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As a cannuck, I can chuckle at the fact that one of our Ontario bridges lasted 42 days before it failed.[1]

[1]https://globalnews.ca/news/2957484/design-improperly-tighten...


Canadian here. You are making assumption about decisions you don't know about,- like "Do theses companies had too much anxiety for our regulation? None at all, they were some multi billions companies that did this. It was just not worth it."

That is a sweeping generalization and if you dilute and guess what the most probable reason for excluding Quebec was,- it's probably for the best. It was a shady contest to begin with.

The Canadian sweepstakes law and corresponding province laws are not that hard and costly to comply with as well. Look at the countless valid and non-scam contests present and available to our citizens. You, I and rest of us should be glad that rules like these exist since a there are people companies out there willing to part you with your hard earned money.

As an example, you just need to store my skill testing answer and if I get awarded a price, reset a flag that I need to fill out a new answer. In Quebec, you need to give monetary guarantees to make sure you pay out and give contest rules out to the bureau ahead of time. That is not a tall task. It's for the better if those shady contests did not want to participate


“Not that hard and costly to comply with”

That’s what you think. But its still a risk, because its different. It’s still easier and cheaper short term and long term just to skip the oddballs.

It’s why you see so many online contests in the US that only apply here. Not because they want to avoid it, but because its easier and cheaper not to comply with other laws.


Fair enough ;) But is it worth going to war over this fact?


That is bonkers. Even with turbochargers, a USB outlet of a charger should not put out more than 5V. I tested about 10 different chargers with a multimeter in the last two weeks and each one was anywhere from 4.9V to 5.1V. The isolation in the brick must have been total junk


Yup. I also can't verify much, but I know a person who performed electrical work in one of their buildings and you wouldn't even know that building belonged to CSIS.


I tried Nim in non commercial capacity and liked it. Wrote an Aho-corasick string matching algorithm in it to see how it fared with Lua/Luajit and it was fairly close in speed. The code was also quite pleasant to write.

I remember that debugging it was a bit of a pain if just not a real option then. Maybe things have changed.



Exactly. The worth argument is a diversion and bait set out by hiring side. It is only in play when the employee is purely driven by performance, like in professional sport. That is also why sport personalities have agents.

Just because regular business profits are several layers removed from a regular employee does not mean that there's no link to performance as well, but business usually does not like to share( raise salary ) to not set a precedent.

I for one would love to have an professional agent that looked after me in return for good career progression. Even the rock starts among us know that it takes skill and luck to get paid what we are really worth


This is very close.

I used to provide crypto coin wallet password recovery service. The first couple of days would be spent on building a knowledge database with the help of the wallet owner. Plugging that data into the algorithm, even if the password was random and long allowed me to usually get the correct password. Exploring the whole search space without pruning is a fools errand


Is there an equivalent for this scaffolding app, but for server side PHP or Ruby ?


If you're saying "server-side PHP/Ruby API + React SPA frontend", you'll probably be able to find some boilerplates on a github search, but essentially they're just two separate apps at that point, so you're better off just building them that way and maybe tying them together with `make`. If you want server rendered React you can only really do that with Node.js. However the specific architectures/implementations of these apps vary enough its better to make one yourself that suits your needs. create-react-app is designed to have very minimal, bare-bones defaults so you can build whatever opinions you want on top of it.


That is one of the saddest 30 minutes of video I have seen up to date.


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