Twenty years ago, I briefly worked for a research group doing genomics stuff. The researchers couldn’t code worth shit, so they had a hard time analyzing results in a reasonable amount of time. It was easy to be a hero.

I suspect new researchers would be way better coders (I assume AI may help too).

The pay was shit.

It was an asymptomatic smash!

Chummer and omae always worked better for me.

THUMB WRESTLING DOMINANCE

CMHC funded housing for decades. Conservative and Liberal governments funded it, and it worked in tandem with provinces that had governments of all stripes. That ended in the austerity of the 80s and 90s that was implemented by Conservative and Liberal federal governments.

Immigration increases economic activity far beyond its costs.

That isn’t in question.

The original article and CMHC piece describe a reduction in demand for rentals as one of the reasons prices have fallen slightly, and suggest that a reduction in immigration is the cause, thanks to where the reductions have happened.

So racists have to lie about its economic effect, because using racism is very exposing.

This isn’t a question of race. It’s a question of government policy, and the effect it has on people.

Poor federal and provincial planning has triggered a polycrisis. By fixing the mistakes, hopefully we’ll be able to welcome more people. In many cases, immigration can provide a fix by bringing in people we need. (There’s a missing conversation about what that does to their home country and the quality of life Canada provides after they arrive, but let’s save that for later)

But it’s hard to have conversations about potential fixes when mentions of immigration are greeted with accusations of racism.

TIL. Thanks.

Immigration is a policy. Noting the effect of the policy is not racist.

The feds/provinces failed to factor population changes into policy, meaning we don’t have enough housing, medical professionals, teachers, classrooms, etc.

The ideal scenario is that we build enough houses (possibly using the immigration system to invite more construction workers to become citizens of our country), train enough healthcare professionals (possibly by inviting existing professionals in, or training during foreign students who stay), and ensure workers that we invite into the country receive the same benefits Canadians do.

God Guevara

I hate that too often politicians base their decisions on what could happen in futire elections.

Yes. This is the shittiest way of rEpReSeNtInG tHeIr CoNsTiTuEnTs while ignoring the needs of a growing majority of the population.

This is valuable research that needs to be done.

I feel like Zuma is basically Night Boat, but the writers rarely give him an inlet, canal, or fjord.

Have you considered tiny weights for your right hand?

We’re old, politically like-minded, and we dog pile folks who disagree with us (e.g. Conservatives).

I’m not 100% sure why I’m here. I think it’s that I really like the idea of decentralized social media, and I generally fit the group think.

Anyhow, welcome to Lemmy! I hope you enjoy it!

What’s a munis?

Cloudflare’s customers probably wouldn’t be on board with that. Google’s properties provide a tonne of traffic to businesses. Doing anything to put that in jeopardy would probably have many of Cloudflare’s customers looking for a new provider.

Pretty sure she’s proposing to the pizza. After mating with it, she will consume it, like some sort of spider (or other creature where the female eats her mate).

I have been a disciple of wobbly windows since they graced Compiz in the Year of Our Jiggle 2006. Often have I taken solace in their bounciness.

It just seems like dude is suffering from Not invented here and wants to reinvent the wheel. The only reason anyone noticed is because a tech b-lister is involved.

Also Canada - our new PM is cranking up the military spending without raising taxes. It looks like we’re gonna get a cut in federal services to pay for the splurge.

Instead of simply encouraging the buildout of a private Canadian cloud, the government should invest in the expansion of a public cloud—built and run by a Crown corporation with public financing to serve government needs, but potentially to expand beyond that too. The government already has data centres of its own, but in recent decades it’s more often looked to the private sector to supply more of its computational needs instead of developing in-house capacities as it did with older forms of information technology.

Ok, but they aren’t allowed to use consultants. We don’t need another ArriveCAN or Phoenix.