1 covered all the interesting material quasi-related/inspired by Compaq; then it turned into a dark soap opera that was basically unwatchable

People will spend money to going on a working vacation in a developing country with primitive facilities, or pay to drive a handsom cab, or many other far more pedestrian activities than big wall climbing. Money should be used to do things that are personally important and satisfy deep values and goals. Forget about those who think you're supposed to use money solely for buying "stuff".

c) overnight success stories take years to realize, d) it takes a long time to get all the failures out of the way

... and earned that acceptance over a very long period of time, not because they said "trust us" enough times.

>> but for other minor stuff.

Like it provides deep satisfaction in an area they really value?

But if you get paid to do what you personally value, isn't that the ultimate win?

So what you're saying is they are running the country like a start-up?

Like many of the pedantic things we like to argue about, I think teams/projects should choose consistency over prescription.

The same thing happened with the introduction of UAC.It may be necessary though it conditions people to blindly allow as their default reaction, which is really counter-productive to safety.

this is social media, so you're not fully clean yet...

That's likely attributed more to gun culture than a lack of racism

Plus our municipal garbage pickup explicitly requires you to bag dirty or dusty trash like this (ex: furnace filters) so I end up transferring from a bag-less vacuum to a bag, plus get dirt and dust everywhere and can never get all the crud out of the vacuum canister.

The vacuum is OK, but having to clean the canister multiple times per use is a major pain. Bagged are superior for this reason alone.

generally these types of activities don't actually follow a bell curve but a power law where a very tiny population reap the vast majority of the rewards and everyone else shares the scraps, trailing off and approaching zero. Think 10 YT videos get 10 billion views and the rest share a billion, with the mean being somewhere close to zero

Work hard? Incremental progress? Contribute to society?

How can you possibly hope to disrupt work with these types of values? </s>